The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in Jehoiachin’s place. He renamed him Zedekiah.

He did not seek the Lord’s guidance, so the Lord killed him and transferred the kingdom to David son of Jesse.

Let’s move the ark of our God back here, for we did not seek his will throughout Saul’s reign.”

Then all the people returned to their homes, and David went to pronounce a blessing on his family.

Now Jeroboam had sent some men to ambush the Judahite army from behind. The main army was in front of the Judahite army; the ambushers were behind it.

They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the scroll of the law of the Lord. They traveled to all the cities of Judah and taught the people.

his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

Yes, wild dogs surround me – a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.

You are my hiding place; you protect me from distress. You surround me with shouts of joy from those celebrating deliverance. (Selah)

Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth.

The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen on the walls!

Turn your eyes away from me – they overwhelm me! Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead.

“Take the harp, go through the city, forgotten prostitute! Play it well, play lots of songs, so you’ll be noticed!”

The boundary line will extend beyond that, straight west from there to the Hill of Gareb and then turn southward to Goah.

I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. Vandals will enter it and desecrate it.

He turned to the west side and measured 875 feet by the measuring stick.

They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.

You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.