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As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?
And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
