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And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
