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And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.
Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
