The young man did not delay in doing what they asked ¹  because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah ²  badly. (Now he was more important ³  than anyone in his father’s household.) ⁴ 

Now David had been thinking, ¹  “In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the desert. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.

Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. ¹  Stop killing innocent people ²  in this land. Stop paying allegiance to ³  other gods. That will only bring about your ruin. ⁴ 

So my heart moans for Moab like a flute playing a funeral song. Yes, like a flute playing a funeral song, my heart moans for the people of Kir Heres. For the wealth they have gained will perish.

One runner after another will come to the king of Babylon. One messenger after another will come bringing news. ¹  They will bring news to the king of Babylon that his whole city has been captured. ² 

Disaster after disaster will come, and one rumor after another. They will seek a vision from a prophet; priestly instruction will disappear, along with counsel from the elders.

I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. ¹  But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

“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.

But now we ¹  are dried up, ²  and there is nothing at all before us ³  except this manna!”

When Saul and all the Israelites ¹  heard these words of the Philistine, they were upset and very afraid.

That day ¹  – let it be darkness; ²  let not God on high regard ³  it, nor let light shine ⁴  on it!

So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We do not want to ¹  know your ways. ² 

They were saying to God, ‘Turn away from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’ ¹ 

the blessing of the dying man descended on me, ¹  and I made the widow’s heart rejoice; ² 

that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes? ¹ 

Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience the Lord’s favor in the land of the living? ¹ 

But as for me, my feet almost slipped; my feet almost slid out from under me. ¹ 

They treat me like ¹  those who descend into the grave. ²  I am like a helpless man, ³ 

But you have spurned ¹  and rejected him; you are angry with your chosen king. ²