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And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
