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That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.
With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
