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For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:
And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
