They got their gifts ready for Joseph’s arrival ¹  at noon, for they had heard ²  that they were to have a meal ³  there.

Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight ¹  I will go throughout Egypt, ² 

Moses went into the cloud when he went up ¹  the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. ² 

Make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked bodies; ¹  they must cover ²  from the waist to the thighs.

The second lot belonged to the tribe of Simeon by its clans. ¹ 

How the warriors have fallen in the midst of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your high places!

He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there.

Does he argue ¹  with useless ²  talk, with words that have no value in them?

For all of them, ¹  the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; ¹  at night a whirlwind carries him off.

I will declare your name to my countrymen! ¹  In the middle of the assembly I will praise you!

During the evening, morning, and noontime I will lament and moan, ¹  and he will hear ²  me. ³ 

Singers walk in front; musicians follow playing their stringed instruments, ¹  in the midst of young women playing tambourines. ² 

Your enemies roar ¹  in the middle of your sanctuary; ²  they set up their battle flags. ³ 

He caused them to fall right in the middle of their camp, all around their homes.

He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; ¹  he has cut short my days.

I will thank the Lord profusely, ¹  in the middle of a crowd ²  I will praise him,

and led Israel through its midst, for his loyal love endures,

at the head of the noisy ¹  streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city ²  she utters her words: ³ 

The sluggard says, “There is a lion ¹  outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!” ²