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Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
And Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;
And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.
Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.
So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
