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And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.
And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.
And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
