¹ I will punish the world for its evil, ²  and wicked people for their sin. I will put an end to the pride of the insolent, I will bring down the arrogance of tyrants. ³ 

Fortified cities will disappear from Ephraim, and Damascus will lose its kingdom. ¹  The survivors in Syria will end up like the splendor of the Israelites,” says the Lord who commands armies.

Does the snow ever completely vanish from the rocky slopes of Lebanon? Do the cool waters from those distant mountains ever cease to flow? ¹ 

They brought forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop saying things against this holy place ¹  and the law. ² 

because we recall ¹  in the presence of our God and Father ²  your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope ³  in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Tell King Jehoiakim of Judah, ‘The Lord says, “You burned the scroll. You asked ¹  Jeremiah, ‘How dare you write in this scroll that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and wipe out all the people and animals on it?’” ² 

He will confirm a covenant with many for one week. ¹  But in the middle of that week he will bring sacrifices and offerings to a halt. On the wing ²  of abominations will come ³  one who destroys, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys.”

Each one of the four living creatures had six wings ¹  and was full of eyes all around and inside. ²  They never rest day or night, saying: ³  “Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God, the All-Powerful, ⁴  Who was and who is, and who is still to come!”

The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, ¹  and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building ¹  the city.

Pharaoh was thinking, ¹  “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying ¹  Ramah and settled down in Tirzah.

“O earth, do not cover my blood, ¹  nor let there be a secret ²  place for my cry.

Night pierces ¹  my bones; ²  my gnawing pains ³  never cease.

He says, ¹  “Stop your striving and recognize ²  that I am God! I will be exalted ³  over ⁴  the nations! I will be exalted over ⁵  the earth!”

You remove all the wicked of the earth like slag. ¹  Therefore I love your rules. ² 

They will eat, but not be satisfied; they will engage in prostitution, but not increase in numbers; because they have abandoned the Lord by pursuing other gods. ¹ 

At this point ¹  their eyes were opened and they recognized ²  him. ³  Then ⁴  he vanished out of their sight.

So he ¹  told ²  them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.” ³ 

So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly ¹  praying to God for him. ²