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Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.
After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair.
And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
