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To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.
With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.
For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter.
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
