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Ask a QuestionIs there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
[To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.] Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures * of sin for a season;
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
[To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.] As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity * like water?
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.