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When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
