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Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.
What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
