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

Take the choice bone of the flock, heap up bones under it; boil rapidly, and boil its bones in it.

It wraps its roots around a heap ¹  of stones ²  and it looks ³  for a place among stones. ⁴ 

Come from far away and attack Babylonia! ¹  Open up the places where she stores her grain! Pile her up in ruins! ²  Destroy her completely! ³  Do not leave anyone alive! ⁴ 

what he stores up ¹  a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.

It is of no value ¹  for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out. ²  The one who has ears to hear had better listen!” ³ 

If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

Hold them accountable for all their sins! ¹  Do not vindicate them! ² 

Then he ¹  said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” So they brought stones and put them in a pile. ²  They ate there by the pile of stones.

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

They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. ¹  They refuse to pay attention to me,” ²  says the Lord.

“This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me. ¹ 

Then they erected over him a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day ¹ ) and the Lord’s anger subsided. So that place is called the Valley of Disaster to this very day.

Laban said, “This pile of stones is a witness of our agreement ¹  today.” That is why it was called Galeed.

But, if you do not obey these commands, I solemnly swear ¹  that this palace will become a pile of rubble. I, the Lord, affirm it!” ² 

They mock kings and laugh at rulers. They laugh at every fortified city; they build siege ramps ¹  and capture them.

“Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob. ¹ 

I will increase their ¹  disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

The topaz of Cush ¹  cannot be compared with it; it cannot be purchased with pure gold.

You have broken down all his ¹  walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.