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The wall was made of jasper, and the city was pure gold, as clear as glass.
I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.
If you do not act, my son Solomon and I will be treated as criminals as soon as my lord the king has died.”
Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.
I will destroy Israel as a moth consumes wool. I will make Judah as weak as rotten wood.
Using every resource at my command, I have gathered as much as I could for building the Temple of my God. Now there is enough gold, silver, bronze, iron, and wood, as well as great quantities of onyx, other precious stones, costly jewels, and all kinds of fine stone and marble.
Now I raise my hand to heaven and declare, “As surely as I live,
the Negev; the Jordan Valley with Jericho - the city of palms - as far as Zoar.
I ground them as fine as the dust of the earth; I trampled them in the gutter like dirt.
Foreign nations cringe before me; as soon as they hear of me, they submit.
“But instead, as mountains fall and crumble and as rocks fall from a cliff,
I will praise you as long as I live, lifting up my hands to you in prayer.
Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
For the lips of an immoral woman are as sweet as honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.
I have riches and honor, as well as enduring wealth and justice.
A foolish child is a calamity to a father; a quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping.
The wicked run away when no one is chasing them, but the godly are as bold as lions.
A wicked ruler is as dangerous to the poor as a roaring lion or an attacking bear.
With one voice they all cry out, ‘Now you are as weak as we are!