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Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.
And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
And was drawn from the north, and went forth to En-shemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.
And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
