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Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
And these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.
And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.
Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
