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The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab.
And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?
Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
