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For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.
And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
