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And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
