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And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
