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Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.
But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
