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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts;
Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.
Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.
And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
