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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.
And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.
So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
