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I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
