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And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:
Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.
And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
And they did so, and made them all sit down.
This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
