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Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink offerings.
And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?
But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.
