“Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.

Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, “God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the regiments of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.

It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

And on this very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their regiments.

“‘On this very day you must proclaim an assembly; it is to be a holy assembly for you. You must not do any regular work. This is a perpetual statute in all the places where you live throughout your generations.

You must not do any work on this particular day, because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the Lord your God.

As for any person who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate that person from the midst of his people!

They must not leave any of it until morning, nor break any of its bones; they must observe it in accordance with every statute of the Passover.

And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.

God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull; they will devour hostile people and will break their bones and will pierce them through with arrows.

When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel.

All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron saying, “Look, we are your very flesh and blood!

He sacrificed all the priests of the high places on the altars located there, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”

With all my strength I will say, “O Lord, who can compare to you? You rescue the oppressed from those who try to overpower them; the oppressed and needy from those who try to rob them.”

They are absolutely terrified, even by things that do not normally cause fear. For God annihilates those who attack you. You are able to humiliate them because God has rejected them.

The Lord will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.

When you see this, you will be happy, and you will be revived. The Lord will reveal his power to his servants and his anger to his enemies.