We have lived in tents. We have obeyed our ancestor Jonadab and done exactly as he commanded us.

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah in the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah.

Now the Lord had spoken to Jeremiah while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse,

He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.

“As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, you will not quote this proverb in Israel anymore!

In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die violently in the heart of the seas.

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

Then in a night vision the mystery was revealed to Daniel. So Daniel praised the God of heaven,

he reveals deep and hidden things. He knows what is in the darkness, and light resides with him.

In the morning, at the earliest sign of daylight, the king got up and rushed to the lions’ den.

A whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings; they will be brought to shame because of their idolatrous worship.

I will avenge their blood which I had not previously acquitted. It is the Lord who dwells in Zion!

In all the vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst,” says the Lord.

Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their towns.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.

For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will mislead many.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!