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He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
