The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.

For he came out of prison to become king, even though he had been born poor in what would become his kingdom.

Just as there is futility in many dreams, so also in many words. Therefore, fear God!

His cheeks are like garden beds full of balsam trees yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with drops of myrrh.

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!

It furiously struck down nations with unceasing blows. It angrily ruled over nations, oppressing them without restraint.

This is the prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and then recovered from his illness:

So I defiled your holy princes, and handed Jacob over to destruction, and subjected Israel to humiliating abuse.”

You must change the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.

I will bring on you lasting shame and lasting disgrace which will never be forgotten!’”

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by it will be filled with horror; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.

“See how Babylon has been captured! See how the pride of the whole earth has been taken! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

(Make the chain, because the land is full of murder and the city is full of violence.)

so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in consoling them.

I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!

I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord!

Its length was 175 feet on the north side, and its width 87½ feet.

They again replied, “Let the king inform us of the dream; then we will disclose its interpretation.”