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I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter.
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?
I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
