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He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
