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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
