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And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
