Now therefore let Me alone, and I will be very angry with them and consume them, and I will make you a great nation.

And now I shall utterly destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of you a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.

Your head upon you is as Carmel, and the curls of your hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries.

For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, who has formed the things that are to come, Inquire of Me concerning My sons, and concerning the works of My hands, ask of Me.

And there is none that calls upon Your name, or that remembers to take hold of You; for You have turned Your face away from us, and have delivered us up because of our sins.

Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He made as though He was going farther.

But they constrained Him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent." And He went in to stay with them.

It [was] as a little [while] after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

And he prevailed with the Angel and was strong. They wept, and entreated Me: they found Me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them.

Then He spoke a parable to them, that one must always pray and not lose heart,

Now there was a widow in that city; and she kept coming to him, saying, 'Give justice to me against my adversary.'

yet because this widow bothers me I will give justice to her, lest she wear me out by forever coming to me.'"

And God, shall He not execute justice for His own elect, who cry out day and night to Him, and yet He is patient with them?

But in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

So then, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up both prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears to the [One] who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His fear of God,

And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, O that You would indeed bless me, and enlarge my coasts, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would make me know that You will not grieve me! And God granted him all that he asked.

For the end, A Psalm of David among the Hymns. God be merciful to us, and bless us; [and] cause His face to shine upon us. Pause.

The earth has yielded her fruit; let God, our God, bless us.

Let God bless us, and let all the ends of the earth fear Him.

The Lord has remembered us, and blessed us; He has blessed the house of Israel, He has blessed the house of Aaron.

He has blessed them that fear the Lord, both small and great.