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The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I.
So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;
Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
