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Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my utterance:
I have killed a man for wounding me, a boy for bruising me. If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold."
[GEN 4:23-24]
"Learn then that I, I alone, am God, and there is no god
besides me. It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict
wounds and heal them, and from my hand there is no rescue. To the
heavens I raise my hand and swear: As surely as I live forever, I
will sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand shall lay hold of my
quiver. With vengeance I will repay my foes and requite those who
hate me." [DEUT 32:39-41]
Then the men of Israel and Judah, with loud shouts, went in
pursuit of the Philistines to the approaches of Gath and to the
gates of Ekron, and Philistines fell wounded along the road from
Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron. [1SAM 17:52]
As they pressed their attack on Israel, with the Israelites fleeing before them and falling mortally wounded on Mount Gilboa, the Philistines pursued Saul and his sons closely, and slew Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, sons of Saul.
[1SAM 31:1-2]
"So I stood up to him and dispatched him, for I knew that he
could not survive his wound. I removed the crown from his head and
the armlet from his arm and brought them here to my lord."
[2SAM 1:10]
But David's servants had fatally wounded three hundred and
sixty men of Benjamin, followers of Abner. [2SAM 2:31]
One of the guild prophets was prompted by the LORD to say to
his companion, "Strike me." But he refused to strike
him. Then he said to him, "Since you did not obey the voice
of the LORD, a lion will kill you when you leave me." When
they parted company, a lion came upon him and killed him. The
prophet met another man and said, "Strike me." The man
struck him a blow and wounded him. The prophet went on and waited
for the king on the road, having disguised himself with a bandage
over his eyes. As the king was passing, he called out to the king
and said: "Your servant went into the thick of the battle,
and suddenly someone turned and brought me a man and said, 'Guard
this man. If he is missing, you shall have to pay for his life
with your life or pay out a talent of silver.' But while your
servant was looking here and there, the man disappeared." The
king of Israel said to him, "That is your sentence. You have
decided it yourself." He immediately removed the bandage from
his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the
prophets. He said to him: "The LORD says, 'Because you have
set free the man I doomed to destruction, your life shall pay for
his life, your people for his people.'" Disturbed and angry,
the king of Israel went off homeward and entered Samaria. [1KGS
20:35-42]
The battle grew fierce during the day, and the king, who was
propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans, died in the
evening. The blood from his wound flowed to the bottom of the
chariot. At sunset a cry went through the army, "Every man to
his city, every man to his land, for the king is dead!" So
they went to Samaria, where they buried the king. When the chariot
was washed at the pool of Samaria, the dogs licked up his blood
and harlots bathed there, as the LORD had prophesied. [1KGS 22:35-38]
Yet the woman conceived, and by the same time the following
year she had given birth to a son, as Elisha had promised. The day
came when the child was old enough to go out to his father among
the reapers. "My head hurts!" he complained to his
father. "Carry him to his mother," the father said to a
servant. The servant picked him up and carried him to his mother;
he stayed with her until noon, when he died in her lap... When
Elisha reached the house, he found the boy lying dead. He went in,
closed the door on them both, and prayed to the LORD. Then he lay
upon the child on the bed, placing his mouth upon the child's
mouth, his eyes upon the eyes, and his hands upon the hands. As
Elisha stretched himself over the child, the body became warm. He
arose, paced up and down the room, and then once more lay down
upon the boy, who now sneezed seven times and opened his eyes. [Taken
from 2KGS 4:17-20,32-35]
Ahaziah, son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king in the
twelfth year of Joram, son of Ahab, king of Israel. He was
twenty-two years old when he began his reign, and he reigned one
year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah; she was
daughter of Omri, king of Israel. He conducted himself like the
house of Ahab, doing evil in the LORD'S sight as they did, since
he was related to them by marriage. He joined Joram, son of Ahab,
in battle against Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead, where
the Arameans wounded Joram. King Joram returned to Jezreel to be
healed of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him at
Ramah in his battle against Hazael, king of Aram. Then Ahaziah,
son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to Jezreel to visit him
there in his illness. [2KGS 8:25-29]
Thus Jehu, son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, formed a conspiracy against Joram. Joram, with all Israel, had been besieging Ramoth-gilead against Hazael, king of Aram, but had returned to Jezreel to be healed of the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him in the battle against Hazael, king of Aram. "If you are truly with me," Jehu said, "see that no one escapes from the city to report in Jezreel."
[2KGS 9:14-15]
Now the Philistines were at war with Israel; the Israelites fled before the Philistines, and a number of them fell, slain on Mount Gilboa.
The Philistines pressed hard after Saul and his sons. When the Philistines had killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, sons of Saul, the whole fury of the battle descended upon Saul. Then the archers found him, and wounded him with their arrows.
