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O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations.
Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:
But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
