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Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.
