The Lord is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked.” ¹ 

Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, ¹  but righteousness delivers from mortal danger. ² 

You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel ¹  (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant ²  vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.

For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. ¹  For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; ²  they will be among mere mortals, ³  with those who descend to the pit.

“You are the ones who have remained ¹  with me in my trials.

because the sun’s light failed. ¹  The temple curtain ²  was torn in two.

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. ¹  Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, the pot whose rot ¹  is in it, whose rot has not been removed ²  from it! Empty it piece by piece. No lot has fallen on it. ³ 

Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; ¹  the archers ²  spotted him and wounded him severely.

The battle was thick ¹  around Saul; the archers spotted him and wounded him. ² 

Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will bring me to Edom? ¹ 

He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores. ¹ 

Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will bring me to Edom? ¹ 

His head is like the most pure gold. ¹  His hair is curly ²  – black like a raven.

The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall. ¹ 

Here is a message about Arabia: In the thicket of Arabia you spend the night, you Dedanite caravans.

And whoever does not take up his cross ¹  and follow me is not worthy of me.

That very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other, ¹  for prior to this they had been enemies. ² 

You people of this generation, listen to what the Lord says. “Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? ¹  Why then do you ²  say, ‘We are free to wander. ³  We will not come to you any more?’