It is I that created the light, and darkness. I make peace, and trouble: yea, even I the LORD do all these things.

For they shall prolong the days and years of thy life, and bring thee peace.

but seek after peace and prosperity of the city wherein ye be prisoners, and pray unto God for it. For in the peace thereof, shall your peace be.

so shall thy navel be whole, and thy bones strong.

O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; they shall prosper that love thee.

Let them be glad and rejoice, that favour my righteous dealing; yea, let them say always, "Blessed be the LORD, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant."

O let thy loving-kindness and mercy follow me all the days of my life, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Wellbeloved, I wish in all things that thou prosperedest and faredest well, even as thy soul prospereth.

For I will give thee thy health again and make thy wounds whole, sayeth the LORD: because they reviled thee, as one cast away and despised, O Zion.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart danceth for joy, and in my song will I praise him.

And why? I was grieved at the wicked, to see the ungodly in such prosperity.

Then returned they unto Jerusalem from Mount Olivet, which is nigh to Jerusalem, containing a Sabbath day's journey.