I will take away everything from the face of the earth, says the Lord.

And my hand will be stretched out on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem, cutting off the name of the Baal from this place, and the name of the false priests,

And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

And it will come about in the day of the Lord's offering, that I will send punishment on the rulers and the king's sons and all who are clothed in robes from strange lands.

And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow

And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.

The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.

A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.

Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.

Before the Lord sends you violently away in flight like the waste from the grain before the burning wrath of the Lord comes on you, before the day of the Lord's wrath comes on you.

For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.

And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks.

My ears have been open to the bitter words of Moab and the words of shame of the children of Ammon, which they have said against my people, lifting themselves up against the limit of their land.

This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.

And you Ethiopians will be put to death by my sword.

And herds will take their rest in the middle of her, all the beasts of the valley: the pelican and the porcupine will make their living-places on the tops of its pillars the owl will be crying in the window the raven will be seen on the doorstep.

She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.

Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

I have had the nations cut off, their towers are broken down I have made their streets a waste so that no one goes through them: destruction has overtaken their towns, so that there is no man living in them.

For this reason, go on waiting for me, says the Lord, till the day when I come up as a witness: for my purpose is to send for the nations and to get the kingdoms together, so that I may let loose on them my passion, even all my burning wrath: for all the earth will be burned up in the fire of my bitter passion.

From over the rivers of Ethiopia, and from the sides of the north, they will come to me with an offering.

But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.

Make melody, O daughter of Zion give a loud cry, O Israel be glad and let your heart be full of joy, O daughter of Jerusalem.

In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble.

I will take away your troubles, lifting up your shame from off you.

At that time I will make you come in, at that time I will get you together: for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth when I let your fate be changed before your eyes, says the Lord.

Then the woman put down her water-pot and went into the town, and said to the people,

So they went out of the town and came to him.

But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.

Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

He who does the cutting now has his reward he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.

So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days.

And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

For Jesus himself said that a prophet has no honour in the country of his birth.

So he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain man of high position whose son was ill at Capernaum.

Then Jesus said to him, You will not have faith if you do not see signs and wonders.

And Jesus said, Go in peace your son is living. The man had faith in the word which Jesus said to him and went away.

So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour.

Now this is the second sign which Jesus did after he had come out of Judaea into Galilee.