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In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.
That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
