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And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?
The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
