One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.

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.

The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins. She has become a dry and barren desert. No one lives in those towns any more. No one even passes through them.

and follows my statutes and observes my regulations by carrying them out. That man is righteous; he will certainly live, declares the sovereign Lord.

“‘For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more? declares the sovereign Lord.’

Now let the king issue a written interdict so that it cannot be altered, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.

He rescues and delivers and performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions!”

The arrogance of Israel testifies against him, yet they refuse to return to the Lord their God! In spite of all this they refuse to seek him!

My people are obsessed with turning away from me; they call to Baal, but he will never exalt them!

Jerusalem, why are you now shouting so loudly? Has your king disappeared? Has your wise leader been destroyed? Is this why pain grips you as if you were a woman in labor?

I asked, “What is it?” And he replied, “It is a basket for measuring grain that is moving away from here.” Moreover, he said, “This is their ‘eye’ throughout all the earth.”

I will signal for them and gather them, for I have already redeemed them; then they will become as numerous as they were before.

People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

And if anyone will not welcome you or listen to your message, shake the dust off your feet as you leave that house or that town.

What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.

“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have regained your brother.

“What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?

People were completely astounded and said, “He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”