When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. {in...: or, increased}

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves {of} gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. {wounded: Gr. slain}

Ephraim {is} oppressed {and} broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people. {For the...: or, For he doth much keep the, etc} {desolation: or, astonishment}

For his eyes {are} upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took {him} away in my wrath.

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. {men: Heb. of the sons of the men}

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

Wisdom {is} better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Upright {men} shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

An hypocrite with {his} mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

The Lord then answered him, and said, {Thou} hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or {his} ass from the stall, and lead {him} away to watering?