He has brought you near and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. Do you now seek ¹  the priesthood also?

Why do you frustrate the intent ¹  of the Israelites to cross over into the land which the Lord has given them?

There is no one like God, O Jeshurun, ¹  who rides through the sky ²  to help you, on the clouds in majesty.

Now Boaz, with whose female servants you worked, is our close relative. ¹  Look, tonight he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor. ² 

Her rival wife used to upset her and make her worry, ¹  for the Lord had not enabled her to have children.

Tremble with fear and do not sin! ¹  Meditate as you lie in bed, and repent of your ways! ²  (Selah)

Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help, when I lift my hands ¹  toward your holy temple! ² 

For the music director; by the Korahites; a psalm. All you nations, clap your hands! Shout out to God in celebration! ² 

Surely ¹  one sees ²  that even wise people die; ³  fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away ⁴  and leave their wealth to others. ⁵ 

I will threaten Ariel, and she will mourn intensely and become like an altar hearth ¹  before me.

you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, ¹  you who let your ox and donkey graze. ² 

For I am the Lord your God, the one who takes hold of your right hand, who says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, I am helping you.’

The Lord says, ¹  “Yes indeed, ²  I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. ³  And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.” ⁴ 

“Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Take note ¹  – he gave his promise ²  and did all these things – he will not escape!

Just as lion cubs are born predators, ¹  so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.

And every day both in the temple courts ¹  and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news ²  that Jesus was the Christ. ³ 

Therefore be alert, ¹  remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning ²  each one of you with tears.

When the ship was caught in it ¹  and could not head into ²  the wind, we gave way to it and were driven ³  along.

He did this when he revealed ¹  to us the secret ²  of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth ³  in Christ, ⁴