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Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.
And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.
Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
