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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.
But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.
And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
