Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.

The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.

Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:

But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.

And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.