Listen to my cry for help, for I am in serious trouble! Rescue me from those who chase me, for they are stronger than I am.

The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.

Send rams as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the hill of Daughter Zion.

Look, the Lord is ready to devastate the earth and leave it in ruins; he will mar its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

In light of all this, how can you still hold back, Lord? How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul,

‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.’

The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.

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

Bring us back to yourself, O Lord, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,

so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because all of you have become slag, look out! – I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem.

Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!

Those who have been delivered will go up on Mount Zion in order to rule over Esau’s mountain. Then the Lord will reign as King!

leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.

In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Then they led Jesus to the high priest, and all the chief priests and elders and experts in the law came together.

The expert in religious law said, “The one who showed mercy to him.” So Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”

In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

The chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find some way to execute Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.