She considers a field and buys it; from her own income she plants a vineyard.

Charm is deceitful and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord will be praised.

For he does not think much about the fleeting days of his life because God keeps him preoccupied with the joy he derives from his activity.

His legs are like pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.

They attacked Aiath, moved through Migron, depositing their supplies at Micmash.

My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.

Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!

Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.

You will see a king in his splendor; you will see a wide land.

“My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!

Listen to what they are saying to me. They are saying, “Where are the things the Lord threatens us with? Come on! Let’s see them happen!”

For the Lord says, ‘I will make both you and your friends terrified of what will happen to you. You will see all of them die by the swords of their enemies. I will hand all the people of Judah over to the king of Babylon. He will carry some of them away into exile in Babylon and he will kill others of them with the sword.

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.

When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul,

King Zedekiah said to them, “Very well, you can do what you want with him. For I cannot do anything to stop you.”

ט (Tet) The Lord is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him.

“I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.

But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.”

Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

“Son of man, turn toward the south, and speak out against the south. Prophesy against the open scrub land of the Negev,