to the one who made the great lights, for his gracious love is everlasting

to the one who struck down great kings, for his gracious love is everlasting

I will bow down in worship toward your holy Temple and give thanks to your name for your gracious love and truth, for you have done great things to carry out your word consistent with your name.

They will sing about the ways of the LORD, for great is the glory of the LORD!

How deep are your thoughts, God! How great is their number!

LORD, set a guard over my mouth; keep watch over the door to my lips.

The LORD is great, and to be praised highly, though his greatness is indescribable.

People will speak about the might of your great deeds, and I will announce your greatness.

The LORD stands guard over the stranger; he supports both widows and orphans, but makes the path of the wicked slippery.

Our Lord is great, and rich in power; his understanding has no limitation.

earthly kings and all nations, nobles and all court officials of the earth,

Hallelujah! Praise God in his Holy Place. Praise him in his great expanse.

Hold on to instruction, do not let it go! Guard wisdom, because she is your life!

Above everything else guard your heart, because from it flow the springs of life.

He will die for lack of discipline, and he goes astray because of his great folly.

My son, guard what I say and treasure my commands.

Keep my commands and you'll live. Guard my teaching as you do your eyesight.

She leads him astray with great persuasion; with flattering lips she seduces him.

Being slow to get angry compares to great understanding as being quick-tempered compares to stupidity.

Righteousness makes a nation great, but sin diminishes any people.

The righteous house is itself a great treasure, but within the revenue of the wicked calamity is at work.

A little gain with righteousness is better than great income without justice.

The person who has great anger must pay the consequences, because if you rescue him, you will have to do it again.

Privately given gifts pacify wrath, and payments made secretly appease great anger.

A good reputation is more desirable than great wealth, and favorable acceptance more than silver and gold.

Don't rob the poor person because he is poor, and don't crush the helpless in court,

Wisdom lies beyond reach of the fool; he has nothing to say in court.

don't be in a hurry to argue in court. Otherwise, what will you do later on when your neighbor humiliates you?

When the righteous are victorious, there is great glory, but when the wicked arise, men hide themselves.

I told myself, "I have become greater and wiser than anyone who ruled before me in Jerusalem yes, I have acquired a great deal of wisdom and knowledge."

So I became great, greater than anyone who had lived before me in Jerusalem. Throughout all of this, I remained wise.

If someone attacks one of them, the two of them together will resist. Furthermore, the tri-braided cord is not soon broken.

Furthermore, all his days he lives in darkness with great sorrow, anger, and affliction.

There was a little city with few men in it. A great king came against it, surrounded it, and built massive siege ramps against it.

If your overseer gets angry at you, don't resign, because calmness pacifies great offenses.

Foolishness is given great honor, while the prosperous sit in lowly places.

When the silver cord is severed, the golden vessel is broken, the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, and the wheel is broken at the cistern,

Come out, young women of Zion, and see King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day his day of great delight.

Learn to practice what is good; seek justice, alleviate oppression, defend orphans in court, and plead the widow's case.

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. All of them are lovers of bribes and are runners after gifts. They don't bring justice to orphans, and the widow's case never comes up for review in their court."

The LORD will go to court to oppose the elders and princes of his people: "You're the ones who have been devouring the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your own houses!

The LORD of the Heavenly Armies has declared this so I could hear it: "Surely many houses will become desolate, great and beautiful houses, without occupants.

Therefore my people go into exile because they lack understanding; my honored men go hungry, and the crowd is parched with thirst.

"How terrible it will be for those who parade iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin along as with a cart rope;

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; for those living in a land of deep darkness, a light has shined upon them.

Shout aloud, and sing for joy, you who live in Zion, because great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel."

"Listen! There's a noise on the mountains like that of a great multitude! Listen! There's an uproar among the kingdoms, like that of nations massing together! The LORD of the Heavenly Armies is mustering an army for battle.

"The afterlife below is all astir to meet you when you arrive; it rouses up the spirits of the dead to greet you everyone who used to be world leaders. It has raised up from their thrones all who used to be kings of the nations.

But now the LORD has spoken again: "Within three years, like the years of a contract worker, Moab's glory will be brought into contempt, in spite of all its great multitude, and its survivors will be very few and of no importance."

I, the LORD, watch over it And I water it continuously. I guard it night and day so no one can harm it.

Furthermore, at that time, a great trumpet will be sounded, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and those who had been expelled to the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on his holy mountain at Jerusalem.

For caraway is not threshed with a sharp sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin. Instead, caraway is winnowed with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

It must be ground; one cannot keep threshing it forever. Even if he drives his cart and horses over it, he cannot crush it.

you will be visited by the LORD of the Heavenly Armies with thunder, an earthquake, and great noise, with a windstorm, a tempest, and flames from a devouring fire.

