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In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.
Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
