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Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.
Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you.
Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
