Yea, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

For the builders, everyone had his sword girded by his side, and so built. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days abundant stores of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the food allowance of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

The trees went forth once to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign you over us.

Write you also for the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.

Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.

And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.

And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:

So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.

And what the land is, whether it is rich or poor, whether there be wood in it, or not. And be of good courage, and bring some of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.

Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conduct and godliness,

And then shall that Wicked One be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

And he went up there to Penuel, and spoke unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him.

And Moses said unto the people, Fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will show to you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall see them again no more forever.

Or if his sin, which he has sinned, comes to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:

And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;

But the soul that eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision.

Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet you lack one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute unto the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmaelites, who had brought him down there.

And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things says the first and the last, who was dead, and is alive;

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord comes:

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.

You call me Teacher and Lord: and you say rightly; for so I am.

In the same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:

But he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

But the righteousness which is of faith speaks thus, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

Who was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

And the Lord said unto him, Now do you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.

And the soldiers likewise asked of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.

And he said, Take heed that you be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draws near: go not therefore after them.

And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

Therefore said they unto him, How were your eyes opened?

Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulcher; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which had come to pass.

And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.

And the Lord said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you could say unto this sycamine tree, Be plucked up by the root, and be planted in the sea; and it would obey you.

Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.

I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give to him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needs.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints that slept arose,

Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that steals shall be cut off according to the writing on this side; and every one that swears falsely shall be cut off according to the writing on that side.

Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up his spirit.

Her house is the way to sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

But they that escape them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning.

For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God: for our iniquities have risen higher than our head, and our trespass has grown up unto the heavens.

Behold, this have I found, says the preacher, adding one thing to another, to find out the reason:

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.

How forceful are right words! but what does your arguing prove?

They were disappointed because they had confidence; they came there, and were confused.

Moreover you gave them kingdoms and nations, and did distribute them even into the corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the descendants of the Jews, before whom you have begun to fall, you shall not prevail against him, but shall surely fall before him.

Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-bozenai, and your companions the governors, who are beyond the river, keep yourselves far from there:

The children of Nebo, fifty and two.

And you shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that comes within the ranks, let him be slain: and be you with the king as he goes out and as he comes in.

And the men of Ai struck of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and struck them on the descent: therefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD your God: for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.

Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair you not the damages of the house? now therefore take no more money of your acquaintances, but deliver it to repair the damages of the house.

But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the damages of the house.

And when he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting; and he said, I have a message to you, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of us? And he said, To you, O captain.

And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till you come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.

And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she dismounted off her donkey; and Caleb said unto her, What do you wish?

And you shall do to Ai and her king as you did unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall you take for a prey unto yourselves: lay you an ambush for the city behind it.

And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little while.

Speak not you in your heart, after that the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD does drive them out from before you.

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you,

When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive,

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they encamped: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, You shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for everyone that exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus.

And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

And the frogs shall come up both on you, and upon your people, and upon all your servants.

And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall you number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.

And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;

And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a man.

Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, you know that by this craft we have our wealth.

He lodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the seaside: he shall tell you what you ought to do.

Peter said unto him, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash you not, you have no part with me.

For if I make you sorry, who is he then that makes me glad, but the same who is made sorry by me?

And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.

Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no way believe, though a man declare it unto you.

And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers.

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Who have received the law as delivered by angels, and have not kept it.

Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girded his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.

And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Nathanael answered and said unto him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.

Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable counselor, who also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh:

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.

Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?

Who was the son of Jesse, who was the son of Obed, who was the son of Boaz, who was the son of Salmon, who was the son of Nahshon,

And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.

And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went you out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;

Thus says the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;

Then shall you bring forth your belongings by day in their sight, as belongings for moving: and you shall go forth at evening in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, you commit harlotry, and Israel is defiled.

In that day shall your mouth be opened to him who has escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more dumb: and you shall be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

They took the young men to grind, and the children stagger under loads of wood.

For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things from it: therefore have I set it far from them.

Thus says the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

Princes were hung up by their hands: the faces of elders were not honored.

And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having torn my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,

The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: he will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.

Shall I not punish for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.

That they may keep you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words.

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed wet with tears; I water my couch with my tears.

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is heavy upon him.

And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Do you intend to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;

And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy men.

But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned an answer by letter concerning this matter.

For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, mighty, and awesome, who regards not persons, nor takes reward:

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise every one that bows down upon his knees to drink.

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

And the priests consented to take no more money of the people, neither to repair the damages of the house.

And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the idol pole was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.

For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet did you set your servant among them that did eat at your own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?

Then were the horses' hoofs thundering by means of the gallopings, the gallopings of their mighty ones.

And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.

And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.

And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was upon the entrails, and the fat above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:

Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled with, and it be hid from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.

And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.

For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help them that are tempted.

And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.

And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.

And God spoke unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

By faith they passed through the Red sea as on dry land: which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned.

And he shall burn all its fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

And he went into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for the space of three months, arguing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now restrains will do so, until he be taken out of the way.

In that he says, A new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and grows old is ready to vanish away.

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a riverside, where prayer was accustomed to be made; and we sat down, and spoke unto the women who met there.

And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what will you have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do.

Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.

