If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night (how art thou cut off!), would they not steal only till they had enough? if grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?

For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.

For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as though they had not been.

Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, What is this that thou hast done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Jehovah, because he had told them.

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.

And Jehovah God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.

And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

And Jehovah said, Thou hast had regard for the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

The breaker is gone up before them: they have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out thereat; and their king is passed on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.

ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.

Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

And his brightness was as the light; He had rays coming forth from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power.

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, For the salvation of thine anointed; Thou woundest the head out of the house of the wicked man, Laying bare the foundation even unto the neck. Selah.

Thou didst pierce with his own staves the head of his warriors: They came as a whirlwind to scatter me; Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah's anger.

Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Jehovah their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him; and the people did fear before Jehovah.

Then the angel of Jehovah answered and said, O Jehovah of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head; but these are come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.

And I said, Let them set a clean mitre upon his head. So they set a clean mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments; and the angel of Jehovah was standing by.

Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there came forth two women, and the wind was in their wings; now they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.

yea, take of them'silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;

Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of Jehovah,

Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which Jehovah of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore there came great wrath from Jehovah of hosts.

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith Jehovah.

And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy upon them; and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Jehovah their God, and I will hear them.

And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

And it was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that gave heed unto me knew that it was the word of Jehovah.

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.

And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

and Jesse begat David the king. And David begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Uriah;

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.

and knew her not till she had brought forth a son: and he called his name JESUS.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.

Now John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him:

Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.

Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou canst not make one hair white or black.

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy:

Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head, and wash thy face;

No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching:

And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

But when the multitudes saw it, they were afraid, and glorified God, who had given such authority unto men.

And behold, a woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the border of his garment:

Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

And it came to pass when Jesus had finished commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and preach in their cities.

Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt go down unto Hades: for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in thee, it would have remained until this day.

At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes:

But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth: and straightway they sprang up, because they had no deepness of earth:

and when the sun was risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

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

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; which a man found, and hid; and in his joy he goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

and having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.

For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.

And she, being put forward by her mother, saith, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.

And his head was brought on a platter, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.

And he came forth, and saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

And after he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain apart to pray: and when even was come, he was there alone.

And when they had crossed over, they came to the land, unto Gennesaret.

And Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, that owed him ten thousand talents.

But forasmuch as he had not wherewith to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee?

And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judaea beyond the Jordan;

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sorrowful; for he was one that had great possessions.

And when he had agreed with the laborers for a shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

saying, These last have spent but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.

But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in the vineyard.

Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner; This was from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes?

But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment:

In the resurrection therefore whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.

and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man lead you astray.

And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.

But he that received the one went away and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

And he also that had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering where thou didst not scatter;

and I was afraid, and went away and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, thou hast thine own.

And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these words, he said unto his disciples,

there came unto him a woman having an alabaster cruse of exceeding precious ointment, and she poured it upon his head, as he sat at meat.

But when the disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

The Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him: but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had not been born.

And when they had sung a hymn, they went out unto the mount of Olives.

And they that had taken Jesus led him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.

And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.

For he knew that for envy they had delivered him up.

And they platted a crown of thorns and put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!