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Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;
And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.
And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
