The grain offering and drink offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, you priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.

Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, you priests: mourn, you that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloth, you that minister to God: for the grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

And the porch in front of the temple [was] twenty cubits in length according to the breadth of the house in front of the house. And he built the house, and finished it.

Then Solomon offered up to the Lord whole burnt offerings on the altar which he had built to the Lord before the temple,

And He brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces [turned] the opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun.

so that on you may come all the righteous blood being shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Take with you words, and turn to the Lord your God. Speak to Him, that you may not receive [the reward of] unrighteousness, but that you may receive good things; and we will render in return the fruit of our lips.

And Moses prayed before the Lord God, and said, Why, O Lord, are You very angry with Your people, whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great strength, and with Your mighty arm?

remembering Abraham and Isaac and Jacob Your servants, to whom You have sworn by Yourself, and have spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which You spoke of to give to them, so that they shall possess it forever.

and said, If I have found grace in Your sight, let my Lord go with us; for the people are stiff-necked: and You shall take away our sins and our iniquities, and we will be Yours.

And when I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made for yourselves a molten image, and had gone astray out of the way, which the Lord commanded you to keep;

And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which you sinned in doing evil before the Lord God, to provoke Him.

And He was angry with Aaron to destroy him utterly, and I prayed for Aaron also at that time.

Also in the burning, and in the temptation, and at the Graves of Lust, you provoked the Lord.

You were disobedient in the things relating to the Lord from the day in which He became known to you.

And I prayed to God, and said, O Lord, King of gods, destroy not Your people and Your inheritance, whom You redeemed, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with Your great power, and with Your strong hand, and with Your outstretched arm.

Lest the inhabitants of the land from which You brought us out speak, saying, Because the Lord could not bring them into the land of which He spoke to them, and because He hated them, has He brought them forth to slay them in the wilderness.

But now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hands, that every kingdom of the earth may know that You alone are God.

Be not very angry with us, and remember not our sins forever; but now look on [us], for we are all Your people.

The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burned with fire; and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.

Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and behold our desolation, and that of the city which is called by Your name; for we do not bring our pitiful case before You on [the grounds of] our righteousness, but [because of] Your manifold compassions, O Lord.

Hearken, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend, O Lord; delay not, O my God, for Your own sake; for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.

And it came to pass when he had finished devouring the grass of the land, that I said, Lord God, be merciful; who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small in number.

Then I said, O Lord, cease, I pray: who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small in number. Relent, O Lord, of this.

And now entreat the face of your God, and make supplication to Him. These things have been done by your hands; shall I accept you? Says the Lord Almighty.

You have turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.

You have sold Your people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.

You have made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.

How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? Shall the enemy provoke Your name forever?

Remember this Your creation; an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people have provoked Your name.

Look upon Your covenant; for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.

Arise, O God, plead Your cause; remember Your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them [that are] round about us.

All that go by the way have spoiled him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

with which Your enemies have reviled, O Lord; with which they have reviled the recompense of Your anointed.

Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to [the places] that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about;

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath, because you have borne the reproaches of the heathen;

Behold, we are servants this day, and [as for] the land which You gave to our fathers, to eat the fruit of it and the good things of it, behold, we are servants upon it;

Why have You caused us to err, O Lord, from Your way? [And] have hardened our hearts, that we should not fear You? Return for Your servants' sake, for the sake of the tribes of Your inheritance,

We have become as at the beginning, when You did not rule over us, and Your name was not called upon us.

And there shall you be a wonder and a parable, and a tale, among all the nations, to which the Lord your God shall carry you away.

then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and this house which I have consecrated to My name I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a desolation and a by-word to all nations.

then will I remove them from the land which I gave them; and this house which I have consecrated to My name I will remove out of My sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.

You have made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.

Moreover all the inhabitants of this land have heard that You are Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, are seen [by them] face to face, and Your cloud rests upon them, and You go before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.

Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which He swore to them, He has overthrown them in the wilderness.

Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long, lest their enemies should combine against them; lest they should say, Our own outstretched arm, and not the Lord's, has done all these things.

While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is your God?

Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? And let the avenging of Your servant's blood that has been shed be known among the heathen before our eyes.

lest at any time the nations should say, Where is their God?

But I acted [so] that My name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

And she that is my enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where is the Lord your God? My eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.

He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He'll [have] Him; for He said, 'I am the Son of God.'"