(8:23) ¹  I wish that my head were a well full of water ²  and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people ³  who have been killed.

Do not fear, wild animals! ¹  For the pastures of the wilderness are again green with grass. Indeed, the trees bear their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield to their fullest. ² 

After this Manasseh ¹  built up the outer wall of the City of David ²  on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.

The man ¹  named his wife Eve, ²  because ³  she was the mother of all the living. ⁴ 

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, ¹  is a Passover offering to the Lord.

The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

They assembled in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps ¹  and finished in the seventh month.

The hungry ¹  eat up his harvest, ²  and take it even from behind the thorns, ³  and the thirsty ⁴  swallow up ⁵  their fortune. ⁶ 

My brothers ¹  have been as treacherous ²  as a seasonal stream, ³  and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams ⁴  that flow away. ⁵ 

He is a well-watered plant ¹  in ²  the sun, its shoots spread ³  over its garden. ⁴ 

But as soon as she springs up, ¹  she laughs at the horse and its rider.

Do not sweep me away ¹  with sinners, or execute me along with violent people, ² 

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion ¹  like a young ox. ² 

They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.

Though I have done nothing wrong, ¹  they are anxious to attack. ²  Spring into action and help me! Take notice of me! ³ 

You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” ¹  In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

A person’s life is like grass. ¹  Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground.

They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered ¹  because of them,