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Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
And these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
