“Now I will rise up,” says the Lord. “Now I will exalt myself; now I will magnify myself. ¹ 

Surely now he ¹  has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.

You didn’t even allow me to kiss my daughters and my grandchildren ¹  good-bye. You have acted foolishly!

But if we had not delayed, we could have traveled there and back ¹  twice by now!”

David replied, “What have I done now? Can’t I say anything?” ¹ 

Jeroboam then thought to himself: ¹  “Now the Davidic dynasty could regain the kingdom. ² 

For now ¹  I would be lying down and ²  would be quiet, ³  I would be asleep and then at peace ⁴ 

But now the same thing ¹  comes to you, and you are discouraged; ²  it strikes you, and you are terrified. ³ 

For now ¹  you have become like these streams that are no help; ²  you see a terror, ³  and are afraid.

Who ¹  will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die. ² 

“Surely now you count my steps; ²  then you would not mark ³  my sin. ⁴ 

Even now my witness ¹  is in heaven; my advocate ²  is on high.

They attack me, now they surround me; ¹  they intend to throw me to the ground. ² 

Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will commit immoral acts with her.’

Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, ¹  and the religious banquets ²  where they sprawl on couches ³  will end.

Pharaoh was thinking, ¹  “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.” ¹ 

Now, get up and cross the Wadi Zered.” ¹  So we did so. ² 

From there it crossed eastward to Gath Hepher and Eth Kazin and extended to Rimmon, turning toward Neah.

He said to them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Even Ephraim’s leftover grapes ¹  are better quality than Abiezer’s harvest! ²