<p class="poetry">Is this how you repay<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">you foolish, unwise people?p> <p class="poetry">Is he not your father, your creator?p> <p class="poetry">He has made you and established you.p>

but Hannah did not go up with them.<n id="1" /> Instead she told her husband, &#8220;Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the <sc>Lordsc>, and he will remain there from then on.&#8221;p>

Once she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, an ephah<n id="1" /> of flour, and a container<n id="2" /> of wine. She brought him to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s house at Shiloh, even though he was young.<n id="3" />

I will cross the Jordan with the king and go a short distance.<n id="1" /> Why should the king reward me in this way?

<p class="poetry">Free me<n id="1" /> from prison,p> <p class="poetry">that I may give thanks to your name.p> <p class="poetry">Because of me the godly will assemble,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for you will vindicate me.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The look on their faces<n id="1" /> testifies to their guilt;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Too bad for them!<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">For they bring disaster on themselves.p>

<p class="poetry">For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted,p> <p class="poetry">and the ripening fruit appears,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he will cut off the unproductive shoots<n id="2" /> with pruning knives;p> <p class="poetry">he will prune the tendrils.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When Joseph&#8217;s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, &#8220;What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay<n id="1" /> us in full<n id="2" /> for all the harm<n id="3" /> we did to him?&#8221;

&#8216;Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.&#8217; Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.&#8221; When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony &#8211; and<n id="1" /> the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and brought forth buds, and produced blossoms, and yielded almonds!<n id="2" />

Tahpenes&#8217; sister gave birth to his son,<n id="1" /> named Genubath. Tahpenes raised<n id="2" /> him in Pharaoh&#8217;s palace; Genubath grew up in Pharaoh&#8217;s palace among Pharaoh&#8217;s sons.

<p class="poetry">Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will very quickly repay you for what you have done!<n id="3" />p>