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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
And Job spake, and said,
And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:
Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.
And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
