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Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
