the Ammonite officials said to Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? ¹  No, his servants have come to you so they can get information and spy out the land!” ² 

He makes nations great, ¹  and destroys them; he extends the boundaries of nations and disperses ²  them. ³ 

Is it because of your piety ¹  that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you? ² 

With his hands ¹  he covers ²  the lightning, and directs it against its target.

Its branches reached the Mediterranean Sea, ¹  and its shoots the Euphrates River. ² 

You people of Israel, ¹  listen to what the Lord has to say to you.

But for now I, the Lord, say: ¹  “I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen. After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains, all the hills, and the crevices in the rocks. ² 

“I am about to send my messenger, ¹  who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord ²  you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger ³  of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.

After saying good-bye to them, he went to the mountain to pray.

Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. ¹ 

While they were screaming ¹  and throwing off their cloaks ²  and tossing dust ³  in the air,

and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia.

but the goat which has been designated by lot for Azazel is to be stood alive ¹  before the Lord to make atonement on it by sending it away to Azazel into the wilderness. ² 

The king replied, “How is the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz replied, “I saw a great deal of confusion when Joab was sending the king’s servant and me, your servant, but I don’t know what it was all about.”

In light of the fact that we are loyal to the king, ¹  and since it does not seem appropriate to us that the king should sustain damage, ²  we are sending the king this information ³ 

For this reason, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ, ¹  as I teach them everywhere in every church.

Then the Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

Uzziah supplied shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slingstones for the entire army.

God abandons me to evil ¹  men, ²  and throws ³  me into the hands of wicked men.