24:8Joachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, a and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Nohesta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

9And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his father had done.

10At that time the servants of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was surrounded with their forts.

11And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came to the city with his servants to assault it.

12And Joachin king of Juda went out to the king of Babylon, he end his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and the king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign.

13And he brought out from from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house: and he cut in pieces all the containers of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.

14And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the leaders, and all the valiant men of the army, to the number of ten thousand into captivity: and every artificer and smith: and none were left, but the poor sort of the people of the land.

15And he carried away Joachin into Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and the judges of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem into Babylon.

16And all the strong men, seven thousand, and the artificers, and the smiths a thousand, all that were valiant men and fit for war: and the king of Babylon led them captives into Babylon.

17And he appointed Matthanias his uncle in his stead: and called his name Sedecias.

79:1A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into your gift, they have defiled your holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.

2They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the fowls of the air: the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth.

3They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them.

4We are become a shame to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

5How long, O Lord, will you be angry forever: shall your zeal be kindled like a fire?

8Remember not our former sins: let your mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.

9Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for your name's sake:

7:21Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.

22Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in your name, and cast out devils in your name, and done many signs in your name?

23And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work sin.

24Every one therefore that hears these my words, and does them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,

25And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock.

26And every one that hears these my words, and does them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand,

27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.

28And it happened when Jesus had fully ended these words, the people were in admiration at his teaching.

29For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the teachers of the law and Pharisees.