<p class="poetry">She makes linen garments<n id="1" /> and sells them,p> <p class="poetry">and supplies the merchants<n id="2" /> with sashes.p>

So they said to one another,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Let&#8217;s appoint<n id="2" /> a leader<n id="3" /> and return<n id="4" /> to Egypt.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">He asked for water,p> <p class="poetry">and she gave him milk;p> <p class="poetry">in a bowl fit for a king,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">she served him curds.p>

<p class="poetry">to whom alone the land was givenp> <p class="poetry">when no foreigner passed among them.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The earth yields its crops.p> <p class="poetry">May God, our God, bless us!p>

<p class="poetry">Poor dear Egypt<n id="1" /> will be put to shame.p> <p class="poetry">She will be handed over to the people from the north.&#8221;p>

The man said, &#8220;The woman whom you gave me, she gave<n id="1" /> me some fruit<n id="2" /> from the tree and I ate it.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">If a land<n id="1" /> has been givenp> <p class="poetry">into the hand of a wicked man,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he covers<n id="3" /> the faces of its judges;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">if it is not he, then who is it?<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">and the dust returns to the earth as it was,p> <p class="poetry">and the life&#8217;s breath<n id="1" /> returns to God who gave it.p>

<p class="poetry">The people I call my own<n id="1" /> have turned on mep> <p class="poetry">like a lion<n id="2" /> in the forest.p> <p class="poetry">They have roared defiantly<n id="3" /> at me.p> <p class="poetry">So I will treat them as though I hate them.<n id="4" />p>

They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; they carry her and all her hordes away.

When the time came for Merab, Saul&#8217;s daughter, to be given to David, she instead was given in marriage to Adriel, who was from Meholah.p>

He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">I also discovered that the grain offerings for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields.

The messengers<n id="1" /> scurried forth<n id="2" /> with the king&#8217;s order.<n id="3" /> The edict was issued in Susa the citadel. While the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was in an uproar!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The couriers who were riding the royal horses went forth with the king&#8217;s edict without delay.<n id="1" /> And the law was presented in Susa the citadel as well.p>

The city is sure to fall into the hands of the Babylonians.<n id="1" /> Yet, in spite of this,<n id="2" /> you, Lord <sc>Godsc>,<n id="3" /> have said to me, &#8220;Buy that field with silver and have the transaction legally witnessed.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

You and your people<n id="1" /> are saying that this land will become desolate, uninhabited by either people or animals. You are saying that it will be handed over to the Babylonians.<n id="2" /> But fields<n id="3" /> will again be bought in this land.<n id="4" />

He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.p>

So she removed her widow&#8217;s clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah. (She did this because<n id="1" /> she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.)<n id="2" />p>