The Lord extends your dominion from Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies!

For he makes the bars of your gates strong. He blesses your children within you.

Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning; it is known even in the heart of fools.

The person who hears the reproof that leads to life is at home among the wise.

and the Lord has sent the people off to a distant place, and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned.

מ (Mem) But it happened due to the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.

In all the vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst,” says the Lord.

I will leave in your midst a humble and meek group of people, and they will find safety in the Lord’s presence.

A day of the Lord is about to come when your possessions will be divided as plunder in your midst.

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, “After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?”

You must serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Then you are to cut the ram into pieces and wash the entrails and its legs and put them on its pieces and on its head

But the hide of the bull, all its flesh along with its head and its legs, its entrails, and its dung –

Then the one making the offering must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails,

and he washed the entrails and the legs and offered them up in smoke on top of the burnt offering on the altar.

For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people.

Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies.

Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,

You must not tremble in their presence, for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God.