They will surrender their stronghold ¹  because of fear; ²  their officers will be afraid of the Lord’s battle flag.” ³  This is what the Lord says – the one whose fire is in Zion, whose firepot is in Jerusalem. ⁴ 

Then you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’”

“‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city ¹  of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, the pot whose rot ¹  is in it, whose rot has not been removed ²  from it! Empty it piece by piece. No lot has fallen on it. ³ 

Joseph is a fruitful bough, ¹  a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches ²  climb over the wall.

For you must not worship ¹  any other god, ²  for the Lord, whose name ³  is Jealous, is a jealous God.

and all the women whose heart stirred them to action and who were skilled ¹  spun goats’ hair.

His family name will be referred to ¹  in Israel as “the family ²  of the one whose sandal was removed.” ³ 

Even Saul went to his home in Gibeah. With him went some brave men whose hearts God had touched.

Absalom had ¹  three sons and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a very attractive woman. ² 

“Why does God ²  give ³  light to one who is in misery, ⁴  and life to those ⁵  whose soul is bitter,

Why is light given ¹  to a man ²  whose way is hidden, ³  and whom God has hedged in? ⁴ 

For calamity, ¹  there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate ² ) – a fate ³  for those whose feet slip!

in whose hand ¹  is the life ²  of every creature and the breath of all the human race. ³ 

He has made me ¹  a byword ²  to people, I am the one in whose face they spit. ³ 

Moreover, the strength of their ¹  hands – what use was it to me? Men whose strength ²  had perished;

From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, ¹  who gives birth to it,

A psalm by Asaph. Certainly God is good to Israel, ²  and to those whose motives are pure! ³ 

א (Alef) How blessed are those whose actions are blameless, ²  who obey ³  the law of the Lord.

How blessed are the people who experience these things! ¹  How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!