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Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.
And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.
