Genesis 42:1

Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’

Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.

Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.

There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.” ’

The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,

Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”

He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

In that day he will cry out, saying, “I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people.”

Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

For Yahweh says, “Your hurt is incurable. Your wound is grievous.

But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, ‘Come! Let’s go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we will dwell at Jerusalem.’ ”

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing.

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.

They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?”

they gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink.

They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, “Surely not I?” And another said, “Surely not I?”

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”

When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”

The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”

All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.

The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.

Yahweh said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?

When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.” Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”

He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”

For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the middle of the people.

“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’

For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

Therefore the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”

The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke.

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,