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Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir.
And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.
And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.
So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;
For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
