David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, “How will the ark of the Lord ever come to me?”

The next day, when the Philistines came to strip loot from the corpses, they discovered Saul and his sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.

David was afraid of God that day and said, “How will I ever be able to bring the ark of God up here?”

They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

In the days of Joiakim, these were the priests who were leaders of the families: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

On that same day the number of those killed in Susa the citadel was brought to the king’s attention.

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.

“O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,

Satisfy us in the morning with your loyal love! Then we will shout for joy and be happy all our days!

Make us happy in proportion to the days you have afflicted us, in proportion to the years we have experienced trouble!

He says, “Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

Wail, for the Lord’s day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign judge.

Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.

Bring us back to yourself, O Lord, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you.

Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt.

Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’

They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins.

No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.