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Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.
And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.
