because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness ¹  clothes them with rags. ² 

and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.” ¹ 

The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, ¹  but whoever chases daydreams ²  will have his fill ³  of poverty.

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove ¹  from all the poor ²  their legal rights. ³ 

Men bow down to them in homage, they lie flat on the ground in worship. ¹  Don’t spare them! ² 

Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low. ¹ 

At that time ¹  a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.

Egypt will not be able to do a thing, head or tail, shoots and stalk. ¹ 

My heart is crushed because my dear people ¹  are being crushed. ²  I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay. ³ 

Poor dear Egypt ¹  will be put to shame. She will be handed over to the people from the north.”

But when you do your giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

Now Peter continued knocking, and when they opened the door ¹  and saw him, they were greatly astonished. ² 

With regard to the collection for the saints, please follow the directions that I gave to the churches of Galatia: ¹ 

begging us with great earnestness for the blessing and fellowship of helping ¹  the saints.

For it is not necessary ¹  for me to write you about this service ²  to the saints,

On the fourth ¹  day they said to Samson’s bride, “Trick your husband into giving the solution to the riddle. ²  If you refuse, ³  we will burn up ⁴  you and your father’s family. ⁵  Did you invite us here ⁶  to make us poor?” ⁷ 

Now some of the officers of the Judean army and their troops had been hiding in the countryside. They heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam to govern ¹  the country. They also heard that he had been put in charge over the men, women, and children from the poorer classes of the land who had not been carried off into exile in Babylon. ² 

Thus whenever you do charitable giving, ¹  do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues ²  and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, ³  they have their reward.

When the Philistine looked carefully at David, he despised him, for he was only a ruddy and handsome boy.

“This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: ‘Why are you so confident that you remain in Jerusalem while it is under siege? ¹