The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.

Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.

These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.

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:

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben–ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel.

And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.

And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.

Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.

For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.

So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

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

Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.

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

Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

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.

When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, (save us not this day,)

But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.

And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.

And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.

The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the Lord, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

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

Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:

Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:

And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:

And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;

Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

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 I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.

And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!

And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand: but he found her not.

And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

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

And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.

For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean.

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the Lord said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe privily.

What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?

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

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?

Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.

Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.

Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord: for men abhorred the offering of the Lord.

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.