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For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.
Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.
