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And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.
There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
