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Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?
And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.
That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,
And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
