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Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.
Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, both for the candlestick, and also for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick.
Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
