'But as for you, stand here by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe [them] in the land which I am giving them to possess.'

"And I, where could I take my shame? And as for you, you would be like one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you."

"As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,

"As for you, O king, thoughts came [to] your [mind while] on your bed, [about] what would come to pass after this; and He who reveals secrets has made known to you what will be.

And Moses took the blood, sprinkled [it] on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you according to all these words."

"For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

And He said to them, "This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.

Likewise He also [took] the cup after supper, saying, "This cup [is] the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.

In the same manner [He] also [took] the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink [it,] in remembrance of Me."

[concerned] only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For where there [is] a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

Therefore not even the first [covenant] was dedicated without blood.

saying, "This [is] the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."

And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, [which are] copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

For the LORD hears the poor, And does not despise His prisoners.

For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary; From heaven the LORD viewed the earth,

To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, And His praise in Jerusalem,

Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Bound in affliction and irons --

Therefore He brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and [there was] none to help.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their chains in pieces.

For He has broken the gates of bronze, And cut the bars of iron in two.

To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.

But this [is] a people robbed and plundered; All of them are snared in holes, And they are hidden in prison houses; They are for prey, and no one delivers; For plunder, and no one says, "Restore!"

That You may say to the prisoners, 'Go forth,' To those who [are] in darkness, 'Show yourselves.' "They shall feed along the roads, And their pastures [shall be] on all desolate heights.

The captive exile hastens, that he may be loosed, That he should not die in the pit, And that his bread should not fail.

Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.

"The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to [those who are] bound;

"The Spirit of the LORD [is] upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to [the] poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to [the] captives And recovery of sight to [the] blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed;

'I will deliver you from the [Jewish] people, as well as [from] the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,

'to open their eyes, [in order] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed [us] into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

O LORD, You brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, [And] established my steps.

So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the king's son, which [was] in the court of the prison, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire. So Jeremiah sank in the mire.

"Then he cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.'

and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.