Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us, seeing I go whither I may? return thou, and take back thy brethren; mercy and truth be with thee.
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.
Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, (and) with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables (that are) hearts of flesh.