By the blessing of the upright a city is built up, but by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.
Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!
The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”
…who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
“Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.
Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.