Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;