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Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.
It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
