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Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.
The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
