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When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