[Taken from 1CHRON 10:1-3]
After Josiah had done all this to restore the temple, Neco,
king of Egypt, came up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates,
and Josiah went out to intercept him. Neco sent messengers to him,
saying: "What quarrel is between us, king of Judah? I have
not come against you this day, for my war is with another kingdom,
and God has told me to hasten. Do not interfere with God who is
with me, as otherwise he will destroy you." But Josiah would
not withdraw from him, for he had sought a pretext for fighting
with him. Therefore he would not listen to the words of Neco that
came from the mouth of God, but went out to fight in the plain of
Megiddo. Then the archers shot King Josiah, who said to his
servants, "Take me away, for I am seriously wounded."
His servants removed him from his own chariot, placed him in
another he had in reserve, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he
died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors, and all Judah
and Jerusalem mourned him. [2CHRON 35:20-24]
When the wedding celebration came to an end, Tobit called his
son Tobiah and said to him, "Son, see to it that you give
what is due to the man who made the journey with you; give him a
bonus too." Tobiah said: "Father, how much shall I pay
him? It would not hurt me at all to give him half of all the
wealth he brought back with me. He led me back safe and sound; he
cured my wife; he brought the money back with me; and he cured
you. How much of a bonus should I give him?" Tobit answered,
"It is only fair, son, that he should receive half of all
that he brought back." So Tobiah called Raphael and said,
"Take as your wages half of all that you have brought back,
and go in peace." [TOBIT 12:1-5]
"Please, please, God of my forefather, God of the heritage
of Israel, Lord of heaven and earth, Creator of the waters, King
of all you have created, hear my prayer! Let my guileful speech
bring wound and wale on those who have planned dire things against
your covenant, your holy temple, Mount Zion, and the homes your
children have inherited. Let your whole nation and all the tribes
know clearly that you are the god of all power and might, and that
there is no other who protects the people of Israel but you
alone." [Taken from JDTH 9:12-14]
Then Apollonius gathered the Gentiles, together with a large army from Samaria, to fight against Israel. When Judas learned of it, he went out to meet him and defeated and killed him. Many fell wounded,
and the rest fled. Their possessions were seized and the sword of Apollonius was taken by Judas, who fought with it the rest of his life.
[1MACC 3:10-12]
Then the army of Bacchides moved out of camp and took its
position for combat. The cavalry were divided into two squadrons,
and the slingers and the archers came on ahead of the army, and
all the valiant men were in the front line. Bacchides was on the
right wing. Flanked by the two squadrons, the phalanx attacked as
they blew their trumpets. Those who were on Judas' side also blew
their trumpets. The earth shook with the noise of the armies, and
the battle raged from morning until evening. Seeing that Bacchides
was on the right, with the main force of his army, Judas, with all
the most stouthearted rallying to him, drove back the right wing
and pursued them as far as the mountain slopes. But when the men
on the left wing saw that the right wing was driven back, they
turned and followed Judas and his men, taking them in the rear.
The battle was fought desperately, and many on both sides fell
wounded. Then Judas fell, and the rest fled. Jonathan and Simon
took their brother Judas and buried him in the tomb of their
fathers at Modein. All Israel bewailed him in great grief. They
mourned for him many days, and they said, "How the mighty one
has fallen, the savior of Israel!" [1MACC 9:11-21]
Remembering the blood of John their brother, they went up and
hid themselves under cover of the mountain. They watched, and
suddenly saw a noisy crowd with baggage; the bridegroom and his
friends and kinsmen had come out to meet the bride's party with
tambourines and musicians and much equipment. The Jews rose up
against them from their ambush and killed them. Many fell wounded,
and after the survivors fled toward the mountain, all their spoils
were taken. Thus the wedding was turned into mourning, and the
sound of music into lamentation. Having taken their revenge for
the blood of their brother, the Jews returned to the marshes of
the Jordan. [Taken from 1MACC 9:38-42]
John then went up from Gazara and told his father Simon what
Cendebeus was doing. Simon called his two oldest sons, Judas and
John, and said to them: "I and my brothers and my father's
house have fought the battles of Israel from our youth until
today, and many times we succeeded in saving Israel. I have now
grown old, but you, by the mercy of Heaven, have come to man's
estate. Take my place and my brother's, and go out and fight for
our nation; and may the help of Heaven be with you!" John
then mustered in the land twenty thousand warriors and horsemen.
Setting out against Cendebeus, they spent the night at Modein,
rose early, and marched into the plain. There, facing them, was an
immense army of foot soldiers and horsemen, and between the two
armies was a stream. John and his men took their position against
the enemy. Seeing that his men were afraid to cross the stream,
John crossed first. When his men saw this, they crossed over after
him. Then he divided his infantry into two corps and put his
cavalry between them, for the enemy's horsemen were very numerous.
