He added, “I have something to say to you.” She replied, “Speak.”

He loosens the bonds of kings and binds a loincloth around their waist.

Your deliverance brings him great honor; you give him majestic splendor.

Sing to him a new song! Play skillfully as you shout out your praises to him!

Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

The godly bask in the light; the morally upright experience joy.

I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!

Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.

Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which ruins kings.

They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.

These will be the allotments for the holy portion: for the priests, toward the north eight and a quarter miles in length, toward the west three and one-third miles in width, toward the east three and one-third miles in width, and toward the south eight and a quarter miles in length; the sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle.

“I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.

Will he then continue to fill and empty his throw net? Will he always destroy nations and spare none?

from generation to generation he is merciful to those who fear him.

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved leaned back against Jesus’ chest and asked him, “Lord, who is it?”

Peter looked directly at him (as did John) and said, “Look at us!”

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus,

They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,

After we had safely reached shore, we learned that the island was called Malta.

As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the Lord’s messenger went up in it while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown to the ground.