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Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad,
But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
