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I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.
And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.
Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
