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When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
