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Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.
Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
