and you will be hated by all because of My name.

He who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord,
But he who is devious in his ways despises Him.

Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.”

Then he said, “I have sinned; but please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and go back with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”

And they cried out, saying, “What business do we have with each other, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?”

“If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,

And a servant-girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and looking intently at him, said, “This man was with Him too.”

Grandchildren are the crown of old men,
And the glory of sons is their fathers.

Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
And declare in the coastlands afar off,
And say, “He who scattered Israel will gather him
And keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.”

A Psalm of David.
Blessed be the Lord, my rock,
Who trains my hands for war,
And my fingers for battle;

“Like a flower he comes forth and withers.
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.

but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than, having your two feet, to be cast into hell,

Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

“Lift up your eyes and see
Those coming from the north.
Where is the flock that was given you,
Your beautiful sheep?

O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

Now this came about because the sons of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and they had feared other gods

“Simeon and Levi are brothers;
Their swords are implements of violence.

Now I urge you, brethren (you know the household of Stephanas, that they were the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves for ministry to the saints),

“I was asleep but my heart was awake.
A voice! My beloved was knocking:
‘Open to me, my sister, my darling,
My dove, my perfect one!
For my head is drenched with dew,
My locks with the damp of the night.’

All the days of the afflicted are bad,
But a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

So all the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ households, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war in Israel,

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us courteously three days.

So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

As for God, His way is blameless;
The word of the Lord is tried;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren.’

“Is not man forced to labor on earth,
And are not his days like the days of a hired man?

You make him to rule over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,

This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.

No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.

“How beautiful you are, my darling,
How beautiful you are!
Your eyes are like doves behind your veil;
Your hair is like a flock of goats
That have descended from Mount Gilead.

“For you say, ‘Where is the house of the nobleman,
And where is the tent, the dwelling places of the wicked?’

The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there are any who understand,
Who seek after God.

It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

He who turns away his ear from listening to the law,
Even his prayer is an abomination.

For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.

And He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” Thus they went out and struck down the people in the city.

On that day they read aloud from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and there was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,

for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.

When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool,
But he who walks wisely will be delivered.

But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession.

Then Moses assembled all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do:

Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up by filling them with earth.

Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put His fingers into his ears, and after spitting, He touched his tongue with the saliva;

Then Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape.” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.

Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

“Who is this that darkens counsel
By words without knowledge?

You foolish ones, did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

Now Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel, of which 2,000 were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. But he sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent.

Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me and keep all My commandments always, that it may be well with them and with their sons forever!

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold!
And to get understanding is to be chosen above silver.

“Who has performed and accomplished it,
Calling forth the generations from the beginning?
‘I, the Lord, am the first, and with the last. I am He.’”

Then the Lord your God will prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your cattle and in the produce of your ground, for the Lord will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers;

Some of the disciples from Caesarea also came with us, taking us to Mnason of Cyprus, a disciple of long standing with whom we were to lodge.

For this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

At night my soul longs for You,
Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently;
For when the earth experiences Your judgments
The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas and said to them, ‘Do business with this until I come back.’

You shall make its dishes and its pans and its jars and its bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.

“Moreover the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

in those days as King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne which was at the citadel in Susa,

The eunuch answered Philip and said, “Please tell me, of whom does the prophet say this? Of himself or of someone else?”

Now someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, I pray, make the counsel of Ahithophel foolishness.”

Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came near; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah and Hoglah and Milcah and Tirzah.

Thus says the Lord,
Who gives the sun for light by day
And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar;
The Lord of hosts is His name:

‘Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.

Jehoshaphat his son then became king in his place, and made his position over Israel firm.

I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.’

The sin of Judah is written down with an iron stylus;
With a diamond point it is engraved upon the tablet of their heart
And on the horns of their altars,

And the Lord said to me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; otherwise you will be defeated before your enemies.”’

When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, since the wind did not permit us to go farther, we sailed under the shelter of Crete, off Salmone;

Whether he comes in the second watch, or even in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.

The chief priests began to accuse Him harshly.

Barnabas wanted to take John, called Mark, along with them also.

or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers;

A crowd was sitting around Him, and they *said to Him, “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are outside looking for You.”

