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Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.
(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;
And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.
But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
The men of Beth-el and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
