To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.

I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;

And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath–heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

And Ben–hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.

For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;

And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them; and he departed.

For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.

Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.

And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.

And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.

And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth–lehem.

And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben–oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

And these were they which went up also from Tel–melah, Tel–haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.

Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.

They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner’s men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!

Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

And Samuel said unto him, The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.

In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,

And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.

And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.

Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;

The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:

And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.

For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer–elim.

Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi–shua, the sons of Saul.

And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth–maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;

And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.

And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.

And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben–ezer unto Ashdod.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.

My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:

He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.

And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.

And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:

Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.

For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

For, as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.

Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.

In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.

And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.