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Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.
And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.
And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
