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O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
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.
The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?
And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate.
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
