¹ He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’

It makes its tail stiff ¹  like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

foreigners lose their courage; ¹  they shake with fear ²  as they leave ³  their strongholds. ⁴ 

Hide your face ¹  from my sins! Wipe away ²  all my guilt!

Pay attention to me and answer me! I am so upset ¹  and distressed, ²  I am beside myself, ³ 

No harm will overtake ¹  you; no illness ²  will come near your home. ³ 

I will not allow my eyes to sleep, or my eyelids to slumber,

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” ¹  and call understanding a close relative,

How beautiful you are! How lovely, O love, ¹  with your delights! ² 

To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?

You came near ¹  on the day I called to you; you said, ²  “Do not fear!”

Now Daniel lived on until the first ¹  year of Cyrus the king.

“Moreover, the Lord who rules over all says: ‘Pay close attention to these things also. ¹ 

Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives. ¹ 

Look, this town ¹  over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. ²  Let me go there. ³  It’s just a little place, isn’t it? ⁴  Then I’ll survive.” ⁵ 

So Jacob ¹  went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent ²  of his clothing, he blessed him, saying, “Yes, ³  my son smells like the scent of an open field which the Lord has blessed.

You will live ¹  in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me – you, your children, your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and everything you have.

“‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers ¹  and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that ²  he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member ³  of a foreigner’s family,

or his uncle or his cousin ¹  may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives – his family ²  – may redeem him, or if ³  he prospers he may redeem himself.

Now Boaz went up ¹  to the village gate and sat there. Then along came the guardian ²  whom Boaz had mentioned to Ruth! ³  Boaz said, “Come ⁴  here and sit down, ‘John Doe’!” ⁵  So he came ⁶  and sat down.