If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’
All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam’s family 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.
Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?
be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
For they persecute those whom you have struck down, and those whom you have wounded they attack still more.