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Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,
But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.
And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD be between thee and me for ever.
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
