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And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.
The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.)
And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
