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The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.
Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
