King Solomon conscripted work crews from throughout Israel, 30,000 men in all.

There were 20,200 family leaders and warriors listed in their genealogical records.

For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.

how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.

It scorns the tumult in the town; it does not hear the shouts of a driver.

(40:25) “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?

Certainly you reward the godly, Lord. Like a shield you protect them in your good favor.

Remember your compassionate and faithful deeds, O Lord, for you have always acted in this manner.

Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the Lord would take me in.

If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,

They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.

(May those who hate the Lord cower in fear before him! May they be permanently humiliated!)

For you have taken refuge in the Lord, my shelter, the sovereign One.

in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.

None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.

Doing wickedness is an abomination to kings, because a throne is established in righteousness.

My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.

The earth is broken in pieces, the earth is ripped to shreds, the earth shakes violently.

What my eyes see grieves me – all the suffering of the daughters in my city.