And I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up, and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple. For they will come to

Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

And my God put into my heart to gather together the ranking men, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first. And I found written

These are the sons of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city

And these were those who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not show their fathers' house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:

And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.

And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people), and when he opened it, all the people stood up.

And Ezra blessed LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands. And they bowed their heads, and worshipped LORD with their faces to the ground.

And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to LORD your God; do not mourn nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard th

And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of LORD their God a fourth part of the day, and [another] fourth part they confessed, and worshipped LORD their God.

Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, stood up upon the stairs of the Levites, and cried with a loud voice to LORD their God.

Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting. And blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted abo

and refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou did among them, but stiffened their neck. And in their rebellion they appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But thou are a God ready to pardon, gracious a

Yea, when they had made a molten calf for them, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations,

And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites when the Levites take tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure-house.

Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

Then I brought up the rulers of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies that gave thanks and went in procession, [one went] on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate,

And by the fountain gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water gate eastward.

Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the observances of it.

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter. For she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful. And when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

Esther had not yet made known her kindred nor her people, as Mordecai had charged her. For Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, as when she was brought up with him.

Then Haman went forth that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he did not stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine [and went] into the palace garden. And Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen, for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were completed, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my so

And LORD said to Satan, From where do thou come? Then Satan answered LORD, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God fell from heaven, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.

And LORD said to Satan, From where did thou come? And Satan answered LORD, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and did not recognize him, they lifted up their voice, and wept. And each one tore his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.

so that he sets up on high those who are low, and those who mourn are exalted to safety.

For he injures, and binds up. He wounds, and his hands make whole.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

Can the rush grow up without mire? Can a reed grow without water?

whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider's web.

who commands the sun, and it does not rise, and seals up the stars,

If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction.

Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

If he passes through, and shuts up, and all to judgment, then who can hinder him?

Surely then thou shall lift up thy face without spot. Yea, thou shall be steadfast, and shall not fear.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee. And their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would keep silent and give up the spirit.

But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

[As] the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes away and dries up,

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou fasten up my iniquity.

The wicked man travails with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of [God's] mouth he shall go away.

And thou have laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.

Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the profane.

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree.

His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.

But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth.

Though his height mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches to the clouds,

He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

[Ye say], God lays up his iniquity for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself that he may know it.

[Saying], Surely those who rose up against us are cut off, and the remnant of them, the fire has consumed.

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shall be built up, thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.

Then thou shall lay up gold as dust, and [the gold of] Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

For then shall thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shall lift up thy face to God.

When they cast [thee] down, thou shall say, [There is] lifting up, and he will save the humble man.

I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips, I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do those who know him not see his days?

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.

Yet [God] preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through Rahab.

And Job again took up his parable, and said,

Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,

As for the earth, out of it comes bread, and underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

And Job again took up his parable, and said,

The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood.

Upon my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

I cry to thee, and thou do not answer me. I stand up, and thou gaze at me.

Thou lift me up to the wind. Thou cause me to ride [upon it], and thou disintegrate me in the storm.

Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

Therefore my harp has [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him?

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb);

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together;

What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water,