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Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;
A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.
And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
