Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct. ¹ 

He says, ¹  “How long will you make unjust legal decisions and show favoritism to the wicked? ²  (Selah)

unless ¹  you have utterly rejected us ²  and are angry with us beyond measure. ³ 

Jesus said, ¹  “Bring some of the fish you have just now caught.”

“What have you done?” Laban demanded of Jacob. “You’ve deceived me ¹  and carried away my daughters as if they were captives of war! ² 

Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel.

if you have experienced ¹  the Lord’s kindness. ² 

How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly ¹  revealed your insight!

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

You exalt my horn like that of a wild ox. ¹  I am covered ²  with fresh oil.

Yes, ¹  Lord, ²  you rescued my life from death, and kept my feet from stumbling.

I recall the old days; ¹  I meditate on all you have done; I reflect on your accomplishments. ² 

However, ¹  because ²  I called but you refused to listen, ³  because ⁴  I stretched out my hand ⁵  but no one paid attention,

You see ¹  many things, but don’t comprehend; ²  their ears are open, but do not hear.”

and they said to them, “May the Lord look on you and judge, ¹  because you have made us stink ²  in the opinion of ³  Pharaoh and his servants, ⁴  so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!” ⁵ 

They include the Anakites, ¹  a numerous ²  and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, “Who is able to resist the Anakites?”

Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted, ¹  and looked so arrogantly? ²  At the Holy One of Israel! ³ 

For the sake of your promise and according to your purpose ¹  you have done this great thing in order to reveal it to your servant. ² 

Absalom would then say to him, “Look, your claims are legitimate and appropriate. ¹  But there is no representative of the king who will listen to you.”

You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me. ¹