"Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel."

"And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son."

"The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,"

"¶ And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD."

"The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments."

"Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God."

"Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck."

"Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."

"And they all forsook him, and fled."

"Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people."