They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle ¹  in the rocks because they lack shelter.

But leave its taproot ¹  in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it ²  surrounded by the grass of the field. Let it become damp with the dew of the sky, and let it live with ³  the animals in the grass of the land.

As ¹  she stood ²  behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She ³  wiped them with her hair, ⁴  kissed ⁵  them, ⁶  and anointed ⁷  them with the perfumed oil.

The Beloved about Her Lover: I was asleep, but my mind ¹  was dreaming. ²  Listen! ³  My lover ⁴  is knocking ⁵  at the door! ⁶  The Lover to His Beloved: “Open ⁷  for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one! My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Now in that very moment ¹  this pronouncement about ²  Nebuchadnezzar came true. ³  He was driven from human society, he ate grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until his hair became long like an eagle’s feathers, and his nails like a bird’s claws. ⁴ 

Then, ¹  turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet, ²  but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.

I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; ¹  my tears saturate the cushion beneath me. ² 

You will be driven ¹  from human society, ²  and you will live ³  with the wild animals. You will be fed ⁴  grass like oxen, ⁵  and you will become damp with the dew of the sky. Seven periods of time will pass by for you, before ⁶  you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.

He was driven from human society, his mind ¹  was changed to that of an animal, he lived ²  with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until he came to understand that the most high God rules over human kingdoms, and he appoints over them whomever he wishes.

In the evening the quail ¹  came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.

but if water is put on the seed and such a carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

That night God did as he asked. ¹  Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.

Can the papyrus plant grow tall ¹  where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish ²  without water?

“If my land cried out against me ²  and all its furrows wept together,

Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded ¹  from clay.

For to the snow he says, ‘Fall ¹  to earth,’ and to the torrential rains, ²  ‘Pour down.’ ³ 

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; ¹  its features ²  are dyed ³  like a garment.

Like legs that hang limp ¹  from the lame, so ²  is a proverb ³  in the mouth of fools.

All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine. ¹