And if hereupon you are not corrected, but walk perversely towards Me,

They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

And they said, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble in the field? Because of this enemy I have set her aside; therefore on this account the Lord has done all that He appointed.

And you have exalted yourself against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before you the vessels of His house, and you, your nobles, your mistresses, and your concubines have drunk wine out of them; and you have praised the gods of gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.

You have spoken grievous words against Me, says the Lord. Yet you said, In what way have we spoken against You?

And he said, "Who are You, Lord?" And the Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

Now at that time Herod the king put [forth] his hands to harm some from the church.

Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And becoming eaten by worms, he died.

For He is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against Him and endured?

[ 40:4] Have you an arm like the Lord's? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?

[ 40:6] And send forth messengers with wrath, and lay low every haughty one.

And Pharaoh said, Who is He that I should listen to His voice, so that I should send away the children of Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.

And they said to him, The God of the Hebrews has called us to Him: we will go, therefore, on a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest at any time death or slaughter happen to us.

Do you then yet exert yourself to hinder My people, so as not to let them go?

And the Philistines feared, and said, These are the gods that have come with them into the camp.

Strengthen yourselves and behave yourselves like men, O you Philistines, that you may not serve the Hebrews as they have served us, but be men, and fight with them!

And why do you harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? Was it not so when He mocked them, that they let the people go, and they departed?

Behold, the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.

Know, you Gentiles, and be conquered; listen, even to the extremity of the earth; be conquered, after you strengthened yourselves; for even if you should again strengthen yourselves, you shall again be conquered.

And whatever counsel you shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nought; and whatever word you shall speak, it shall not stand among you; for God is with us.

And it shall come to pass, when the Lord has finished doing all things on Mount Zion and Jerusalem, [that] I will visit upon the proud heart, [even] upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes.

And I will shake the inhabited cities; and I will take with My hand all the world as a nest; and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape Me, or contradict Me.

Who has performed and done these things? He has called it who called it from the generations of old; I God, the first and to [all] futurity, I AM.

everyone judging for his neighbor and [that] to assist his brother; and one will say,