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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.
And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
For some are already turned aside after Satan.
But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
