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Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,
Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
