Do you know about the balancing ¹  of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

The meadows are clothed with sheep, and the valleys are covered with grain. They shout joyfully, yes, they sing.

He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores. ¹ 

My hand will support him, ¹  and my arm will strengthen him.

He made it dark; ¹  they did not disobey his orders. ² 

I saw ¹  that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground ²  was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.

His head is like the most pure gold. ¹  His hair is curly ²  – black like a raven.

The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall. ¹ 

Here is a message about Arabia: In the thicket of Arabia you spend the night, you Dedanite caravans.

Their slain will be left unburied, ¹  their corpses will stink; ²  the hills will soak up their blood. ³ 

Edom’s ¹  streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.

You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of storm clouds, ¹  it will be a time of judgment ²  for the nations.

And whoever does not take up his cross ¹  and follow me is not worthy of me.

That very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other, ¹  for prior to this they had been enemies. ² 

The Lord answered, ¹  “If you have raced on foot against men and they have worn you out, how will you be able to compete with horses? And if you feel secure only ²  in safe and open country, ³  how will you manage in the thick undergrowth along the Jordan River? ⁴ 

This is what the Lord who rules over all ¹  says, “Babylon’s thick wall ²  will be completely demolished. ³  Her high gates will be set on fire. The peoples strive for what does not satisfy. ⁴  The nations grow weary trying to get what will be destroyed.” ⁵ 

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, the pot whose rot ¹  is in it, whose rot has not been removed ²  from it! Empty it piece by piece. No lot has fallen on it. ³ 

As ¹  the crowds were increasing, Jesus ²  began to say, “This generation is a wicked generation; it looks for a sign, ³  but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. ⁴ 

and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message ¹  in all their cities and in Jerusalem: ²  “Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.”