and you, O Lord, demonstrate loyal love. ¹  For you repay men for what they do. ² 

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Those who make cloth ¹  will be demoralized; ²  all the hired workers will be depressed. ³ 

While I was watching, that horn began to wage war against the holy ones and was defeating ¹  them,

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation. ¹ 

since you are encountering ¹  the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing. ² 

During ¹  the reign of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel marched up to Jerusalem ²  to do battle, but they were unable to prevail against it. ³ 

Then Laban said to Jacob, “Should you work ¹  for me for nothing because you are my relative? ²  Tell me what your wages should be.”

but your father has humiliated ¹  me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.

He joined Ahab’s son Joram in a battle against King Hazael of Syria at Ramoth Gilead in which the Syrians defeated Joram.

They commanded an army of 307,500 skilled and able warriors who were ready to defend ¹  the king against his enemies.

When you will look for your opponents, ¹  you will not find them; your enemies ²  will be reduced to absolutely nothing.

He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’

Where do the conflicts and where ¹  do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, ²  from your passions that battle inside you? ³ 

When ¹  they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer ²  them and kill them.

But this will be the nature of the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will decay while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot away in their sockets, and their tongues will dissolve in their mouths.

“I ¹  will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, ²  and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, ³  who refuse to help ⁴  the immigrant ⁵  and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the Lord who rules over all.

You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute ¹  or the wage of a male prostitute ²  into the temple of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.

You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

for the Lord determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses. ¹