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Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
And the king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.
