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Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.
The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.
And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.
That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?
And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
