<p class="poetry">The night watchmen found me &#8211; the ones who guard the city walls.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Have you seen my beloved?&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem&#8217;s<n id="2" /> or Samaria&#8217;s.p>

<p class="poetry">Everyone who is caught will be stabbed;p> <p class="poetry">everyone who is seized<n id="1" /> will die<n id="2" /> by the sword.p>

When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul,<n id="1" />

He will then turn his attention to the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall, not to be found again.

<p class="poetry">then I discerned all that God has done:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">No one really comprehends what happens<n id="2" /> on earth.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Despite all human<n id="4" /> efforts to discover it, no one can ever grasp<n id="5" /> it.<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">Even if<n id="7" /> a wise person claimed<n id="8" /> that he understood,p> <p class="poetry">he would not really comprehend<n id="9" /> it.<n id="10" />p>

When the people<n id="1" /> moved eastward,<n id="2" /> they found a plain in Shinar<n id="3" /> and settled there.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lord&#8217;sc>s angel<n id="1" /> found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert &#8211; the spring that is along the road to Shur.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">He said, &#8220;My lord,<n id="1" /> if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown,<n id="1" /> because the <sc>Lordsc> blessed him.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When Isaac&#8217;s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing<n id="1" /> water there,

<p class="bodytext">But Laban said to him, &#8220;If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here,<n id="1" /> for I have learned by divination<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> has blessed me on account of you.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">When Joseph reached Shechem,<n id="1" /> a man found him wandering<n id="2" /> in the field, so the man asked him, &#8220;What are you looking for?&#8221;

So Pharaoh asked his officials, &#8220;Can we find a man like Joseph,<n id="1" /> one in whom the Spirit of God is present?&#8221;<n id="2" />

If one of us has it,<n id="1" /> he will die, and the rest of us will become my lord&#8217;s slaves!&#8221;p>

Then the man<n id="1" /> searched. He began with the oldest and finished with the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin&#8217;s sack!

They replied, &#8220;You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor,<n id="1" /> and we will be Pharaoh&#8217;s slaves.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

You<n id="1" /> go get straw for yourselves wherever you can<n id="2" /> find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.&#8217;&#8221;

Moses said, &#8220;Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the <sc>Lordsc>; today you will not find it in the area.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they found nothing.