They blew the trumpets, and Cendebeus and his army were put to
flight; many of them fell wounded, and the rest fled toward the
stronghold. It was then that John's brother Judas fell wounded;
but John pursued them until Cendebeus reached Kedron, which he had
fortified. Some took refuge in the towers on the plain of Azotus,
but John set fire to these, and about two thousand of the enemy
perished. He then returned to Judea in peace. [1MACC 16:1-10]
Many sacrilegious thefts had been committed by Lysimachus in
the city with the connivance of Menelaus. When word was spread
that a large number of gold vessels had been stolen, the people
assembled in protest against Lysimachus. As the crowds, now
thoroughly enraged, began to riot, Lysimachus launched an
unjustified attack against them with about three thousand armed
men under the leadership of Auranus, a man as advanced in folly as
he was in years. Reacting against Lysimachus' attack, the people
picked up stones or pieces of wood or handfuls of the ashes lying
there and threw them in wild confusion at Lysimachus and his men.
As a result, they wounded many of them and even killed a few,
while they put all the rest to flight. The sacrilegious thief
himself they slew near the treasury. [2MACC 4:39-42]
Maccabeus assembled his men, six thousand strong, and exhorted
them not to be panic-stricken before the enemy, nor to fear the
large number of the Gentiles attacking them unjustly, but to fight
courageously, keeping before their eyes the lawless outrage
perpetrated by the Gentiles against the holy Place and the
affliction of the humiliated city, as well as the subversion of
their ancestral way of life. "They trust in weapons and acts
of daring," he said, "but we trust in almighty God, who
can by a mere nod destroy not only those who attack us, but the
whole world." He went on to tell them of the times when help
had been given their ancestors: both the time of Sennacherib, when
a hundred and eighty-five thousand of his men were destroyed, and
the time of the battle in Babylonia against the Galatians, when
only eight thousand Jews fought along with four thousand
Macedonians; yet when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight
thousand routed one hundred and twenty thousand and took a great
quantity of booty, because of the help they received from Heaven.
With such words he encouraged them and made them ready to die for
their laws and their country. Then Judas divided his army into
four, placing his brothers, Simon, Joseph, and Jonathan, each over
a division, assigning to each fifteen hundred men. (There was also
Eleazar.) After reading to them from the holy book and giving them
the watchword, "The Help of God," he himself took charge
of the first division and joined in battle with Nicanor. With the
Almighty as their ally, they killed more than nine thousand of the
enemy, wounded and disabled the greater part of Nicanor's army,
and put all of them to flight. [2MACC 8:16-24]
Timothy, who had previously been defeated by the Jews, gathered
a tremendous force of foreign troops and collected a large number
of cavalry from Asia; then he appeared in Judea, ready to conquer
it by force. At his approach, Maccabeus and his men made
supplication to God, sprinkling earth upon their heads and girding
their loins in sackcloth. Lying prostrate at the foot of the
altar, they begged him to be gracious to them, and to be an enemy
to their enemies, and a foe to their foes, as the law declares.
After the prayer, they took up their arms and advanced a
considerable distance from the city, halting when they were close
to the enemy. As soon as dawn broke, the armies joined battle, the
one having as pledge of success and victory not only their valor
but also their reliance on the Lord, and the other taking fury as
their leader in the fight. In the midst of the fierce battle,
there appeared to the enemy from the heavens five majestic men
riding on golden-bridled horses, who led the Jews on. They
surrounded Maccabeus, and shielding him with their own armor, kept
him from being wounded. They shot arrows and hurled thunderbolts
at the enemy, who were bewildered and blinded, thrown into
confusion and routed. [2MACC 10:24-30]
Very soon afterward, Lysias, guardian and kinsman of the king
and head of the government, being greatly displeased at what had
happened, mustered about eighty thousand infantry and all his
cavalry and marched against the Jews. His plan was to make
Jerusalem a Greek settlement; to levy tribute on the temple, as he
did on the sanctuaries of the other nations; and to put the high
priesthood up for sale every year. He did not take God's power
into account at all, but felt exultant confidence in his myriads
of foot soldiers, his thousands of horsemen, and his eighty
elephants. So he invaded Judea, and when he reached Beth-zur, a
fortified place about twenty miles from Jerusalem, launched a
strong attack against it. When Maccabeus and his men learned that
Lysias was besieging the strongholds, they and all the people
begged the Lord with lamentations and tears to send a good angel
to save Israel. Maccabeus himself was the first to take up arms,
and he exhorted the others to join him in risking their lives to
help their kinsmen. Then they resolutely set out together.
