with the best ¹  of the ancient mountains and the harvest produced by the age-old hills;

I learned long ago that you ordained your rules to last. ¹ 

This was the dream. Now we ¹  will set forth before the king its interpretation.

So Jacob moved on ¹  and came to the land of the eastern people. ² 

“If I go to the east, he is not there, and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.

“O that I could be ¹  as ²  I was in the months now gone, ³  in the days ⁴  when God watched ⁵  over me,

I will sing a song that imparts wisdom; I will make insightful observations about the past. ¹ 

The Lord created ¹  me as the beginning ²  of his works, ³  before his deeds of long ago.

The everlasting God is a refuge, and underneath you are his eternal arms; ¹  he has driven out enemies before you, and has said, “Destroy!”

Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, ¹  the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them. ² 

All the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east ¹  assembled. They crossed the Jordan River ²  and camped in the Jezreel Valley.

Solomon was wiser than all the men of the east and all the sages of Egypt. ¹ 

Deliver to ¹  the God of Jerusalem the vessels that are given to you for the service of the temple of your God.

to the one who rides through the sky from ancient times! ¹  Look! He thunders loudly. ² 

Remember your people ¹  whom you acquired in ancient times, whom you rescued ²  so they could be your very own nation, ³  as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!

Is this really your boisterous city ¹  whose origins are in the distant past, ²  and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?

Then those officials who had gone to the king ¹  came by collusion and found Daniel praying and asking for help before his God.

You will be loyal to Jacob and extend your loyal love to Abraham, ¹  which you promised on oath to our ancestors ²  in ancient times. ³ 

But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines ¹  and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac. ² 

Then Balaam ¹  uttered ²  his oracle, saying, “Balak, the king of Moab, brought me ³  from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, ‘Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’ ⁴