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They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