Suddenly, while they were still near Jerusalem, a horseman
appeared at their head, clothed in white garments and brandishing
gold weapons. Then all of them together thanked God for his
mercy... Now that the Lord had shown his mercy toward them, they
advanced in battle order with the aid of their heavenly ally.
Hurling themselves upon the enemy like lions, they laid low eleven
thousand foot soldiers and sixteen hundred horsemen, and put all
the rest to flight. Most of those who got away were wounded and
stripped of their arms, while Lysias himself escaped only by shameful flight.
[Taken from 2MACC 11:1-12]
When Timothy learned of the approach of Judas, he sent on ahead
of him the women and children, as well as the baggage, to a place
called Karnion, which was hard to besiege and even hard to reach
because of the difficult terrain of that region. But when Judas'
first cohort appeared, the enemy was overwhelmed with fear and
terror at the manifestation of the All-seeing. Scattering in every
direction, they rushed away in such headlong flight that in many
cases they wounded one another, pierced by the swords of their own
men. Judas pressed the pursuit vigorously, putting the sinners to
the sword and destroying as many as thirty thousand men. Timothy
himself fell into the hands of the men under Dositheus and
Sosipater; but with great cunning, he asked them to spare his life
and let him go, because he had in his power the parents and
relatives of many of them, and could make these suffer. When he
had fully confirmed his solemn pledge to restore them unharmed,
they let him go for the sake of saving their brethren. [2MACC 12:21-25]
Happy is the man whom God reproves! The Almighty's chastening do not reject.
For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands give healing.
[JOB 5:17-18]
If I appealed to him and he answered my call, I could not
believe that he would hearken to my words; With a tempest he might
overwhelm me, and multiply my wounds without cause; He need not
suffer me to draw breath, but might fill me with bitter griefs. If
it be a question of strength, he is mighty; and if of judgment,
who will call him to account? [JOB 9:16-19]
From the dust the dying groan, and the souls of the wounded cry
out [Taken from JOB 24:12]
For Job has said, "I am innocent, but God has taken what is my due.
Notwithstanding my right I am set at nought; in my wound the arrow rankles, sinless though I am."
[JOB 34:5-6]
If you sin, what injury do you do to God? Even if your offenses
are many, how do you hurt him? [JOB 35:6]
Make their own table a snare for them, a trap for their
friends. Make their eyes so dim they cannot see; keep their backs
ever feeble. Pour out your wrath upon them; let the fury of your
anger overtake them. Make their camp desolate, with none to dwell
in their tents. For they pursued the one you struck, added to the
pain of the one you wounded. Add that to their crimes; let them
not attain to your reward. Strike them from the book of the
living; do not count them among the just! [PS 69:23-29]
Since my heart was embittered and my soul deeply wounded, I was
stupid and could not understand; I was like a brute beast in your
presence. Yet I am always with you; you take hold of my right
hand. With your counsel you guide me, and at the end receive me
with honor. Whom else have I in the heavens? None beside you
delights me on earth. Though my flesh and my heart fail, God is
the rock of my heart, my portion forever. But those who are far
from you perish; you destroy those unfaithful to you. As for me,
to be near God is my good, to make the Lord GOD my refuge. I shall
declare all your works in the gates of daughter Zion.
[PS 73:21-28]
The LORD rebuilds Jerusalem, gathers the dispersed of Israel,
Heals the brokenhearted, binds up their wounds, Numbers all the
stars, calls each of them by name. Great is our Lord, vast in
power, with wisdom beyond measure. The LORD sustains the poor, but
casts the wicked to the ground. [PS 147:2-6]
Who scream? Who shriek? Who have strife? Who have anxiety? Who
have wounds for nothing? Who have black eyes? Those who linger
long over wine, those who engage in trials of blended wine. Look
not on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the glass. It
goes down smoothly; but in the end it bites like a serpent, or
like a poisonous adder. Your eyes behold strange sights, and your
heart utters disordered thoughts; You are like one now lying in
the depths of the sea, now sprawled at the top of the mast.
"They struck me, but it pained me not; They beat me, but I
felt it not; When shall I awake to seek wine once again?"
[PROV 23:29-35]
Like an archer wounding all who pass by is he who hires a
drunken fool. [PROV 26:10]
Wounds from a friend may be accepted as well meant, but the
greetings of an enemy one prays against. [PROV 27:6]
This is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches
kept by their owner to his hurt. [ECCL 5:12]
All these things I considered and I applied my mind to every
work that is done under the sun, while one man tyrannizes over
another to his hurt. [ECCL 8:9]
He who moves stones may be hurt by them, and he who chops wood
is in danger from it. [ECCL 10:9]
The watchmen came upon me as they made their rounds of the
city; They struck me, and wounded me, and took my mantle from me,
the guardians of the walls. [SONG 5:7]
Worst of all wounds is that of the heart, worst of all evils is
that of a woman. [SIRACH 25:12]
A wound can be bound up, and an insult forgiven, but he who
betrays secrets does hopeless damage. [SIRACH 27:21]
He who spoils his son will have wounds to bandage, and will
quake inwardly at every outcry. A colt untamed turns out stubborn;
a son left to himself grows up unruly. Pamper your child and he
will be a terror for you, indulge him and he will bring you grief.
