Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

He left with all he owned. He quickly crossed the Euphrates River and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

So he asked Pharaoh’s officials, who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?”

O Lord God, do not reject your chosen ones! Remember the faithful promises you made to your servant David!”

He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

Many say, “Who can show us anything good?” Smile upon us, Lord!

For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it.

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way,

but the villagers refused to welcome him, because he was determined to go to Jerusalem.

Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.)

While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening as the sun was setting.

So the king said to me, “Why do you appear to be depressed when you aren’t sick? What can this be other than sadness of heart?” This made me very fearful.

“Because of this, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘I am determined to bring disaster on you, even to the point of destroying all the Judeans here.

Ruth knelt before him with her forehead to the ground and said to him, “Why are you so kind and so attentive to me, even though I am a foreigner?”

if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him.

Do not reject me! Do not push your servant away in anger! You are my deliverer! Do not forsake or abandon me, O God who vindicates me!

At the end of seventy years the Lord will revive Tyre. She will start making money again by selling her services to all the earth’s kingdoms.

No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.