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The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.
All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;
And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
