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Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
