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When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
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?
Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
