As for you, the one who lives ²  in the shelter of the sovereign One, ³  and resides in the protective shadow ⁴  of the mighty king ⁵  –

I stay away ¹  from the evil path, so that I might keep your instructions. ² 

The hope ¹  of the righteous is joy, but the expectation of the wicked will remain unfulfilled. ² 

Train ¹  a child ²  in the way that he should go, ³  and when he is old he will not turn from it. ⁴ 

Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit. ¹ 

The leaders will not be able to run away and hide. ¹  The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape.

Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.” ¹ 

But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.

Blessed is the one who waits and attains to the 1,335 days.

Then ¹  John testified, ²  “I saw the Spirit descending like a dove ³  from heaven, ⁴  and it remained on him. ⁵ 

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking ¹  him to stay with them. ²  He stayed there two days,

The one who eats ¹  my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him. ² 

Then ¹  I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate ²  to be with you forever –

Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” ¹ 

You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza ¹  and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin ²  forever – it must never be rebuilt again.

If the owner ¹  does not live ²  near you or you do not know who the owner is, ³  then you must corral the animal ⁴  at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.

They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation ¹  ruined the reputation ²  of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

“Don’t imagine that because you are part of the king’s household you will be the one Jew ¹  who will escape. If you keep quiet at this time, liberation and protection for the Jews will appear ²  from another source, ³  while you and your father’s household perish. It may very well be ⁴  that you have achieved royal status ⁵  for such a time as this!”

There will be some left behind, like when an olive tree is beaten – two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches,” says the Lord God of Israel.

So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven, ¹  and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: ²  They will make all the stones of the altars ³  like crushed limestone, and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand. ⁴