This very day, standing in Nob, they shake their fist at Daughter Zion’s mountain – at the hill of Jerusalem.

A baby will play over the hole of a snake; over the nest of a serpent an infant will put his hand.

The Lord stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook kingdoms; he gave the order to destroy Canaan’s fortresses.

He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened arrow, he hid me in his quiver.

Kings will come against it with their armies. They will encamp in siege all around it. Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Take note – he gave his promise and did all these things – he will not escape!

For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it.

The grain offering will be an ephah with the ram, and the grain offering with the lambs will be as much as he is able to give, and a gallon of olive oil with an ephah.

At the celebration of their king, his princes become inflamed with wine; they conspire with evildoers.

and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

he stood his ground and fought the Philistines until his hand grew so tired that it seemed stuck to his sword. The Lord gave a great victory on that day. When the army returned to him, the only thing left to do was to plunder the corpses.

When the king heard what the prophet cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand and ordered, “Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up and he could not pull it back.

Uzziel son of Harhaiah, a member of the goldsmiths’ guild, worked on the section adjacent to him. Hananiah, a member of the perfumers’ guild, worked on the section adjacent to him. They plastered the city wall of Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

So the Lord is furious with his people; he lifts his hand and strikes them. The mountains shake, and corpses lie like manure in the middle of the streets. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”

So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and gave his solemn promise he would carry out his wishes.

While she was giving birth, one child put out his hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”

But then he drew back his hand, and his brother came out before him. She said, “How you have broken out of the womb!” So he was named Perez.

Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission no one will move his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there. Joseph will close your eyes.”