And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of a friend, and an adulteress, according to the love of Jehovah for the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love raisin-cakes.

Drink no longer only water, but use a little wine on account of thy stomach and thy frequent illnesses.

Chief

a woman, having an alabaster flask of very precious ointment, came to him and poured it out upon his head as he lay at table.

Mary therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure nard of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

But

And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam, and ladanum going to carry it down to Egypt.

Then they said one to another, We are indeed guilty concerning our brother, whose anguish of soul we saw when he besought us, and we did not hearken; therefore this distress is come upon us.

Joseph is a fruitful bough; A fruitful bough by a well; His branches shoot over the wall.

The couriers went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the fortress. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was in consternation.

Rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep.

And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be glorified, all the members rejoice with it.

Affliction

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant, and tendered him presents.

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

General references

And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.

And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

for I hungered, and ye gave me not to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me not to drink;

My head with oil thou didst not anoint, but she has anointed my feet with myrrh.