²¹ He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;

⁴⁰ He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

¹⁴ Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;

¹⁰ Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

²³ And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.

¹² And it was made clear to them by God in a dream that they were not to go back to Herod; so they went into their country by another way.

¹³ And when they had gone, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream, saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into Egypt, and do not go from there till I give you word; for Herod will be searching for the young child to put him to death.

³² And they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.

³³ That very hour the order about Nebuchadnezzar was put into effect: and he was sent out from among men, and had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair became long as eagles' feathers and his nails like those of birds.

²¹ By him times and years are changed: by him kings are taken away and kings are lifted up: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those whose minds are awake:

²² He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him.

³⁸ And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword, and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon, his son, became king in his place.

²¹ And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth.

²² And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment.

⁹ It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.

²¹ And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah.

⁵ And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.

²⁷ There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.

³⁴ And he came in, and took food and drink; then he said, Now see to this cursed woman, and put her body into the earth, for she is a king's daughter.

³⁵ And they went out to put her body into the earth, but nothing of her was to be seen, only the bones of her head, and her feet, and parts of her hands.

³⁶ So they came back and gave him word of it. And he said, This is what the Lord said by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the heritage of Jezreel the flesh of Jezebel will become food for dogs;

³⁷ And the dead body of Jezebel will be like waste dropped on the face of the earth in the heritage of Jezreel; so that they will not be able to say, This is Jezebel.

²⁶ I saw the blood of Naboth and of his sons yesterday; and I will give you full payment in this field, says the Lord? So now, take him and put him in this field, as the Lord said.

²³ And of Jezebel the Lord said, Jezebel will become food for dogs in the heritage of Jezreel.

²⁴ Any man of the family of Ahab who comes to his death in the town will become food for the dogs; and he who comes to his death in the open country will be food for the birds of the air.

²⁴ And they kept it till the morning as Moses had said: and no smell came from it, and it had no worms.

² And if you will not let them go, see, I will send frogs into every part of your land: