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And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
