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As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal.
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.
Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
