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And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.
And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.
