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O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
We love him, because he first loved us.
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither.
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
