They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live.

You rescue me from a hostile army; you make me a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.

A psalm of Asaph. O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land; they have polluted your holy temple and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.

Look, I create the craftsman, who fans the coals into a fire and forges a weapon. I create the destroyer so he might devastate.

Leave your towns, you inhabitants of Moab. Go and live in the cliffs. Be like a dove that makes its nest high on the sides of a ravine.

When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs.

You must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs each one year old, all of them without blemish.

On that day,” says the Lord, “a loud cry will go up from the Fish Gate, wailing from the city’s newer district, and a loud crash from the hills.

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).

“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

The ransom of a person’s life is his wealth, but the poor person hears no threat.

Folly is a joy to one who lacks sense, but one who has understanding follows an upright course.

Whoever shares with a thief is his own enemy; he hears the oath to testify, but does not talk.

Is there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

Not long after this, a hurricane-force wind called the northeaster blew down from the island.

Tychicus, a dear brother, faithful minister, and fellow slave in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me.

For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.

I will certainly gather all of you, O Jacob, I will certainly assemble those Israelites who remain. I will bring them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in the middle of a pasture; they will be so numerous that they will make a lot of noise.

Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby? Why then do I see all these strong men grabbing their stomachs in pain like a woman giving birth? And why do their faces turn so deathly pale?