Job 4:2

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.

For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse.

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”

Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.

Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

He said to me, “Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.” Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

She came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.

to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

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

With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched.”

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” Then they began at the old men who were before the house.

She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left.

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

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.

The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,

I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!”