<p class="poetry">And why do you not pardon my transgression,p> <p class="poetry">and take away my iniquity?p> <p class="poetry">For now I will lie down in the dust,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and you will seek me diligently,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but I will be gone.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">How faint is the whisper<n id="2" /> we hear of him!p> <p class="poetry">But who can understand the thunder of his power?&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Why are you depressed,<n id="1" /> O my soul?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Why are you upset?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Wait for God!p> <p class="poetry">For I will again give thanksp> <p class="poetry">to my God for his saving intervention.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why are you depressed,<n id="1" /> O my soul?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Why are you upset?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Wait for God!p> <p class="poetry">For I will again give thanksp> <p class="poetry">to my God for his saving intervention.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">What exists now<n id="1" /> is what will be,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and what has been done is what will be done;p> <p class="poetry">there is nothing truly new on earth.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">When someone&#8217;s<n id="1" /> prosperity<n id="2" /> increases, those who consume it also increase;p> <p class="poetry">so what does its owner<n id="3" /> gain, except that he gets to see it with his eyes?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">This is another misfortune:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Just as he came, so will he go.p> <p class="poetry">What did he gain from toiling for the wind?p>

<p class="poetry">What will you do on judgment day,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when destruction arrives from a distant place?p> <p class="poetry">To whom will you run for help?p> <p class="poetry">Where will you leave your wealth?p>

<p class="poetry">What good will it do you<n id="1" /> then<n id="2" /> to go down to Egyptp> <p class="poetry">to seek help from the Egyptians?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">What good will it do you<n id="4" /> to go over to Assyriap> <p class="poetry">to seek help from the Assyrians?<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">The prophets prophesy lies.p> <p class="poetry">The priests exercise power by their own authority.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">And my people love to have it this way.p> <p class="poetry">But they will not be able to help you when the time of judgment comes!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So I, Jeremiah, tell you,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Each of you people should say to his friend or his relative, &#8216;How did the <sc>Lordsc> answer? Or what did the <sc>Lordsc> say?&#8217;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more?<n id="1" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">I will stand at my watch post;p> <p class="poetry">I will remain stationed on the city wall.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will keep watching, so I can see what he says to mep> <p class="poetry">and can know<n id="2" /> how I should answerp> <p class="poetry">when he counters my argument.<n id="3" />p>

No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this.<n id="1" /> What did our ancestor<n id="2" /> do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.<n id="3" />

You have said, &#8216;It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped<n id="1" /> by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all?<n id="2" />

Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, &#8220;What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom?<n id="1" /> You have done things to me that should not be done!&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Judah replied, &#8220;What can we say<n id="1" /> to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves?<n id="2" /> God has exposed the sin of your servants!<n id="3" /> We are now my lord&#8217;s slaves, we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.&#8221;p>

and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether or not there are forests in it. And be brave,<n id="1" /> and bring back some of the fruit of the land.&#8221; Now it was the time of year<n id="2" /> for the first ripe grapes.<n id="3" />p>

It was to you that God handed over the Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb! What did I accomplish to rival that?&#8221;<n id="1" /> When he said this, they calmed down.<n id="2" />p>

On the seventh day, before the sun set, the men of the city said to him,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;What is sweeter than honey?p> <p class="poetry">What is stronger than a lion?&#8221;p> <p class="bodyblock">He said to them,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;If you had not plowed with my heifer,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you would not have solved my riddle!&#8221;p>