From the daughter of Zion all her majesty has departed. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer.

Then the king of the north shall come and throw up siegeworks and take a well-fortified city. And the forces of the south shall not stand, or even his best troops, for there shall be no strength to stand.

In due time

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you

Ungodly

And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,

And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob";

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

General references

one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.