Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 1Thus says the LORD: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed. 6″And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, every one who keeps the sabbath, and does ...
Ezekiel 2:8–3:4 28″But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth, and eat what I give you.” 9And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and, lo, a written scroll was in it; 10and he spread it before me; and ...
Hosea 2:16, 17, 21-22 16″And in that day, says the LORD, you will call me, `My husband,’ and no longer will you call me, `My Ba’al.’ 17For I will remove the names of the Ba’als from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more. 21″And in that day, says the LORD, I will ...
Jeremiah 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22 1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2″Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you. 12″For thus says the LORD: Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous. 13There is none to uphold your cause, no ...
Jeremiah 28:1-17 1In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedeki’ah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hanani’ah the son of Azzur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying, 2″Thus says ...
Isaiah 55:1-3 1″Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, ...
Sirach 24:1-4, 16, 22-24 1Wisdom will praise herself, and will glory in the midst of her people. 2In the assembly of the Most High she will open her mouth, and in the presence of his host she will glory: 3″I came forth from the mouth of the Most High, and covered the earth like a mist. ...
Jeremiah 15:10, 16-21 10Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. 16Thy words were found, and I ate them, and thy words became to me a joy and the delight of ...
Jeremiah 13:1-11 1Thus said the LORD to me, “Go and buy a linen waistcloth, and put it on your loins, and do not dip it in water.” 2So I bought a waistcloth according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins. 3And the word of the LORD came to me a second ...
1 Kings 3:5, 7-12 5At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.” 7And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child; I do not know how to ...
Micah 7:14-15, 18-20 14Shepherd thy people with thy staff, the flock of thy inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. 15As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt I will show ...
Wisdom 8:9-16 9Therefore I determined to take her to live with me, knowing that she would give me good counsel and encouragement in cares and grief. 10Because of her I shall have glory among the multitudes and honor in the presence of the elders, though I am young. 11I shall be found keen in judgment, and ...
Wisdom 12:13, 16-19 13For neither is there any god besides thee, whose care is for all men, to whom thou shouldst prove that thou hast not judged unjustly; 16For thy strength is the source of righteousness, and thy sovereignty over all causes thee to spare all. 17For thou dost show thy strength when men doubt the ...
Micah 2:1-5 1Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance. 3Therefore thus ...
