He fortified these cities and placed officers in them, as well as storehouses of food, olive oil, and wine.

Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; ¹  500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead. ² 

Would it turn out well if he would examine ¹  you? Or as one deceives ²  a man would you deceive him?

He pronounces this blessing on himself while he is alive: “May men praise you, for you have done well!”

He summons the heavens above, as well as the earth, so that he might judge his people. ¹ 

They devise ¹  unjust schemes; they disguise ²  a well-conceived plot. ³  Man’s inner thoughts cannot be discovered. ⁴ 

You calm the raging seas ¹  and their roaring waves, as well as the commotion made by the nations. ² 

A well-written song ²  by Asaph. Pay attention, my people, to my instruction! Listen to the words I speak! ³ 

O Lord, the heavens ¹  praise your amazing deeds, as well as your faithfulness in the angelic assembly. ² 

A song of ascents. ²  When the Lord restored the well-being of Zion, ³  we thought we were dreaming. ⁴ 

O Lord, restore our well-being, just as the streams in the arid south are replenished. ¹ 

for they will provide ¹  a long and full life, ²  and they will add well-being ³  to you.

Like a muddied ¹  spring and a polluted ²  well, so is a righteous person who gives way ³  before the wicked.

Her husband is well-known ¹  in the city gate ²  when he sits with the elders ³  of the land.

I considered all the living who walk on earth, ¹  as well as the successor ²  who would arise ³  in his place.

Tell the innocent ¹  it will go well with them, ²  for they will be rewarded for what they have done. ³ 

¹  Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”

They are like lusty, well-fed ¹  stallions. Each of them lusts after ²  his neighbor’s wife.

Pile up the bones, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I vow ¹  that the nations around you will endure insults as well.