Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors.

Thus she committed her lewd deeds with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

Neither left she her lewd deeds brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they first corrupted her, and poured their impurities upon her.

Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

These uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her prostitutions more than her sister in her prostitutions.

She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way.

And that she increased her prostitutions: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion.

And as soon as she saw them with her eyes she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their lewdness, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

So she disclosed her lewd deeds, and exposed her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, as my mind was alienated from her sister.

Yet she multiplied her prostitutions, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Then said I to her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit lewd deeds with her, and she with them?

And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned to me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:

And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited by sea-faring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.

Wherefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes towards your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols with which they had polluted it:

And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.

He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.

And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And God said to him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.

Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her prostitutions out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

And I will destroy her vines and her fig-trees, of which she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, in which she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the LORD.

And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came from the land of Egypt.

Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise! she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with the fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate: for she gathered it from the hire of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot.

O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she who travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return to the children of Israel.

Then she that is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is the LORD thy God? my eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

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.

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt in security, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.

Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

Yet ye say, Why? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this manner: When his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child by the Holy Spirit.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

And knew her not till she had brought forth her first-born son: and he called his name JESUS.

And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered to them.

While he was speaking these things to them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshiped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she will live.

For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

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

And she, being before instructed by her mother, said, Give me here the head of John the Baptist in a dish.

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

But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

Then came she and worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me.

And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crums which fall from their master's table.

And he said to her, What wilt thou: She saith to him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left in thy kingdom.

Therefore in the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

When Jesus understood it, he said to them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sin.

And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered to them.

And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she will live.

And had suffered many things from many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was not relieved, but rather grew worse,

When she had heard of Jesus, came in the crowd behind, and touched his garment.

For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.

And immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that infirmity.

And forthwith the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.

Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:

And she went forth, and said to her mother, What shall I ask? and she said, The head of John the Baptist.

And she came in forthwith with haste to the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou shouldst give me, immediately, in a dish, the head of John the Baptist.

(The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation,) and she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.

And she answered and said to him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crums.

And when she had come to her house, she found the demon had gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.

And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her for a wife.

And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

For all they cast in of their abundance: but she of her want cast in all that she had, even all her living.

And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she broke the box, and poured it on his head.

And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

Verily I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of, for a memorial of her.

And he said to them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.

And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.

And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

And behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren:

And she spoke with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

And blessed is she that believed that there will be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.

Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.