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The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
