Then the Pharisees answered, ¹  “You haven’t been deceived too, have you? ² 

we are persecuted, but not abandoned; ¹  we are knocked down, ²  but not destroyed,

If so, have you not made distinctions ¹  among yourselves and become judges with evil motives? ² 

Moses was very angry, and he said to the Lord, “Have no respect ¹  for their offering! I have not taken so much as one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them!”

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? ¹  Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”

I thought, ¹  ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated ²  to offer the burnt offering.”

Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say ¹  to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, ²  ‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’

“I made myself available to those who did not ask for me; ¹  I appeared to those who did not look for me. ²  I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’ to a nation that did not invoke ³  my name.

Have you not copied their behavior ¹  and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time ²  you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

and said to him, “Do you hear what they are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants you have prepared praise for yourself’?” ¹ 

As day was about to dawn, ¹  Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day you have been in suspense ²  and have gone ³  without food; you have eaten nothing. ⁴ 

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

For I have obeyed the Lord’s commands; ¹  I have not rebelled against my God. ² 

Why then have you broken the oath you made before the Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?” ¹ 

“But turn, all of you, ¹  and come ²  now! ³  I will not find a wise man among you.

Have I not wept for the unfortunate? ¹  Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

They have almost destroyed me here on the earth, but I do not reject your precepts.

ר (Resh) See my pain and rescue me! For I do not forget your law.

Wisdom is unattainable ¹  for a fool; in court ²  he does not open his mouth. ³ 

The righteous person cares for ¹  the legal rights ²  of the poor; the wicked does not understand such ³  knowledge.