You clothed ¹  me with skin and flesh and knit me together ²  with bones and sinews.

“Who shut up ¹  the sea with doors when it burst forth, ²  coming out of the womb,

The lotus trees conceal it in their ¹  shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.

ס (Samek) You shrouded yourself ¹  with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy.

You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

Why is light given ¹  to a man ²  whose way is hidden, ³  and whom God has hedged in? ⁴ 

Certainly ¹  you made my mind and heart; ²  you wove me together ³  in my mother’s womb.

When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and will cover ¹  you with my hand ²  while I pass by. ³ 

You are to place the ark of the testimony in it and shield the ark with the special curtain.

He will shelter you ¹  with his wings; ²  you will find safety under his wings. His faithfulness is like a shield or a protective wall. ³ 

O sovereign Lord, my strong deliverer, ¹  you shield ²  my head in the day of battle.

Then the Lord provoked ¹  their adversaries to attack them, ²  he stirred up ³  their enemies –

“I will provoke civil strife in Egypt, ¹  brothers will fight with each other, as will neighbors, cities, and kingdoms. ² 

The commander ¹  orders ²  his officers; they stumble ³  as they advance; ⁴  they rush to the city wall ⁵  and they set up ⁶  the covered siege tower. ⁷ 

The cherubim are to be spreading their wings upward, overshadowing ¹  the atonement lid with their wings, and the cherubim are to face each other, ²  looking ³  toward the atonement lid.

The cherubim were spreading their wings ¹  upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings. The cherubim ²  faced each other, ³  looking toward the atonement lid. ⁴ 

And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung ¹  the protecting curtain, ²  and shielded the ark of the testimony from view, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

When Ehud had left, Eglon’s ¹  servants came and saw the locked doors of the upper room. They said, “He must be relieving himself ²  in the well-ventilated inner room.” ³ 

The cherubs’ wings extended over the place where the ark sat; the cherubs overshadowed the ark and its poles. ¹ 

and for the refined gold of the incense altar. He gave him ¹  the blueprint for the seat ²  of the gold cherubim that spread their wings ³  and provide shelter for the ark of the Lord’s covenant.