And Solomon said, Jehovah said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.

And he said, What have I sinned that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab to kill me?

And Ahab came to his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him. For he had said, I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers. And he lay on his bed and turned away his face, and would not eat food.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell you that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?

And Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with your servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.

And Elisha said, As Jehovah of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely if it were not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you nor see you.

And he took his oldest son, who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there was great anger against Israel. And they left him, and returned to the land.

And he said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been thoughtful for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the commander of the army? And she answered, I dwell among my own people.

And she said to her mistress, I wish my lord were with the prophet in Samaria! For he would recover him from his leprosy.

And his servants came near and spoke to him and said, My father, if the prophet had told you to do a great thing, would you not have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, Wash and be clean?

And he answered, You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them so that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

And the third officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah would make windows in heaven, then this thing might be. And he said, Behold, you shall see with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.

And he departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, What did Elisha say to you? And he answered, He told me you would surely recover.

Yet Jehovah would not destroy Judah for David His servant's sake, as He promised him to give him a light to his sons forever.

And the man of God was angry with him, and said, You should have stricken five or six times, then you would have stricken Syria until it was finished. But now you shall strike Syria three times.

And Jehovah was gracious to them, and had pity on them, and had respect to them, because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And He would not destroy them, nor cast them from His presence as yet.

But Amaziah would not hear. And Jehoash king of Israel went up. And he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, of Judah.

And Jehovah did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash.

But they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like the neck of their fathers who did not believe in Jehovah their God.

because they did not obey the voice of Jehovah their God, but transgressed His covenant, and all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded, and would not listen to them, nor do them.

and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which Jehovah would not pardon.

And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that You would bless me indeed, and make my border larger, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, so that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he asked.

And Saul said to his armor-bearer, Draw your sword and pierce me with it, lest these uncircumcised ones come and abuse me. But his armor-bearer would not, for he was very much afraid. So Saul took a sword and fell on it.

And David longed and said, Oh that someone would give me drink from the water of the well of Bethlehem, which was by the gate!

And the three broke through the Philistine army and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David. But David would not drink it, but poured it out to Jehovah.

But David did not take the number of those from twenty years old and under, because Jehovah had said He would increase Israel like the stars of the heavens.

And Solomon said, Jehovah has said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.

I pray that Your eyes may be open on this house day and night, on the place of which You have said that You would put Your name there, to listen to the prayer which Your servant prays toward this place.

And all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, and the people answered the king saying, What part do we have in David? And we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, O Israel! Now, David, see to your own house. And all Israel went to their tents.

And when he humbled himself, the wrath of Jehovah turned from him so that He would not destroy him altogether. And also things went well in Judah.

and that whoever would not seek Jehovah, the God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell you he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?

And now, behold, the sons of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them,

Yet He sent prophets to them to bring them again to Jehovah. And they testified against them. But they would not listen.

But Amaziah would not hear; for it was from God, so that He might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.

And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to His people, but they would not listen.

But Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself so that he might fight with him. And he did not listen to the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

should we again break Your commandments and join hands with the people of these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You had crushed us, until there is no remnant nor survivor?

and that who ever would not come within three days, according to the advice of the rulers and the elders, all he owned would be lost, and he himself separated from the congregation of the exiles.

And they gave their hands that they would put away their women. And being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their sin.

and I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I pray that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, so that I may build it.

And I said, Should such a man as I flee? And who, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.

My God, think upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these works of theirs, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets who would have made me afraid.

And the sons went in and possessed the land, and You humbled the people of the land before them, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them as they would.

and testified against them that You might bring them again to Your Law. But they acted proudly and did not listen to Your commandments, but sinned against Your judgments (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

And many years You had patience with them, and testified against them by Your Spirit, by Your prophets, but they would not give ear. And You gave them into the hand of the people of the lands.

And we swore that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land nor take their daughters for our sons.

And if the people of the land should bring goods or any food on the Sabbath day to sell it, that we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath or on the holy day, and that we would leave the seventh year, and the interest of every debt.

And it happened when they spoke daily to him, and when he did not listen to them, they told Haman, to see if Mordecai's matters would stand. For he had told them that he was a Jew.

So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor? And Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?

For we are sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to perish. But if we had been sold for men-slaves and women-slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could not make up for the king's damage.

And the Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would to those who hated them.

the Jews ordained, and took on them and on their seed, and on all such as joined themselves to them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their time every year,

For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest

or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, like infants who did not see light.

Truly, I would seek to God, and to God I would put my plea,

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.

Oh that I might have my desire, and that God would grant the thing that I long for!

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that He would loose His hand and cut me off!

And it is yet my comfort; yea, I would rejoice in pain, though He did not spare me; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.

if you would seek earnestly to God and make your prayer to the Almighty;

if you were pure and upright, surely now He would awake for you, and make the dwelling-place of your righteousness blessed.

And if your beginning was small, yet your end would greatly increase.

Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer; I seek mercy for my judgment.

If I had called and He had answered me, yet would I not believe that He had listened to my voice;

Though I were perfect, yet I would not know my soul. I would despise my life.

then would I speak and not fear Him; for it is not so with me.

I should have been as though I had not been; I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

But who will grant that God would speak, and open His lips against you,

and would tell you the secrets of His wisdom, that sound wisdom is manifold? Know therefore that God forgets for you some of your iniquity.

For foolish man would be wise, and man is born a wild ass's colt.

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case before God.

Oh that you would stop speaking entirely! And it would be your wisdom.

Would you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?

Who is he that will plead for me, for now, I would be quiet and expire.

Who will grant that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me?

I might make you strong with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would spare you.

I would order my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He would say to me.

Will He plead against me with His great power? No, surely He would give heed to me.

There the righteous might reason with Him; and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

But now those younger laugh at me, whose fathers I would have refused to set with the dogs of my flock.

For that would be an evil purpose; yea, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

For it is a fire that devours to the Place of Ruin, and it would root out all my gain.

this also would be an iniquity for the judges; for I would have denied the God above.

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and bind it like crowns to me.

I would declare to Him the number of my steps; like a prince I would go near Him.

For I do not know how to eulogize; else after a little my Maker would take me away.

Would that Job may be tried to the end because his answers are like men of iniquity.

And He also would have lured you from the mouth of distress to a wide place not cramped; and the setting of your table would be full of fatness.

Shall it be told Him that I would speak? If a man speaks, surely he shall be swallowed up.

He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be gray-headed.

I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness of it.

For You do not desire sacrifice; or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.

And I said, Who will give to me wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.

Lo, I would wander far off; I would lodge in the desert. Selah.

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

For it is not an enemy who reviled me; then I could have borne it; it is not one who hates me who magnified himself against me; or I would hide myself from him;

To the Chief Musician. Concerning the silent dove, those far off. Of David, a secret treasure, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up; fighting daily, he presses me down.