⁹ Then they said one to another, We aren't doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we hold our peace: if we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household.

²³ But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

¹⁰ The angel said to them, "Don't be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.

⁴ "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

⁵ Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Consider your ways.

¹⁵ Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

⁷ How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns!

²⁷ [I am the] first [who says] to Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good news.

¹⁶ For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

⁶ For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.

³ Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

²⁶ He said to him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants?

²⁷ The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your seed forever. He went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.

⁴ each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.