Please Lord, deliver! Please Lord, grant us success!

He said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

Then Moses cried to the Lord, “Heal her now, O God.”

He said, “No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly!

But Lot said to them, “No, please, Lord!

And Moses said, “Show me your glory.”

“Listen now to my argument, and be attentive to my lips’ contentions.

Get ready for a difficult task like a man; I will question you and you will inform me!

“Get ready for a difficult task like a man. I will question you and you will inform me!

You said, ‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

Let Israel say, “Yes, his loyal love endures!”

May your loyal love console me, as you promised your servant.

Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”

Then Absalom went to the king and said, “My shearers have begun their work. Let the king and his servants go with me.”

But now please listen, your royal Majesty, and grant my plea for mercy. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan, the royal secretary. If you do, I will die there.”

Isaac said, “Since I am so old, I could die at any time.

He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:

But Moses said, “O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!”

So now, let the power of my Lord be great, just as you have said,