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The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
