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When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
