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Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
