For thou delight not in sacrifice, else I would give it. Thou have no pleasure in burnt-offering.

And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

Lo, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah.

I would hasten myself to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.

For it was not an enemy who reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him.

Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up. Fighting all the day long he oppresses me.

My enemies would swallow me up all the day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

He will send from heaven, and save me [from] the reproach of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God will send forth his loving kindness and his truth.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. That which I took not away I have to restore.

If I had said, I will speak thus, behold, I would have dealt treacherously with the generation of thy sons.

Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee, O Israel, if thou would hearken to me!

But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.

O that my people would hearken to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat. And I would satisfy thee with honey out of the rock.

Unless LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon dwelt in silence.

For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, O that ye would hear his voice!

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy.

Therefore he swore to them, that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

and that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.

O that men would praise LORD for his loving kindness, and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

O that men would praise LORD for his loving kindness, and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

O that men would praise LORD for his loving kindness, and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

O that men would praise LORD for his loving kindness, and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

LORD is my portion; I have said that I would observe thy words.

then they would have swallowed us up alive when their wrath was kindled against us,

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul,

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.

He who would restrain her restrains the wind, and his right hand encounters oil.

It was but a little that I passed from them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

Oh that thou were as my brother, who sucked the breasts of my mother! [When] I should find thee outside, I would kiss thee. Yes, and none would despise me.

I would lead thee, [and] bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me. I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

Many waters cannot quench love, nor can floods drown it. If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

Wrath is not in me. Would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them. I would burn them together.

to whom he said, This is the rest. Give ye rest to him who is weary. And this is the refreshing. Yet they would not hear.

For thus said lord LORD, the Holy One of Israel, Ye shall be saved in returning and rest. Your strength shall be in quietness and in confidence. And ye would not,

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not LORD? He against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, nor were they obedient to his law.

Oh that thou had hearkened to my commandments! Then thy peace would have been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.

Thy seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains of it. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

Oh that thou would rend the heavens, that thou would come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,

Thou are righteous, O LORD, when I contend with thee. Yet I would reason the case with thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those at ease who deal very treacherously?

Then LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will relent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

because he did not kill me from the womb, and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

As I live, says LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet I would pluck thee from there,

But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

because they have not hearkened to my words, says LORD, with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them. But ye would not hear, says LORD.

Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll, but he would not hear them.

For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yea they would rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

then thou shall say to them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house to die there.

If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had enough?

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each one into his own country. For her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

The kings of the earth did not believe, nor all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

not to many peoples of a strange speech, and of a hard language, whose words thou cannot understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would hearken to thee.

And they shall know that I am LORD. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.

They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, LORD says, but LORD has not sent them. And they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says lord LORD.

though these three men were in it, as I live, says lord LORD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, they only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

though these three men were in it, as I live, says lord LORD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves.

though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says lord LORD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter, they would but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken to me. They did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my

Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,

But the sons rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accom

Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries,

He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no warning; his blood shall be upon him. Whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.

Thus says lord LORD: Are thou he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for [many] years that I would bring thee against them?

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the ruler of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

And the ruler of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths that are of your own age? So ye would endanger my head

The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that ye would gain time, because ye see the thing has gone from me.

And Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.

that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret, that Daniel and his companions should nor perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the troop of robbers ravages outside.

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

Woe to you who desire the day of LORD! Why would ye have the day of LORD? It is darkness, and not light.

Thus lord LORD showed me: And, behold, lord LORD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.

Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

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

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God relented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.

And it has come to pass that, as he cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said LORD of hosts.

Oh that there was among you who would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says LORD of hosts, nor will I accept an offering at your hand.

And behold, the whole city came out to a meeting with Jesus. And having seen him, they besought him that he would depart from their regions.

But whoever would deny me before men, I also will deny him before my Father in the heavens.

Woe to thee, Chorazin! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works that occurred in you occurred in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

And thou, Capernaum, which was exalted as far as the sky. Thou will be brought down as far as Hades, because if the mighty works had occurred in Sodom that occurred in thee, it would have remained until this day.

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

And he chided them so that they would not make him known,

And he said to them, A hostile man did this. And the bondmen said to him, Do thou desire therefore, after going, we would gather them up?

Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she would ask.

And straightaway Jesus compelled the disciples to enter into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side, until he would dismiss the multitudes.

But he would not, instead, having left him, he cast him into prison until he would pay that which was owed.

And having become angry, his lord delivered him to the tormentors until he would pay all that was due to him.

Then children were brought to him, so that he would lay his hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them.

And he said to those men, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatever would be right I will give you, and they went.

They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatever would be right ye will receive.

But when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more. And they also received a denarius each.

And the multitude rebuked them, so that they would be quiet, but they cried out greater, saying, Be merciful to us, Lord, thou son of David.