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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.
What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.
And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri,
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,
And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
