“Now I will rise up,” says the Lord. “Now I will exalt myself; now I will magnify myself.

Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.

You didn’t even allow me to kiss my daughters and my grandchildren good-bye. You have acted foolishly!

But if we had not delayed, we could have traveled there and back twice by now!”

David replied, “What have I done now? Can’t I say anything?”

Jeroboam then thought to himself: “Now the Davidic dynasty could regain the kingdom.

For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace

But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.

For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.

Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

“Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.

Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.

They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.

Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will commit immoral acts with her.’

Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end.

Pharaoh was thinking, “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”

Now, get up and cross the Wadi Zered.” So we did so.

From there it crossed eastward to Gath Hepher and Eth Kazin and extended to Rimmon, turning toward Neah.

He said to them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Even Ephraim’s leftover grapes are better quality than Abiezer’s harvest!