And his sons went and feasted {in their} houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters {were} eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

{Is it} nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted {me} in the day of his fierce anger. {Is it...: or, It is nothing} {pass by: Heb. pass by the way?}

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown {from} my head.

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heb. lifted up}

Even to day {is} my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. {stroke: Heb. hand}

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; {for...: Heb. in the hand of their transgression}

If his children be multiplied, {it is} for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at {one} end,

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only {to} understand the report. {to...: or, when he shall make you to understand doctrine}

All {things come} alike to all: {there is} one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as {is} the good, so {is} the sinner; {and} he that sweareth, as {he} that feareth an oath.

Many {are} the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. {have...: or, will you not, since I have commanded you?} {valiant: Heb. sons of valour}

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; {for...: Heb. in the hand of their transgression}

Judah and Israel {were} many, as the sand which {is} by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.