Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the Lord.

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

Those who are evil will bow before those who are good, and the wicked will bow at the gates of the righteous.

Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.

The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.

This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.’

The leaders will not be able to run away and hide. The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape.

(The cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.)

I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it.

“Yet your people say, ‘The behavior of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their behavior that is not right.

A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses.

How awful that day will be! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.

While in Galilee, he moved from Nazareth to make his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent.

Then some of the experts in the law along with some Pharisees answered him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”

It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”