<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> blessed the second part of Job&#8217;s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses.<n id="1" />

As soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns<n id="1" /> of the scroll, the king<n id="2" /> would cut them off with a penknife<n id="3" /> and throw them on the fire in the firepot. He kept doing so until the whole scroll was burned up in the fire.<n id="4" />

in Nebuchadnezzar&#8217;s twenty-third year,<n id="1" /> Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, carried into exile 745 Judeans. In all 4,600 people went into exile.p>

<p class="bodytext">As I watched, I noticed<n id="1" /> four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub;<n id="2" /> the wheels gleamed like jasper.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;For this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments &#8211; sword, famine, wild animals, and plague &#8211; to Jerusalem<n id="1" /> to kill both people and animals!

<p class="bodytext">He said to me, &#8220;Prophesy to the breath,<n id="1" /> &#8211; prophesy, son of man &#8211; and say to the breath: &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these corpses so that they may live.&#8217;&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city<n id="1" /> was struck down, on this very day,<n id="2" /> the hand<n id="3" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> was on me, and he brought me there.<n id="4" />

The four tables for the burnt offering were of carved stone, 32 inches<n id="1" /> long, 32 inches<n id="2" /> wide, and 21 inches<n id="3" /> high. They would put the instruments which they used to slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them.

From the base of the ground to the lower edge is 3½ feet,<n id="1" /> and the width 1¾ feet;<n id="2" /> and from the smaller ledge to the larger edge, 7 feet,<n id="3" /> and the width 1¾ feet;

Shortly after his rise to power,<n id="1" /> his kingdom will be broken up and distributed toward the four winds of the sky<n id="2" /> &#8211; but not to his posterity or with the authority he exercised, for his kingdom will be uprooted and distributed to others besides these.p>

<p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Because Tyre has committed three crimes<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">make that four!<n id="2" /> &#8211; I will not revoke my decree of judgment.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They sold<n id="4" /> a whole community<n id="5" /> to Edom;p> <p class="poetry">they failed to observe<n id="6" /> a treaty of brotherhood.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Because Edom has committed three crimes<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">make that four!<n id="2" /> &#8211; I will not revoke my decree of judgment.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He chased his brother<n id="4" /> with a sword;p> <p class="poetry">he wiped out his allies.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">In his anger he tore them apart without stopping to rest;<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">in his fury he relentlessly attacked them.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Because the Ammonites have committed three crimes<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">make that four!<n id="2" /> &#8211; I will not revoke my decree of judgment.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They ripped open Gilead&#8217;s pregnant women<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">so they could expand their territory.p>

<p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">make that four!<n id="2" /> &#8211; I will not revoke my decree of judgment.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They rejected the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s law;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">they did not obey his commands.p> <p class="poetry">Their false gods,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">to which their fathers were loyal,<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">led them astray.p>

&#8216;Think carefully about the past:<n id="1" /> from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month,<n id="2" /> to the day work on the temple of the <sc>Lordsc> was resumed,<n id="3" /> think about it.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month <i>Shebati>, in Darius&#8217; second year,<n id="1" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows:p>