Since he clings to me in love, I will free him;

        protect him for he knows my name.

When he calls I shall answer: “I am with you,”

        I will save him in distress and give him glory.

Psalter XCI          

The very next day 
they began to eat
unleavened bread 
and roasted grain
harvested from the land.
The manna stopped
the day after they ate 
this food from the land

Joshua v

help me know Lord
help me believe
that you will sustain me just the same
till the land can bear crops once again

Prayer of Rest

Take care of me, Lord.

Carry me home.

"sentence stress" is a necessary linguistic component of english.

verbs and other important words in every spoken sentence receive a tiny amount of stress as they are uttered.

Stress
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IPA number	501
Encoding
Entity (decimal)	ˈ
Unicode (hex)	U+02C8
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try this one: i couldn't finish the project because i was too ill. invariably the most operative words receive a tiny bit of stress. i couldn't finish the project because i was too ill. it's really tiny, but it's there (and this tiny linguistic necessity is not, i imagine, what bonhoeffer was talking about when he calls God's people to refrain from adding tones and dramatism to the readings of God's word. rather i mean the little intonations that keep us from sounding like robots).

so anyway, we often read romans iv like this:

yet i still belong to you
you hold my right hand (psalm 73)


Psalm 73 from Humble Beast Records on Vimeo.