Then David built an altar to the Lord there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. And he called to the Lord and He answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.

Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted.

and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority.Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,

(On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile,

“Yield now and be at peace with Him;
Thereby good will come to you.

The first to plead his case seems right,
Until another comes and examines him.

“A Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” declares the Lord.

“Or who enclosed the sea with doors
When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;

Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.

I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.

But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst of the people, he came out of him without doing him any harm.

Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers
And jackals in their luxurious palaces.
Her fateful time also will soon come
And her days will not be prolonged.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded,

“Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt,

And entering in, He *said to them, “Why make a commotion and weep? The child has not died, but is asleep.”

That which came as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah in regard to the drought:

And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.”

Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden because it is close beside my house, and I will give you a better vineyard than it in its place; if you like, I will give you the price of it in money.”

House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers,
But a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Moreover, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Now he had still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, “Lo, I have had still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

Simon Peter *said to Him, “Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.”

When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

A Psalm of David.
I will give You thanks with all my heart;
I will sing praises to You before the gods.

You will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him!

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.

Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you.

“When you have finished paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.

The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day the Lord binds up the fracture of His people and heals the bruise He has inflicted.

They utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

Even to your old age I will be the same,
And even to your graying years I will bear you!
I have done it, and I will carry you;
And I will bear you and I will deliver you.

The lot is cast into the lap,
But its every decision is from the Lord.

In that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have in it the toughness of iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with common clay.

Or if I should send a plague against that country and pour out My wrath in blood on it to cut off man and beast from it,

Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.

And He said, “Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown.

“Behold, it is the traveling couch of Solomon;
Sixty mighty men around it,
Of the mighty men of Israel.

I shall make mention of the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, the praises of the Lord,
According to all that the Lord has granted us,
And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
Which He has granted them according to His compassion
And according to the abundance of His lovingkindnesses.

He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor
Will also cry himself and not be answered.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness”;

I say to you, you will not get out of there until you have paid the very last cent.”

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord;
Assuredly, he will not be unpunished.

Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed;
Save me and I will be saved,
For You are my praise.

They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.

My son, if sinners entice you,
Do not consent.

Do not claim honor in the presence of the king,
And do not stand in the place of great men;

I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I did not hide;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”;
And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah.

A bulb shall be under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the second pair of branches coming out of it, and a bulb under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.

The Lord is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation.

“Return and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.’

These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, transcribed.

Pilate *said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all *said, “Crucify Him!”

The Lord was with Joseph, so he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.

To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.

How the faithful city has become a harlot,
She who was full of justice!
Righteousness once lodged in her,
But now murderers.

“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit which is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says the Lord, “from now and forever.”

God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.

Woe, O Ariel, Ariel the city where David once camped!
Add year to year, observe your feasts on schedule.

Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.”

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough! Now relax your hand!” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

“Now, O Lord, let the word that You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as You have spoken.

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia—in order to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah—the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,

Do you not know? Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels who had seven plagues, which are the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished.

“Then your light will break out like the dawn,
And your recovery will speedily spring forth;
And your righteousness will go before you;
The glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.

Jesus *said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing Him to be the gardener, she *said to Him, “Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away.”

All who see me sneer at me;
They separate with the lip, they wag the head, saying,

nor yet as lording it over those allotted to your charge, but proving to be examples to the flock.

So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Though youths grow weary and tired,
And vigorous young men stumble badly,

Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;

Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; and the man was very rich, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And it came about while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel

The people spoke against God and Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this miserable food.”

He who curses his father or his mother,
His lamp will go out in time of darkness.

Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders who had come against Him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as you would against a robber?

and this is smaller than all other seeds, but when it is full grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

Their line has gone out through all the earth,
And their utterances to the end of the world.
In them He has placed a tent for the sun,

Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, O scoffers,
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

But Samuel said, “How can I go? When Saul hears of it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’

Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

They were utterly astonished, saying, “He has done all things well; He makes even the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”

“Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
To minister to Him, and to love the name of the Lord,
To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath
And holds fast My covenant;

Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity.

Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

They *said to Him, “Lord, we want our eyes to be opened.”

Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to get dishonest gain.

And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”

And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and dies because of it, for his iniquity which he has committed he will die.

