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And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered.
The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.
Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