Share not in his frivolity lest you share in his sorrow, when
finally your teeth are clenched in remorse. Give him not his own
way in his youth, and close not your eyes to his follies. Bend him
to the yoke when he is young, thrash his sides while he is still
small, Lest he become stubborn, disobey you, and leave you
disconsolate. Discipline your son, make heavy his yoke, lest his
folly humiliate you. [SIRACH 30:7-13]
More and more wine is a snare for the fool; it lessens his
strength and multiplies his wounds. [SIRACH 31:30]
Ah! sinful nation, people laden with wickedness, evil race,
corrupt children! They have forsaken the LORD, spurned the Holy
One of Israel, apostatized. Where would you yet be struck, you
that rebel again and again? The whole head is sick, the whole
heart faint. From the sole of the foot to the head there is no
sound spot: Wound and welt and gaping gash, not drained, or
bandaged, or eased with salve. [ISA 1:4-6]
The light of the moon will be like that of the sun and the
light of the sun will be seven times greater (like the light of
seven days). On the day the LORD binds up the wounds of his
people, he will heal the bruises left by his blows. [ISA 30:26]
Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like
a trumpet blast; Tell my people their wickedness, and the house of
Jacob their sins. They seek me day after day, and desire to know
my ways, Like a nation that has done what is just and not
abandoned the law of their God; They ask me to declare what is due
them, pleased to gain access to God. "Why do we fast, and you
do not see it? afflict ourselves, and you take no note of
it?" Lo, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits,
and drive all your laborers. Yes, your fast ends in quarreling and
fighting, striking with wicked claw. Would that today you might
fast so as to make your voice heard on high! Is this the manner of
fasting I wish, of keeping a day of penance: That a man bow his
head like a reed, and lie in sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this
a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD? This, rather, is the fasting
that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of
the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke; Sharing
your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the
homeless; Clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning
your back on your own. Then your light shall break forth like the
dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed; Your vindication
shall go before you, and the glory of the LORD shall be your rear
guard. Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer, you shall
cry for help, and he will say: Here I am! If you remove from your
midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; If you
bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; Then
light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall
become for you like midday; Then the LORD will guide you always
and give you plenty even on the parched land. He will renew your
strength, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring
whose water never fails. [Taken from ISA 58:1-11]
Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; The
things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind.
Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I
create; For I create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a
delight; I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No
longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of
crying; No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a
few days, or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime;
He dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years, and he who
fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed. They shall live in
the houses they build, and eat the fruit of the vineyards they
plant; They shall not build houses for others to live in, or plant
for others to eat. As the years of a tree, so the years of my
people; and my chosen ones shall long enjoy the produce of their
hands. They shall not toil in vain, nor beget children for sudden
destruction; For a race blessed by the LORD are they and their
offspring. Before they call, I will answer; while they are yet
speaking, I will hearken to them. The wolf and the lamb shall
graze alike, and the lion shall eat hay like the ox (but the
serpent's food shall be dust). None shall hurt or destroy on all
my holy mountain, says the LORD. [ISA 65:17-25]
For thus says the LORD of hosts: Hew down her trees, throw up a
siege mound against Jerusalem. Woe to the city marked for
punishment; nought but oppression within her! As the well gushes
out its waters, so she gushes out her wickedness. Violence and
destruction resound in her; ever before me are wounds and blows.
Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be estranged from you; Lest I turn
you into a desert, a land where no man dwells. [JER 6:6-8]
You, now, do not intercede for this people; raise not in their behalf a pleading prayer! Do not urge me, for I will not listen to you. Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, their fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven, while libations are poured out to strange gods in order to hurt me. Is it I whom they hurt, says the LORD; is it not rather themselves, to their own confusion?
