Your loyal followers trust in you, for you, Lord, do not abandon those who seek your help.

How blessed are the people who worship you! O Lord, they experience your favor.

From Issachar there were 200 leaders and all their relatives at their command – they understood the times and knew what Israel should do.

Huram sent him ships and some of his sailors, men who were well acquainted with the sea. They sailed with Solomon’s men to Ophir, and took from there 450 talents of gold, which they brought back to King Solomon.

Because of Israel’s sins this is what the Lord, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, says: “In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. They will tell the field workers to lament and the professional mourners to wail.