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And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:
I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
