rock badgers ¹  are creatures with little power, but they make their homes in the crags;

A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways. ¹ 

The Lord watches over the innocent day by day ¹  and they possess a permanent inheritance. ² 

Bloodthirsty people ¹  hate someone with integrity; ²  as for the upright, they seek his life. ³ 

That is why those who speak in proverbs ¹  say, “Come to Heshbon, let it be built. Let the city of Sihon be established! ² 

The gray-haired ¹  and the aged are on our side, ²  men far older than your father. ³ 

For the Lord takes delight in his people; he exalts the oppressed by delivering them. ¹ 

A wise person’s heart ¹  makes his speech wise ²  and it adds persuasiveness ³  to his words. ⁴ 

Even youths get tired and weary; even strong young men clumsily stumble. ¹ 

He pronounces this blessing on himself while he is alive: “May men praise you, for you have done well!”

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these days?” ¹  for it is not wise to ask that. ² 

All of them respond to you, saying: ‘You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us!

He was not able to do a miracle there, except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.”

A crowd of people from the towns around Jerusalem ¹  also came together, bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits. ²  They ³  were all ⁴  being healed.

These people are grumblers and ¹  fault-finders who go ²  wherever their desires lead them, ³  and they give bombastic speeches, ⁴  enchanting folks ⁵  for their own gain. ⁶ 

So Esau said, “Let me leave some of my men with you.” ¹  “Why do that?” Jacob replied. ²  “My lord has already been kind enough to me.” ³ 

They said to the messengers who had come, “Here’s what you should say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: ‘Tomorrow deliverance will come to you when the sun is fully up.’” When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh Gilead, they were happy.

When its branches get brittle, ¹  they break; women come and use them for kindling. ²  For these people lack understanding, ³  therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

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