⁸ The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

⁶ Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

⁸ He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

⁶ In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

³¹ Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

² Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore.

¹⁸ But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the Lord.

² Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.

²¹ Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

¹³ Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

¹⁴ Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

¹⁵ For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

¹⁶ But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.