Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”

No longer drink water exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Chief

a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the table.

Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But

Then they sat down to eat a meal. And as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing

aromatic gum and

balm and myrrh, on their way to bring them down to Egypt.

Then they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.”

“Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a spring;
Its branches run over a wall.

The couriers went out impelled by the king’s command while the decree was issued at the citadel in Susa; and while the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was in confusion.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Affliction

In the days of Pekah king of Israel,

Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute.

‘Alas! for that day is great,
There is none like it;
And it is the time of Jacob’s distress,
But he will be saved from it.

General references

They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan and for the people of the Lord and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

“They sing to the timbrel and harp
And rejoice at the sound of the flute.

They do not drink wine with song;

Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink.”

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink;

You did not anoint My head with oil, but she anointed My feet with perfume.