History & Narratives Verses
The great stories of the Bible — patriarchs, kings, battles, miracles, and God's faithfulness through history.
For want and famine {they were} solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. {solitary: or, dark as the night} {in...: Heb. yesternight}
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
If his loins have not blessed me, and {if} he were {not} warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Because {there is} wrath, {beware} lest he take thee away with {his} stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. {deliver...: Heb. turn thee aside}
How thy garments {are} warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south {wind}?
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
To cause it to rain on the earth, {where} no man {is; on} the wilderness, wherein {there is} no man;
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. {barren...: Heb. salt places}
Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, {and} stretch her wings toward the south?