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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.
(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
