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And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.
Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying,
And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:
Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities with their villages.
And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
