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But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
And when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep your's also.
Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.
This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.
The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.
