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O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.
And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
