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And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever:
And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.
