Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, ¹  they scoff at me. ² 

They live out ¹  their years in prosperity and go down ²  to the grave ³  in peace.

They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.

Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; ¹  evil men have no future. ² 

before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me. ¹ 

They return in the evening; they growl ¹  like a dog and prowl around outside ²  the city.

so they may proclaim the name of the Lord in Zion, and praise him ¹  in Jerusalem, ² 

Abandon your foolish ways ¹  so that you may live, ²  and proceed ³  in the way of understanding.”

So she sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,

for the evil person has no future, ¹  and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished. ² 

They raped ¹  women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.

and elaborate greetings ¹  in the marketplaces, and to have people call them ‘Rabbi.’

As ¹  he rode along, they ²  spread their cloaks on the road.

Now as Jesus was passing by, ¹  he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

They stopped there and decided to spend the night ¹  in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. ² 

When he looked up and saw the traveler ¹  in the town square, the old man said, “Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”

He appointed military officers over the army ¹  and assembled them in the square at the city gate. He encouraged them, ²  saying,

The Lord said to him, “Go through the city of Jerusalem ¹  and put a mark ²  on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it.”

The charioteers ¹  will charge ahead; ²  their swords ³  will flash ⁴  and their spears ⁵  will glimmer! ⁶  There will be many people slain; ⁷  there will be piles of the dead, and countless casualties ⁸  – so many that people ⁹  will stumble over the corpses.

They did not find me arguing ¹  with anyone or stirring up a crowd ²  in the temple courts ³  or in the synagogues ⁴  or throughout the city, ⁵