and so it not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he has blessed himself in his heart, thinking, I shall have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart; and thus to snatch away the watered with the thirsty.

And they took what Micah had made, and the priest who had belonged to him, and went to Laish, to a people quiet and secure; and they struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.

There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no business with anyone. It was in the valley next to Beth Rehob. So they rebuilt the city and dwelt there.

He has said in his heart, the Mighty God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see it!

Why have the wicked spurned God? He has said in his heart, You will not investigate.

My heart has wandered, terror overwhelms me; the twilight I longed for He has turned into trembling.

They say, Come, let us get wine and binge on strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like today; much more abundant.

Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem. And the king, his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

At that moment fingers of a man's hand came out and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace across from the lampstand. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

For as thorns are woven together, and as their drunkards are drunken, they shall be devoured like fully dried straw.

But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

and did not realize until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:

Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

Even in the same way will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with giddiness, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly.

For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoils; my desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the heavens. So they had no strength to flee this way or that way, and the people who had fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

And the others came out of the city against them; so they were caught in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And they struck them down, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

And when the men of Israel turned back, the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that evil had come upon them.

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness; and the battle overtook them, and whoever came out of the cities they destroyed in their midst.

And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the peoples of the lands; the work of men's hands.

And Jehovah sent an angel who cut down every mighty man of valor, rulers, and commanders in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned shamefaced to his own land. And when he went into the house of his god, he fell by the sword of some of the offspring of his own body.

Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to desolation.

like a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when You awake, You shall despise their image.

A man who hardens his neck when reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.

therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose crashing comes suddenly in an instant.

They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with giddiness, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly.

For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.

And the people kept shouting, The voice of a god and not of a man!

And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died.

Behold, you despisers, marvel and perish. For I work a work in your days, a work which you will by no means believe, though one were to declare it to you.

These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

By however much she has glorified herself and lived luxuriously, by the same amount give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.

Therefore her plagues will come in one day; death and mourning and famine. And she will be consumed with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

Fear took hold of them there, and writhing, like a woman giving birth.

I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Do not keep back; bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the ends of the earth;

Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am bent over from hearing it; I am dismayed from seeing it.

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, the anguish as of one bearing her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, gasping and spreading her hands, saying, Woe to me now! For my soul is weary because of murderers.

We have heard the rumor of it; our hands become feeble; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in labor.

What will you say when he punishes you? For you have taught them to be chief rulers over you. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in travail?

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nesting in the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman giving birth!

The pangs of a woman giving birth shall come upon him; he is an unwise son, for he does not stay long where children are born.

Now why do you cry aloud with an outcry? Is there no king among you? Has your adviser perished? For pangs have seized you like one in travail.

Writhe in pain and bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like one giving birth. For now you shall go out from the city, and you shall live in the field. And you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be delivered. There Jehovah shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape the condemnation of Gehenna?

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

to the gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are registered in Heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made complete,