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Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be our's.
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.
The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:
Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
