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Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.

And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king"s house, judging the people of the land.

And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.

Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.

And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.

And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.

And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.

Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king"s captains.

Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.