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And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.
And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.
I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
