NIU Neighbor Invading Nature

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

But if you don't make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.

So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.

you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?'

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,

When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore.

As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.