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So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.
