Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.

All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.

“But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking – how much of it goes away?

I will learn a song that imparts wisdom; I will then sing my insightful song to the accompaniment of a harp.

You are my source of strength! I will sing praises to you! For God is my refuge, the God who loves me.

A psalm of David. Here is the Lord’s proclamation to my lord: “Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!”

If I tried to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. Even if I finished counting them, I would still have to contend with you.

A psalm of David. O Lord, I cry out to you. Come quickly to me! Pay attention to me when I cry out to you!

They will be thrown down the side of a cliff by their judges. They will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.

Better is a person of humble standing who nevertheless has a servant, than one who pretends to be somebody important yet has no food.

before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;

Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are prepared. The hooves of their horses are hard as flint, and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm.

The prophets will prove to be full of wind. The Lord has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.’”

Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.

The boundary line will extend beyond that, straight west from there to the Hill of Gareb and then turn southward to Goah.

And people will settle there, and there will no longer be the threat of divine extermination – Jerusalem will dwell in security.

John wore a garment made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

He went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he might betray Jesus, handing him over to them.

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Mount of Olives (which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away).