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The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.
Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
