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Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,
And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