Paul, and Silas, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink you all of it;

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, who should pretend themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

I protest by your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

And it came to pass, that after we were parted from them, and had set sail, we came with a straight course unto Cos, and the day following unto Rhodes, and from there unto Patara:

And his name through faith in his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know: yea, the faith which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven, and gives life unto the world.

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek you?

And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, who also bewailed and lamented him.

And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take you no thought how or what thing you shall answer, or what you shall say:

And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,

And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when did you come here?

Saying, Blessed be the King that comes in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.

For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

There is nothing from outside a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

But that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (he said to the paralytic)

For a good tree brings not forth corrupt fruit; neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the mountain, many people met him.

Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because it was said by some, that John was risen from the dead;

When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases to stir the fire after he has kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.

Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:

Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which is no pleasure.

And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my belongings by day, as belongings for captivity, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bore it upon my shoulder in their sight.

And the revolters are deeply involved in slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry out your belongings through it.

And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim unto the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the farthest corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their backs, and slew your prophets who testified against them to turn them to you, and they worked great provocations.

And lay siege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and place battering rams against it round about.

Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

And say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

They cried unto them, Depart; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.

For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesses the habitation of the just.

Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy grain, because of the famine.

Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

Moreover there were at my table a hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, besides those that came unto us from among the nations that are about us.

Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity:

Then said the king unto her, What do you wish, queen Esther? and what is your request? it shall be even given you to the half of the kingdom.

The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty and two.

And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be registered by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them who came up at the first, and found written in it,

And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was done by our God.

And I said unto them, You are holy unto the LORD; the articles are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.

And has extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel leading men to go up with me.

In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give you.

But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.

And when Judah came to the watchtower in the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.

However they did not hearken, but they did according to their former manner.

And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for I am sorry that I have made them.

And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the River in former times, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valor, and sent them away by night.

And their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, three-score cities:

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

And they said one to another, Who has done this thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.

Remember, and forget not, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you did depart out of the land of Egypt, until you came unto this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto you, and to your descendants after you.

Yet in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God,

And if any man lie with her at all, and her impurity is upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the beds on which he lies shall be unclean.

And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put some of the blood upon the tip of their right ears, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.

And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch forth my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is the LORD's.

And Noah built an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Therefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.

And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof in front of the lampstand, as the LORD commanded Moses.

He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering:

That the leaders of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the leaders of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:

I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown lambs among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my wages.

And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out its blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.

Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon your cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the donkeys, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous plague.

And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

And Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did they.

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:

Woe unto you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered.

Watch you therefore: for you know not when the Master of the house comes, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning:

And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.

For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Then the disciples went away again unto their own home

Thomas said unto him, Lord, we know not where you go; and how can we know the way?

So I answered and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from evil.

And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his plot that he had devised against the Jews.

Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

Hear you now what the LORD says; Arise, contend before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, says the Lord GOD: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

But whoever keeps his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: by this we know that we are in him.

They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Malta.

Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Spirit, set his eyes on him,

A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, How have we despised your name?

You shall make your prayer unto him, and he shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.

After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer opposite his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate.

And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.

He crouches, and lies low, that the poor may fall by his strength.

And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and died.

The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out undiluted into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;

And they departed from Abronah, and encamped at Eziongeber.

But in all things presenting ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

And you shall march around the city, all you men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shall you do six days.

But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

If a man find a young woman that is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

And Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to number Israel.

And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she struck Sisera, she crushed his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.

Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh; Zechariah: and with him were registered by genealogy of the men a hundred and fifty.

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, you shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before you; and shall say, Destroy them.

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the descendants of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and strengthened them.

And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of saints.

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has reasons he might trust in the flesh, I more:

I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver articles worth a hundred talents, and of gold a hundred talents;

But of all clean fowls you may eat.

And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being commended by the brethren unto the grace of God.

Like I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, says the Lord GOD.

And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.

Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto you: behold, my Angel shall go before you: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.

For thus has the LORD of hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be punished; she is full of oppression in the midst of her.

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

And take unto you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.

And the men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is my iniquity? and what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.

Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:

You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, says the Lord GOD.

Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am invited unto her also with the king.

And the king of Israel went to his house sullen and displeased, and came to Samaria.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled.

And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, figures which you made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,

And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai; and make not all the people to toil up there; for they are but few.

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the rest of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places where I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.

He spoke also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.

And the sea gave up the dead who were in it; and death and hades delivered up the dead who were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come near the tabernacle of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

But refuse profane and old wives' tales, and exercise yourself rather unto godliness.

And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw your hand.

And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.

And when you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

And the nations were angry, and your wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that you should give reward unto your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear your name, small and great; and should destroy them who destroy the earth.

And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray you, I will bring you unto another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there.

I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the law of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one opposite his house.

Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto you, What do you?

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?

The days of punishment have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, because of the multitude of your iniquity, and the great hatred.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are idle, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not your people and your inheritance, which you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and to carry burdens:

And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing did they cast lots.

Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh:

And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when he shall have accomplished the shattering of the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

So there went up there of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.

Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and you that fear God, listen.

And Zerubbabel begat Abihud; and Abihud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;

And said unto them, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful unto death: tarry you here, and watch.

But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; for I had remained there with the kings of Persia.

Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.

And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of dysentery: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.

And you yourselves be like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they may open unto him immediately.

Another parable spoke he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death:

And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear you him.

And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.