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For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.
Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
