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On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
