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And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
And Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah,
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.
And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
And Job spake, and said,
And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
