9. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who shall know it?
10. I the Lord search the heart; I try the kidneys, even to give each man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.
11. As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, is he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.
12. The throne of glory, height from the beginning, is the place of our sanctification.
13. O hope of Israel! Lord, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed; and those that depart from me shall be written in the dust because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.
14. Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
15. Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.
16. For I did not take it upon myself to be a pastor following thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou dost know: that which came out of my lips has come forth in thy presence.
17. Do not be a terror unto me; thou art my hope in the day of evil.
18. Let them be confounded that persecute me, but do not let me be confounded; let them be dismayed; but do not let me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil and destroy them with double destruction.
19. Thus said the Lord unto me: Go and stand in the gate of the sons of the people by which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
20. and say unto them, Hear ye the word of the Lord, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
21. Thus hath the Lord said: Take heed for your lives, and bring no burden on the sabbath day to bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
22. neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do any work, but sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers,