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That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
But he spake of the temple of his body.
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.
Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
