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When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:
And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.
Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.
