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O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
