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Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
