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For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise him, O ye servants of the LORD.
In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
And Job spake, and said,
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
