“To ¹  what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another, ² 

He will not quarrel or cry out, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.

They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds ¹  regarded him as a prophet.

They went out from there and passed through Galilee. But ¹  Jesus ²  did not want anyone to know,

They ¹  devour widows’ property, ²  and as a show make long prayers. These men will receive a more severe punishment.”

Nothing is hidden ¹  that will not be revealed, ²  and nothing is secret that will not be made known.

Many of those who had believed came forward, ¹  confessing and making their deeds known. ² 

But when Paul wanted to enter the public assembly, ¹  the disciples would not let him.

For we are concerned about what is right not only before the Lord but also before men. ¹ 

But when Cephas ¹  came to Antioch, ²  I opposed him to his face, because he had clearly done wrong. ³ 

Those guilty of sin ¹  must be rebuked ²  before all, ³  as a warning to the rest. ⁴ 

if he will sell ¹  me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly ²  for the full price, ³  so that I may own it as a burial site.”

You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza ¹  and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It will be an abandoned ruin ²  forever – it must never be rebuilt again.

He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. ¹  He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard. ² 

I considered these things carefully ¹  and then registered a complaint with the wealthy ²  and the officials. I said to them, “Each one of you is seizing the collateral ³  from your own countrymen!” ⁴  Because of them I called for ⁵  a great public assembly.

It so happened that when the king’s edict and his law became known ¹  many young women were taken to Susa the citadel to be placed under the authority of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the royal palace ²  to be under the authority of Hegai, who was overseeing the women.

At that time Baruch went into the temple of the Lord. He stood in the entrance of the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan who had been the royal secretary. ¹  That room was in the upper court ²  near the entrance of the New Gate. ³  There, where all the people could hear him, he read from the scroll what Jeremiah had said. ⁴ 

When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment. ¹ 

Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast! ¹  Make a public display of your voluntary offerings! ²  For you love to do this, you Israelites.” The sovereign Lord is speaking!

Because of Israel’s sins ¹  this is what the Lord, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, ²  says: “In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. ³  They will tell the field workers ⁴  to lament and the professional mourners ⁵  to wail.