So that a defiled one should not reign, lest the people be ensnared.
“For the laws of Omri are strictly observed, and all the works of the house of Aḥ
“I gave you a sovereign in My displeasure, but I took him away in My wrath.
“Ephrayim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because it pleased him to walk after Tsaw.
The wrong walk around on every side, When worthlessness is exalted among the sons of men.
For His eyes are on the ways of man, and He sees all his steps.
But they did not obey, and Menashsheh led them astray to do more evil than the gentiles whom יהוה had destroyed before the children of Yisra’ĕ
Wisdom is better than weapons of conflict, but one sinner destroys much good.
But He saves the needy from the sword of their mouth, from the clutches of the strong.
that the singing of the wrong is short-lived, and the joy of the defiled one is but for a moment?
Should the one who hates right-ruling govern? Or would you declare a most righteous one wrong?
And when He is silent, who would then condemn? And when He hides His face, who then sees Him, whether it is against a nation or a man alone?
For has anyone said to Ě
