2 Kings 14:9

9 And Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “aThe thorn bush which was in Lebanon sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ But a beast of the field that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thorn bush.

Psalm 78:56-71


56
Yet they 1atested and brebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies,

57
But turned back and aacted treacherously like their fathers;
They bturned aside like a treacherous bow.

58
For they aprovoked Him with their bhigh places
And caroused His jealousy with their dgraven images.

59
God heard and 1was filled with awrath
And greatly brejected Israel;

60
So that He aabandoned the bdwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent 1which He caused to dwell among men,

61
And gave up His astrength to captivity
And His beauty binto the hand of the adversary.

62
He also agave over His people to the sword,
And 1was filled with wrath at His inheritance.

63
aFire devoured 1His choice men,
And 1His bvirgins had no wedding songs.

64
1His apriests fell by the sword,
And 2His bwidows could not weep.


65
Then the Lord aawoke as if from sleep,
As if He were a bwarrior 1overcome by wine.

66
He astruck His adversaries backward;
He put on them an everlasting reproach.

67
He also arejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

68
But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount aZion which He loved.

69
And He abuilt His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has founded forever.

70
He also achose David His servant
And took him from the sheepfolds;

71
From afollowing the 1bnursing ewes He brought him
To cshepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel dHis inheritance.
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