The Beloved to Her Lover: Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night in the villages.

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone their own way.

So I went and buried them at Perath as the Lord had ordered me to do.

When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers.

For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.

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

Then he brought me to the gate that faced toward the east.

But you should go your way until the end. You will rest and then at the end of the days you will arise to receive what you have been allotted.”

Ammon’s king will be deported; he and his officials will be carried off together.” The Lord has spoken!

So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

He scooped it up with his hands and ate it as he walked along. When he returned to his father and mother, he offered them some and they ate it. But he did not tell them he had scooped the honey out of the lion’s carcass.

Then the cows went directly on the road to Beth Shemesh. They went along, mooing as they went; they turned neither to the right nor to the left. The leaders of the Philistines were walking along behind them all the way to the border of Beth Shemesh.

Jesse’s three oldest sons had followed Saul to war. The names of the three sons who went to war were Eliab, his firstborn, Abinadab, the second oldest, and Shammah, the third oldest.

So Saul went to Naioth in Ramah. The Spirit of God came upon him as well, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

It seems like you arrived just yesterday. Today should I make you wander around by going with us? I go where I must go. But as for you, go back and take your men with you. May genuine loyal love protect you!”

Then Elisha said to them, “This is not the right road or city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you’re looking for.” He led them to Samaria.

many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the temple of the God of Jacob, so he can teach us his requirements, and we can follow his standards.” For Zion will be the center for moral instruction; the Lord will issue edicts from Jerusalem.

“Hey, all who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come! Buy and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without cost!