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My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.
And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
