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When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.
But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
