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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.
And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.
And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.
And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
