The Lord sits enthroned over the engulfing waters, ¹  the Lord sits enthroned ²  as the eternal king.

He ¹  will descend like rain on the mown grass, ²  like showers that drench ³  the earth. ⁴ 

During his days the godly will flourish; ¹  peace will prevail as long as the moon remains in the sky. ² 

Where are your earlier faithful deeds, ¹  O Lord, ²  the ones performed in accordance with your reliable oath to David? ³ 

The rules you set down ¹  are completely reliable. ²  Holiness ³  aptly adorns your house, O Lord, forever. ⁴ 

so that mankind ¹  might acknowledge your mighty acts, and the majestic splendor of your kingdom.

The one who sows ¹  iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury ²  will end.

remove the wicked from before the king, ¹  and his throne ²  will be established in righteousness. ³ 

The ruined town ¹  is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight. ² 

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah when Jehoiakim ¹  son of Josiah was ruling over Judah. ² 

It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year. ¹  On that day they broke through the city walls.

in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, ¹  832 people from Jerusalem;

In the first year of Darius ¹  son of Ahasuerus, ²  who was of Median descent and who had been ³  appointed king over the Babylonian ⁴  empire –

This took place on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month of King Darius’ second year. ¹ 

I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

The Lord, however, said to me, “Don’t be afraid of him because I have already given him, his whole army, ¹  and his land to you. You will do to him exactly what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon.”

in the Transjordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. (It is he whom Moses and the Israelites attacked after they came out of Egypt.

King Sihon of the Amorites who lived ¹  in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) – including the city in the middle of the valley ²  and half of Gilead – all the way to the Jabbok Valley bordering Ammonite territory.

Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Has it been reported to you ¹  that Haggith’s son Adonijah has become king behind our master David’s back? ² 

From the day that I was appointed ¹  governor ²  in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes – twelve years in all – neither I nor my relatives ³  ate the food allotted to the governor. ⁴