One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”

The king swore an oath: “As certainly as the Lord lives (he who has rescued me ¹  from every danger),

But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what the Lord tells me to say.”

But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what my God tells me to say!”

he lived in ruined towns ¹  and in houses where ²  no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps. ³ 

As for me, I know that my Redeemer ¹  lives, and that as the last ²  he will stand upon the earth. ³ 

“As surely as God lives, ¹  who has denied me justice, ²  the Almighty, who has made my life bitter ³  –

It lives on a rock and spends the night there, on a rocky crag ¹  and a fortress. ² 

He will take pity ¹  on the poor and needy; the lives of the needy he will save.

Yes, ¹  throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; ²  the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh. ³ 

We escaped with our lives, ¹  like a bird from a hunter’s snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.

“Get out of Babylon, my people! Flee to save your lives from the fierce anger of the Lord! ¹ 

Archers ¹  will not hold their ground; ²  fast runners will not save their lives, nor will those who ride horses. ³ 

and say ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to those who sew bands ¹  on all their wrists ²  and make headbands ³  for heads of every size to entrap people’s lives! ⁴  Will you entrap my people’s lives, yet preserve your own lives?

You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, ¹  you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

God sent me ¹  ahead of you to preserve you ²  on the earth and to save your lives ³  by a great deliverance.

The same law will apply ¹  to the person who is native-born and to the foreigner who lives among you.”

Therefore, I have said to the Israelites: No person among you is to eat blood, ¹  and no resident foreigner who lives among you is to eat blood. ² 

And the whole community ¹  of the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them will be forgiven, since all the people were involved in the unintentional offense.

Israel lives in safety, the fountain of Jacob is quite secure, ¹  in a land of grain and new wine; indeed, its heavens ²  rain down dew. ³