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For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
