When the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

根基若毁坏，义人还能做什么呢？”

根基若毁坏，义人还能做什么呢？”

根基若毁坏，义人还能做什么呢？”

根基若遭毁坏，义人还能做什么？”

根基既然毁坏，义人还能作什么呢？”

如果根基被毁，义人还能做什么呢？

根基若毀壞，義人還能做甚麼呢？

根基若毀壞，義人還能做甚麼呢？」

根基若毀壞，義人還能做甚麼呢？」

根基若遭毀壞，義人還能做什麼？」

根基既然毀壞，義人還能作甚麼呢？”

根基若毁壞，義人還能作甚麼？』

如果根基被毀，義人還能做什麼呢？

基礎如其傾圮、義者將何為兮、

根基若壞、善人亦復何為、

國家根基已崩潰。賢人焉能獨支撐。

When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

When law and order are being destroyed, what can godly people do?”

if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

The foundations of law and order have collapsed. What can the righteous do?”

If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?”

If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?

If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do?

When the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

When the foundations are destroyed, what can the godly accomplish?”

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

They do not know or understand; they wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, bearing this inscription: The Lord knows those who are his, and let everyone who calls on the name of the Lord turn away from wickedness.

Some of you will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the foundations laid long ago; you will be called the repairer of broken walls, the restorer of streets where people live.

When the earth and all its inhabitants shake, I am the one who steadies its pillars. Selah

Now if you’re ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, drum, and every kind of music, fall down and worship the statue I made. But if you don’t worship it, you will immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire— and who is the god who can rescue you from my power?”Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king,“ Nebuchadnezzar, we don’t need to give you an answer to this question.If the God we serve exists, then he can rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and he can rescue us from the power of you, the king.But even if he does not rescue us, we want you as king to know that we will not serve your gods or worship the gold statue you set up.”

I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was restricted to his house. He said: Let’s meet at the house of God, inside the temple. Let’s shut the temple doors because they’re coming to kill you. They’re coming to kill you tonight!But I said,“ Should a man like me run away? How can someone like me enter the temple and live? I will not go.”I realized that God had not sent him, because of the prophecy he spoke against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?’”Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers’ hands, read it, then went up to the LORD’s temple, and spread it out before the LORD.Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: LORD God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you are God— you alone— of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.Listen closely, LORD, and hear; open your eyes, LORD, and see. Hear the words that Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God.LORD, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands.They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands— wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

When they heard this, they raised their voices together to God and said,“ Master, you are the one who made the heaven, the earth, and the sea, and everything in them.You said through the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David your servant: Why do the Gentiles rage and the peoples plot futile things?The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers assemble together against the Lord and against his Messiah.“ For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,to do whatever your hand and your will had predestined to take place.And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that your servants may speak your word with all boldness,while you stretch out your hand for healing, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God boldly.Now the entire group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but instead they held everything in common.With great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on all of them.

“‘ Don’t you know what I and my predecessors have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have any of the national gods of the lands been able to rescue their land from my power?Who among all the gods of these nations that my predecessors completely destroyed was able to rescue his people from my power, that your God should be able to deliver you from my power?So now, don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, and don’t let him mislead you like this. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from my power or the power of my predecessors. How much less will your God rescue you from my power!’”

When Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house. The windows in its upstairs room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.Then these men went as a group and found Daniel petitioning and imploring his God.So they approached the king and asked about his edict:“ Didn’t you sign an edict that for thirty days any person who petitions any god or man except you, the king, will be thrown into the lions’ den?” The king answered,“ As a law of the Medes and Persians, the order stands and is irrevocable.”Then they replied to the king,“ Daniel, one of the Judean exiles, has ignored you, the king, and the edict you signed, for he prays three times a day.”As soon as the king heard this, he was very displeased; he set his mind on rescuing Daniel and made every effort until sundown to deliver him.Then these men went together to the king and said to him,“ You know, Your Majesty, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or ordinance the king establishes can be changed.”So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions’ den. The king said to Daniel,“ May your God, whom you continually serve, rescue you!”A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den. The king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet rings of his nobles, so that nothing in regard to Daniel could be changed.Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No diversions were brought to him, and he could not sleep.At the first light of dawn the king got up and hurried to the lions’ den.When he reached the den, he cried out in anguish to Daniel.“ Daniel, servant of the living God,” the king said,“ has your God, whom you continually serve, been able to rescue you from the lions?”Then Daniel spoke with the king:“ May the king live forever.My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths; and they haven’t harmed me, for I was found innocent before him. And also before you, Your Majesty, I have not done harm.”The king was overjoyed and gave orders to take Daniel out of the den. When Daniel was brought up from the den, he was found to be unharmed, for he trusted in his God.The king then gave the command, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the lions’ den— they, their children, and their wives. They had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.Then King Darius wrote to those of every people, nation, and language who live on the whole earth:“ May your prosperity abound.I issue a decree that in all my royal dominion, people must tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For he is the living God, and he endures forever; his kingdom will never be destroyed, and his dominion has no end.He rescues and delivers; he performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, for he has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

“ Rabbi,” the disciples told him,“ just now the Jews tried to stone you, and you’re going there again?”“ Aren’t there twelve hours in a day?” Jesus answered.“ If anyone walks during the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.But if anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people,“ This man deserves the death sentence because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”Then Jeremiah said to all the officials and all the people,“ The LORD sent me to prophesy all the words that you have heard against this temple and city.So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the LORD your God so that he might relent concerning the disaster he had pronounced against you.As for me, here I am in your hands; do to me what you think is good and right.But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its residents, for it is certain the LORD has sent me to speak all these things directly to you.”

The next day, their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalemwith Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all the members of the high-priestly family.After they had Peter and John stand before them, they began to question them:“ By what power or in what name have you done this?”Then Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and said to them,“ Rulers of the people and elders:If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a disabled man, by what means he was healed,let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead— by him this man is standing here before you healthy.This Jesus is the stone rejected by you builders, which has become the cornerstone.There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved.”

Then he commanded the priest Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, the court secretary Shaphan, and the king’s servant Asaiah,“ Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah about the words in this book that has been found. For great is the LORD’s wrath that is kindled against us because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this book in order to do everything written about us.”So the priest Hilkiah, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to the prophetess Huldah, wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem in the Second District. They spoke with her.