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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.
Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.
Remember Lot's wife.
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
