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Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.
And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.
And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
