Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee; on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of Jehovah.
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry;\par\tab Hold not thy peace at my tears:\par\tab For I am a stranger with thee,\par\tab A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.
for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life: and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.\par
Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance;\par\tab And in thy book they were all written,\par\tab {\i Even} the days that were ordained {\i for me},\par\tab When as yet there was none of them.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.\par
And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is {\i the book} of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
{\i in} journeyings often, {\i in} perils of rivers, {\i in} perils of robbers, {\i in} perils from {\i my} countrymen, {\i in} perils from the Gentiles, {\i in} perils in the city, {\i in} perils in the wilderness, {\i in} perils in the sea, {\i in} perils among false brethren;
Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.\par