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And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet.
And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
