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And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.
Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
And Michael, and Ispah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah;
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
