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My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.
And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
