But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="poetry">Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,p> <p class="poetry">come with me from Lebanon.p> <p class="poetry">Descend from the crest of Amana,p> <p class="poetry">from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon,p> <p class="poetry">from the lions&#8217; densp> <p class="poetry">and the mountain haunts of the leopards.p>

<p class="poetry">Your treaty with death will be dissolved;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your agreement<n id="2" /> with Sheol will not last.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">you will be overrun by it.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">But I thought,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I have worked in vain;p> <p class="poetry">I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.&#8221;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">But the <sc>Lordsc> will vindicate me;p> <p class="poetry">my God will reward me.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They intended to bury him with criminals,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but he ended up in a rich man&#8217;s tomb,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because<n id="3" /> he had committed no violent deeds,p> <p class="poetry">nor had he spoken deceitfully.p>

<p class="poetry">Be happy for Jerusalemp> <p class="poetry">and rejoice with her, all you who love her!p> <p class="poetry">Share in her great joy,p> <p class="poetry">all you who have mourned over her!p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> answered,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;If you have raced on foot against men and they have worn you out,p> <p class="poetry">how will you be able to compete with horses?p> <p class="poetry">And if you feel secure only<n id="2" /> in safe and open country,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">how will you manage in the thick undergrowth along the Jordan River?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Indeed, a time is coming,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> &#8220;when I will make a new covenant<n id="2" /> with the people of Israel and Judah.<n id="3" />

could my covenant with my servant David and my covenant with the Levites ever be broken. So David will by all means always have a descendant to occupy his throne as king and the Levites will by all means always have priests who will minister before me.<n id="1" />

When all the people that Ishmael had taken captive saw<n id="1" /> Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers with him, they were glad.

Then the glory of the <sc>Lordsc> arose from the cherub and moved to the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud while the court was filled with the brightness of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s glory.

Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons&#8217; wives.

<p class="bodytext">God said to Noah and his sons,<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Abram bowed down with his face to the ground,<n id="1" /> and God said to him,<n id="2" />

&#8220;As for me,<n id="1" /> this<n id="2" /> is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Shechem&#8217;s father Hamor went to speak with Jacob about Dinah.<n id="1" />

Then God went up from the place<n id="1" /> where he spoke with him.

When Moses finished<n id="1" /> speaking<n id="2" /> with them, he would<n id="3" /> put a veil on his face.