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So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.
Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan.
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
