Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

The Lord says, “Watch out! The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh.

Johanan and all the officers of the troops that had been hiding in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah.

Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you arrive in Babylon, make sure you read aloud all these prophecies.

When you finish reading this scroll aloud, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates River.

Then the king of the north will advance against the empire of the king of the south, but will withdraw to his own land.

Crowds, great crowds are in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision!

As a matter of fact, Amos is saying this: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly be carried into exile away from its land.’”

The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

So God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.

You too will act like drunkards; you will go into hiding; you too will seek refuge from the enemy.

may your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

But when the sun came up, they were scorched, and because they did not have sufficient root, they withered.

So the news about him spread quickly throughout all the region around Galilee.

Now Jesus went home, and a crowd gathered so that they were not able to eat.

When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.

These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.

Now a great windstorm developed and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was nearly swamped.

Just as Jesus was getting out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came from the tombs and met him.

Then he went up with them into the boat, and the wind ceased. They were completely astonished,