And from the daughter of Zion all her splendour is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture; and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

And the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take the well-fenced city; and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, for there shall be no strength to withstand.

In due time

but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,

since he had then been obliged often to suffer from the foundation of the world. But now once in the consummation of the ages he has been manifested for the putting away of sin by his sacrifice.

foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes,

Ungodly

but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

and so all Israel shall be saved. According as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Zion; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;

knowing this, that law has not its application to a righteous person, but to the lawless and insubordinate, to the impious and sinful, to the unholy and profane, to smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers,

teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things,

and spared not the old world, but preserved Noe, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly persons, turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.

General references

one young bullock, one ram, one yearling lamb, for a burnt-offering;

for the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.

No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.