The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever.
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
“And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, declares the Lord, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.
My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone from me, and they are not; there is no one to spread my tent again and to set up my curtains.
Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen!
Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
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