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Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
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.
Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.
And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Beth-el with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.
When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
