¹⁴ I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength.

¹⁸ Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself.

⁹ At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself;

¹⁰ The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

¹¹ May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!

¹² How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?

¹⁹ Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people.

⁶ For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.

¹³ And he will be the builder of the Temple of the Lord; and the glory will be his, and he will take his place as ruler on the seat of power; and Joshua will be a priest at his right hand, and between them there will be a design of peace.

¹⁶ To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?