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Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
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,
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
