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Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:
And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
