But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
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 the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Be yourselves afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.
For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk of the grief of those whom you have wounded.