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Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
