While they are watching, dig a hole in the wall and carry your belongings out through it.

He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.

Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, ¹  my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.

But the worker ¹  answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer ²  on it.

You must have a spade among your other equipment and when you relieve yourself ¹  outside you must dig a hole with the spade ²  and then turn and cover your excrement. ³ 

to ¹  those who wait ²  for death that ³  does not come, and search for it ⁴  more than for hidden treasures,

In the dark the robber ¹  breaks into houses, ²  but by day they shut themselves in; ³  they do not know the light. ⁴ 

Then ¹  the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking my position ²  away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig, ³  and I’m too ashamed ⁴  to beg.

houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant – and you eat your fill,

a land where you may eat food ¹  in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron ²  and from whose hills you can mine copper.

The arrogant dig pits to trap me, ¹  which violates your law. ² 

“The prince ¹  who is among them will raise his belongings ²  onto his shoulder in darkness, and will go out. He ³  will dig a hole in the wall to leave through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.

And you will be secure, because there is hope; you will be protected ¹  and will take your rest in safety.

All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, ¹  because they could not drink the water of the Nile.

and he said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Make many cisterns in this valley,’ ¹ 

Yes, you would gamble ¹  for the fatherless, and auction off ²  your friend.

that ¹  you must search out ²  my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

Iron is taken from the ground, ¹  and rock is poured out ²  as copper.

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

Do not plot ¹  evil against your neighbor when ²  he dwells by you unsuspectingly.