Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.

Syria from the east, and the Philistines from the west, they gobbled up Israelite territory. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

Tell your daughters and neighbors, ‘The Lord says, “The dead bodies of people will lie scattered everywhere like manure scattered on a field. They will lie scattered on the ground like grain that has been cut down but has not been gathered.”’”

You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. You see everything people do. You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do.

On that day you will be able to speak again; you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself.”

Jesus replied, “I have spoken publicly to the world. I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple courts, where all the Jewish people assemble together. I have said nothing in secret.

“Every firstborn of the womb belongs to me, even every firstborn of your cattle that is a male, whether ox or sheep.

for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

Death and Destruction are before the Lord – how much more the hearts of humans!

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord”),

I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.

You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. For I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth.

פ (Pe) All your enemies gloated over you. They sneered and gnashed their teeth; they said, “We have destroyed her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day. We have lived to see it!”

On that day I will make Israel powerful, and I will give you the right to be heard among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

The Ammonites marched out and were deployed for battle at the entrance to the city, while the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.