And he went up from there to Beth-el. And he was going up in the highway. And little boys came out from the city and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, bald head! Go up, bald head!
Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not loaned, and not have they loaned to me; yet everyone curses me.
Why has my pain been continual and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You surely are to me as a deceitful stream, its waters cannot be trusted.
And I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You;I have not desired the woeful day. You know that the going forth of my lips was before Your face.
And I said, I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name. But His Word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary of holding in, and I was not able.
Jehovah has given you to be priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be overseers in the house of Jehovah, over every man being mad who prophesies, that you should put him into the stocks and into the torture collar.
The days of her calling to account have come; Israel shall know the days of her retribution. The prophet is a fool, the man of spirit is mad, for great is your iniquity and your hatred much.
And he prayed to Jehovah, and said, Please, O Jehovah, was this not my word while I was on my own land? On account of this at first I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious God and compassionate, slow to anger, and great of mercy, and One who has pity over calamity.
And some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What may this seed-picker wish to say? And these others, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign demons (because he proclaimed Jesus and the resurrection to them).