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For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.
Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.
And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
