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And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:
And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house; and said to all the people,
Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
