Cursed be the day in which I was born; let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew without compassion; and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noon;

Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, A male child has been conceived.

Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud settle on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Lo, let that night be barren! Let no joyful shout come into it!

Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none, and not see the eyelids of the dawn;

Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came forth from the belly?

For now I would have lain down and been quiet, I would have slept; then I would have been at rest

or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

The small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

who long for death, but it does not come, and search for it more than hidden treasures;

or to a man whose way is concealed, whom God has covered?

For the thing I had dreaded with terror has come upon me, and what I had feared has come to me.

And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Jehovah.

For behold, I have made you a fortified city this day, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its rulers, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

And they shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you, says Jehovah, to deliver you.

O Jehovah, You have deceived me, and I was deceived. You are stronger than I, and You have prevailed. I am in derision all the day; everyone mocks me.

For whenever I speak, I cry out, I cry violence and devastation; for the Word of Jehovah has been a reproach and a derision to me all the day.

And it happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Is that you, O troubler of Israel?

And he answered, I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father's house have, in that you have forsaken the commandments of Jehovah and have gone after the Baals.

So Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah:

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of Jehovah; but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so!

Woe is me, that I have sojourned in Meshech, that I have dwelt in the tents of Kedar!

My soul has dwelt long with him who hates peace.

And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

You shall speak My Words to them, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for they are most rebellious.

But the house of Israel is not willing to listen to you, because they are not willing to listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

And brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and put them to death.

But when they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For truly I say to you, you will not have finished going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Then they will deliver you up to affliction and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against

And they brought them to the magistrates, and said, These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city;

Then the multitude rose up against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, These who have turned the world upside down have come here, too;

And they troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these things.

And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading concerning the things of the kingdom of God.

But when some were hardened and did not obey, but spoke evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

He assembled them with the workers of similar occupation, and said: Men, you know that we have our wealth by this trade.

So not only is this trade of ours in danger of falling into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be despised and her magnificence destroyed, whom all Asia and the world revere.

But we desire to hear from you what you think; for concerning this sect, we know that it is spoken against everywhere.

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we became spectacles to all creation, both to angels and to men.

To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and wander homeless.

being defamed, we entreat. We have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

If you lend money to My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not lay interest on him.

You shall not charge interest to your brother; interest on money or food or anything that is loaned at interest.

To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, that Jehovah your God may bless you in all to which you put your hand in the land which you are entering to possess.

And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their brothers the Jews.

There were also some who said, We have mortgaged our fields and vineyards and houses, that we might buy grain because of the famine.

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and indeed we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been brought into slavery. It is not in our power to redeem them, for other men have our fields and vineyards.

he has not put out his money at interest, nor has he taken a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Let them curse, but You will bless; when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let Your servant rejoice.

Like a flitting bird, like a flying swallow, so the curse without cause shall not alight.

But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who abuse you and persecute you,

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you, and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man.