¹³ Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

²³ If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

¹⁰ He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

¹⁵ He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

¹⁸ Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

²¹ Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

¹¹ Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

⁶ Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

²³ A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

⁸ But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.