Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought, ¹  “I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” ²  So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

Messengers ¹  came and told David what had happened to the men, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho ²  until your beards grow again; then you may come back.”

The Lord God appointed ¹  a little plant ²  and caused it to grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to rescue ³  him from his misery. ⁴  Now Jonah was very delighted ⁵  about the little plant.

Then say to him, ‘The Lord who rules over all says, “Look – here is the man whose name is Branch, ¹  who will sprout up from his place and build the temple of the Lord.

Sell your possessions ¹  and give to the poor. ²  Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out – a treasure in heaven ³  that never decreases, ⁴  where no thief approaches and no moth ⁵  destroys.

with the harvest produced by the daylight ¹  and by ²  the moonlight; ³ 

Is not wisdom found among the aged? ¹  Does not long life bring understanding?

Faithfulness grows from the ground, and deliverance looks down from the sky. ¹ 

in the morning it glistens ¹  and sprouts up; at evening time it withers ²  and dries up.

The Beloved to Her Lover: I am a ¹  meadow flower ²  from Sharon, ³  a lily ⁴  from the valleys.

I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare.

Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. ¹ 

For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. ¹  For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; ²  they will be among mere mortals, ³  with those who descend to the pit.

And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing. ¹ 

When ¹  the plants sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.

And Jesus increased ¹  in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and with people.

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

For human ¹  anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. ² 

to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish ¹  love. ² 

The hail struck everything in the open fields, both ¹  people and animals, throughout all the land of Egypt. The hail struck everything that grows ²  in the field, and it broke all the trees of the field to pieces.