But you, O God, will bring them ¹  down to the deep Pit. ²  Violent and deceitful people ³  will not live even half a normal lifespan. ⁴  But as for me, I trust in you.

¹ Come, let’s consider your options,” ²  says the Lord. “Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become ³  white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become ⁴  white like wool. ⁵ 

The one who lives ¹  uprightly ²  and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; ³  the one who does not plot violent crimes ⁴  and does not seek to harm others ⁵  –

“‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword ¹  at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.

“‘If ¹  she becomes clean from her discharge, then she is to count off for herself seven days, and afterward she will be clean.

“‘No man is to approach any close relative ¹  to have sexual intercourse with her. ²  I am the Lord. ³ 

You must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh. ¹ 

You must not have sexual intercourse with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s flesh.

except for his close relative who is near to him: ¹  his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

He must not defile himself as a husband among his people so as to profane himself. ¹ 

You destroy ¹  liars; ²  the Lord despises ³  violent and deceitful people. ⁴ 

The law of their God controls their thinking; ¹  their ²  feet do not slip.

Cut sharply on the right! Swing to ¹  the left, wherever your edge ²  is appointed to strike.

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I will also make the pile high.

I will put your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your maggot-infested carcass. ¹ 

Then King Belshazzar was very terrified, and he was visibly shaken. ¹  His nobles were completely dumbfounded.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is ¹  my brother and sister and mother.”

But you rejected ¹  the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ¹ 

for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, ¹  but are made powerful by God ²  for tearing down strongholds. ³  We tear down arguments ⁴