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And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.
Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
