when the dust hardens ¹  into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

People ¹  have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; ²  they unite ³  together against me.

I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.

Crowds, great crowds are in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision! ¹ 

for a crowd of people ¹  followed them, ²  screaming, “Away with him!”

He shrouded himself in darkness, ¹  in thick rain clouds. ² 

Its boughs were strong, fit ¹  for rulers’ scepters; it reached up into the clouds. It stood out because of its height and its many branches. ² 

So Death ¹  will open up its throat, and open wide its mouth; ²  Zion’s dignitaries and masses will descend into it, including those who revel and celebrate within her. ³ 

During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests. ¹ 

The Egyptians ¹  piled them in countless heaps, ²  and the land stank.

But you trample on the sea with your horses, on the surging, raging waters. ¹ 

Therefore my ¹  people will be deported ²  because of their lack of understanding. Their ³  leaders will have nothing to eat, ⁴  their ⁵  masses will have nothing to drink. ⁶ 

These who are wise among the people will teach the masses. ¹  However, they will fall ²  by the sword and by the flame, ³  and they will be imprisoned and plundered for some time. ⁴ 

The charioteers ¹  will charge ahead; ²  their swords ³  will flash ⁴  and their spears ⁵  will glimmer! ⁶  There will be many people slain; ⁷  there will be piles of the dead, and countless casualties ⁸  – so many that people ⁹  will stumble over the corpses.

There was ¹  a lot of grumbling ²  about him among the crowds. ³  Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.” ⁴ 

If the first portion ¹  of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches. ² 

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day). ¹ 

The foundation was made of large valuable stones, measuring either 15 feet or 12 feet. ¹ 

In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps ¹  and finished in the seventh month.

he lived in ruined towns ¹  and in houses where ²  no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps. ³