1. The name Josiah is like blended incense,made lasting by a skilled perfumer.Precious is his memory, like honey to the taste,like music at a banquet.
2. For he grieved over our betrayals,and destroyed the abominable idols.
3. He kept his heart fixed on God,and in times of lawlessness practiced virtue.
4. Except for David, Hezekiah, and Josiah,they all were wicked;They abandoned the Law of the Most High,these kings of Judah, right to the very end.
5. So he gave over their power to others,their glory to a foreign nation
6. Who burned the holy cityand left its streets desolate,
7. As foretold by Jeremiah. They mistreated himwho even in the womb had been made a prophet,To root out, pull down, and destroy,and then to build and to plant.
8. Ezekiel beheld a visionand described the different creatures of the chariot;