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Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
And Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
