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And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
