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By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not:
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;
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
