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For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
Let all your things be done with charity.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you.
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
