[1] The memorial of Josiah is like the composition of incense Prepared by the work of the apothecary: It shall be sweet as honey in every mouth, And as music at a banquet of wine.
[2] He behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people, And took away the abominations of iniquity.
[3] He set his heart right toward the Lord; In the days of wicked men he made godliness to prevail.
[4] Except David and Hezekiah and Josiah, All committed trespass: For they forsook the law of the Most High; The kings of Judah failed.
[5] For they gave their power to others, And their glory to a strange nation.
[6] They set on fire the chosen city of the sanctuary, And made her streets desolate,as it was written by the hand of Jeremiah.
[7] For they entreated him evil; And yet he was sanctified in the womb to be a prophet, To root out, and to afflict, and to destroy; And in like manner to build and to plant.
[8] It was Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory, WhichGod showed him upon the chariot of the cherubim.
[9] For verily he remembered the enemies in storm, And to do good to them that directed their ways aright.
[10] Also of the twelve prophets May the bones flourish again out of their place. And he comforted Jacob, And delivered them by confidence of hope.
[11] How shall we magnify Zerubbabel? And he was as a signet on the right hand:
[12] So was Jesus the son of Josedek: Who in their days builded the house, And exalted a people holy to the Lord, Prepared for everlasting glory.
[13] Also of Nehemiah the memorial is great; Who raised up for us the walls that were fallen, And set up the gates and bars, And raised up our homes again.
[14] No man was created upon the earth such as was Enoch; For he was taken up from the earth.
[15] Neither was there a man born like to Joseph, A governor of his brethren, a stay of the people: Yes, his bones were visited.
[16] Shem and Seth were glorified among men; And above every living thing in the creation is Adam.