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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet a youth.
Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.
And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
