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But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.
Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.
And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
