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That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
