Stay with me. Don&#8217;t be afraid! Whoever<n id="1" /> seeks my life is seeking your life as well. You are secure with me.&#8221;p>

David asked, &#8220;Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me and my men into Saul&#8217;s hand?&#8221; The <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;They will deliver you over.&#8221;p>

You have explained today how you have treated me well. The <sc>Lordsc> delivered me into your hand, but you did not kill me.

Now be courageous<n id="1" /> and prove to be valiant warriors, for your lord Saul is dead. The people of Judah have anointed me as king over them.&#8221;p>

Yes!<n id="1" /> The king may<n id="2" /> listen and deliver his female servant<n id="3" /> from the hand of the man who seeks to remove<n id="4" /> both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!&#8217;<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">The king replied, &#8220;Kimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever I deem appropriate. And whatever you choose, I will do for you.&#8221;p>

For the <sc>Lordsc> gave me strict orders,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Do not eat or drink<n id="2" /> there and do not go home the way you came.&#8217;&#8221;

Elijah<n id="1" /> replied, &#8220;That&#8217;s a difficult request!<n id="2" /> If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don&#8217;t, it will not happen.&#8221;p>

He said, &#8220;About this time next year<n id="1" /> you will be holding a son.&#8221; She said, &#8220;No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!&#8221;

He said, &#8220;Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon<n id="1" /> or the Sabbath.&#8221; She said, &#8220;Everything&#8217;s fine.&#8221;<n id="2" />

He looked up at the window and said, &#8220;Who is on my side? Who?&#8221; Two or three<n id="1" /> eunuchs looked down at him.

because they have done evil in my sight<n id="1" /> and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!&#8217;&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc>, your protector,<n id="1" /> says,p> <p class="poetry">the one who formed you in the womb:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc>, who made everything,p> <p class="poetry">who alone stretched out the sky,p> <p class="poetry">who fashioned the earth all by myself,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I have stomped grapes in the winepress all by myself;p> <p class="poetry">no one from the nations joined me.p> <p class="poetry">I stomped on them<n id="1" /> in my anger;p> <p class="poetry">I trampled them down in my rage.p> <p class="poetry">Their juice splashed on my garments,p> <p class="poetry">and stained<n id="2" /> all my clothes.p>

<p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="1" /> &#8216;You people have deserted me!p> <p class="poetry">You keep turning your back on me.&#8217;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">So I have unleashed my power against you<n id="3" /> and have begun to destroy you.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

Then Jeremiah said to them, &#8220;You sent me to the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel to make your request known to him. Here is what he says to you:<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Then a wind<n id="1" /> came into me and stood me on my feet. The <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> spoke to me and said, &#8220;Go shut yourself in your house.

<p class="bodytext">Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s house. I noticed<n id="1" /> women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Because they are saying to you, &#8220;You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,&#8221;

Then he cried out to me, &#8220;Look! The ones going to the northland have brought me<n id="1" /> peace about the northland.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>