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If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon.
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.
And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
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?
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?
And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
