I will also hand over King Zedekiah of Judah and his officials to those who want to kill them. I will hand them over to the Babylonian army, which has stopped its attack against you.

The Babylonian army had been besieging Jerusalem, but when they heard that the Egyptian army had crossed the Egyptian border, they retreated.

The king called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray to the LORD to take away these frogs, and I will let your people go, so that they can offer sacrifices to the LORD."

When the king saw that the frogs were dead, he became stubborn again and, just as the LORD had said, the king would not listen to Moses and Aaron.

Pray to the LORD! We have had enough of this thunder and hail! I promise to let you go; you don't have to stay here any longer."

When the king saw what had happened, he sinned again. He and his officials remained as stubborn as ever

and, just as the LORD had foretold through Moses, the king would not let the Israelites go.

Now forgive my sin this one time and pray to the LORD your God to take away this fatal punishment from me."

And the LORD changed the east wind into a very strong west wind, which picked up the locusts and blew them into the Gulf of Suez. Not one locust was left in all of Egypt.

The king will think that the Israelites are wandering around in the country and are closed in by the desert.

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had escaped, he and his officials changed their minds and said, "What have we done? We have let the Israelites escape, and we have lost them as our slaves!"

He set out with all his chariots, including the six hundred finest, commanded by their officers.

The Egyptian army, with all the horses, chariots, and drivers, pursued them and caught up with them where they were camped by the Red Sea near Pi Hahiroth and Baal Zephon.

Saul was convinced by what Jonathan said and made a vow in the LORD's name that he would not kill David.

War with the Philistines broke out again. David attacked them and defeated them so thoroughly that they fled.

Saul tried to pin David to the wall with his spear, but David dodged, and the spear stuck in the wall. David ran away and escaped.

How often does someone catch an enemy and then let him get away unharmed? The LORD bless you for what you have done to me today!

Saul answered, "I have done wrong. Come back, David, my son! I will never harm you again, because you have spared my life tonight. I have been a fool! I have done a terrible thing!"

Their speech is wicked and full of lies; they no longer do what is wise and good.

Whenever he killed some of them, the rest would turn to him; they would repent and pray earnestly to him.

But their words were all lies; nothing they said was sincere.

But when you punish the wicked, punish also those who abandon your ways. Peace be with Israel!

A fool doing some stupid thing a second time is like a dog going back to its vomit.

Why do people commit crimes so readily? Because crime is not punished quickly enough.

But the LORD says, "Israel and Judah, what am I going to do with you? Your love for me disappears as quickly as morning mist; it is like dew, that vanishes early in the day.

They keep on turning away from me to a god that is powerless. They are as unreliable as a crooked bow. Because their leaders talk arrogantly, they will die a violent death, and the Egyptians will laugh."

I will destroy those who have turned back and no longer follow me, those who do not come to me or ask me to guide them."

"When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one,

Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day."

Or perhaps you despise his great kindness, tolerance, and patience. Surely you know that God is kind, because he is trying to lead you to repent.

But you have a hard and stubborn heart, and so you are making your own punishment even greater on the Day when God's anger and righteous judgments will be revealed.

If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in worse condition at the end than they were at the beginning.

What happened to them shows that the proverbs are true: "A dog goes back to what it has vomited" and "A pig that has been washed goes back to roll in the mud."