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And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
