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Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time.
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.
Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
