Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Jehovah had delivered them up?

Oh, that My people had listened to Me, that Israel had walked in My ways!

The haters of Jehovah would have cowered before Him, and their time would have endured forever.

Oh that you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

But I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate!

So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they act out love, but their hearts go after their unjust gain.

Indeed you are to them as a singer of love songs, as one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things that make for your peace. But now they are hidden from your eyes.

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. As God is exhorting through us, we beseech you on Christ's behalf, Be reconciled to God.

We then, as workers together with Him, also beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from the One speaking from Heaven,

Now faith is the certainty of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Blessed are those who keep justice, and he who does righteousness at all times.

ALEPH: Blessed are the upright in the way, who walk in the Law of Jehovah.

They also do no iniquity; they walk in His Ways.

O that my ways were fixed to keep Your Statutes!

But He said, No; rather, blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it.

You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the Tree of Life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify these things to you, to the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.

When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, Come and see.

And He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.

Behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the Words of the Prophecy of this Book.

Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek a secure rest for you, that it may be well with you?

And Your servant is warned by them; in keeping them there is great reward.

Say to the righteous that it is well; for they shall eat of the fruit of their doings.

who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and has cut out windows for himself, and the ceiling is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

Shall you reign, because you lust after cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.

But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in his deeds.