In light of all this, ¹  how can you still hold back, Lord? How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

But those in Jerusalem ¹  will view it as a false omen. They have sworn solemn oaths, ²  but the king of Babylon ³  will accuse them of violations ⁴  in order to seize them. ⁵ 

To arouse anger, to take vengeance, I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the Lord to minister to him.”

Although they bring their flocks and herds ¹  to seek ²  the favor of the Lord, ³  They will not find him – he has withdrawn himself from them!

Then the Lord will appear above them, and his arrow will shoot forth like lightning; the Lord God will blow the trumpet and will sally forth on the southern storm winds.

But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but on man’s.” ¹ 

So ¹  while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, ²  and Andrew asked him privately,

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death, but they did not find anything.

Jesus ¹  also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down ²  on everyone else.

He ¹  was trying to get a look at Jesus, ²  but being a short man he could not see over the crowd. ³ 

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus ¹  himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

After ¹  he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight.

When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

This is the reason ¹  I do my best to always ²  have a clear ³  conscience toward God and toward people. ⁴ 

For if Abraham was declared righteous ¹  by the works of the law, he has something to boast about – but not before God.

God ¹  made the one who did not know sin ²  to be sin for us, so that in him ³  we would become the righteousness of God.

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up ¹  all things in Christ – the things in heaven ²  and the things on earth. ³ 

who is the down payment ¹  of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, ²  to the praise of his glory.

With every prayer and petition, pray ¹  at all times in the Spirit, and to this end ²  be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.