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If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.
