‘Oh, Lord God, you did indeed make heaven and earth by your mighty power and great strength. Nothing is too hard for you!

Go up to Gilead and get medicinal ointment, you dear poor people of Egypt. But it will prove useless no matter how much medicine you use; there will be no healing for you.

Pack your bags for exile, you inhabitants of poor dear Egypt. For Memphis will be laid waste. It will lie in ruins and be uninhabited.

“Get out of Babylon, my people! Flee to save your lives from the fierce anger of the Lord!

ו (Vav) The punishment of my people exceeded that of of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment with no one to help her.

“‘As for you, my sheep, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.

And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, and I am your God, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

“At that time,” declares the Lord, “you will call, ‘My husband’; you will never again call me, ‘My master.’

Ephraim will be struck down – their root will be dried up; they will not yield any fruit. Even if they do bear children, I will kill their precious offspring.

You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.

Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee. They will see me there.”

He asked him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live.”

The disciples were astonished at these words. But again Jesus said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. But his mother kept all these things in her heart.

Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?”

It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.