And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing. ¹ 

Wisdom ¹  calls out ²  in the street, she shouts loudly ³  in the plazas; ⁴ 

Should your springs be dispersed ¹  outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

He brought in the priests and Levites and assembled them in the square on the east side.

When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square, ¹ 

Disaster is within it; violence ¹  and deceit do not depart from its public square.

at one time outside, at another ¹  in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)

The sluggard says, “There is a lion ¹  outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!” ² 

The sluggard ¹  says, “There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!” ² 

you built yourself a chamber ¹  and put up a pavilion ²  in every public square.

So Hathach went to Mordecai at the plaza of the city in front of the king’s gate.

Our cattle will be weighted down with produce. ¹  No one will break through our walls, no one will be taken captive, and there will be no terrified cries in our city squares. ² 

In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.

‘Death has climbed in ¹  through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.’

So her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord. ¹ 

צ (Tsade) Our enemies ¹  hunted us down at every step ²  so that we could not walk about in our streets. Our end drew near, our days were numbered, ³  for our end had come!

The chariots ¹  race madly ²  through the streets, they rush back and forth ³  in the broad plazas; they look ⁴  like lightning bolts, ⁵  they dash here and there ⁶  like flashes of lightning. ⁷ 

So the people went out and brought these things ¹  back and constructed temporary shelters for themselves, each on his roof and in his courtyard and in the courtyards of the temple ²  of God and in the plaza of the Water Gate and the plaza of the Ephraim Gate.

They stopped there and decided to spend the night ¹  in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. ² 

When he looked up and saw the traveler ¹  in the town square, the old man said, “Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”