Bel has fallen, Nebo is broken to pieces, their graven images have gone to the wild beasts and the cattle; you take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and [at the same time] helpless man;

who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are led [away] captive.

and you have multiplied your whoredom with them, and you have increased the number of them that are far from you, and have sent ambassadors beyond your borders, and have been debased, even to hell.

For they have gone up to the Assyrians; Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.

Therefore shall they be delivered to the nations. Now I will receive them, and they shall cease a little to anoint a king and princes.

But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day. He has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.

And she came to Jerusalem with a very great company. And [there came] camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and she came in to Solomon, and told him all that was in her heart.

The queen of the South shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and she shall condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater [than] Solomon [is] here.

And I will deliver Egypt into the hands of men, of cruel masters; and cruel kings shall rule over them; thus says the Lord of hosts.

And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.

And the taskmasters and the accountants hastened them, and they spoke to the people, saying, thus says Pharaoh: I will give you straw no longer.

So the people were dispersed in all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.

And the accountants of the race of the children of Israel, who were set over them by the masters of Pharaoh, were scourged, [and were asked], Why have you not fulfilled your rates of brickwork as yesterday and the third day, [and] today also?

Straw is not given to your servants, and they tell us to make bricks; and behold, your servants have been scourged; therefore you will injure your people.

Now then go and work, for straw shall not be given to you, yet you shall return the rate of bricks.

And they met Moses and Aaron coming forth to meet them, as they came forth from Pharaoh.

But God took you, and led you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to Him a people of inheritance, as it is this day.

who brought you through that great and terrible wilderness, where the biting serpent [is], and the scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you a fountain of water out of the flinty rock;

For he shall not multiply to himself horses, and he shall by no means turn the people back to Egypt, lest he should multiply to himself horses; for the Lord said, You shall not return that way again.

which I commanded your fathers, in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey My voice, and do all things that I shall command you; so shall you be My people, and I will be your God,

And the Lord sent among the people deadly serpents, and they bit the people, and many people of the children of Israel died.

And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against you: pray therefore to the Lord, and let Him take away the serpent from us.

who brought you through that great and terrible wilderness, where the biting serpent [is], and the scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you a fountain of water out of the flinty rock;

And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land in which no man has entered, and no man has dwelt in?

Now the queen of Sheba heard [of] the name of Solomon, and she came to Jerusalem with a very large entourage, to test Solomon with hard questions, and [she had] camels bearing spices in abundance, and gold, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon, and told him all that was in her mind.

And Asa took silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the Lord, and of the king's house, and sent [them] to the son of Hadad king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,

And Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came against him, and he afflicted him.

but only [troubled him] in his affliction. And he departed yet again from the Lord, and King Ahaz said,