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And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:
And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
Thou shalt not kill.
And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
