35 Honor* is what the wise ones will come to possess,+ but the stupid ones are exalting dishonor.+

19 O Jehovah my strength and my stronghold, and my place for flight in the day of distress,+ to you the nations themselves will come from the ends of the earth,*+ and they will say: “Indeed our forefathers came to possess sheer falsehood,+ vanity and things in which there was nothing beneficial.”+

17 but we shall positively do every word that has gone forth from our mouth,+ in order to make sacrificial smoke to the ‘queen of the heavens’*+ and to pour* out to her drink offerings,+ just as we ourselves+ and our forefathers,+ our kings+ and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, when we used to be satisfied with bread and to be well off, and we did not see any calamity at all.+