I commission you as my spokesman; I cover you with the palm of my hand, to establish the sky and to found the earth, to say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”

When you see this, you will be happy, and you will be revived. The Lord will reveal his power to his servants and his anger to his enemies.

“Be sure of this, the time is coming,” says the Lord, “when the plowman will catch up to the reaper and the one who stomps the grapes will overtake the planter. Juice will run down the slopes, it will flow down all the hillsides.

On that day,” says the Lord, “a loud cry will go up from the Fish Gate, wailing from the city’s newer district, and a loud crash from the hills.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me – that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.

For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”

“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month, in the second year.

And the Kohathites set out, carrying the articles for the sanctuary; the tabernacle was to be set up before they arrived.

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humankind, appoint a man over the community,

At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.”

But now, look, Adonijah has become king! But you, my master the king, are not even aware of it!

Jehoiachin took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

The law of the Lord is perfect and preserves one’s life. The rules set down by the Lord are reliable and impart wisdom to the inexperienced.

He restores my strength. He leads me down the right paths for the sake of his reputation.

Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!

You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;