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And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.
Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
And at En-rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
