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Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;
I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.
Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;
But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