[JER 7:16-19]
Is there no balm in Gilead, no physician there? Why grows not
new flesh over the wound of the daughter of my people? [JER 8:22]
Woe is me! I am undone, my wound is incurable; Yet I had
thought: if I make light of my wound, I can bear it. My tent is
ruined, all its cords are severed. My sons have left me, they are
no more: no one to pitch my tent, no one to raise its curtains. [Taken
from JER 10:19-20]
Therefore, thus says the LORD: Concerning the prophets who
prophesy in my name, though I did not send them; who say,
"Sword and famine shall not befall this land": by the
sword and famine shall these prophets meet their end. The people
to whom they prophesy shall be cast out into the streets of
Jerusalem by famine and the sword. No one shall bury them, their
wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour out upon
them their own wickedness. Speak to them this word: Let my eyes
stream with tears day and night, without rest, Over the great
destruction which overwhelms the virgin daughter of my people,
over her incurable wound. If I walk out into the field, look!
those slain by the sword; If I enter the city, look! those
consumed by hunger. Even the prophet and the priest forage in a
land they know not. Have you cast Judah off completely? Is Zion
loathsome to you? Why have you struck us a blow that cannot be
healed? We wait for peace, to no avail; for a time of healing, but
terror comes instead. We recognize, O LORD, our wickedness, the
guilt of our fathers; that we have sinned against you. For your
name's sake spurn us not, disgrace not the throne of your glory;
remember your covenant with us, and break it not. Among the
nations' idols is there any that gives rain? Or can the mere
heavens send showers? Is it not you alone, O LORD, our God, to
whom we look? You alone have done all these things. [JER 14:15-22]
When I found your words, I devoured them; they became my joy
and the happiness of my heart, Because I bore your name, O LORD,
God of hosts. I did not sit celebrating in the circle of
merrymakers; Under the weight of your hand I sat alone because you
filled me with indignation. Why is my pain continuous, my wound
incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become for me a
treacherous brook, whose waters do not abide! Thus the LORD
answered me: If you repent, so that I restore you, in my presence
you shall stand; If you bring forth the precious without the vile,
you shall be my mouthpiece. Then it shall be they who turn to you,
and you shall not turn to them; And I will make you toward this
people a solid wall of brass. Though they fight against you, they
shall not prevail, For I am with you, to deliver and rescue you,
says the LORD. I will free you from the hand of the wicked, and
rescue you from the grasp of the violent. [Taken from JER 15:16-21]
I will make this city an object of amazement and derision.
Because of all its wounds, every passer-by will be amazed and will
catch his breath. [JER 19:8]
For thus says the LORD: Incurable is your wound, grievous your
bruise; There is none to plead your cause, no remedy for your
running sore, no healing for you. All your lovers have forgotten
you, they do not seek you. I struck you as an enemy would strike,
punished you cruelly; Why cry out over your wound? your pain is
without relief. Because of your great guilt, your numerous sins, I
have done this to you. Yet all who devour you shall be devoured,
all your enemies shall go into exile. All who plunder you shall be
plundered, all who pillage you I will hand over to pillage. For I
will restore you to health; of your wounds I will heal you, says
the LORD. "The outcast" they have called you, "with
no avenger." Thus says the LORD: See! I will restore the
tents of Jacob, his dwellings I will pity; City shall be rebuilt
upon hill, and palace restored as it was. From them will resound
songs of praise, the laughter of happy men. I will make them not
few, but many; they will not be tiny, for I will glorify them.
[JER 30:12-19]
Behold, I will treat and assuage the city's wounds; I will heal
them, and reveal to them an abundance of lasting peace. I will
change the lot of Judah and the lot of Israel, and rebuild them as
of old. I will cleanse them of all the guilt they incurred by
sinning against me; all their offenses by which they sinned and
rebelled against me, I will forgive. Then Jerusalem shall be my
joy, my praise, my glory, before all the nations of the earth, as
they hear of all the good I will do among them. They shall be in
fear and trembling over all the peaceful benefits I will give her.
[JER 33:6-9]
This word of the LORD then came to the prophet Jeremiah: Thus
says the LORD, the God of Israel: Give this answer to the king of
Judah who sent you to me to consult me: Pharaoh's army which has
set out to help you will return to its own land, Egypt. The
Chaldeans shall return to the fight against this city; they shall
capture it and destroy it with fire. Thus says the LORD: Do not
deceive yourselves with the thought that the Chaldeans will leave
you for good, because they shall not leave! Even if you were to
defeat the whole Chaldean army now attacking you, and only the
wounded remained, each in his tent, these would rise up and
destroy the city with fire. [JER 37:6-10]
Edom shall become an object of horror. Every passer-by shall be appalled and catch his breath at all her wounds. As when Sodom, Gomorrah, and their neighbors were overthrown, says the LORD, not a man shall dwell there: no one shall visit there.
[JER 49:17-18]
Because of the LORD'S wrath she shall be empty, and become a
total desert; Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled and
catch his breath, at all her wounds. [JER 50:13]
Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of the LORD which made the
whole earth drunk; The nations drank its wine, with this they have
become mad. Babylon suddenly falls and is crushed: howl over her!
Bring balm for her wounds, in case she can be healed. "We
have tried to heal Babylon, but she cannot be healed. Leave her,
let us go, each to his own land." Her judgment reaches
heaven, it touches the clouds. The LORD has brought to light our
just cause; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD, our God, has
done. [JER 51:7-10]
But behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will
punish her idols, and in her whole land the wounded will groan.
