If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me,
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
For they persecute him whom thou have smitten, and they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou have wounded.
And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him, for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
be ye afraid of the sword. For wrath [brings] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.