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Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
And charged them that they should not make him known:
Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
