why it is so dark you cannot see, ¹  and why a flood ²  of water covers you.

Hide them in the dust ¹  together, imprison ²  them ³  in the grave. ⁴ 

He piles up the water of the sea; ¹  he puts the oceans ²  in storehouses.

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

Your plunder ¹  disappears as if locusts were eating it; ²  they swarm over it like locusts! ³ 

Your chosen ¹  cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem ²  is a desolate ruin.

Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. ¹  It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives. ² 

The sea has swept over Babylon. She has been covered by a multitude ¹  of its waves. ² 

They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

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

I will pour out my anger upon Pelusium, ¹  the stronghold of Egypt; I will cut off ²  the hordes of Thebes.

When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and experts in the law ¹  arguing with them.

A little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise! ¹ 

Now ¹  the earth ²  was without shape and empty, ³  and darkness ⁴  was over the surface of the watery deep, ⁵  but the Spirit of God ⁶  was moving ⁷  over the surface ⁸  of the water. ⁹ 

By the blast of your nostrils ¹  the waters were piled up, the flowing water stood upright like a heap, ²  and the deep waters were solidified in the heart of the sea.

“You must not follow a crowd ¹  in doing evil things; ²  in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice, ³ 

Armed troops marched ahead of the priests blowing the horns, while the rear guard followed along behind the ark blowing rams’ horns.

These kings came out with their armies; they were as numerous as the sand on the seashore and had a large number of horses and chariots. ¹ 

Some time later, when he went back to marry ¹  her, he turned aside to see the lion’s remains. He saw ²  a swarm of bees in the lion’s carcass, as well as some honey.

They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and stacked a huge pile of stones over him. In the meantime all the Israelite soldiers fled to their homes. ¹