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Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.
Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
And the way of peace have they not known:
I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,
And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
