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And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
