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Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
