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Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram,
And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.
For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.
The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
