<p class="poetry">Warriors<n id="1" /> were scarce,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they were scarce in Israel,p> <p class="poetry">until you<n id="3" /> arose, Deborah,p> <p class="poetry">until you arose as a motherly protector<n id="4" /> in Israel.p>

<p class="poetry">My kinsmen have failed me;p> <p class="poetry">my friends<n id="1" /> have forgotten me.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">(the ransom price for a human life<n id="1" /> is too high,p> <p class="poetry">and people go to their final destiny),<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not wear yourself out to become rich;p> <p class="poetry">be wise enough to restrain yourself.<n id="1" />p>

If you refrain from making a vow, it will not be sinful.

<p class="poetry">There<n id="1" /> the wicked<n id="2" /> cease<n id="3" /> from turmoil,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and there the weary<n id="5" /> are at rest.p>

<p class="poetry">Look away from him and let him desist,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">until he fulfills<n id="2" /> his time like a hired man.p>

<p class="poetry">The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful;p> <p class="poetry">he does not care about doing what is wise and right.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">When words abound, transgression is inevitable,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but the one who restrains<n id="2" /> his words<n id="3" /> is wise.p>

<p class="poetry">If you stop listening to<n id="1" /> instruction, my child,p> <p class="poetry">you will stray<n id="2" /> from the words of knowledge.p>

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building<n id="1" /> the city.

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years;<n id="1" /> Sarah had long since passed menopause.)<n id="2" />

Samson said to them, &#8220;Because you did this,<n id="1" /> I will get revenge against you before I quit fighting.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When Naomi<n id="1" /> realized that Ruth<n id="2" /> was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to dissuade her.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food,p> <p class="poetry">but the hungry no longer lack.p> <p class="poetry">Even<n id="1" /> the barren woman gives birth to seven,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but the one with many children withers away.<n id="3" />p>

When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying<n id="1" /> Ramah and settled down in Tirzah.

When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying<n id="1" /> Ramah and abandoned the project.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">I loathe<n id="1" /> it;<n id="2" /> I do not want to live forever;p> <p class="poetry">leave me alone,<n id="3" /> for my days are a vapor!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Are not my days few?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Cease,<n id="2" /> then, and leave<n id="3" /> me alone,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">that I may find a little comfort,<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;But there is hope for<n id="1" /> a tree:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">If it is cut down, it will sprout again,p> <p class="poetry">and its new shoots will not fail.p>