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Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
