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For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
But Job answered and said,
But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Bizjothjah,
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
