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When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
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 it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
