<p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s right hand gives victory,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s right hand conquers.p>

<p class="poetry">In the north<n id="1" /> when he is at work,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I do not see him;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">when he turns<n id="4" /> to the south,p> <p class="poetry">I see no trace of him.p>

<p class="poetry">Then I said, &#8220;I am sickened by the thoughtp> <p class="poetry">that the sovereign One<n id="1" /> might become inactive.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You have allowed his adversaries to be victorious,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and all his enemies to rejoice.p>

<p class="poetry">who speak lies,p> <p class="poetry">and make false promises.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not turn<n id="1" /> to the right or to the left;p> <p class="poetry">turn yourself<n id="2" /> away from evil.<n id="3" />p>

&#8220;Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway.<n id="1" /> I will not turn aside to the right or the left.

Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the <sc>Lordsc> your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left!

He did what the <sc>Lordsc> approved<n id="1" /> and followed in his ancestor David&#8217;s footsteps;<n id="2" /> he did not deviate to the right or the left.p>

<p class="poetry">On my right the young rabble<n id="1" /> rise up;p> <p class="poetry">they drive me from place to place,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and build up siege ramps<n id="3" /> against me.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">They celebrate deliverance in the tents of the godly.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s right hand conquers,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Grab me and rescue me from the power of foreigners,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">who speak lies,p> <p class="poetry">and make false promises.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For you will spread out to the right and to the left;p> <p class="poetry">your children will conquer<n id="1" /> nationsp> <p class="poetry">and will resettle desolate cities.p>

<p class="bodytext">Next I asked the messenger, &#8220;What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the menorah?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then the angel of the <sc>Lordsc> went farther, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.

But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving<n id="1" /> you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship<n id="2" /> them.p>

Be very strong! Carefully obey<n id="1" /> all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won&#8217;t swerve from it to the right or the left,

<p class="bodytext">But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, &#8220;The only way I will make a treaty with you is if you let me gouge out the right eye of every one of you and in so doing humiliate all Israel!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So they left and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the desert of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.

<p class="bodytext">Joab said to Amasa, &#8220;How are you, my brother?&#8221; With his right hand Joab took hold of Amasa&#8217;s beard as if to greet him with a kiss.