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When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs:
That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
