"There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters:"

"Salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber-"

"One land also shall ask another, and say, ‘Is righteousness that makes a man righteous gone through thee?’ And it shall say, ‘No."

"At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper."

"To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shall hear yet greater things."

"After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding."

"Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better than he that made them?"

"Number me the things that are not yet come- gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad- make me the flowers green again that are withered- Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up- shew me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to thee the thing that thou labor to know."

"O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?"

"As for you, you're unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?"