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Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon-gad.
As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are our's in possession:
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
