Rise up ¹  above the sky, O God! May your splendor cover the whole earth! ² 

Rise up ¹  above the sky, O God! May your splendor cover the whole earth! ² 

I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, ¹  the most exalted of the earth’s kings.

For you, O Lord, are the sovereign king ¹  over the whole earth; you are elevated high above all gods.

Rise up ¹  above the sky, O God! May your splendor cover the whole earth! ² 

People will curse ¹  the one who withholds grain, ²  but they will praise ³  the one who sells it. ⁴ 

Who can find ²  a wife ³  of noble character? ⁴  For her value ⁵  is far more than rubies.

These people are divisive, ¹  worldly, ²  devoid of the Spirit. ³ 

At that time Baruch went into the temple of the Lord. He stood in the entrance of the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan who had been the royal secretary. ¹  That room was in the upper court ²  near the entrance of the New Gate. ³  There, where all the people could hear him, he read from the scroll what Jeremiah had said. ⁴ 

After this Manasseh ¹  built up the outer wall of the City of David ²  on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.

Next, I noticed ¹  six men ²  coming from the direction of the upper gate ³  which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit ⁴  at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands. ¹  Only I, the king, will be greater than you. ² 

¹ The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me to the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets ²  with ³  the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them.” ⁴ 

The territory of the tribe of Ephraim by its clans included the following: ¹  The border of their assigned land to the east was Ataroth Addar as far as upper Beth Horon.

So they ran and brought him from there. When he took his position among the people, he stood head and shoulders above them all.

David gave to his son Solomon the blueprints for the temple porch, ¹  its buildings, its treasuries, ²  its upper areas, its inner rooms, and the room ³  for atonement.

He made upper Beth Horon and lower Beth Horon fortified cities with walls and barred gates, ¹ 

Hezekiah dammed up the source of the waters of the Upper Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the City of David. ¹  Hezekiah succeeded in all that he did.

So I stationed people at the lower places behind the wall in the exposed places. ¹  I stationed the people by families, with their swords, spears, and bows.

Ezra opened the book in plain view ¹  of all the people, for he was elevated above all the people. When he opened the book, ²  all the people stood up.