<p class="poetry">A whole generation<n id="1" /> will serve him;p> <p class="poetry">they will tell the next generation about the sovereign Lord.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I yearn for the Lord,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">more than watchmen do for the morning,p> <p class="poetry">yes, more than watchmen do for the morning.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Give thanks to the Lord of lords,p> <p class="poetry">for his loyal love endures,p>

Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving,<n id="1" /> even though we have rebelled against him.

After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight.<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">When they got up in the morning, he said, &#8220;Let me leave now so I can return to my master.&#8221;<n id="2" />

But he said to them, &#8220;Don&#8217;t detain me &#8211; the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return<n id="2" /> to my master.&#8221;

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>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;So now, please let your servant remain as my lord&#8217;s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.

Now let this present<n id="1" /> that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow<n id="2" /> my lord.

<t /><p class="psasuper">A psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry">Here is the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s proclamation<n id="2" /> to my lord:<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Sit down at my right hand<n id="4" /> until I make your enemies your footstool!&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

<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>

Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt<n id="1" /> for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the <sc>Lordsc> has granted my lord success,<n id="2" /> please remember your servant.&#8221;p>

His servants advised<n id="1" /> him, &#8220;A young virgin must be found for our master, the king,<n id="2" /> to take care of the king&#8217;s needs<n id="3" /> and serve as his nurse. She can also sleep with you<n id="4" /> and keep our master, the king, warm.&#8221;<n id="5" />

<p class="poetry">But that day belongs to the Lord God who rules over all.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">It is the day when he will pay back his enemies.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">His sword will devour them until its appetite is satisfied!p> <p class="poetry">It will drink their blood until it is full!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">For the Lord <sc>Godsc> who rules over all<n id="4" /> will offer them up as a sacrificep> <p class="poetry">in the land of the north by the Euphrates River.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Abraham<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;May the Lord not be angry<n id="2" /> so that I may speak!<n id="3" /> What if thirty are found there?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;I will not do it if I find thirty there.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Finally Abraham<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.&#8221;p>

My master&#8217;s wife Sarah bore a son to him<n id="1" /> when she was old,<n id="2" /> and my master<n id="3" /> has given him everything he owns.

He commanded them, &#8220;This is what you must say to my lord Esau: &#8216;This is what your servant<n id="1" /> Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.

I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent<n id="1" /> this message<n id="2" /> to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.&#8217;&#8221;p>

then you must say,<n id="1" /> &#8216;They belong<n id="2" /> to your servant Jacob.<n id="3" /> They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau.<n id="4" /> In fact Jacob himself is behind us.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="5" />p>