Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither loaned with usury, nor have men loaned to me; yet every one curses me.

Can anyone break iron, iron or bronze from the north?

And I will make you pass over with your enemies into a land which you do not know. For a fire has been kindled in My anger, which shall burn against you.

Your Words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah the God of Hosts.

Why has my pain been continual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You surely are to me like deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.

Then I said, I will not make mention of Him, nor speak in His name any more. But His Word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding it in, and I could not.

that Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, I am Jehovah. Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto you.

But Moses said before Jehovah, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh heed me?

Rise up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out to it the proclamation that I am instructing you.

Then Jehovah said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul could not be inclined toward this people. Send them out of My sight, and let them go out.

And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except according to my word.

Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before insignificant men.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: If you will walk in My ways, and if you will keep My charge, then you shall also judge My house, and shall also keep My courts, and I will give you places to walk among these who stand by.

And the angel answered and said to him, I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings.

Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.

Now to Him who has the power to keep you from stumbling, and to present you without blemish before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,

to make a distinction between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean,

The fool shall no more be called noble, nor the miser said to be bountiful.

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity; to practice hypocrisy and to speak error against Jehovah, to empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to be lacking.

Her priests have violated My Law and defiled My holy things; they have not divided between the holy and profane, nor have they declared between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their understanding exercised to discern both good and evil.

Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.

And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.

And he shall speak for you to the people. And he shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God.

He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.

For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist.

But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. I beg of you, obey the voice of Jehovah which I am speaking to you; so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.

But if you refuse to surrender, this is the Word that Jehovah has shown me:

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

Moreover He said to me: Son of man, receive into your heart all My Words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears.

And go! Come to the captives, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

For I have not shrunk back from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.

For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.

to whom we did not yield in submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.