²⁸ When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

² When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

⁴ They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

¹² When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.

²³ And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

²⁴ But the word of God grew and multiplied.

¹⁷ And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.