The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster?”

and from Beth Gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built settlements for themselves around Jerusalem.

if the members of my household have never said, ‘If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job’s meat!’ –

For the one who takes revenge against murderers took notice of the oppressed; he did not overlook their cry for help

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

You are the most handsome of all men! You speak in an impressive and fitting manner! For this reason God grants you continual blessings.

Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the Lord.

God has spoken in his sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem, the valley of Succoth I will measure off.

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

Those who are evil will bow before those who are good, and the wicked will bow at the gates of the righteous.

Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.

The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

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

They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.

This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.’

The leaders will not be able to run away and hide. The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape.

(The cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.)

I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it.

“Yet your people say, ‘The behavior of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their behavior that is not right.

A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses.