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Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
And of some have compassion, making a difference:
While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.
And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.
Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
