O my God, make them like dead thistles, ¹  like dead weeds blown away by ²  the wind!

My heart is parched ¹  and withered like grass, for I am unable ²  to eat food. ³ 

My days are coming to an end, ¹  and I am withered like grass.

For ¹  I am like a wineskin ²  dried up in smoke. ³  I do not forget your statutes.

May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up, ¹ 

For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard ¹  that is unwatered.

This is what the Lord says, the one who made a road through the sea, a pathway through the surging waters,

ח (Khet) The Lord’s loyal kindness ¹  never ceases; ²  his compassions ³  never end.

They will descend from their ships – all who handle the oar, the sailors and all the sea captains – they will stand on the land.

This is what the sovereign Lord says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath ¹  into you and you will live.

This is why the sky ¹  has held back its dew and the earth its produce. ² 

When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, ¹  it withered.

Other seed fell on rock, ¹  and when it came up, it withered because it had no moisture.

Some ¹  devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation ²  over him. ³ 

If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, ¹ 

And the people stayed up ¹  all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, ²  and they spread them out ³  for themselves all around the camp.

She answered, “Please give me a special present. ¹  Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water. So he gave her both upper and lower springs.

Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat ¹  of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy. ² 

On that day ¹  the mountains will drip with sweet wine, ²  and the hills will flow with milk. ³  All the dry stream beds ⁴  of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple ⁵  of the Lord, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees. ⁶ 

The descendants of Jacob will be a fire, and the descendants of Joseph a flame. The descendants of Esau will be like stubble. They will burn them up and devour them. There will not be a single survivor ¹  of the descendants of Esau!” Indeed, the Lord has spoken it.