Lamentations 3:1

"Righteousness shall go before him, And shall make his footsteps a way `to walk in'."

"Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon `me', to take away my reproach among men."

"Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;"

"Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?"

"But cursed be the deceiver, who hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King, saith Jehovah of hosts, and my name is terrible among the Gentiles."

"Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;"

"Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings; And the plague brake in upon them."

"The stouthearted are made a spoil, They have slept their sleep; And none of the men of might have found their hands."

"And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days."

"Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,"