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Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
