Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.

But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?

And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.

And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.

I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.