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For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
