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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,
My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.
My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
