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

Although a righteous person may fall seven times, he gets up again, but the wicked will be brought down by calamity.

yet a fool keeps on babbling. No one knows what will happen; who can tell him what will happen in the future?

Do not listen to them. Be subject to the king of Babylon. Then you will continue to live. Why should this city be made a pile of rubble?’”

He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary markers. I will pour out my rage on them like a torrential flood!

That idol was made by a workman – it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.

Indeed, Gaza will be deserted and Ashkelon will become a heap of ruins. Invaders will drive away the people of Ashdod by noon, and Ekron will be overthrown.

and rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals.”

And if a peace-loving person is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you.

But we did not surrender to them even for a moment, in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.

But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise.

But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.

(This requires a mind that has wisdom.) The seven heads are seven mountains the woman sits on. They are also seven kings:

They are of greater value than gold, than even a great amount of pure gold; they bring greater delight than honey, than even the sweetest honey from a honeycomb.

What I have continually sought, I have not found; I have found only one upright man among a thousand, but I have not found one upright woman among all of them.

Let his mind be altered from that of a human being, and let an animal’s mind be given to him, and let seven periods of time go by for him.

They know, because they have known me from time past, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.

then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.