Indeed, ¹  you are my lamp, ²  Lord. The Lord illumines ³  the darkness around me. ⁴ 

For Job says, ‘I am innocent, ¹  but God turns away my right.

The breath of God produces ice, and the breadth of the waters freeze solid.

when the waters become hard ¹  like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

He turns springs into streams; ¹  they flow between the mountains.

and a fruitful land into a barren place, ¹  because of the sin of its inhabitants.

But ¹  you are willing to forgive, ²  so that you might ³  be honored. ⁴ 

to deliver ¹  you from the way of the wicked, ²  from those ³  speaking perversity, ⁴ 

who delight ¹  in doing ²  evil, ³  they rejoice in perverse evil; ⁴ 

The righteous person is delivered ¹  out of trouble, and the wicked turns up in his stead. ² 

Through loyal love and truth ¹  iniquity is appeased; ²  through fearing the Lord ³  one avoids ⁴  evil. ⁵ 

Bread gained by deceit ¹  tastes sweet to a person, ²  but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel. ³ 

A wise king separates out ¹  the wicked; he turns the threshing wheel over them. ² 

A gift given ¹  in secret subdues ²  anger, and a bribe given secretly ³  subdues ⁴  strong wrath. ⁵ 

a lion, mightiest ¹  of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything;

But I see the prophets of Jerusalem ¹  doing something just as shocking. They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies. ²  So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil, with the result that they do not stop their evildoing. ³  I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom, and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah. ⁴ 

All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine. ¹ 

People ¹  writhe in fear when they see them. ²  All of their faces turn pale with fright. ³ 

The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold ¹  their brightness.

I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so that I could serve you! ¹