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But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud.
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
