Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, lifting himself up in pride, said, I will become king; and he made ready his carriages of war and his horsemen, with fifty runners to go before him.

As I took an oath to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, saying, Certainly Solomon your son will become king after me, seated on my seat in my place; so will I do this day.

And he said, You saw how the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had the idea that I would be their king; but now the kingdom is turned about, and has become my brother's, for it was given to him by the Lord.

And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he will give you word of what is to become of the child.

Those of the family of Jeroboam who come to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and those on whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air; for the Lord has said it.

Anyone of the family of Baasha who comes to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and he to whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air.

Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.

And of Jezebel the Lord said, Jezebel will become food for dogs in the heritage of Jezreel.

Any man of the family of Ahab who comes to his death in the town will become food for the dogs; and he who comes to his death in the open country will be food for the birds of the air.

Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not be washed in them and become clean? So turning, he went away in wrath.

Then his servants came to him and said, If the prophet had given you orders to do some great thing, would you not have done it? how much more then, when he says to you, Be washed and become clean?

And Jezebel will become food for the dogs in the heritage of Jezreel, and there will be no one to put her body into the earth. Then, opening the door, he went in flight.

So they came back and gave him word of it. And he said, This is what the Lord said by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the heritage of Jezreel the flesh of Jezebel will become food for dogs;

And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods,

Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to you, says the Lord.

And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?

And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

But still they will become his servants, so that they may see how different my yoke is from the yoke of the kingdoms of the lands.

But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes.

And the children of Israel, who had come back, and all those who were joined to them, after separating themselves from the evil ways of the people of the land to become the servants of the Lord, the God of Israel, took food together,

And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.

Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.

In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.

When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.

And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;

And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?

Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?

And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.

I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength;

When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.

I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. (Selah.)

Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.

When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.

The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

I will give you praise, for you have given me an answer, and have become my salvation.

The stone which the builders put on one side has become the chief stone of the building.

For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.

Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.

Give teaching to a wise man, and he will become wiser; give training to an upright man, and his learning will be increased.

He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.

My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.

For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;

I said to my heart, See, I have become great and am increased in wisdom more than any who were before me in Jerusalem--yes, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.

Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.

The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.

And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?

For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;

For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.

See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.

They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?

The word about Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer; for in a night Kir of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer.

The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.

The word about Damascus. See, they have made Damascus a town no longer; it has become a waste place.

And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.