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The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.
And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
