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Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.
And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.
There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
