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That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
