<p class="poetry">Wealth gained quickly<n id="1" /> will dwindle away,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but the one who gathers it little by little<n id="3" /> will become rich.<n id="4" />p>

If any household is too small<n id="1" /> for a lamb,<n id="2" /> the man<n id="3" /> and his next-door neighbor<n id="4" /> are to take<n id="5" /> a lamb according to the number of people &#8211; you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;So now, our God &#8211; the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity<n id="1" /> &#8211; do not regard as inconsequential<n id="2" /> all the hardship that has befallen us &#8211; our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people &#8211; from the days of the kings of Assyria until this very day!