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Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.
And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou art a stranger, and also an exile.
And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
