“On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.

All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: “Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased!

The happy sound of the tambourines stops, the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt, the happy sound of the harp ceases.

So the people rested on the seventh day.

“I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.

You have brought to an end his splendor, and have knocked his throne to the ground.

A toss of a coin ends disputes, and settles the issue between strong opponents.

The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.

Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.

You remove all the wicked of the earth like slag. Therefore I love your rules.

Drive out the scorner and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease.

I will put an end in Moab to those who make offerings at her places of worship. I will put an end to those who sacrifice to other gods. I, the Lord, affirm it!

I will silence the noise of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

Pharaoh was thinking, “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned the project.

So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

From the mouths of children and nursing babies you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries, so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy.

Turn aside from the way, stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”