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For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
And he wrote a letter after this manner:
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,
And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.
He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.
And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:
And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
