Ahab told Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas ¹  so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill ²  some of the animals.”

You will defeat every fortified city and every important ¹  city. You must chop down ²  every productive ³  tree, stop up all the springs, and cover all the cultivated land with stones.” ⁴ 

before the silver cord is removed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the well, ¹  or the water wheel ²  is broken at the cistern –

The Lover to His Beloved: ¹  I went down to the orchard of walnut trees, ²  to look for the blossoms of the valley, ³  to see if the vines had budded or if the pomegranates were in bloom.

(8:23) ¹  I wish that my head were a well full of water ²  and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people ³  who have been killed.

Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?” ¹ 

The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw ¹  him making locusts just as the crops planted late ²  were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest. ³ )

So be patient, brothers and sisters, ¹  until the Lord’s return. ²  Think of how the farmer waits ³  for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient ⁴  for it until it receives the early and late rains.

The man ¹  named his wife Eve, ²  because ³  she was the mother of all the living. ⁴ 

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, ¹  is a Passover offering to the Lord.

They assembled in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps ¹  and finished in the seventh month.

My brothers ¹  have been as treacherous ²  as a seasonal stream, ³  and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams ⁴  that flow away. ⁵ 

He grows up ¹  like a flower and then withers away; ²  he flees like a shadow, and does not remain. ³ 

Do not sweep me away ¹  with sinners, or execute me along with violent people, ² 

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion ¹  like a young ox. ² 

They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.

Though I have done nothing wrong, ¹  they are anxious to attack. ²  Spring into action and help me! Take notice of me! ³ 

He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea. ¹ 

A person’s life is like grass. ¹  Like a flower in the field it flourishes,