Though Babylon scale the heavens, and make her strong heights
inaccessible, destroyers from me shall reach her, says the LORD. [Taken
from JER 51:52-53]
Worn out from weeping are my eyes, within me all is in ferment;
My gall is poured out on the ground because of the downfall of the
daughter of my people, As child and infant faint away in the open
spaces of the town. They ask their mothers, "Where is the
cereal?" - in vain, As they faint away like the wounded in
the streets of the city, And breathe their last in their mothers'
arms. To what can I liken or compare you, O daughter Jerusalem?
What example can I show you for your comfort, virgin daughter
Zion? For great as the sea is your downfall; who can heal you? [LAM
2:11-13]
Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: At the noise of your fall, at
the groaning of the wounded, when the sword slays in your midst,
shall not the isles quake? All the princes of the sea shall step
down from their thrones, lay aside their robes, and strip off
their embroidered garments. They shall be clothed in mourning and,
sitting on the ground, they shall tremble at every moment and be
horrified at you. Then they shall utter a lament over you [Taken
from EZEK 26:15-17]
The king was deeply grieved at this news and he made up his
mind to save Daniel; he worked till sunset to rescue him. But
these men insisted. "Keep in mind, O king," they said,
"that under the Mede and Persian law every royal prohibition
or decree is irrevocable." So the king ordered Daniel to be
brought and cast into the lions' den. To Daniel he said, "May
your God, whom you serve so constantly, save you." To
forestall any tampering, the king sealed with his own ring and the
rings of the lords the stone that had been brought to block the
opening of the den. Then the king returned to his palace for the
night; he refused to eat and he dismissed the entertainers. Since
sleep was impossible for him, the king rose very early the next
morning and hastened to the lions' den. As he drew near, he cried
out to Daniel sorrowfully, "O Daniel, servant of the living
God, has the God whom you serve so constantly been able to save
you from the lions?" Daniel answered the king: "O king,
live forever! My God has sent his angel and closed the lions'
mouths so that they have not hurt me. For I have been found
innocent before him; neither to you have I done any harm, O
king!" This gave the king great joy. At his order Daniel was
removed from the den, unhurt because he trusted in his God. [DAN
6:15-24]
In their affliction, they shall look for me: "Come, let us
return to the LORD, For it is he who has rent, but he will heal
us; he has struck us, but he will bind our wounds. He will revive
us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, to live
in his presence. Let us know, let us strive to know the LORD; as
certain as the dawn is his coming, and his judgment shines forth
like the light of day! He will come to us like the rain, like
spring rain that waters the earth." What can I do with you,
Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your piety is like a
morning cloud, like the dew that early passes away. [HOSEA 6:1-4]
Alas! how your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria, your
nobles have gone to rest; Your people are scattered upon the
mountains, with none to gather them. There is no healing for your
hurt, your wound is mortal. All who hear this news of you clap
their hands over you; For who has not been overwhelmed, steadily,
by your malice? [NAHUM 3:18-19]
On that day, every prophet shall be ashamed to prophesy his
vision, neither shall he assume the hairy mantle to mislead, but
he shall say, "I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the soil,
for I have owned land since my youth." And if anyone asks
him, "What are these wounds on your chest?" he shall
answer, "With these I was wounded in the house of my dear
ones." [ZECH 13:4-6]
Jesus replied, "A man fell victim to robbers as he went
down from Jerusalem to Jericho. They stripped and beat him and
went off leaving him half-dead. A priest happened to be going down
that road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.
Likewise a Levite came to the place, and when he saw him, he
passed by on the opposite side. But a Samaritan traveler who came
upon him was moved with compassion at the sight. He approached the
victim, poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them.
Then he lifted him up on his own animal, took him to an inn and
cared for him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave
them to the innkeeper with the instruction, 'Take care of him. If
you spend more than what I have given you, I shall repay you on my
way back.' Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbor to
the robbers' victim?" He answered, "The one who treated
him with mercy." Jesus said to him, "Go and do
likewise." [LK 10:30-37]
Then he proceeded to tell the people this parable. "(A)
man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and then went
on a journey for a long time. At harvest time he sent a servant to
the tenant farmers to receive some of the produce of the vineyard.
