For a nation from the north will attack Babylon. It will lay her land waste. People and animals will flee out of it. No one will inhabit it.’

It is sharpened for slaughter, it is polished to flash like lightning! “‘Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree!

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon who was righteous and devout, looking for the restoration of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

Jesus replied, “The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not every one of you.”

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)

And after you have read this letter, have it read to the church of Laodicea. In turn, read the letter from Laodicea as well.

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he has thrown into the sea, and his chosen officers were drowned in the Red Sea.

In the evening the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.

you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.

Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of Eli the priest.

As Saul approached Samuel in the middle of the gate, he said, “Please tell me where the seer’s house is.”

Jonathan said to David, “Come on. Let’s go out to the field.” When the two of them had gone out into the field,

Joab then sent messengers to David, saying, “I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.

Now two hundred men had gone with Absalom from Jerusalem. Since they were invited, they went naively and were unaware of what Absalom was planning.

Though Judah was the strongest among his brothers and a leader descended from him, the right of the firstborn belonged to Joseph.)

So Darius the king issued orders, and they searched in the archives of the treasury which were deposited there in Babylon.

A psalm of David. The Lord owns the earth and all it contains, the world and all who live in it.

In embroidered robes she is escorted to the king. Her attendants, the maidens of honor who follow her, are led before you.