Psalm 77

20; 77 is the second symbol 2 & 5 & 8

²⁰ You led Your people like a flock by the

    hand of Moses and Aaron. (2)

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¹⁷ The clouds poured down water, the heavens resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth. (8)
¹⁸ Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, Your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

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⁸ Has His unfailing love vanished forever? Has His promise failed for all time? (8)
⁹ Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has He in anger withheld His compassion?”

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¹² I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds.” (3)

¹³ Your ways, God, are holy. What god is as great as our God?
¹⁴ You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.
¹⁵ With your mighty arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.

¹⁶ The waters saw you, God, the waters saw you and writhed; the very depths were convulsed.

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³ I remembered You, God, and I groaned; I meditated, and my spirit grew faint. (3)
⁴ You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak.
⁵ I thought about the former days, the years of long ago;
⁶ I remembered my songs in the night. My heart meditated and my spirit asked

⁷ “Will the Lord reject forever? Will He never show His favor again?

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¹⁹ Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, though Your footprints were not seen. (1)

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¹⁰ Then I thought, “To this I will appeal: the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand. (1)
¹¹ I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago.

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¹ I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me. (1)
² When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands, and I would not be comforted.

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Judges 14

20;  2 & 5

²⁰ And Samson’s wife was given to one of his

    companions who had attended him at the

    feast. (2)

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¹⁷ She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people. (8)

¹⁸ Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” Samson said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle.”

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⁸ Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. (8)

⁹ He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.

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¹² “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes. (3)

¹³ If you can’t tell me the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.” “Tell us your riddle,” they said. “Let’s hear it.”

¹⁴ He replied, “Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet.” For three days they could not give the answer.

¹⁵ On the fourth day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?”

¹⁶ Then Samson’s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, “You hate me! You don’t really love me. You’ve given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.” “I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother,” he replied, “so why should I explain it to you?”

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³ His father and mother replied, “Isn’t there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me. She’s the right one for me.” (3)

⁴ (His parents did not know that this was from the Lord, who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)

⁵ Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him.

⁶ The Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done.

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¹⁹ Then the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he returned to his father’s home. (1)

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¹⁰ Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men. (1)

¹¹ When the people saw him, they chose thirty men to be his companions.

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Samson’s Marriage

14 Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. (1)

² When he returned, he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”

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