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Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?
