It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.

Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.

It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.

For he came out of prison to become king, even though he had been born poor in what would become his kingdom.

I would lead you and bring you to my mother’s house, the one who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

This very day, standing in Nob, they shake their fist at Daughter Zion’s mountain – at the hill of Jerusalem.

Is this the one who made the world like a desert, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?”’

They removed the defenses of Judah. At that time you looked for the weapons in the House of the Forest.

I will place the key to the house of David on his shoulder. When he opens the door, no one can close it; when he closes the door, no one can open it.

I will fasten him like a peg into a solid place; he will bring honor and respect to his father’s family.

When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.

Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit.

The Lord is about to deliver me, and we will celebrate with music for the rest of our lives in the Lord’s temple.”

to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

“Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? If not, why then is he being carried off?

But, you have been unfaithful to me, nation of Israel, like an unfaithful wife who has left her husband,” says the Lord.

Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.

You people of Israel, listen to what the Lord has to say to you.

“I will abandon my nation. I will forsake the people I call my own. I will turn my beloved people over to the power of their enemies.

So I went down to the potter’s house and found him working at his wheel.