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Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
