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For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand.
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
