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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.
It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;
