“The time will come when ¹  the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ²  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ³  and turn away from their sin because you punish ⁴  them,

When ¹  I close up the sky ²  so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, ³  or send a plague among my people,

Then ¹  he said to them, “Which of you, if you have a son ²  or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”

“When a man’s head is bare so that he is balding in back, ¹  he is clean.

If his head is bare on the forehead ¹  so that he is balding in front, ²  he is clean.

and the slope of the valleys ¹  that extends to the dwelling of Ar, ²  and falls off at the border of Moab.”

His victims are crushed and beaten down; they are trapped in his sturdy nets. ¹ 

All the earth worships ¹  you and sings praises to you! They sing praises to your name!” (Selah)

The righteousness of the blameless will make straight their way, ¹  but the wicked person will fall by his own wickedness. ² 

The wicked person desires a stronghold, ¹  but the righteous root ²  endures. ³ 

Like a muddied ¹  spring and a polluted ²  well, so is a righteous person who gives way ³  before the wicked.

Blessed is the one who is always cautious, ¹  but whoever hardens his heart ²  will fall into evil.

Even if the forest is destroyed ¹  and the city is annihilated, ² 

Peter ¹  said to him, “If they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away!”

Those guilty of sin ¹  must be rebuked ²  before all, ³  as a warning to the rest. ⁴ 

My brothers and sisters, ¹  if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

However, a spring or a cistern which collects water ¹  will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.

and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening.

The rest of the needs for the temple of your God that you may have to supply, ¹  you may do so from the royal treasury.

If a land ¹  has been given into the hand of a wicked man, ²  he covers ³  the faces of its judges; ⁴  if it is not he, then who is it? ⁵