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Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.
