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A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;
But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
