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To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
