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Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.
And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.
And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD.
