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Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.
I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
