In my distress ¹  I cried out to the Lord. The Lord answered me and put me in a wide open place. ² 

All the nations surrounded me. ¹  Indeed, in the name of the Lord ²  I pushed them away. ³ 

They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

They will be thrown down the side of a cliff by their judges. ¹  They ²  will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.

When Jesus entered the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the disorderly crowd,

The Egyptians were urging ¹  the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, ²  for they were saying, “We are all dead!”

But they dared ¹  to go up to the crest of the hill, although ²  neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed from the camp.

The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in ¹  the coastal plain.

Since ¹  the Lord God of Israel has driven out ²  the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them? ³ 

(There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed ¹  to doing evil in the sight of ²  the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel. ³ 

They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly ¹  as a fire among thorns. ²  Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

At the fords of the Arnon ¹  the Moabite women are like a bird that flies about when forced from its nest. ² 

So ¹  take warning, Jerusalem, or I will abandon you in disgust ²  and make you desolate, a place where no one can live.”

I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

They came to the house of the synagogue ruler where ¹  he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly. ² 

Then they picked up ¹  stones to throw at him, ²  but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area. ³ 

The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite ¹  grabbed his concubine and made her go outside. ²  They raped ³  her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn.

Abraham ¹  said, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?” He replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.”

At dawn ¹  the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, ²  or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!” ³ 

Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. ¹  Then we will live ²  and not die – we and you and our little ones.