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Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well! Sing to it!

"O Lord, what can I say since Israel has turned their back before their enemies?

But he himself turned back from the idols which were at Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And the king said, "Silence!" And all who were attending him left him.

Then Gideon said to him, "O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, 'Did the LORD not bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian."

But he said to Him, "O Lord, how am I to save Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father's house."

Then Samson called to the LORD and said, "Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me just this time, O God, that I may at once take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes."

Now when Saul had seen David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, "Abner, whose son is this young man?" And Abner said, "By your life, O king, I do not know."

"Now then, O king, come down, since you fully desire to do so; and our part shall be to hand him over to the king."

Now when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and prostrated herself, and said, "Help, O king!"

"But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, 'I will be your servant, O king; even as I was your father's servant in time past, so now I will also be your servant,' then you can foil the advice of Ahithophel for me.

"Everything, O king, Araunah gives to the king." And Araunah said to the king, "May the LORD your God be favorable to you."

Then they took the ox which was given them and they prepared it, and they called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, "O Baal, answer us!" But there was no voice and no one answered. And they limped about the altar which they had made.

And the king of Israel replied, "As you say, my lord, O king; I am yours, as well as all that I have."

But a man of God came to him saying, "O king, do not let the army of Israel come with you, for the LORD is not with Israel nor with any of the sons of Ephraim.

Hear, O our God, how we are an object of contempt! Return their taunting on their own heads, and turn them into plunder in a land of captivity.

Then Queen Esther replied, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me as my request, and my people as my wish;

O LORD my God, in You I have taken refuge; Save me from all those who pursue me, and rescue me,

O LORD my God, if I have done this, If there is injustice in my hands,

I will rejoice and be jubilant in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; Enlighten my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,