But evil people are like thorns – all of them are tossed away, for they cannot be held in the hand.

My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up. ¹ 

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

They ¹  reached up to the sky, then dropped into the depths. The sailors’ strength ²  left them ³  because the danger was so great. ⁴ 

Moab is my wash basin. ¹  I will make Edom serve me. ²  I will shout in triumph over Philistia.”

and tossed ¹  Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea, for his loyal love endures,

Making a fortune ¹  by a lying tongue is like ²  a vapor driven back and forth; ³  they seek death. ⁴ 

And you will be like one who lies down in the midst ¹  of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging. ² 

The nations will be burned to ashes; ¹  like thorn bushes that have been cut down, they will be set on fire.

“Who is this that rises like the Nile, like its streams ¹  turbulent at flood stage?

“It is not right ¹  to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs,” ²  he said. ³ 

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

This is what the Lord says about him: ¹  “The virgin daughter Zion ²  despises you, she makes fun of you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head after you. ³ 

this is what the Lord says about him: ¹  “The virgin daughter Zion ²  despises you – she makes fun of you; daughter Jerusalem shakes her head after you. ³ 

And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, ¹  which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, ²  won’t he clothe you even more, ³  you people of little faith?

You are to make its pots for the ashes, ¹  its shovels, its tossing bowls, ²  its meat hooks, and its fire pans – you are to make all ³  its utensils of bronze.

He made all the utensils of the altar – the pots, the shovels, the tossing bowls, the meat hooks, and the fire pans – he made all its utensils of bronze.

So David and his men went on their way. But Shimei kept going along the side of the hill opposite him, yelling curses as he threw stones and dirt at them. ¹ 

The prophet ¹  asked, “Where did it drop in?” When he showed him the spot, Elisha ²  cut off a branch, threw it in at that spot, and made the ax head float.

You split the sea before them, and they crossed through ¹  the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers ²  into the depths, like a stone into surging ³  waters.