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If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair.
Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;
Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
Every raven after his kind;
And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
