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Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
