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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.
Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
