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Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
