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For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.
And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal.
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
