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In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
I am that bread of life.
I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
