<p class="poetry">I will enter<n id="1" /> your temple with burnt sacrifices;p> <p class="poetry">I will fulfill the vows I made to you,p>

<p class="poetry">O that I knew<n id="1" /> where I might find him,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">that I could come<n id="3" /> to his place of residence!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will come and tell about<n id="1" /> the mighty acts of the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">I will proclaim your justice &#8211; yours alone.p>

<p class="poetry">Then I entered the precincts of God&#8217;s temple,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and understood the destiny of the wicked.<n id="2" />p>

While<n id="1" /> you are still there speaking to the king, I will arrive<n id="2" /> and verify your report.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">But as for me,<n id="1" /> because of your great faithfulness I will enter your house;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will bow down toward your holy temple as I worship you.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I do not associate<n id="1" /> with deceitful men,p> <p class="poetry">or consort<n id="2" /> with those who are dishonest.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I thirst<n id="1" /> for God,p> <p class="poetry">for the living God.p> <p class="poetry">I say,<n id="2" /> &#8220;When will I be able to go and appear in God&#8217;s presence?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">In the past he said to them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;This is where security can be found.p> <p class="poetry">Provide security for the one who is exhausted!p> <p class="poetry">This is where rest can be found.&#8221;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">But they refused to listen.p>

<p class="bodytext">But I replied, &#8220;Should a man like me run away? Would someone like me flee to the temple in order to save his life?<n id="1" /> I will not go!&#8221;

You will say, &#8220;I will invade<n id="1" /> a land of unwalled towns; I will advance against<n id="2" /> those living quietly in security &#8211; all of them living without walls and barred gates &#8211;

<p class="poetry">I cannot carry out<n id="1" /> my fierce anger!p> <p class="poetry">I cannot totally destroy Ephraim!p> <p class="poetry">Because I am God, and not man &#8211; the Holy One among you &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">I will not come in wrath!p>

He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me,<n id="1" /> so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

He turned aside to her along the road and said, &#8220;Come on! I want to have sex with you.&#8221;<n id="1" /> (He did not realize<n id="2" /> it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked, &#8220;What will you give me in exchange for having sex with you?&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8216;You must make for me an altar made of earth,<n id="1" /> and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings,<n id="2" /> your sheep and your cattle. In every place<n id="3" /> where I cause my name to be honored<n id="4" /> I will come to you and I will bless you.

<p class="bodytext">But David said to Achish, &#8220;What have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day that I first came into your presence until the present time, that I shouldn&#8217;t go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?&#8221;

I said to the king, &#8220;If the king is so inclined, let him give me letters for the governors of Trans-Euphrates<n id="1" /> that will enable me to travel safely until I reach Judah,

and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king&#8217;s nature preserve,<n id="1" /> so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall<n id="2" /> and for the house to which I go.&#8221; So the king granted me these requests,<n id="3" /> for the good hand of my God was on me.

Uriah replied to David, &#8220;The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord&#8217;s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations<n id="1" /> with my wife? As surely as you are alive,<n id="2" /> I will not do this thing!&#8221;

&#8220;Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don&#8217;t eat and don&#8217;t drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I<n id="1" /> will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law.<n id="2" /> If I perish, I perish!&#8221;p>