And I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, and if your servant has your approval, send me to Judah, to the town where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, so that I may take in hand the building of it.
Hanun and the people of Zanoah were working on the doorway of the valley; they put it up and put up its doors, with their locks and rods, and a thousand cubits of wall as far as the doorway where the waste material was placed.
After them came Benjamin and Hasshub, opposite their house. After them Azariah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ananiah, made good the wall by the house where he himself was living.
Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:
And by day the cloud of the Lord went over them, when they went forward from the place where they had put up their tents.
Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.
And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.
Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land where I am guiding you,
And let them be stored up in the Tent of meeting, in front of the ark of witness where I come to you.
Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes are crushed.
Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning.
Then let a man who is clean take the dust of the burned cow and put it outside the tent-circle in a clean place, where it is to be kept for the children of Israel and used in making the water which takes away what is unclean: it is a sin-offering.
Then the angel of the Lord went further, stopping in a narrow place where there was no room for turning to the right or to the left.
So he came to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with the chiefs of Moab by his side. And Balak said to him, What has the Lord said?
So he went back to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with all the chiefs of Moab.
And they went on from Alush, and put up their tents in Rephidim, where there was no drinking-water for the people.
But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.
For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.
And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.
But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,
So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.
Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.
And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the House, then the children of Israel went journeying on; and in the place where the cloud came to rest, there the children of Israel put up their tents.
For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:
Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.
Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.
Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.
Where there are no wise suggestions, purposes come to nothing; but by a number of wise guides they are made certain.
Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?
Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.
Where there is no vision, the people are uncontrolled; but he who keeps the law will be happy.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?
Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:
Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.
There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.
He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.
Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?
<A Song of the going up.> My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?
Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?
You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.
Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.
The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.
Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)
<A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;
My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.
You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.
Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes.
The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.
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