נָטָה

And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,

But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.

LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.

And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.

So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.

And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.

So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.

Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;

And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.