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Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
