If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’
Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you 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 something pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”