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She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"

Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

I said in my haste, "All men are liars."

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

Don't stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven't kept my own vineyard.

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?

Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;

He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.

He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"

Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"

Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"

Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'

The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?

Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among yourselves.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

Then they asked him, "Where is he?" He said, "I don't know."

They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

Peter went down to the men, and said, "Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?"

But Peter raised him up, saying, "Stand up! I myself am also a man."

Therefore also I came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?"

You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.

They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people.

Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.

Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.

Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!'"

But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn't look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.

For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.