But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.

For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which Jehovah had given them.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] i0 par In Jehovah I put my trust; how can you say to my soul, Flee like a bird to the mountains?

For lo, the wicked bend their bow; they make ready their arrow on the string, so that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, saying, This people says, The time has not come, the time for the house of Jehovah to be built.

And he made seventy thousand of them bearers of burdens, eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.

Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to work hard against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder rubbed raw; yet neither he nor his army received wages from Tyre, for the labor which they expended on it.