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And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.
That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.
And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
