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Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?
I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.
And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
