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What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.
O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
