So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to ¹  Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.

He abandoned the Lord God of his ancestors and did not follow the Lord’s instructions. ¹ 

When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square, ¹ 

I beat them ¹  to death; ²  they fall at my feet. ³ 

Even if my father and mother abandoned me, ¹  the Lord would take me in. ² 

But ¹  you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies. ² 

He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the water stand in a heap.

I gave them over to their stubborn desires; ¹  they did what seemed right to them. ² 

Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds. ¹ 

After twelve months, he happened to be walking around on the battlements ¹  of the royal palace of Babylon.

But when the young man heard this he went away sorrowful, for he was very rich. ¹ 

But at this statement, the man ¹  looked sad and went away sorrowful, for he was very rich. ² 

But ¹  when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled back.

So too a Levite, when he came up to ¹  the place and saw him, ²  passed by on the other side.

but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. ¹ 

So they approached the village where they were going. He acted as though he wanted to go farther, ¹ 

So now, look, the Lord has preserved my life, just as he promised, these past forty-five years since the Lord spoke these words to Moses, during which Israel traveled through the wilderness. Now look, I am today eighty-five years old.

I will put it into the hand of your tormentors ¹  who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’ You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you.”

They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. ¹  These are things they ²  adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, ³  from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people ⁴  will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground. ⁵ 

But when they came in and took possession of it, they did not obey you or live as you had instructed them. They did not do anything that you commanded them to do. ¹  So you brought all this disaster on them.