At that time ¹  the sovereign master ²  will wash the excrement ³  from Zion’s women, he will rinse the bloodstains from Jerusalem’s midst, ⁴  as he comes to judge and to bring devastation. ⁵ 

In a year’s time ¹  you carefree ones will shake with fear, for the grape ²  harvest will fail, and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

י (Yod) The elders of Daughter Zion sit ¹  on the ground in silence. ²  They have thrown dirt on their heads; They have dressed in sackcloth. ³  Jerusalem’s young women ⁴  stare down at the ground. ⁵ 

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan ¹  who live on Mount Samaria! You ²  oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your ³  husbands, “Bring us more to drink!” ⁴ 

But if ¹  that ²  slave should say to himself, ³  ‘My master is delayed ⁴  in returning,’ and he begins to beat ⁵  the other ⁶  slaves, both men and women, ⁷  and to eat, drink, and get drunk,

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress ¹  on the earth and wrath against this people.

Then ¹  the women remembered his words, ² 

But she will be delivered through childbearing, ¹  if she ²  continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

So Ruth ¹  worked beside ²  Boaz’s female servants, gathering grain until the end of the barley harvest as well as the wheat harvest. ³  After that she stayed home with her mother-in-law. ⁴ 

Then I will reply, ¹  ‘I will bring them back from the land of the north. I will gather them in from the distant parts of the earth. Blind and lame people will come with them, so will pregnant women and women about to give birth. A vast throng of people will come back here.

Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

Here I am, standing by the spring, ¹  and the daughters of the people ²  who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

They captured as plunder ¹  all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

The wisest of her ladies ¹  answer; indeed she even thinks to herself,

Singers walk in front; musicians follow playing their stringed instruments, ¹  in the midst of young women playing tambourines. ² 

She has sent out her female servants; she calls out on the highest places ¹  of the city.

Your eyes will see strange things, ¹  and your mind will speak perverse things.

The Lover to His Beloved: Like ¹  a lily among the thorns, ²  so is my darling among the maidens.

the clan of the descendants of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; and the clan of the Shimeites ¹  by itself and their wives by themselves –

In any case, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.