Job 15:24

Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant?’ ” All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in Yahweh’s house.

Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together.” Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

Yahweh of Armies says: “Yet again there will be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’ ” ’

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”

In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.

and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have been disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,

Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.

Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.

Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes;

so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.

I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.

They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence.

For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good,” says Yahweh. “It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.” ’

Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm: It will burst on the head of the wicked.

The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, of evil, and of pestilence.

Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out, a sweeping storm: it will burst on the head of the wicked.

Behold, I will command,” says Yahweh, “and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

“How can you be quiet, since Yahweh has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed it.”

“Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.

Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”

“For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

I will utterly sweep away everything from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,