It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?

Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn't it in your eyes as nothing?

Then the angel of Yahweh replied, "O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

"I have loved you," says Yahweh. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob;

"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'

You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'Yahweh's table contemptible.'

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says Yahweh of Armies. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,

Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

But when they deliver you up, don't be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day."

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."

In the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times!

Don't you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

How is it that you don't perceive that I didn't speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me."

Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"

When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?"

and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?' He was speechless.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

"If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"

Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear how many things they testify against you?"

How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"

The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.

He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?

He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?"

Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.

He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."

He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see." When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish."

He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven."

When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Twelve."

"When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven."

He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."

He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come to him?" He said, "From childhood.

Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!

The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The common people heard him gladly.

Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.

The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept.

Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"

Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."

Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?"

how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"

Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has."

Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed.

When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."

He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?"

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"

If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't interpret this time?

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,

But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!

Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'

Then he said to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'

Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!

"David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?"