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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
