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If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah,
So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.
