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If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:
The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,
Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.
For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
