When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, ¹  he enabled her to become pregnant ²  while Rachel remained childless.

The men of Zebulun were not concerned about their lives; ¹  Naphtali charged on to the battlefields. ² 

You have repudiated ¹  your covenant with your servant; ²  you have thrown his crown to the ground. ³ 

So the Lord was angry with his people ¹  and despised the people who belong to him. ² 

which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

People ¹  do not despise a thief when he steals to fulfill his need ²  when he is hungry.

The one who turns away his ear ¹  from hearing the law, even his prayer ²  is an abomination. ³ 

But ¹  a Samaritan ²  who was traveling ³  came to where the injured man ⁴  was, and when he saw him, he felt compassion for him. ⁵ 

This Jesus ¹  is the stone that was rejected by you, ²  the builders, that has become the cornerstone. ³ 

Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death ¹  without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ² 

You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

This is what the Lord says: “Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions ¹  – make that four! ²  – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. ³  They rejected the Lord’s law; ⁴  they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, ⁵  to which their fathers were loyal, ⁶  led them astray.

He was Israel’s enemy throughout Solomon’s reign and, like Hadad, caused trouble. He loathed ¹  Israel and ruled over Syria.

“These people ¹  have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah ²  and melt in fear over Rezin and the son of Remaliah. ³ 

“‘For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more? ¹  declares the sovereign Lord.’

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent ¹  persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, ²  so it is now.

But you have dishonored the poor! ¹  Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

ו (Vav) He destroyed his temple ¹  as if it were a vineyard; ²  he destroyed his appointed meeting place. The Lord has made those in Zion forget both the festivals and the Sabbaths. ³  In his fierce anger ⁴  he has spurned ⁵  both king and priest.

There is danger not only that this business of ours will come into disrepute, ¹  but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis ²  will be regarded as nothing, ³  and she whom all the province of Asia ⁴  and the world worship will suffer the loss of her greatness.” ⁵ 

She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, “Because the Lord heard that I was unloved, ¹  he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon. ²