The Lord cried out, “Who in the world will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will grieve over you? Who will stop long enough to inquire about how you are doing?

and come from your place, from the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a vast army.

On the east side, one and one-half miles in length, there will be three gates: one gate for Joseph, one gate for Benjamin, and one gate for Dan.

On the west side, one and one-half miles in length, there will be three gates: one gate for Gad, one gate for Asher, and one gate for Naphtali.

Ephraim continually feeds on the wind; he chases the east wind all day; he multiplies lies and violence. They make treaties with Assyria, and send olive oil as tribute to Egypt.

Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria! Your officers are slumbering! Your people are scattered like sheep on the mountains and there is no one to regather them!

“On the day of the Lord’s sacrificial meal, I will punish the princes and the king’s sons, and all who wear foreign styles of clothing.

He taught what was true; sinful words were not found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and integrity, and he turned many people away from sin.

Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them, do you think they were worse offenders than all the others who live in Jerusalem?

He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,

Then I saw a large white throne and the one who was seated on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men.

Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites, ‘They are wandering around confused in the land – the desert has closed in on them.’

Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”

If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him –

This was the first time they set out on their journey according to the commandment of the Lord, by the authority of Moses.

One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.

and when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of the Lord and the priests crossed as the people looked on.