You have done me a great favor and saved my life. But the hills are too far away; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die before I get there.

Ruth bowed down with her face touching the ground, and said to Boaz, "Why should you be so concerned about me? Why should you be so kind to a foreigner?"

But David answered, "Your father knows very well how much you like me, and he has decided not to let you know what he plans to do, because you would be deeply hurt. I swear to you by the living LORD that I am only a step away from death!"

Joab threw himself to the ground in front of David in respect, and said, "God bless you, Your Majesty! Now I know that you are pleased with me, because you have granted my request."

When the king saw Queen Esther standing outside, she won his favor, and he held out to her the gold scepter. She then came up and touched the tip of it.

In the desert I showed mercy to those people who had escaped death. When the people of Israel longed for rest,

Because of you the LORD also became angry with me and said, 'Not even you, Moses, will enter the land.

Let me cross the Jordan River, LORD, and see the fertile land on the other side, the beautiful hill country and the Lebanon Mountains.'

"But because of you people the LORD was angry with me and would not listen. Instead, he said, 'That's enough! Don't mention this again!

And Joshua said, "Sovereign LORD! Why did you bring us across the Jordan at all? To turn us over to the Amorites? To destroy us? Why didn't we just stay on the other side of the Jordan?