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But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.
And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
