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When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
