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For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.
And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;
For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
