The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.

A righteous person cares for the life of his animal, but even the most compassionate acts of the wicked are cruel.

All the people were aware of it, the people of Ephraim and those living in Samaria. Yet with pride and an arrogant attitude, they said,

At that time I will be the God of all the clans of Israel and they will be my people. I, the Lord, affirm it!”

Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had issued orders concerning Jeremiah. He had passed them on through Nebuzaradan, the captain of his royal guard,

They will bear their punishment; the punishment of the one who sought an oracle will be the same as the punishment of the prophet who gave it

“Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that receives no rain or showers in the day of my anger.’

You will be overcome by drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.

The ships of Tarshish were the transports for your merchandise. “‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea that caught all kinds of fish.

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the holy place of the Lord and burn incense.

(For the Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.”

But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.

So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

the other two ends of the two chains you will attach to the two settings and then attach them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.

You are to make two rings of gold and put them on the other two ends of the breastpiece, on its edge that is on the inner side of the ephod.