before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me. ¹ 

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner. ¹ 

Do not let the afflicted be turned back in shame! Let the oppressed and poor praise your name! ¹ 

May his children ¹  roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home! ² 

at the head of the noisy ¹  streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city ²  she utters her words: ³ 

So she sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,

Severe discipline ¹  is for the one who abandons the way; the one who hates reproof ²  will die.

Luxury is not appropriate ¹  for a fool; ²  how much less for a servant to rule over princes! ³ 

The sluggard says, “There is a lion ¹  outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!” ² 

for the evil person has no future, ¹  and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished. ² 

But whenever ¹  you enter a town ²  and the people ³  do not welcome ⁴  you, go into its streets ⁵  and say,

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

But the Jews who refused to believe ¹  stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds ²  against the brothers.

When ¹  they heard ²  this they became enraged ³  and began to shout, ⁴  “Great is Artemis ⁵  of the Ephesians!”

He said, “Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night ¹  and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.” ²  “No,” they replied, “we’ll spend the night in the town square.” ³ 

You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza ¹  and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin ²  forever – it must never be rebuilt again.

he ¹  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ²  from the leaders ³  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ⁴  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ⁵  publicly exposed their corpses ⁶  after ⁷  they ⁸  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

As Saul approached Samuel in the middle of the gate, he said, “Please tell me where the seer’s house is.”

He said, “Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. ¹  Get as many as you can. ² 

The hungry ¹  eat up his harvest, ²  and take it even from behind the thorns, ³  and the thirsty ⁴  swallow up ⁵  their fortune. ⁶