I say, “O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.

When I cried out for help, you answered me. You made me bold and energized me.

for jealousy kindles a husband’s rage, and he will not show mercy when he takes revenge.

The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.

Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord.

In spite of what you think, these men are not drunk, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.

At daybreak there was great consternation among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.

At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying, “Release those men.”

No longer will they build a house only to have another live in it, or plant a vineyard only to have another eat its fruit, for my people will live as long as trees, and my chosen ones will enjoy to the fullest what they have produced.

Moses said, “You have been consecrated today for the Lord, for each of you was against his son or against his brother, so he has given a blessing to you today.”

He asked Amnon, “Why are you, the king’s son, so depressed every morning? Can’t you tell me?” So Amnon said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar the sister of my brother Absalom.”

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”

The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-Ammi. He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.

Be very careful, then, because you saw no form at the time the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.

Today the Lord your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul.

When you cross the Jordan River to the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must erect great stones and cover them with plaster.

Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the Lord will live safely by him; he protects him all the time, and the Lord places him on his chest.

The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites’ fighting spirit was broken. The land had rest for forty years during Gideon’s time.

So if you have shown loyalty and integrity to Jerub-Baal and his family today, then may Abimelech bring you happiness and may you bring him happiness!

But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!”