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Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.
Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.
Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel.
Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.
Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
