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Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
