I gathered them at the river that flows to Ahava, and we camped there for three days. I searched among the people and priests, but found no Levites there.

Please remember what You commanded Your servant Moses: “If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples.

And our enemies said, “They won’t know or see anything until we’re among them and can kill them and stop the work.”

In it was written:

It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews plan to rebel. This is the reason you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king

These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town.

Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants,
Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, Amon’s descendants.

They refused to listen
and did not remember Your wonders
You performed among them.
They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader
to return to their slavery in Egypt.
But You are a forgiving God,
gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love,
and You did not abandon them.

We have cast lots among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our ancestral houses at the appointed times each year. They are to bring the wood to our God’s house to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law.

Mattaniah son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, the leader who began the thanksgiving in prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his relatives; and Abda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.

Didn’t King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations. He was loved by his God and God made him king over all Israel, yet foreign women drew him into sin.

There was great mourning among the Jewish people in every province where the king’s command and edict came. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay on sackcloth and ashes.

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s command and his law reached, joy and rejoicing took place among the Jews. There was a celebration and a holiday. And many of the ethnic groups of the land professed themselves to be Jews because fear of the Jews had overcome them.

Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, famous among the Jews, and highly popular with many of his relatives. He continued to seek good for his people and to speak for the welfare of all his descendants.

His estate included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.

Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.

If only darkness had taken that night away!
May it not appear among the days of the year
or be listed in the calendar.

Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night,
when deep sleep descends on men,

His roots are intertwined around a pile of rocks.
He looks for a home among the stones.

the land was given to them alone
when no foreigner passed among them.

But come back and try again, all of you.
I will not find a wise man among you.

He has no children or descendants among his people,
no survivor where he used to live.

I directed their course and presided as chief.
I lived as a king among his troops,
like one who comforts those who mourn.

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They plucked mallow among the shrubs,
and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

They are living on the slopes of the wadis,
among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

They bray among the shrubs;
they huddle beneath the thistles.

They die in their youth;
their life ends among male cult prostitutes.

Will traders bargain for him
or divide him among the merchants?

Sing to the Lord, who dwells in Zion;
proclaim His deeds among the nations.

You have freed me from the feuds among the people;
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.

Therefore I will praise You, Yahweh, among the nations;
I will sing about Your name.

They divided my garments among themselves,
and they cast lots for my clothing.

Lord, You brought me up from Sheol;
You spared me from among those
going down to the Pit.

I will praise You in the great congregation;
I will exalt You among many people.

You hand us over to be eaten like sheep
and scatter us among the nations.

You make us a joke among the nations,
a laughingstock among the peoples.

Kings’ daughters are among your honored women;
the queen, adorned with gold from Ophir,
stands at your right hand.

“Stop your fighting—and know that I am God,
exalted among the nations, exalted on the earth.”

I will praise You, Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing praises to You among the nations.

so that Your way may be known on earth,
Your salvation among all nations.

While you lie among the sheepfolds,
the wings of a dove are covered with silver,
and its feathers with glistening gold.

God’s chariots are tens of thousands,
thousands and thousands;
the Lord is among them in the sanctuary
as He was at Sinai.

Singers lead the way,
with musicians following;
among them are young women
playing tambourines.

Ascribe power to God.
His majesty is over Israel,
His power among the clouds.

May he vindicate the afflicted among the people,
help the poor,
and crush the oppressor.

You are the God who works wonders;
You revealed Your strength among the peoples.

He sent among them swarms of flies,
which fed on them,
and frogs, which devastated them.

He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,
the tent where He resided among men.

Why should the nations ask,
“Where is their God?”
Before our eyes,
let vengeance for the shed blood of Your servants
be known among the nations.

There must not be a strange god among you;
you must not bow down to a foreign god.

A psalm of Asaph.God has taken His place in the divine assembly;
He judges among the gods:

Lord, there is no one like You among the gods,
and there are no works like Yours.

