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I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
