And he looked, and behold, a well was in the field! And, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it, for they watered the flocks out of that well. And a great stone was upon the well's mouth.

Therefore the well was called The Well of the Living One Seeing Me. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning of it; the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Better are the ones slain by the sword than the ones slain by hunger; those who pine away, pierced because the fruits of my fields failed.

And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.

And it happened when the sun shone, God ordained a scorching east wind. And the sun beat on the head of Jonah, so that he fainted. And he asked for his life to die. And he said, Better is my death than my life.

Better is one despised, and having a servant, than he honoring himself and lacks bread.

Better is a little with the fear of Jehovah than great treasure and tumult with it.

Better is a little with righteousness than great gain without right.

Better is a dry piece of bread, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices with fighting.

Better is a hand filled with rest than two fists with travail and vexation of spirit.

Your silver and your gold are mine, your wives also and your sons, the best are mine.

Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Your own friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake them; nor go to your brother's house in the day of your trouble; better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness than he who is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.

How fair is your love, My sister, My spouse! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your ointments than all spices!

This is the Word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after Nebuzaradan the chief of the executioners had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him, being bound in chains, among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were being exiled to Babylon.

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After my being old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

And when it was being built, the house was built of stone made ready beforehand. And there was not heard in the house a hammer or an axe, or any iron tool, while it was being built.

Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is being built with great stones, and timber is being laid in the walls, and this work goes on fast and is blessed in their hands.

being inflamed with idols under every green tree, killing the little sons in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

if those ordinances depart from Me, says Jehovah, the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.

My eye flows out and does not cease, from there being no intermission,

Then I came to the exiles at Tel-at-abib, who lived by the river Chebar. And I sat where they sat; and I also dwelt seven days, being stricken dumb among them.

And behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the beds where it sprouted.

And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being a son of sixty-two years.

And as for that being broken, and four stood up in its place; four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in its power.

Therefore the law has become helpless, and justice does not always go forth. For the wicked entraps the righteous; therefore justice goes forth, being perverted.

He sent a man before them, Joseph, being sold for a servant;

Those who sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, being chained in affliction and iron;

Withhold your foot from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, There is no hope; no; for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.

Instead of being forsaken and hated, so that no one passes through, I will make you for everlasting majesty, a joy of many generations.

But I was like a docile lamb being brought to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had plotted evils against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be remembered no more.

And it happened, he being in the gate of Benjamin, a commander of the guard named Irijah was there, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. And he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.

There shall be no more praise of Moab. In Heshbon they have plotted evil against it, saying, Come and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also you shall be silenced, O madmen; the sword shall pursue you.

And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Jehovah.

You have whored with the Assyrians, without your being satisfied; yea, you whored and yet you were not satisfied.

Son of man, say to her: You are a land not being cleansed, nor rained on in the day of disgust.

And the waste land shall be tilled, instead of being a ruin before all passing by.

And He said to me, Son of man, so says the Lord Jehovah: These are the statutes of the altar in the day of its being made to offer on it burnt offerings, and to sprinkle blood on it.

In the four corners of the court were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty wide, one measure to the four of them, being made in corners.

Then they said to him, What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us? For the sea was going on and being stormy.

But the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not, for the sea was going on and being stormy against them.

And you, Bethlehem Ephratah, you being least among the thousands of Judah, out of you He shall come forth to Me, to become Ruler in Israel, He whose goings forth have been from of old, from the days of eternity.

I have cut off the nations; their towers are ruined. I made their streets waste, so that none passes by; their cities are laid waste, without a man, there being no inhabitant.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, so that the name Israel may be remembered no more.

I will sing to Jehovah as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

While I live I will praise Jehovah; I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.

For Jehovah shall be your hope, and shall keep your foot from being taken.

Deliver those being taken to death, and those stumbling to be killed, unless you hold back.

In being slow to anger a ruler is won over, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.

And the advantage of a land, it is for all; even a king has a field being tilled.

The burden against Damascus: Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a heap of ruins.

Come near to Me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning. From its being, I was there; and now the Lord Jehovah, and His Spirit, has sent Me.

He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as it were a hiding of faces from Him, He being despised, and we esteemed Him not.

For this is as the waters of Noah to Me; for as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn from being angry with you and from rebuking you.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.

But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return and be consumed like the terebinth and like the oak being felled, yet has its stump; the holy seed is its stump.