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An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
