Man puts an end to the darkness; ¹  he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness. ² 

Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey,

Enemies seek to destroy my life, ¹  but they will descend into the depths of the earth. ² 

You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again. ¹ 

The ropes of the wicked tighten around ¹  me, but I do not forget your law.

My child, ²  if you have made a pledge ³  for your neighbor, and ⁴  have become a guarantor ⁵  for a stranger, ⁶ 

ג (Gimel) He has walled me in ¹  so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains. ² 

I will make you pass under ¹  the shepherd’s staff, ²  and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

As for the king seeing a holy sentinel coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave its taproot in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, surrounded by the grass of the field. Let it become damp with the dew of the sky, and let it live with the wild animals, until seven periods of time go by for him’ –

You are bound for judgment ¹  because you are robbing me – this whole nation is guilty. ² 

A man named Barabbas was imprisoned with rebels who had committed murder during an insurrection.

I am a debtor ¹  both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all. ¹ 

In him ¹  the whole building, ²  being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

For,’ I say, ¹  ‘just as shorts cling tightly to a person’s body, so I bound the whole nation of Israel and the whole nation of Judah ²  tightly ³  to me.’ I intended for them to be my special people and to bring me fame, honor, and praise. ⁴  But they would not obey me.

so he imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard in the same facility where Joseph was confined.

“‘No lay person ¹  may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger ²  nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,

He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; ¹  he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

All the days of his separation he must not eat anything that is produced by the grapevine, from seed ¹  to skin. ² 

They replied, ¹  “He was a hairy man ²  and had a leather belt ³  tied around his waist.” The king ⁴  said, “He is Elijah the Tishbite.”