Whoever strikes it with a sword ¹  will have no effect, ²  nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

Its underparts ¹  are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge. ² 

Now ¹  as Jesus was going out of the temple courts and walking away, his disciples came to show him the temple buildings. ² 

Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

For your arrows pierce ¹  me, and your hand presses me down. ² 

Here’s how! ¹  With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals. ² 

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) ¹ 

For here is the testimony about him: ¹  “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.” ² 

“The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. ¹ 

John ¹  testified ²  about him and shouted out, ³  “This one was the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is greater than I am, ⁴  because he existed before me.’”

They ¹  sharpen their tongues like a sword; they aim their arrow, a slanderous charge, ² 

Cut sharply on the right! Swing to ¹  the left, wherever your edge ²  is appointed to strike.

And pointing ¹  toward his disciples he said, “Here ²  are my mother and my brothers!

Samuel said to the cook, “Give me the portion of meat that I gave to you – the one I asked you to keep with you.”

The words of the sages are like prods, ¹  and the collected sayings are like firmly fixed nails; they are given by one shepherd.

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build ¹  an embankment ²  against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

Now while Jesus ¹  was in Jerusalem ²  at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing. ³ 

yet was rebuked ¹  for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, ²  speaking with a human voice, ³  restrained the prophet’s madness). ⁴ 

They have ¹  tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability ²  to injure people for five months is in their tails.

then his master must bring him to the judges, ¹  and he will bring him to the door or the doorposts, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. ²