And Balaam<n id="1" /> said to Balak, &#8220;Station yourself here<n id="2" /> by your burnt offering, while I meet the <sc>Lordsc> there.

He commanded them, &#8220;This is what you must say to my lord Esau: &#8216;This is what your servant<n id="1" /> Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.

Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward<n id="1" /> Jezreel.

Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the <sc>Lordsc>: &#8220;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel says concerning the words you have heard:

Charge them to give their masters a message from me. Tell them, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="1" /> says to give your masters this message.<n id="2" />

The king said, &#8220;Turn aside and take your place here.&#8221; So he turned aside and waited.p>

For this reason the sovereign master,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;It will not take place;p> <p class="poetry">it will not happen.p>

Jeremiah answered them, &#8220;Tell Zedekiah

<t /><p class="bodytext">Moreover,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> says to the people of Zion,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Your injuries are incurable;p> <p class="poetry">your wounds are severe.<n id="3" />p>

&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel has a message for you, Baruch.

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> says this to the family<n id="1" /> of Israel:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Seek me<n id="2" /> so you can live!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> showed me this: I saw<n id="1" /> a basket of summer fruit.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Moreover, the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all says: &#8216;Pay close attention to these things also.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> my God says this: &#8220;Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.

He looked this way and that<n id="1" /> and saw that no one was there,<n id="2" /> and then he attacked<n id="3" /> the Egyptian and concealed the body<n id="4" /> in the sand.

You must say<n id="1" /> to Pharaoh, &#8216;Thus says<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;Israel is my son, my firstborn,<n id="3" />

<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, &#8220;Why are you treating<n id="2" /> your servants this way?

<p class="bodytext">Moses said, &#8220;Thus says the <sc>Lordsc>: &#8216;About midnight<n id="1" /> I will go throughout Egypt,<n id="2" />

Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

Saul said, &#8220;God will punish me severely if Jonathan doesn&#8217;t die!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>