Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.

Jeremiah replied to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, you will kill me, won’t you? Besides, if I give you advice, you won’t listen to me anyway.”

King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah in private, “As the Lord lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you or hand you over to these men who want to take your life.”

If the officials hear that I have spoken with you and come and demand of you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king; don’t hide anything from us and we won’t kill you. Also, what did the king say to you?’

Then Johanan son of Kareah suggested to Gedaliah in private at Mizpah, “Let me go kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah. No one will know it. Why should he kill you and scatter all of Judah that has gathered to you so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”

However, there were 10 men among them who said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us, for we have hidden treasure in the field—wheat, barley, oil, and honey!” So he stopped and did not kill them along with their companions.

They will take their tents and their flocks
along with their tent curtains and all their equipment.
They will take their camels for themselves.
They will call out to them:
Terror is on every side!

Yet I call this to mind,
and therefore I have hope:

You come near when I call on You;
You say: “Do not be afraid.”

ב BetZion’s precious people—
once worth their weight in pure gold—
how they are regarded as clay jars,
the work of a potter’s hands!

You profane Me in front of My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread; you kill those who should not die and spare those who should not live, when you lie to My people, who listen to lies.

The assembly will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses with fire.

Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’
in the presence of those who kill you?
Yet you will be only a man, not a god,
in the hands of those who kill you.

I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains”—the declaration of the Lord God—“and every man’s sword will be against his brother.

Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had assigned to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He came and said to him, “Don’t kill the wise men of Babylon! Bring me before the king, and I will give him the interpretation.”

its legs were iron, and its feet were partly iron and partly fired clay.

As you were watching, a stone broke off without a hand touching it, struck the statue on its feet of iron and fired clay, and crushed them.

Then the iron, the fired clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were shattered and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

You saw the feet and toes, partly of a potter’s fired clay and partly of iron—it will be a divided kingdom, though some of the strength of iron will be in it. You saw the iron mixed with clay,

and that the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly fired clay—part of the kingdom will be strong, and part will be brittle.

You saw the iron mixed with clay—the peoples will mix with one another but will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with fired clay.

You saw a stone break off from the mountain without a hand touching it, and it crushed the iron, bronze, fired clay, silver, and gold. The great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation certain.”

Call your brothers: My People
and your sisters: Compassion.

In that day—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you will call Me, “My husband,”
and no longer call Me, “My Baal.”

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove;
they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.

Ephraim is struck down;
their roots are withered;
they cannot bear fruit.
Even if they bear children,
I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.

My people are bent on turning from Me.
Though they call to Him on high,
He will not exalt them at all.

I call to You, Lord,
for fire has consumed
the pastures of the wilderness,
and flames have devoured
all the trees of the countryside.

I will cut off the judge from the land
and kill all its officials with him.
The Lord has spoken.

A close relative and burner will remove his corpse from the house. He will call to someone in the inner recesses of the house, “Any more with you?”

That person will reply, “None.”

Then he will say, “Silence, because Yahweh’s name must not be invoked.”

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said:

Strike the capitals of the pillars
so that the thresholds shake;
knock them down on the heads of all the people.
Then I will kill the rest of them with the sword.
None of those who flee will get away;
none of the fugitives will escape.

And if they are driven
by their enemies into captivity,
from there I will command
the sword to kill them.
I will fix My eyes on them
for harm and not for good.

The captain approached him and said, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up! Call to your god. Maybe this god will consider us, and we won’t perish.”

Furthermore, both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from the violence he is doing.

The lion mauled whatever its cubs needed
and strangled prey for its lionesses.
It filled up its dens with the kill,
and its lairs with mauled prey.

Draw water for the siege;
strengthen your fortresses.
Step into the clay and tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick-mold!

How long, Lord, must I call for help
and You do not listen
or cry out to You about violence
and You do not save?

For I will then restore
pure speech to the peoples
so that all of them may call
on the name of Yahweh
and serve Him with a single purpose.

I will put this third through the fire;
I will refine them as silver is refined
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
and I will answer them.
I will say: They are My people,
and they will say: Yahweh is our God.”

Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

“To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:

Though he wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd, since they regarded him as a prophet.

They will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.” And they were deeply distressed.

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.’

“But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance!’

Do not call anyone on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is in heaven.

This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and hound from town to town.

“Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name.

and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill Him.

Or do you think that I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide Me at once with more than 12 legions of angels?

they gave Him wine mixed with gall to drink. But when He tasted it, He would not drink it.

When Jesus heard this, He told them, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do need one. I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do what is good or to do what is evil, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.

So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not,

For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after He is killed, He will rise three days later.”

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

and they will mock Him, spit on Him, flog Him, and kill Him, and He will rise after three days.”

Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”

So they called the blind man and said to him, “Have courage! Get up; He’s calling for you.”

“But those tenant farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’

After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him.

Pilate asked them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the One you call the King of the Jews?”

Now listen:
You will conceive and give birth to a son,
and you will call His name Jesus.

because He has looked with favor
on the humble condition of His slave.
Surely, from now on all generations
will call me blessed,

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

“Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things I say?

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’

“And I say to you, My friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.

At that time some Pharisees came and told Him, “Go, get out of here! Herod wants to kill You!”

‘Father Abraham!’ he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame!’

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

and after they flog Him, they will kill Him, and He will rise on the third day.”

“But when the tenant farmers saw him, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir. Let’s kill him, so the inheritance will be ours!’

You will even be betrayed by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will kill some of you.

“Go call your husband,” He told her, “and come back here.”

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill Me?”

“You have a demon!” the crowd responded. “Who wants to kill You?”

Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill?

So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’?”

I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

Therefore the chief priests decided to kill Lazarus also

You call Me Teacher and Lord. This is well said, for I am.

I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.

Do you want to kill me, the same way you killed the Egyptian yesterday?

And he has authority here from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.”

After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,

but their plot became known to Saul. So they were watching the gates day and night intending to kill him,

He conversed and debated with the Hellenistic Jews, but they attempted to kill him.

Now send men to Joppa and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat!”

Again, a second time, a voice said to him, “What God has made clean, you must not call common.”