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For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
