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Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
