Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; for God will seek to do again ¹  what has occurred ²  in the past. ³ 

The words of the sages are like prods, ¹  and the collected sayings are like firmly fixed nails; they are given by one shepherd.

Justice is driven back; godliness ¹  stands far off. Indeed, ²  honesty stumbles in the city square and morality is not even able to enter.

Even when their enemies drive them into captivity, ¹  from there ²  I will command the sword to kill them. I will not let them out of my sight; they will experience disaster, not prosperity.” ³ 

After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!”

When ¹  they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, ²  and the witnesses laid their cloaks ³  at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Do not think to yourself after the Lord your God has driven them out before you, “Because of my own righteousness the Lord has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.

Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them and they retreated along the way to the desert.

On that day the army struck down the Philistines from Micmash to Aijalon, and they became very tired.

These were the descendants of Ehud who were leaders of the families living in Geba who were forced to move to Manahath:

so that they had to live ¹  in the dry stream beds, ²  in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

Not so with the wicked! Instead ¹  they are like wind-driven chaff. ² 

May they be ¹  like wind-driven chaff, as the Lord’s angel ²  attacks them! ³ 

May those who say, “Aha! Aha!” be driven back ¹  and disgraced! ² 

Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?

The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, ¹  but the righteous have refuge ²  even in the threat of death. ³ 

We are pursued – they are breathing down our necks; ¹  we are weary and have no rest. ² 

but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” ¹ 

we are persecuted, but not abandoned; ¹  we are knocked down, ²  but not destroyed,

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless ¹  men, ²