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And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
And turneth toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el toward the north side of Beth-emek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,
Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.
The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
