Rescue me from my enemies, O Lord! I run to you for protection. ¹ 

Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant ¹  he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

Do any of the worthless idols ¹  of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? ²  So we put our hopes in you ³  because you alone do all this.”

י (Yod) Let a person ¹  sit alone in silence, when the Lord ²  is disciplining him. ³ 

Pray ¹  that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

we are persecuted, but not abandoned; ¹  we are knocked down, ²  but not destroyed,

So do not throw away your confidence, because it ¹  has great reward.

I especially ask you to pray ¹  that I may be restored to you very soon.

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Now this ¹  is the promise that he ²  himself made to ³  us: eternal life. ⁴ 

Look, I and the sons whom the Lord has given me ¹  are reminders and object lessons ²  in Israel, sent from the Lord who commands armies, who lives on Mount Zion.

But those who wait for the Lord’s help ¹  find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings, ²  they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.

For this reason deliverance ¹  is far from us ²  and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, ³  but see only darkness; ⁴  we wait for ⁵  a bright light, ⁶  but live ⁷  in deep darkness. ⁸ 

Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?” ¹ 

The Lord roars from Zion; from Jerusalem ¹  his voice bellows out. ²  The heavens ³  and the earth shake. But the Lord is a refuge for his people; he is a stronghold for the citizens ⁴  of Israel.

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. ¹  In fact, it would be better for me to die than – no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting! ² 

When Saul and all the Israelites ¹  heard these words of the Philistine, they were upset and very afraid.

Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat ¹  the words of a despairing man as wind?

Like a servant ¹  longing for the evening shadow, ²  and like a hired man looking ³  for his wages, ⁴