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And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:
For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
So Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,
Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house; and said to all the people,
And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt.
God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
