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And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.
Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
