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And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
