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After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
