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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two.
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
Greet one another with an holy kiss.
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
