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And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.
But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
