For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.
Then the Lord will be your delight; and I will put you on the high places of the earth; and I will give you the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has said it.
If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.
Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.
And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;
For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.
For see, I will send for all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord; and they will come, everyone placing his high seat at the way into Jerusalem, and against its walls on every side, and against all the towns of Judah.
A seat of glory, placed on high from the first, is our holy place.
Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.
And they have put up the high places of the Baal, burning their sons in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me, and it was never in my mind:
For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
So, as a prophet, give out these words among them, and say to them, The voice of the Lord will be sounding like a lion from on high; he will send out his voice from his holy place, like the loud voice of a lion, against his flock; he will give a cry, like those who are crushing the grapes, against all the people of the earth.
Micah the Morashtite, who was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, said to all the people of Judah, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Zion will become like a ploughed field, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the woodland.
So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.
This is what the Lord has said: If the heavens on high may be measured, and the bases of the earth searched out, then I will give up the seed of Israel, because of all they have done, says the Lord.
And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way.
And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.
The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, and I will not go back from it; it is my purpose, and it will not be changed.
I have knowledge of his wrath, says the Lord, that it is nothing; his high-sounding words have done nothing.
And I will put an end in Moab, says the Lord, to him who is making offerings in the high place and burning perfumes to his gods.
... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.
Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.
The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doorways will be burned with fire; so peoples keep on working for nothing, and the weariness of nations comes to an end in the smoke.
And as for the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and twelve cubits measured all round, and it was as thick as a man's hand: it was hollow.
And there was a crown of brass on it: the crown was five cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same.
Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.
And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind.
Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.
His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.
Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.
Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!
Rule and power are his; he makes peace in his high places.
By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:
For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?
That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.
That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;
Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?
When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.
Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.
Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.
But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You have no knowledge of anything;
He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;
Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, took it out and gave the high priest's servant a blow, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
They took him first to Annas, because Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was the high priest that year.
And Simon Peter went after Jesus with another disciple. Now that disciple was a friend of the high priest and he went in with Jesus into the house of the high priest;
But Peter was kept outside at the door. Then this other disciple, who was a friend of the high priest, came out and had a word with the girl who kept the door, and took Peter in.
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