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And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
