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Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.
Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
