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And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,
Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
