"LORD God of our ancestors, you are the God who lives in heaven, are you not? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, don't you? In your own hands you grasp both strength and power, don't you? As a result, no one can oppose you, can they? You are our God, who expelled the former inhabitants of this land right in front of our people Israel, aren't you? Then you gave it to your friend Abraham's descendant forever, didn't you?

Our God, you are going to punish them, aren't you? We have no strength to face this vast multitude that has come against us, nor do we know what to do, except that our eyes are on you."

And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.

But their children he did not put to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, wherein Jehovah commanded saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, nor shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, aren't they written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.

Now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondservants and bondmaids for yourselves. Aren't there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?

After this, some men who were chosen by name took charge of the captives, clothed those who were naked with clothes appropriated from the war booty, gave them clothes and sandals, fed them, gave them something to drink, anointed them with oil, provided those who weren't able to walk with donkeys to ride on, and took them back to their relatives at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.

Please don't be careless, you descendants of Aaron, because the LORD has chosen you to minister in his presence, to serve him, to be his ministers, and to burn incense."

And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.

However, since there were not enough priests, they weren’t able to skin all the burnt offerings, so their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests consecrated themselves. For the Levites were more conscientious to consecrate themselves than the priests were.

"Listen, you descendants of Israel! Come back to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may come back to those of you who have escaped and survived from domination by the kings of Assyria. Don't be like your ancestors and your relatives, who weren't faithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, who, as a result, made them a desolate horror, as you well know.

everyone who sets his heart to seek God—the Lord God of his fathers—even though it is not in accordance with the [ceremonial] purification [rules] of the sanctuary.”

Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.

Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?

His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young (sixteen), he began to seek after and inquire of the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and cast images.

And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

These, sought their writing wherein they were registered, but they were not found, - so they were desecrated out of the priesthood;

They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.

The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:

For Ezra had set his heart (resolved) to study and interpret the Law of the Lord, and to practice it and teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.

so the king said to me, “Why are you sad, when you aren’t sick? This is nothing but depression.”

I was overwhelmed with fear

But when Sanballat the Horonite, his servant Tobiah the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they jeered at us and despised us when they said, "What is this thing that you're doing? You're rebelling against the king, aren't you?"

Next to them the Tekoites worked valiantly, even though their leading officials weren't fully dedicated to the work of their lord.

Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.

These, sought their writing wherein they were registered, but it was not found, - so they were desecrated out of the priesthood;

Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.

and forty years Thou hast nourished them in a wilderness; they have not lacked; their garments have not worn out, and their feet have not swelled.

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 unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.

At the same time were there men appointed over the treasure chests - wherein were the Heave offerings, the firstlings and the tithes - that they should gather them out of the fields about the cities, to distribute them unto the priests and Levites according to the law: for Judah was glad of the priests, and Levites,

And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.

In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

let a royal robe be brought which the king has worn, and the horse on which the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown has been placed;

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

and said, "Let the day perish, wherein I was born,

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.

There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn are at rest:

But now it has come to you, and you are worn out; it touches you, and you are horrified.

Am I as strong as a rock? Am I some kind of iron man?

Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

Consider the paths of Tema, and the ways of Sheba, wherein they have put their trust.

"And now you're all just like them, aren't you? You see my terror and are terrified.

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?

Insomuch, that wherein soever thou hadst little afore, thou shouldest now have great abundance.

Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

If for strength, behold him strong: if for judgment, who shall arraign me

Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me.

“[Then] You will call, and I will answer You;
You will long for [me] the work of Your hands.

Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, And the hope of man Thou hast destroyed.

Disputing with discourse that doth no good, or with speech, wherein is no profit?

Look, if God doesn't trust his holy ones, if even the heavens aren't pure as he looks at them,

And had inhabited demolished cities, houses, wherein men would not dwell, that were destined to become heaps.

He shall perish, before his time be worn out, and his hand shall not be green.

"Surely now he has worn me out; you have devastated all my company.

You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.

Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick?

That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.

He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

Isn’t your wickedness abundant
and aren’t your iniquities endless?

"Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

If this weren't so, who can prove that I'm a liar by showing that there's nothing to what I'm saying?"

Behold, even the moon isn't bright, and the stars aren't pure in his eyes.

Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

wherein the proud and high minded walk not, and where no lion cometh.

"The aged aren't always wise, nor do the elderly always understand justice.

“I will not [I warn you] be partial to any man [that is, let my respect for you mitigate what I say];
Nor flatter any man.

"You aren't right about this; My response is that God is greater than human beings.

"Observe the heavens! Take a look around! Look! The clouds are higher than you, aren't they?

Who ordained his path for him, and who has asked him, "You are wrong, aren't you?'

Whereon were the pedestals thereof sunk? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; -

To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

"The wings of the ostrich flap joyously, but aren't its pinions and feathers like the stork?

His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.

He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

Indeed, you aren't a God who delights in wickedness; evil will never dwell with you.

My beauty is gone for very trouble, and worn away because of all mine enemies.

The wicked, in the haughtiness of his face, will not seek nor inquire for Him;
All his thoughts are, “There is no God [so there is no accountability or punishment].”

"Because the poor are being oppressed, because the needy are sighing, I will now arise," says the LORD, "I will establish in safety those who yearn for it."

Be gracious to me, Lord,
because I am in distress;
my eyes are worn out from angry sorrow—
my whole being as well.

When I kept silent, my bones were worn out due to my groaning all the day.

I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go; and I will guide thee with mine eye.

I am numb and greatly bruised [deadly cold and completely worn out];
I groan because of the disquiet and moaning of my heart.

You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.