Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim.

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.

Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

And he said unto him, We are passing from Beth–lehem–judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Beth–lehem–judah, but I am now going to the house of the Lord; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O Lord, quicken me according to thy judgment.

And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;

And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.

And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.

He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:

Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.

And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.

But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Beth–el, and that were in Dan.

And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the Lord hath blessed me hitherto?

And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war,

Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;

Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die.

Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.

Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

Thus saith the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:

And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?

And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.

For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead there.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.

O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord:

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.

And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.

Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.

Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)

And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth–lehem–judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God.

And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.

And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.

And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.

Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.

And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:

And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s heart fainted, for he believed them not.

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;

Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.

And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.

Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Intreat the Lord (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.

And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.

And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.

At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.

My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.

And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.

Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the Lord:

And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?

And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:

Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.

To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die.

And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh–naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.

And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth–shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord.

Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:

A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.

Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand.

And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.

And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.