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Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
