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For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.
And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?
For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
