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And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.
And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.
All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.
And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,
Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.
But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
