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When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.
Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
