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And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
