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Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
