Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, that he not walk naked and they see his shame.

His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs who cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who shall never be silent day or night; you who remember Jehovah, do not keep silent.

And give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock;

Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand; I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouths, that they may no longer be food for them.

For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land; he shall not visit those who are cut off, nor will he seek the young, nor heal that which is broken, nor will he nourish that which still stands. But he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear off their hooves.

Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord comes.

Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man comes at an hour you do not expect.

Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.

But if that wicked servant says in his heart, My master delays his coming,

the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not expecting him and in an hour he does not know,

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man comes.

Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.

Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming; in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning;

And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, desiring to hear pleasant things, they will heap up for themselves teachers;

But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be of sound mind and calm in your prayers.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

But commission Joshua, and encourage him and make him bold; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.

Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.

But I would assure you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would be restrained.

Make the weak hands strong, and make the feeble knees secure.

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon. Behold, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.

But I have prayed for you, that your faith does not fail; and when you have returned, strengthen your brethren.

After he had spent some time there, he departed and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

For so it was, when Solomon was old, that his wives thrust his heart aside after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of his father David.

And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not perfect toward Jehovah his God, as was the heart of his father David.

And he did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah, but not with a perfect heart.

I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not be of any benefit to you.

TEKEL: You are weighed in the balances and found deficient.

Therefore, when you do a deed of mercy, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have praise from men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

that your deed of mercy may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.

But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

and say, If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,

Truly, I say to you, All these things will come upon this generation.

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.