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Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
