10The elders of daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young girls of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground. 11My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out on the ground because of the destruction…

1 Praise the Lord!How good it is to sing praises to our God;for he is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting.2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem;he gathers the outcasts of Israel.3 He heals the brokenhearted,and binds up their wounds.4 He determines the number of the stars;he gives to all of them their names.5…

1Then he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watchtower; then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. 2When the season came, he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from…

23But I call on God as witness against me: it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth. 24I do not mean to imply that we lord it over your faith; rather, we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in the faith. 1So I made up…

1How the Lord in his anger has humiliated daughter Zion! He has thrown down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. 2The Lord has destroyed without mercy all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of…

1 I will bless the LORD at all times;his praise shall continually be in my mouth.2 My soul makes its boast in the LORD;let the humble hear and be glad.3 O magnify the LORD with me,and let us exalt his name together.4 I sought the LORD, and he answered me,and delivered me from all my…

27Again they came to Jerusalem. As he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him 28and said, “By what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority to do them?” 29Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; answer me, and I…

8We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of the affliction we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself. 9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God who raises…

17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her; the LORD has commanded against Jacob that his neighbors should become his foes; Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them. 18The LORD is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and behold my…