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And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.
Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.
And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men.
And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
