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Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.
There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
