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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth:
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
