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Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meat offering.
For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
