Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground. ¹ 

Justice will settle down in the desert and fairness will live in the orchard. ¹ 

But Judah will reside securely forever, and Jerusalem will be secure ¹  from one generation to the next.

You plot against your brother; ¹  you slander your own brother. ² 

You make mankind return ¹  to the dust, ²  and say, “Return, O people!”

But you, O Lord, rule forever, ¹  and your reputation endures. ² 

For the sake of David, your servant, do not reject your chosen king! ¹ 

But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.

But Rebekah’s ¹  brother and her mother replied, “Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go.”

Anything she lies on during her menstruation will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.

O Lord God, do not reject your chosen ones! ¹  Remember the faithful promises you made to your servant David!”

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully ¹  what ²  is before you,

Let the desert and its cities shout out, the towns where the nomads of Kedar live! Let the residents of Sela shout joyfully; let them shout loudly from the mountaintops.

But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, ¹  you will be free ²  from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!”

If she bears a female child, she will be impure fourteen days as during her menstrual flow, and she will remain sixty-six days in ¹  blood purity. ² 

Anyone who touches any furniture she sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape ¹  her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

Then Gad the prophet said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Go to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.”

No one will live there again; no one will ever reside there again. ¹  No bedouin ²  will camp ³  there, no shepherds will rest their flocks ⁴  there.