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Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:
The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
But sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
