Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried.

Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them: “Come up here!” So the two prophets went up to heaven in a cloud while their enemies stared at them.

One of his attendants replied, “I have seen a son of Jesse in Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave warrior and is articulate and handsome, for the Lord is with him.”

For seven days you must present a gift to the Lord. On the eighth day there is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must present a gift to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly day; you must not do any regular work.

When they were few in number, just a very few, and foreign residents within it,

“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

“Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,

when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear.

When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident aliens within it,

Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose to imitate any of his ways;

Before destruction the heart of a person is proud, but humility comes before honor.

Wealth adds many friends, but a poor person is separated from his friend.

When you argue a case with your neighbor, do not reveal the secret of another person,

They will sprout up like a tree in the grass, like poplars beside channels of water.

I will destroy Daughter Zion, who is as delicate and defenseless as a young maiden.

The Beloved to Her Lover: Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart, like a signet on your arm. For love is as strong as death, passion is as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flames burst forth, it is a blazing flame.

This man, Jeconiah, will be like a broken pot someone threw away. He will be like a clay vessel that no one wants. Why will he and his children be forced into exile? Why will they be thrown out into a country they know nothing about?

Jonathan made a covenant with David, for he loved him as much as he did his own life.

Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?