“ Behold, we have sent you money to buy you burnt offerings and sin offerings and incense, and to prepare you cereal offerings, to offer upon the altar of the Lord our God, 11 and to pray for the life of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and for the life of Belshazzar his son, that their days on earth may be as the days of heaven. 12 And the Lord will give us strength and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and under the shadow of Belshazzar his son, and we shall serve them for many days and find favor in their sight. ”

“ Chapter 5 1 “‘Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of mourning and affliction, and put on the wholesomeness of the glory that comes from God for ever. 2 Cast around you a double garment of the righteousness which comes from God, and set a diadem on your head of the glory of the Everlasting. 3 For God will reveal your brightness to every country under heaven. 4 For your name shall be called by God for ever: “The peace of righteousness” and “The glory of God’s worship.” ”

“ It is high and immeasurable! 26 There were the giants, famous from the beginning, who were of such great stature and of such expertise in war. 27 The Lord did not choose these, neither did he give them the way of knowledge, 28 but they were destroyed because they had no wisdom, and they perished through their own foolishness. 29 Who has gone up into heaven, and obtained her, and brought her down from the clouds? 30 Who has gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for pure gold? 31 No man knows her way, nor understands her path. ”

“ Chapter 2 1 “‘Therefore the Lord has made good his word, which he pronounced against us and against our judges who judged Israel and against our kings and our princes and against the men of Israel and Judah, 2 to bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, yet came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things which were written in the law of Moses, 3 so that a man would eat the flesh of his own son and the flesh of his own daughter. ”

“ Or who has come into her treasures? 16 What has become of the princes of the heathen and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth, 17 those who had their pastime with the fowls of the air and those who hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their acquiring? 18 For those who wrought in silver, and who were so careful, and whose works are unsearchable, 19 they have vanished and gone down to the grave, and others have come up in their places. ”