So when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet justice does not allow to live.”

and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you;I will stretch out My hand against you,And make you most desolate;

Remove falsehood and lies far from me;Give me neither poverty nor riches—Feed me with the food allotted to me;

So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in the custody of his lord’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

You are my King, O God;Command victories for Jacob.

And Festus said: “King Agrippa and all the men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom the whole assembly of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out that he was not fit to live any longer.

And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,

Then the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad.”