I consider my actions ¹  and follow ²  your rules.

¹ Zion will be freed by justice, ²  and her returnees by righteousness. ³ 

Then the Lord became ¹  zealous for his land; he had compassion on his people.

“While doing this very thing, ¹  as I was going ²  to Damascus with authority and complete power ³  from the chief priests,

Jerusalem certainly stumbles, Judah falls, for their words and their actions offend the Lord; ¹  they rebel against his royal authority. ² 

“The way you have lived and the things you have done ¹  will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. ²  The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.” ³ 

“But you are profaning it by saying that the table of the Lord is common and its offerings ¹  despicable.

Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him (that is, the religious party of the Sadducees ¹ ), ²  and they were filled with jealousy. ³ 

Let such a person consider this: What we say ¹  by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

Therefore it is not surprising his servants also disguise themselves ¹  as servants of righteousness, whose end will correspond to their actions. ² 

You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works.

And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

The ships of Kittim ¹  will come against him, leaving him disheartened. ²  He will turn back and direct his indignation against the holy covenant. He will return and honor ³  those who forsake the holy covenant.

That same day Pharaoh commanded ¹  the slave masters and foremen ²  who were ³  over the people: ⁴ 

and all the women whose heart stirred them to action and who were skilled ¹  spun goats’ hair.

But if he does not wash his clothes ¹  and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.’” ² 

All you Israelites, ¹  make a decision here!” ² 

But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he was the one leading them out to battle and back.

The Lord brought ¹  against Solomon an enemy, Hadad the Edomite, a descendant of the Edomite king.

No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what ¹  he has done. ²