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But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon.
And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;
And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
