ז (Zayin) Remember your word to your servant, for you have given me hope.

ח (Khet) The Lord is my source of security. I have determined to follow your instructions.

The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.

So they began to discuss with one another about having no bread.

Then some of the experts in the law answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well!”

I have desired no one’s silver or gold or clothing.

If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?

Then the Lord himself turned to him and said, “You have the strength. Deliver Israel from the power of the Midianites! Have I not sent you?”

Look how you have fallen from the sky, O shining one, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O conqueror of the nations!

If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.

“When that time comes, people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children’s teeth have grown numb.’

And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?

She went on to say, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

Manoah said to his wife, “We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!”

It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.

I concluded, “Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.

Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness, I will never deceive David.