Be careful to observe ¹  the Sabbath day just as the Lord your God has commanded you.

Now the day before Saul arrived, the Lord had told ¹  Samuel:

Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.

They went through all the land and after nine months and twenty days came back to Jerusalem. ¹ 

Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Announce every day ¹  how he delivers!

and on the first day of the first month they finished considering all the men who had married foreign wives.

For they were under royal orders ¹  which determined their activity day by day. ² 

Let darkness and the deepest shadow ¹  claim it; ²  let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day ³  terrify it!

he wanders about – food for vultures; ¹  he knows that the day of darkness is at hand. ² 

Day after day it speaks out; ¹  night after night it reveals his greatness. ² 

You established the cycle of day and night; ¹  you put the moon ²  and sun in place. ³ 

They did not remember what he had done, ¹  how he delivered them from the enemy, ² 

My eyes grow weak because of oppression. I call out to you, O Lord, all day long; I spread out my hands in prayer to you. ¹ 

who plan ways to harm me. ¹  All day long they stir up conflict. ² 

Do not boast ¹  about tomorrow; ²  for you do not know ³  what a day may bring forth.

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, ¹  for ²  all the high and mighty, for all who are proud – they will be humiliated;

So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail, both the shoots and stalk ¹  in one day.

Now they come into being, ¹  not in the past; before today you did not hear about them, so you could not say, ‘Yes, ²  I know about them.’

Each one says, ¹  ‘Come on, I’ll get some wine! Let’s guzzle some beer! Tomorrow will be just like today! We’ll have everything we want!’ ² 

Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me. ¹