You are my brothers &#8211; my very own flesh and blood!<n id="1" /> Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back?&#8217;

He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines<n id="1" /> with human bones.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">All Israel joined David at Hebron and said, &#8220;Look, we are your very flesh and blood!<n id="1" />

He burned the bones of the pagan priests<n id="1" /> on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

<p class="poetry">Have mercy on me,<n id="1" /> <sc>Lordsc>, for I am frail!p> <p class="poetry">Heal me, <sc>Lordsc>, for my bones are shaking!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">My strength drains away like water;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all my bones are dislocated;p> <p class="poetry">my heart<n id="2" /> is like wax;p> <p class="poetry">it melts away inside me.p>

<p class="poetry">For my life nears its end in pain;p> <p class="poetry">my years draw to a close as I groan.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">My strength fails me because of<n id="2" /> my sin,p> <p class="poetry">and my bones become brittle.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">My whole body is sick because of your judgment;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I am deprived of health because of my sin.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">My enemies&#8217; taunts cut into me to the bone,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as they say to me all day long, &#8220;Where is your God?&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For my days go up in smoke,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and my bones are charred like a fireplace.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I cry out<n id="1" /> until morning;p> <p class="poetry">like a lion he shatters all my bones;p> <p class="poetry">you turn day into night and end my life.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1494; (<i>Zayini>)p> <p class="poetry">Her consecrated ones<n id="1" /> were brighter than snow,p> <p class="poetry">whiter than milk;p> <p class="poetry">their bodies more ruddy than corals,p> <p class="poetry">their hair<n id="2" /> like lapis lazuli.<n id="3" />p>

I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols,<n id="1" /> and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

<p class="poetry">add the pieces of meat to it,p> <p class="poetry">every good piece,p> <p class="poetry">the thigh and the shoulder;p> <p class="poetry">fill it with choice bones.p>

<p class="poetry">Pile up the bones, kindle the fire;p> <p class="poetry">cook the meat well, mix in the spices,p> <p class="poetry">let the bones be charred.p>

He said to me, &#8220;Son of man, can these bones live?&#8221; I said to him, &#8220;Sovereign Lord, you know.&#8221;

This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath<n id="1" /> into you and you will live.

<p class="poetry">yet you<n id="1" /> hate what is good,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and love what is evil.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">You flay my people&#8217;s skin<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and rip the flesh from their bones.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph<n id="1" /> had made the Israelites solemnly swear,<n id="2" /> &#8220;God will surely attend<n id="3" /> to you, and you will carry<n id="4" /> my bones up from this place with you.&#8221;p>

After he buried him, he said to his sons, &#8220;When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet<n id="1" /> is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,