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Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.
The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
