This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time {is} evil.

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people {are} as they that strive with the priest.

Before the decree bring forth, {before} the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you.

And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so {are} the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. {invade...: or, cut them in pieces}

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. {having...: or, having overcome all}

And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that {is} by the sides of the house, {Is there} yet {any} with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD. {we...: or, they will not, or, have not}

Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day {is} a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and {there is} not strength to bring forth. {blasphemy: or, provocation}

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

[To the chief Musician, {even} to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.] I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. {my mouth...: Heb. a bridle, or, muzzle for my mouth}

A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise {man} keepeth it in till afterwards.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth {are} no reproofs.

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time {is} evil.

But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with {his} finger wrote on the ground, {as though he heard them not}.

And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that {is} by the sides of the house, {Is there} yet {any} with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD. {we...: or, they will not, or, have not}

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people {are} as they that strive with the priest.

Declare ye {it} not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. {Aphrah: that is, Dust}

Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and {from} your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay {your} hand upon {your} mouth. {Mark...: Heb. Look unto me}

When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, {and} answered no more;)

Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, {when} the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

The simple believeth every word: but the prudent {man} looketh well to his going.

But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, {and} keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I {any} man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither {was there any} beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.