But they beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed. So he
proceeded to send another servant, but him also they beat and
insulted and sent away empty-handed. Then he proceeded to send a
third, but this one too they wounded and threw out. The owner of
the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I shall send my beloved son;
maybe they will respect him.' But when the tenant farmers saw him
they said to one another, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him that
the inheritance may become ours.' So they threw him out of the
vineyard and killed him. What will the owner of the vineyard do to
them? He will come and put those tenant farmers to death and turn
over the vineyard to others." When the people heard this,
they exclaimed, "Let it not be so!" But he looked at
them and asked, "What then does this scripture passage mean:
'The stone which the builders rejected has become the
cornerstone'? Everyone who falls on that stone will be dashed to
pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls." The
scribes and chief priests sought to lay their hands on him at that
very hour, but they feared the people, for they knew that he had
addressed this parable to them. [LK 20:9-19]
About midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing
hymns to God as the prisoners listened, there was suddenly such a
severe earthquake that the foundations of the jail shook; all the
doors flew open, and the chains of all were pulled loose. When the
jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew (his)
sword and was about to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners
had escaped. But Paul shouted out in a loud voice, "Do no
harm to yourself; we are all here." He asked for a light and
rushed in and, trembling with fear, he fell down before Paul and
Silas. Then he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I
do to be saved?" And they said, "Believe in the Lord
Jesus and you and your household will be saved." So they
spoke the word of the Lord to him and to everyone in his house. He
took them in at that hour of the night and bathed their wounds;
then he and all his family were baptized at once. He brought them
up into his house and provided a meal and with his household
rejoiced at having come to faith in God. [ACTS 16:25-34]
Then some itinerant Jewish exorcists tried to invoke the name
of the Lord Jesus over those with evil spirits, saying, "I
adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches." When the seven
sons of Sceva, a Jewish high priest, tried to do this, the evil
spirit said to them in reply, "Jesus I recognize, Paul I
know, but who are you?" The person with the evil spirit then
sprang at them and subdued them all. He so overpowered them that
they fled naked and wounded from that house. When this became
known to all the Jews and Greeks who lived in Ephesus, fear fell
upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in great
esteem. Many of those who had become believers came forward and
openly acknowledged their former practices. Moreover, a large
number of those who had practiced magic collected their books and
burned them in public. They calculated their value and found it to
be fifty thousand silver pieces. Thus did the word of the Lord
continue to spread with influence and power. [ACTS 19:13-20]
If your brother is being hurt by what you eat, your conduct is
no longer in accord with love. Do not because of your food destroy
him for whom Christ died. [ROM 14:15]
When you sin in this way against your brothers and wound their
consciences, weak as they are, you are sinning against Christ.
[1COR 8:12]
For whenever anyone bears the pain of unjust suffering because
of consciousness of God, that is a grace. But what credit is there
if you are patient when beaten for doing wrong? But if you are
patient when you suffer for doing what is good, this is a grace
before God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also
suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in
his footsteps. "He committed no sin, and no deceit was found
in his mouth." When he was insulted, he returned no insult;
when he suffered, he did not threaten; instead, he handed himself
over to the one who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his
body upon the cross, so that, free from sin, we might live for
righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you had
gone astray like sheep, but you have now returned to the shepherd
and guardian of your souls. [1PT 2:19-25]
Then I saw a beast come out of the sea with ten horns and seven
heads; on its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads blasphemous
name(s). The beast I saw was like a leopard, but it had feet like
a bear's, and its mouth was like the mouth of a lion. To it the
dragon gave its own power and throne, along with great authority.
I saw that one of its heads seemed to have been mortally wounded,
but this mortal wound was healed. Fascinated, the whole world
followed after the beast. They worshiped the dragon because it
gave its authority to the beast; they also worshiped the beast and
said, "Who can compare with the beast or who can fight
against it?" The beast was given a mouth uttering proud
boasts and blasphemies, and it was given authority to act for
forty-two months. It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against
God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling and those who dwell in
heaven. It was also allowed to wage war against the holy ones and
conquer them, and it was granted authority over every tribe,
people, tongue, and nation. All the inhabitants of the earth will
worship it, all whose names were not written from the foundation
of the world in the book of life, which belongs to the Lamb who
was slain. [RV 13:1-8]
Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth; it had two
horns like a lamb's but spoke like a dragon. It wielded all the
authority of the first beast in its sight and made the earth and
its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound had
been healed. It performed great signs, even making fire come down
from heaven to earth in the sight of everyone. It deceived the
inhabitants of the earth with the signs it was allowed to perform
in the sight of the first beast, telling them to make an image for
the beast who had been wounded by the sword and revived. It was
then permitted to breathe life into the beast's image, so that the
beast's image could speak and (could) have anyone who did not
worship it put to death. It forced all the people, small and
great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be given a stamped image
on their right hands or their foreheads, so that no one could buy
or sell except one who had the stamped image of the beast's name
or the number that stood for its name. Wisdom is needed here; one
who understands can calculate the number of the beast, for it is a
number that stands for a person. His number is six hundred and
sixty-six. [RV 13:11-18]
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wrath
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forgive
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console
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love
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