Deuteronomy 32:21
32:21 They have made me jealous with false gods,
enraging me with their worthless gods;
so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize,
with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.
Deuteronomy 32:1
Invocation of Witnesses
32:1 Listen, O heavens, and I will speak;
hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
Deuteronomy 17:1
17:1 You must not sacrifice to him
a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive
to the
Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 18:1
Provision for Priests and Levites
18:1 The Levitical priests – indeed, the entire tribe of Levi – will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the Lord and of his inheritance.
Psalms 74:1-2
Psalm 74
A well-written song by Asaph.
74:1 Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us?
Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?
74:2 Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times,
whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation,
as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!
Zechariah 10:1-2
The Restoration of the True People
10:1 Ask the Lord for rain in the season of the late spring rains – the Lord who causes thunderstorms – and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.
10:2 For the household gods have spoken wickedness, the soothsayers have seen a lie, and as for the dreamers, they have disclosed emptiness and give comfort in vain. Therefore the people set out like sheep and become scattered because they have no shepherd.
Acts 14:15-17
14:15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures
just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn
from these worthless
things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth,
the sea, and everything that is in them.
14:16 In
past
generations he allowed all the nations
to go their own ways,
14:17 yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good,
by giving you rain from heaven
and fruitful seasons, satisfying you
with food and your hearts with joy.”