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Yet you say, "For what reason?" Because the LORD has been witness Between you and the wife of your youth, With whom you have dealt treacherously; Yet she is your companion And your wife by covenant.

And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien-- Because they do not fear Me," Says the LORD of hosts.

"A voice was heard in Ramah,Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning,Rachel weeping for her children,Refusing to be comforted,Because they are no more." Jeremiah 31:15 ">[fn]

Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.

Because [fn] narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary [fn] and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.

And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me."

Genesis 19:12-14; Luke 10:13-15">[xr] Then He began to rebuke the cities in which most of His mighty works had been done, because they did not repent:

The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.

Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.

But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.

He answered and said to them, "Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

Because John had said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."

And although he wanted to put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

And the king was sorry; nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to her.

He answered and said to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

Mark 8:1-10">[xr] Now Jesus called His disciples to Himself and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."