The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Many bulls surround me; powerful bulls of Bashan hem me in.

The law of their God controls their thinking; their feet do not slip.

O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God! Sing praises to the Lord, (Selah)

It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

For the sake of David, your servant, do not reject your chosen king!

The words of King Lemuel, an oracle that his mother taught him:

Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments; your neck is lovely with strings of jewels.

King Solomon made a sedan chair for himself of wood imported from Lebanon.

“Son of man, turn toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet.

Now Daniel lived on until the first year of Cyrus the king.

Gilead is a city full of evildoers; its streets are stained with bloody footprints!

This is what the Lord says: “Just as a shepherd salvages from the lion’s mouth a couple of leg bones or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be salvaged. They will be left with just a corner of a bed, and a part of a couch.”

Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, along with the whole remnant of the people, obeyed the Lord their God. They responded favorably to the message of the prophet Haggai, who spoke just as the Lord their God had instructed him, and the people began to respect the Lord.

and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of all.

Then some of the experts in the law answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well!”

In this way the word of the Lord continued to grow in power and to prevail.

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

and he was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.