O Lord, You are my God;
I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name;
For You have worked wonders,
Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.

Her children rise up and bless her;
Her husband also, and he praises her, saying:

You may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’

Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.

Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God’s purpose for themselves, not having been baptized by John.

Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’

When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.

“Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;
Your walls are continually before Me.

And if you give yourself to the hungry
And satisfy the desire of the afflicted,
Then your light will rise in darkness
And your gloom will become like midday.

rather it shall be a witness between us and you and between our generations after us, that we are to perform the service of the Lord before Him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings, so that your sons will not say to our sons in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.”’

Therefore, those also who suffer according to the will of God shall entrust their souls to a faithful Creator in doing what is right.

Then Job responded,

“There is no umpire between us,
Who may lay his hand upon us both.

Now therefore, as the Lord lives, who has established me and set me on the throne of David my father and who has made me a house as He promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”

“He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.

‘Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.

Only you shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”

He came to a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place.

When they had brought them outside, one said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away.”

When Elisha came into the house, behold the lad was dead and laid on his bed.

“So then, all Jews know my manner of life from my youth up, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

David himself calls Him ‘Lord’; so in what sense is He his son?” And the large crowd enjoyed listening to Him.

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
There is no one who does good.

You shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.

[Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left.”]

Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’

“At that time,” declares the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.”

“Be joyful with Jerusalem and rejoice for her, all you who love her;
Be exceedingly glad with her, all you who mourn over her,

And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

He who sits in the heavens laughs,
The Lord scoffs at them.

of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;

But the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.

Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven,

She should not eat anything that comes from the vine nor drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; let her observe all that I commanded.”

If a ruler pays attention to falsehood,
All his ministers become wicked.

And He laid His hands on her; and immediately she was made erect again and began glorifying God.

But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod,

A wise man will hear and increase in learning,
And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,

As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.

Now he who was betraying Him had given them a signal, saying, “Whomever I kiss, He is the one; seize Him and lead Him away under guard.”

And you shall say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?”’

All the saints greet you.

In whose hand is the life of every living thing,
And the breath of all mankind?

He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat.”

Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” declares the Lord, “who steal My words from each other.

And they were all amazed at the greatness of God.But while everyone was marveling at all that He was doing, He said to His disciples,

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.
They are leading you into futility;
They speak a vision of their own imagination,
Not from the mouth of the Lord.

Now Jehoshaphat had great riches and honor; and he allied himself by marriage with Ahab.

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.

So Samuel went back following Saul, and Saul worshiped the Lord.

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

“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct,” declares the Lord God. “Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you.

If I have looked at the sun when it shone
Or the moon going in splendor,

They cried to the sons of Dan, who turned around and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you, that you have assembled together?”

From the half-tribe of Manasseh, they allotted Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two cities.

and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is My guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?”’

He counts the number of the stars;
He gives names to all of them.

Then they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him.

After they had hoisted it up, they used supporting cables in undergirding the ship; and fearing that they might run aground on the shallows of Syrtis, they let down the sea anchor and in this way let themselves be driven along.

For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.

Do not rob the poor because he is poor,
Or crush the afflicted at the gate;

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body.

“What is man, that he should be pure,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Three cups shall be shaped like almond blossoms in the one branch, a bulb and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bulb and a flower—so for six branches going out from the lampstand;

Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God, as his father David had done.

A man of violence entices his neighbor
And leads him in a way that is not good.

And one of the crowd answered Him, “Teacher, I brought You my son, possessed with a spirit which makes him mute;

He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven.

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold.

Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there will be delay no longer,

But they shook off the dust of their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

For it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ministry to the saints;

And those who know Your name will put their trust in You,
For You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

God makes a home for the lonely;
He leads out the prisoners into prosperity,
Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly, prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it and make bread cakes.”

When those who were around Him saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?”

‘Why have we fasted and You do not see?
Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?’
Behold, on the day of your fast you find your desire,
And drive hard all your workers.

Therefore I will punish Him and release Him.”

“But you smear with lies;
You are all worthless physicians.

And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

For the choir director; on Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.
I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart;
I will tell of all Your wonders.

‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Until I put Your enemies beneath Your feet”’?