I am counted among those going down to the Pit.
I am like a man without strength,

abandoned among the dead.
I am like the slain lying in the grave,
whom You no longer remember,
and who are cut off from Your care.

For who in the skies can compare with the Lord?
Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord?

Declare His glory among the nations,
His wonderful works among all peoples.

Say among the nations: “The Lord reigns.
The world is firmly established; it cannot be shaken.
He judges the peoples fairly.”

Moses and Aaron were among His priests;
Samuel also was among those calling on His name.
They called to Yahweh and He answered them.

I am like a desert owl,
like an owl among the ruins.

The birds of the sky live beside the springs;
they sing among the foliage.

Give thanks to Yahweh, call on His name;
proclaim His deeds among the peoples.

They performed His miraculous signs among them,
and wonders in the land of Ham.

Then He brought Israel out with silver and gold,
and no one among His tribes stumbled.

He gave them what they asked for,
but sent a wasting disease among them.

and would disperse their descendants
among the nations,
scattering them throughout the lands.

I will praise You, Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing praises to You among the nations.

They surrounded me like bees;
they were extinguished like a fire among thorns;
in the name of Yahweh I destroyed them.

What misery that I have stayed in Meshech,
that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!

Our mouths were filled with laughter then,
and our tongues with shouts of joy.
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”

and brought Israel out from among them
        His love is eternal.

a lying witness who gives false testimony,
and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.

I saw among the inexperienced,
I noticed among the youths,
a young man lacking sense.

Fools mock at making restitution,
but there is goodwill among the upright.

Wisdom resides in the heart of the discerning;
she is known even among fools.

One who listens to life-giving rebukes
will be at home among the wise.

A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son
and share an inheritance among brothers.

indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber
and increases those among men who are unfaithful.

There is a generation whose teeth are swords,
whose fangs are knives,
devouring the oppressed from the land
and the needy from among mankind.

a lion, which is mightiest among beasts
and doesn’t retreat before anything,

Her husband is known at the city gates,
where he sits among the elders of the land.

There is no remembrance of those who came before;
and of those who will come after
there will also be no remembrance
by those who follow them.

which my soul continually searches for but does not find: among a thousand people I have found one true man, but among all these I have not found a true woman.

I compare you, my darling,
to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

M Like a lily among thorns,
so is my darling among the young women.

W Like an apricot tree among the trees of the forest,
so is my love among the young men.
I delight to sit in his shade,
and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

W My love is mine and I am his;
he feeds among the lilies.

Your breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.

W My love is fit and strong,
notable among ten thousand.

I am my love’s and my love is mine;
he feeds among the lilies.

Before I knew it,
my desire put me
among the chariots of my noble people.

Come, my love,
let’s go to the field;
let’s spend the night among the henna blossoms.

He will settle disputes among the nations
and provide arbitration for many peoples.
They will turn their swords into plows
and their spears into pruning knives.
Nations will not take up the sword against other nations,
and they will never again train for war.

Lambs will graze
as if in their own pastures,
and strangers will eat
among the ruins of the rich.

Then I said:

Woe is me for I am ruined
because I am a man of unclean lips
and live among a people of unclean lips,
and because my eyes have seen the King,
the Lord of Hosts.

Bind up the testimony.
Seal up the instruction among my disciples.

to keep the poor from getting a fair trial
and to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice,
so that widows can be their spoil
and they can plunder the fatherless.

There will be nothing to do
except crouch among the prisoners
or fall among the slain.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.

and on that day you will say:
“Give thanks to Yahweh; proclaim His name!
Celebrate His works among the peoples.
Declare that His name is exalted.

Cry out and sing, citizen of Zion,
for the Holy One of Israel is among you
in His greatness.”

Listen, a tumult on the mountains,
like that of a mighty people!
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,
like nations being gathered together!
The Lord of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.

on many waters.
Tyre’s revenue was the grain from Shihor—
the harvest of the Nile.
She was the merchant among the nations.