that examination may be made in your fathers' book of record. And you shall find, and you shall know that this city [is] rebellious, and does harm to kings and countries, and there are in the midst of it from very old time refuges for [runaway] slaves. Therefore this city has been made desolate.

And a decree has been made by me, and we have examined, and found that city of old time exalts itself against kings, and that rebellions and desertions take place within it.

You have said, (but [they are] mere words) [I have] counsel and strength for war. Now then, in whom do you trust, that you have revolted from me?

In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant [for] three years. And [then] he turned and revolted against him.

in that he rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, which he adjured him by God [not to do]; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart, so as not to return to the Lord God of Israel.

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Son of man, say now to the provoking house, Know you not what these things were? Say [to them], Whenever the king of Babylon shall come against Jerusalem, then he shall take her king and her princes, and shall take them home to Babylon.

that it may become a weak kingdom, so as never to lift itself up, that he may keep his covenant, and establish it.

[As] I live, says the Lord, verily in [the] place where the king is that made him king, who dishonored My oath, and who broke My covenant, shall he die with him in the midst of Babylon.

Whereas he has profaned the oath so as to break the covenant, when behold, I engage his hand, and he has done all these things to him, he shall not escape.

And I will spread a net upon him, and he shall be caught in its snare.

And they began to accuse Him, saying, "We found this [Man] perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King."

But Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no guilt in this Man."

For [we] have found this man [to] be a plague, and [one] causing discord among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the Nazarenes sect,

Abstain from every form of evil.

Therefore subject yourselves to every human institution on account of the Lord: whether to the king as [to one] having authority,

For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may silence the ignorance of foolish men--

A Psalm of praise for the sons of Korah on the second [day] of the week. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain.

The city of the great King is well planted [on] the mountains of Zion, with the joy of the whole earth, [on] the sides of the north.

How has the faithful city of Zion, [once] full of judgment, become a harlot! Where righteousness lodged, but now murderers.

Your princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen [gathers] her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

And they said to me, The remnant, [even] those that are left of the captivity, [are] there in the land, in great distress and reproach; and the walls of Jerusalem [are] thrown down, and its gates are burned with fire.

And you shall know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem, until Christ the Prince, [there shall be] seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks; and then [the time] shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.