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Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away;
And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
