Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.

The wicked have no chance for deliverance, for they do not seek your statutes.

May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.

For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son

Why haven’t you obeyed the Lord? Instead you have greedily rushed upon the plunder! You have done what is wrong in the Lord’s estimation.”

But how can it rest when I, the Lord, have given it orders? I have ordered it to attack the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast.

But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”

Then the king said to Queen Esther, “In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman! What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? What is your request? It shall be given to you. What other petition do you have? It shall be done.”

“‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, declares the sovereign Lord. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?

You must not have sexual intercourse with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it; it is a perversion.

But I, the Lord, make the following promise: I have made a covenant governing the coming of day and night. I have established the fixed laws governing heaven and earth.

He said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?”

So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked, “Why have you come home so early today?”

Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.”

But all the young women who have not had sexual intercourse with a man will be yours.

So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said you would do.”

“‘And for a western border you will have the Great Sea. This will be your western border.

for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.