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For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.
And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
Greet one another with an holy kiss.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
