<p class="poetry">They meet with darkness in the daytime,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and grope about<n id="2" /> in the noontime as if it were night.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">And life<n id="1" /> will be brighter<n id="2" /> than the noonday;p> <p class="poetry">though there be darkness,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">it will be like the morning.p>

<p class="poetry">He will vindicate you in broad daylight,p> <p class="poetry">and publicly defend your just cause.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">the plague that comes in the darkness,p> <p class="poetry">or the disease that comes at noon.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">During the evening, morning, and noontimep> <p class="poetry">I will lament and moan,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and he will hear<n id="2" /> me.<n id="3" />p>

So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap<n id="1" /> until noon and then died.

<p class="poetry">You must<n id="1" /> actively help the hungryp> <p class="poetry">and feed the oppressed.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Then your light will dispel the darkness,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and your darkness will be transformed into noonday.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">We grope along the wall like the blind,p> <p class="poetry">we grope like those who cannot see;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">we stumble at noontime as if it were evening.p> <p class="poetry">Though others are strong, we are like dead men.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> Gaza will be deserted<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and Ashkelon will become a heap of ruins.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Invaders will drive away the people of Ashdod by noon,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and Ekron will be overthrown.<n id="5" />p>

Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches<n id="1" /> from the top.<n id="2" /> Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.

They got their gifts ready for Joseph&#8217;s arrival<n id="1" /> at noon, for they had heard<n id="2" /> that they were to have a meal<n id="3" /> there.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite &#8211; Recab and Baanah &#8211; went at the hottest part of the day to the home of Ish-bosheth, as he was enjoying his midday rest.

Throughout the afternoon they were in an ecstatic frenzy,<n id="1" /> but there was no sound, no answer, and no response.<n id="2" />p>

They marched out at noon, while Ben Hadad and the thirty-two kings allied with him were drinking heavily<n id="1" /> in their quarters.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Tell me, O you whom my heart<n id="1" /> loves,p> <p class="poetry">where do you pasture your sheep?p> <p class="poetry">Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat?p> <p class="poetry">Tell me lest<n id="2" /> I wander around<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">beside the flocks of your companions!p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Bring a plan, make a decision!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Provide some shade in the middle of the day!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Hide the fugitives! Do not betray<n id="3" /> the one who tries to escape!p>

<p class="poetry">They will say,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Prepare to do battle<n id="2" /> against it!p> <p class="poetry">Come on! Let&#8217;s attack it at noon!&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">But later they will say,<n id="3" /> &#8216;Oh, oh! Too bad!<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">The day is almost overp> <p class="poetry">and the shadows of evening are getting long.p>

<p class="poetry">Their widows will become in my sight more numerous<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">than the grains of sand on the seashores.p> <p class="poetry">At noontime I will bring a destroyerp> <p class="poetry">against the mothers of their young men.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will cause anguish<n id="3" /> and terrorp> <p class="poetry">to fall suddenly upon them.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">May that man be like the cities<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">that the <sc>Lordsc> destroyed without showing any mercy.p> <p class="poetry">May he hear a cry of distress in the morningp> <p class="poetry">and a battle cry at noon.p>

<p class="poetry">In that day,&#8221; says the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;I will make the sun set at noon,p> <p class="poetry">and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.<n id="1" />p>