"How terrible it will be for you who go to great depths to hide your plans from the LORD, you whose deeds have been done in the dark, and who say, "Who can see us? Who has recognized us?'

those who make a person appear to be the offender in a lawsuit, who set a trap for someone who is making his defense in court, and push aside the innocent with specious arguments.

And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks and canals running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a hiding place from storms, like streams of water in the desert, in the shadow of a great rock in an exhausted land.

The LORD has a sword bathed in blood; it's covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, and with fat from the kidneys of rams." "For the LORD holds a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

"Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! This is what the king of Assyria says: "Don't let Hezekiah deceive you for he cannot save you!

"Lift your eyes up to heaven and see who created all these the one who leads out their vast array of stars by number, calling them all by name because of his great might and his powerful strength and not one is missing."

This is what the LORD says: "The wealth of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, those Sabeans, men of great heights. They'll come over to you and will be yours; They'll trudge behind you coming over in chains, they'll bow down to you. They'll plead with you, "Surely God is in you; and there is no other God at all.'"

Both of these things will overtake you suddenly on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, despite the multitude of your incantations and the great power of your spells."

Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed could cross over?"

For you won't go out in haste, nor will you go in flight; for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. He is called the God of all the earth."

Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong; because he poured out his life to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he carried the sins of many, and made intercession for their transgressions."

"For a brief moment I abandoned you; but I'll gather you with great compassion.

Then all your children will be taught by the LORD, and great will be your children's prosperity.

Because of his wicked greed I was angry, so I punished him; and I hid my face, and was angry but he kept turning back to his stubborn will.

"Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will spring up quickly; and your vindication will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will guard your back.

"Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, in garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in such splendor, marching in his great might? It is I, speaking in vindication, mighty to save.

I will recount the gracious deeds of the LORD, the praiseworthy acts of the LORD, according to all the LORD has done for us yes, the great goodness to the house of Israel that he has granted them according to his mercy, according to the abundance of his gracious love.

Raise a standard in the direction of Zion. Flee! Don't stand around! For I'm bringing calamity from the north, along with great destruction.

This is what the LORD says: "Look, people are coming from a northern country. A great nation is stirring from the ends of the earth.

For a sound of mourning is heard from Zion: "How we're ruined! Our shame is very great, because we have left the land, because our houses are torn down.'"

There is no one like you, LORD. You are great, and your name is great and powerful.

The sound of a report, it's coming now! There is a great commotion from a land in the north to make the towns of Judah desolate, a refuge for jackals."

The LORD once called you a green olive tree, with beautiful shape and fruit. With a great roaring sound, he has set fire to it and its branches will be destroyed.

Butthe LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, those who pursue me will stumble and won't prevail. They'll be put to great shame, when they don't succeed. Their everlasting disgrace won't be forgotten.

Because of my anger, wrath, and great fury, I'll fight against you myself with an outstretched hand and a strong arm.

"Many nations will pass by this city and say to one another, "Why did the LORD do this to this great city?'

Indeed many nations and great kings will make slaves even of them, and I'll repay them according to their deeds, according to what they have done.'"

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Look, disaster is going from nation to nation, a great storm is being stirred up from the most distant parts of the earth.

"Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone in Judah kill him? Didn't he fear the LORD and seek the LORD's favor, and so the LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he had spoken to them about. We're bringing great disaster on ourselves.

"By my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth, mankind, and the animals that are on the face of the earth, and I give it to whomever I see fit.

All the nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until his country's time also comes, and then many nations and great kings will use him as a slave.

The prophets who came before us from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.

All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you. Indeed, I've struck you down with the blow of an enemy, with the punishment of a cruel foe because your wickedness is great, and your sins are numerous.

"Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? Indeed, as often as I've spoken about him, I surely still remember him. Therefore I deeply yearn for him. I'll surely have great compassion on him," declares the LORD.

The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard at the palace of the king of Judah

"Then my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard just as the LORD had said, and he told me, "Please buy my field in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin because you have the right to possess it, and the right to redeem it belongs to you. Buy it for yourself.' So I knew that this was a message from the LORD.

and I gave the deed of purchase to Neriah's son Baruch, the grandson of Mahseiah, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans sitting in the courtyard of the guard.

"LORD! Look, you made the heavens and the earth with your great power and your outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for you!

You, the great God, the mighty one, show gracious love to thousands and repay the parents' iniquity to their children after them. The LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name.

You are great in regards to your purposes and mighty in regards to your works. Your eyes are open to everything that people do, and will reward each one according to their ways and just as their actions deserve.

By your strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror, you brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders.

I'm about to gather my people from all the lands where I've driven them in my anger, wrath, and great indignation. I'll bring them back to this place and let them live in safety.

"Indeed, this is what the LORD says: "Just as I'm bringing all this great disaster on this people, so I'll bring on them all the good things that I'm promising concerning them.

This message from the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guard:

"Call to me and I'll answer you, and will tell you about great and hidden things that you don't know.'