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Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner.
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
