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For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
