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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
