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Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.
And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:
And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
