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A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
