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He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shethar-boznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king:
And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.
And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah:
When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.
Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
