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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.
How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away.
Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
