בְּלִי

Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.

They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

…to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:

Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:

…refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.

…so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.

O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.

But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are on your way to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’

They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’”

And Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is that why you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.”

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?

Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.

…if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

…if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’

So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.

The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!

You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard,

For no fault of my own, they move swiftly to attack me. Arise to help me, and take notice.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound until the moon is no more.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.

In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

The young lions have roared at him; they have sounded their voices. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.

I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?

The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.