“As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

In all their affliction He was afflicted,
And the angel of His presence saved them;
In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them,
And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.

This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun
That there is no one besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no other,

I will praise the name of God with song
And magnify Him with thanksgiving.

“For there is no omen against Jacob,
Nor is there any divination against Israel;
At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob
And to Israel, what God has done!

In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in Samaria for six months.

Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of the city must leave, and those who are in the country must not enter the city;

“If there is an angel as mediator for him,
One out of a thousand,
To remind a man what is right for him,

And when the Lord does for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and appoints you ruler over Israel,

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

So I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here present before God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”

Then Job answered,

Then to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth to your own field, for you deserve to die; but I will not put you to death at this time, because you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David, and because you were afflicted in everything with which my father was afflicted.”

They also gave me gall for my food
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Thus says the Lord,
“Where is the certificate of divorce
By which I have sent your mother away?
Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you?
Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,
And for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

“See, I have called by name Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

The Lord will accomplish what concerns me;
Your lovingkindness, O Lord, is everlasting;
Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

“If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the Lord your God,

“What will you say when He appoints over you—
And you yourself had taught them—
Former companions to be head over you?
Will not pangs take hold of you
Like a woman in childbirth?

For as long as life is in me,
And the breath of God is in my nostrils,

The Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst?

“From six troubles He will deliver you,
Even in seven evil will not touch you.

The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living thing in the sea died.

The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe in you forever.” Then Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.

“Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic and is very ill; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

and with difficulty sailing past it we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?

Therefore many of them believed, along with a number of prominent Greek women and men.

Then they said to Him, “Lord, always give us this bread.”

Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

When I am afraid,
I will put my trust in You.

My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge;
My savior, You save me from violence.

If there is a man who lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; you shall also kill the animal.

The people saw them going, and many recognized them and ran there together on foot from all the cities, and got there ahead of them.

He who assaults his father and drives his mother away
Is a shameful and disgraceful son.

The memory of the righteous is blessed,
But the name of the wicked will rot.

Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
Or you will also be like him.

Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” And he said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

And it will be that every soul that does not heed that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’

Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites.

“To whom would He teach knowledge,
And to whom would He interpret the message?
Those just weaned from milk?
Those just taken from the breast?

So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

“Who has given to Me that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine.

And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

He who pursues righteousness and loyalty
Finds life, righteousness and honor.

Be strong and let your heart take courage,
All you who hope in the Lord.

You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength and the glory;

Therefore she said to Abraham, “Drive out this maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son Isaac.”

A mixed multitude also went up with them, along with flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.

because the sun was obscured; and the veil of the temple was torn in two.

Now the fifth lot fell to the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families.

You shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness.

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.”

And Jesus answered and spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”

Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he named it Sitnah.

and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all.

and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!

The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.

“Naked is Sheol before Him,
And Abaddon has no covering.

I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.

But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God,

And He said to them, “What are these words that you are exchanging with one another as you are walking?” And they stood still, looking sad.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?’

that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

“I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud
And your sins like a heavy mist.
Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.”

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.

“When I was informed that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, also instructing his accusers to bring charges against him before you.”

But his mother answered and said, “No indeed; but he shall be called John.”

A faithful man will abound with blessings,
But he who makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished.

They forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.

And it shall serve as a sign to you on your hand, and as a reminder on your forehead, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth; for with a powerful hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt.

For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord.

“Indeed God speaks once,
Or twice, yet no one notices it.

The king sat on his seat as usual, the seat by the wall; then Jonathan rose up and Abner sat down by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.

Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will entice him.’

If any of the flesh of ordination or any of the bread remains until morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous,
Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.

I delight to do Your will, O my God;
Your Law is within my heart.”

Better is open rebuke
Than love that is concealed.

“You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat;

“And I will be a father to you,
And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”
Says the Lord Almighty.

Woe to those who enact evil statutes
And to those who constantly record unjust decisions,

A ruin, a ruin, a ruin, I will make it. This also will be no more until He comes whose right it is, and I will give it to Him.’

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’

“Will the wild ox consent to serve you,
Or will he spend the night at your manger?

Then afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, only not as the kings of Israel who were before him.

Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag, the king of the Amalekites.” And Agag came to him cheerfully. And Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.