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Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba.
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
