dogs

⁶Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not cast your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they may trample them under their feet, and then, turning, they may tear you apart.

¹¹Like a dog that returns to his vomit, so also is the imprudent who repeats his foolishness.

²Beware of dogs; beware of those who work evil; beware of those who are divisive.

¹⁵Outside are dogs, and drug users, and homosexuals, and murderers, and those who serve idols, and all who love and do what is false.

²⁷But she said, “Yes, Lord, but the young dogs also eat from the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.”

¹⁹A certain man was wealthy, and he was clothed in purple and in fine linen. And he feasted splendidly every day. ²⁰And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, covered with sores, ²¹wanting to be filled with the crumbs which were falling from the wealthy man’s table. But no one gave it to him. And even the dogs came and licked his sores. ²²Then it happened that the beggar died, and he was carried by the Angels into the bosom of Abraham. Now the wealthy man also died, and he was entombed in Hell. ²³Then lifting up his eyes, while he was in torments, he saw Abraham far away, and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴And crying out, he said: ‘Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to refresh my tongue. For I am tortured in this fire.’

¹But now, those younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock,

¹⁰The just one knows the lives of his beasts. But the inner most parts of the impious are cruel.

²⁶And responding, he said, “It is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.”

¹⁹And you shall speak to him, saying: ‘Thus says the Lord: You have killed. Moreover you have also taken possession.’ And after this, you shall add: ‘Thus says the Lord: In this place, where the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, they shall also lick your blood.’ ”

¹⁷For many dogs have surrounded me. The council of the malicious has besieged me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

⁸And reverencing him, he said, “Who am I, your servant, that you should look with favor upon a dead dog like me?”

⁴Whoever will have died of Baasha in the city, the dogs will consume him. And whoever will have died of him in the countryside, the birds of the air will consume him.”

⁷But among all the sons of Israel there shall not be even a mutter from a dog, from man, even to cattle, so that you may know how miraculously the Lord divides the Egyptians from Israel.’

¹¹Those who will have died of Jeroboam in the city, the dogs will devour them. And those who will have died in the field, the birds of the heavens will devour them. For the Lord has spoken.’

¹⁴So too, it is said in the ancient proverb, ‘From the impious, impiety will go forth.’ Therefore, my hand will not be upon you.