“Oh that ¹  my request would be realized, ²  and that God would grant me what I long for! ³ 

“O that ¹  my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll, ² 

Who can make ¹  a clean thing come from an unclean? ²  No one!

He does not allow the wicked to live, ¹  but he gives justice to the poor.

Let him bury his face in the dust; ¹  perhaps there is hope.

Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; ¹  let him have his fill of insults.

Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for me? ¹  I wish that ²  all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!”

In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.

Who stirs up this one from the east? ¹  Who ²  officially commissions him for service? ³  He hands nations over to him, ⁴  and enables him to subdue ⁵  kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like windblown straw with his bow. ⁶ 

Asher’s ¹  food will be rich, ²  and he will provide delicacies ³  to royalty.

The Lord thundered ¹  from the sky; the sovereign One ²  shouted loudly. ³ 

She said, “Allow Abishag the Shunammite to be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife.”

“Why does God ²  give ³  light to one who is in misery, ⁴  and life to those ⁵  whose soul is bitter,

But if only God would speak, ¹  if only he would open his lips against you, ² 

If only you would keep completely silent! ¹  For you, that would be wisdom. ² 

O that I knew ¹  where I might find him, ²  that I could come ³  to his place of residence! ⁴ 

God ¹  may let them rest in a feeling of security, ²  but he is constantly watching ³  all their ways. ⁴ 

Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

It is by these that he judges ¹  the nations and supplies food in abundance.

The breath of God produces ice, and the breadth of the waters freeze solid.