Jehu then left there and set out for Samaria. While he was traveling through Beth Eked of the Shepherds,

Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to play the lyres according to the sheminith style, as led by the director;

So the Lord sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.

His body was carried back by horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the City of David.

“This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: ‘Why are you so confident that you remain in Jerusalem while it is under siege?

People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.

But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

But as soon as she springs up, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;

Tremble with fear and do not sin! Meditate as you lie in bed, and repent of your ways! (Selah)

Strap your sword to your thigh, O warrior! Appear in your majestic splendor!

God looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God.

No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.

I am oppressed and suffering! O God, deliver and protect me!

His raging anger lashed out against them, He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster.

to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument and a lyre, to the accompaniment of the meditative tone of the harp.

He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

Teach me to do what pleases you, for you are my God. May your kind presence lead me into a level land.