O that there were such a heart in them, that they should fear Me, and keep My commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their sons forever!

If My people had hearkened to Me, if Israel had walked in My ways,

Let them acknowledge to the Lord His mercies, and His wonders to the children of men.

Who is wise, and will observe these things, and understand the mercies of the Lord?

And if you had hearkened to My commandments, [then] would your peace have been like a river, and your righteousness as a wave of the sea.

Your seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of your belly as the dust of the ground; neither now shall you by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall your name perish from before Me.

Who is wise, and will understand these things? Or prudent, and will know them? For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them; but the ungodly shall fall therein.

And as He drew near, seeing the city, He wept over it,

saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things pertaining to your peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

And what will they do in the day of visitation? For affliction shall come to you from afar; and to whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory,

and said, I shall be a princess forever; you did not perceive these things in your heart, nor did you remember the latter end.

the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands, and My people have loved it! And what will you do for the future?

The partridge utters her voice; she gathers [eggs] which she did not lay. [So is a man] gaining his wealth unjustly: in the midst of his days [his riches] shall leave him, and at his latter end he will be a fool.

TETH. Her uncleanness is before her feet; she remembered not her last end; she has lowered her boasting [tone], there is none to comfort her. Behold, O Lord, my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.

But God said to him, ['You] fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?'

"Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, enjoying himself splendidly every day.

and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. And even the dogs came and would lick his sores.

And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosom.

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things, but now here he is comforted and you are suffering.