In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says lord LORD.

Her rulers in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine, and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,

And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them. And on whomever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

Neither has she left her whoredoms since Egypt. For in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity, and they poured out their whoredom upon her.

Therefore I 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 they killed her with the sword. And she became a byword among women, for they executed judgments upon her.

And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her whoredoms which were more than the whoredoms of her sister.

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

And I saw that she was defiled. They both took one way.

And she increased her whoredoms, for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

And as soon as she saw them 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 whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just as my soul was alienated from her sister.

Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

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

Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now they will play the harlot with her, and she [with them].

And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

For her blood is in the midst of her. She set it upon the bare rock. She did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.

She has wearied [herself] with toil, yet her great scum does not go forth out of her, her scum by fire.

Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken, the gate of the peoples. She has turned around to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,

She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken it, says lord LORD. And she shall become a spoil to the nations,

And they shall take up a lamentation over thee, and say to thee, How thou are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on a

They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away and all her multitudes.

Therefore say to them, Thus says lord LORD: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. And shall ye possess the land?

And at the end of years they shall join themselves together. And the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she shall not retain the strength of her arm, nor shall he stand,

And he shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions, and he shall perform them. And he shall give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her, but she shall not stand, nor be fo

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived, and bore him a son.

And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And [LORD] said to him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah, for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

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

Contend with your mother. Contend, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. And let her put away her whoredoms from her face, 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 has played the harlot. She who conceived them has done shamefully, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who 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 I will build a wall against her, 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 she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.

For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, These are my hire 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 the Baalim, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, says LORD.

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

Samaria shall bear her guilt, for she has 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 done to the sons of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

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

And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces. And all her wages shall be burned with fire, and I will lay desolate all her idols. For she has gathered them from the wages of a harlot, and to the wage of a harlot they shall r

Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

Therefore he will give them up until the time that she who travails has brought forth. Then the residue of his brothers shall return to the sons of Israel.

Then my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is LORD thy God? My eyes shall see [my desire] upon her. Now she shall be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

And it is decreed. She is uncovered. She is carried away, and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.

She is empty, and void, and waste. And the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all have grown pale.

Yet she was carried away. She went into captivity. Her young sons 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 joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me. How she has become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

She obeyed not the voice. She received not correction. She trusted not in LORD. She did not draw near to her God.

And he said to me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar. And when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.

Behold, LORD will dispossess her, and he will smite her power in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire.

All the land shall be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. And she shall be lifted up, and shall dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tow

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

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was this way. For his mother Mary, who was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found having in her womb from Holy Spirit.

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

and knew her not until she brought forth her son, the firstborn. And he called his name JESUS.

A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children. And she did not want to be comforted, because they are not.

And he touched her hand, and the fever left her. And she was raised up, and served him.

While he spoke these things to them, behold, one ruler who came worshiped him, saying, My daughter has just now perished, but after coming, lay thy hand upon her, and she will live.

For she said within herself, If only I may touch his garment, I will be healed.

The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

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

And she, having been put forward by her mother, says, Give me here on a platter the head of John the immerser.

And his head was brought on a platter, and given to the maiden, and she brought it to her mother.

But he answered her not a word. And his disciples having approached, they besought him, saying, Send her away, because she cries out behind us.

But having come, she worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me.

But she said, Yes, Lord, for even the house dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.

And he said to her, What do thou want? She says to him, Speak that these my two sons may sit, one at thy right hand and one at thy left hand in thy kingdom.

In the resurrection therefore, which of the seven will she be wife? For they all had her.

so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

a woman came to him having an alabaster cruse of precious ointment, and she poured it upon his head as he sat relaxing.

But Jesus knowing it, he said to them, Why do ye cause troubles to the woman? For she has wrought a good work upon me.

For by pouring this ointment upon my body, she did it for my burial.

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed on behalf of many for remission of sins.

And upon coming, having taken hold of her hand, he raised her up and the fever left her. And straightaway she served them.

and besought him much, saying, My little daughter has a terminal condition, so that having come, thou may lay thy hands on her, that she may be saved and will live.

when she heard about Jesus, having come in the crowd from behind, she touched his garment.

For she said, If I but touch his garments, I will be healed.

And straightaway the flow of her blood was dried up, and she knew in the body that she was healed of her scourge.

And straightaway the little girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. And they were amazed with a great amazement.

And Herodias was resentful toward him, and wanted to kill him. And she could not,

And having gone out, she said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the immerser.

And having come in straightaway with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I want that thou may give me, of it on a platter, the head of John the immerser.

For a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, after hearing about him, having come, she fell down at his feet.

Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast out the demon from her daughter.

But she answered and says to him, Yes, Lord, for even the house dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

And having departed to her house, she found the demon having gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.

And if a woman should divorce her husband, and will be married to another, she commits adultery.

In the resurrection when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as wife.

And one poor widow having come, she cast in two mites, which are a quadrans.

For they all cast in from that which is abundant to them, but she from her need cast in all, as many things she had, her whole living.

And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat relaxing, a woman came having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure spikenard, very valuable. And having broken the alabaster cruse, she poured it on his head.

But Jesus said, Leave her be. Why do ye cause troubles for her? She performed a good work on me.

She applied what she had to anoint my body. She did it beforehand for the burial.

And truly I say to you, wherever this good-news may be preached in the whole world, also what she did will be told for a memorial of her.

And having seen Peter warming himself, having looked at him, she says, Thou also were with Jesus of Nazareth.

And the servant girl having seen him, she began again to say to those who stood by, This man is from them.

And after these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and she concealed herself five months, saying,