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Cursed is he that removes his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say, So be it.

And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and so do the bushes of the field.

And they shall take for the unclean of the burnt ashes of purification, and they shall pour upon them running water into a vessel.

then thou shalt take an awl, and bore his ear through to the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever; and in like manner shalt thou do to thy maid-servant.

These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for an inheritance; Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Naue.

And then the tabernacle of witness shall be set forward, and the camp of the Levites shall be between the camps; as they shall encamp, so also shall they commence their march, each one next in order to his fellow according to their companies.

Thou hast chosen God this day to be thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to observe his ordinances and judgments, and to hearken to his voice.

But if thy heart change, and thou wilt not hearken, and thou shalt go astray and worship other gods, and serve them,

Thou shalt by all means keep the commands of the Lord thy God, the testimonies, and the ordinances, which he commanded thee.

We will pass through thy land: we will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards, nor will we drink water out of thy cistern: we will go by the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, until we have passed thy borders.

Thou shalt not commit murder.

And he returned to him: and he also was standing by his whole-burnt-sacrifice, and all the princes of Moab with him; and Balac said to him, What has the Lord spoken?

The trees of the plain shall be full of sap; even the cedars of Libanus which he has planted.

And I besought my wife, and earnestly intreated the sons of my concubines.

Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.

To him who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endures for ever.

For they went down to hell with him among the slain with the sword; and his seed, even they that dwelt under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life.

Behold, thine eyes are not good, nor thine heart, but they go after thy covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.

And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

and has turned back his hand from unrighteousness, has not received interest or usurious increase, has wrought righteousness, and walked in mine ordinances; he shall not die for the iniquities of his father, he shall surely live.

And thou shalt soon be built by those by whom thou were destroyed, and they that made thee desolate shall go forth of thee.

And Pharaoh shall make war upon him not with a large force or great multitude, in throwing up a mound, and in building of forts, to cut off souls.

And they asked Baruch, saying, Where didst thou write all these words?

They say to them that reject the word of the Lord, There shall be peace to you; and to all that walk after their own lusts, and to everyone that walks in the error of his heart, they have said, No evil shall come upon thee.

Thus saith the Lord that delivered thee, the Holy One of Israel; I am thy God, I have shewn thee how thou shouldest find the way wherein thou shouldest walk.

The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine-presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.

And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her anymore.

Thus saith the Lord God, to Gog; Thou art he concerning whom I spoke in former times, by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel, in those days and years, that I would bring thee up against them.

The youths of Heliopolis and Bubastum shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity.

Israel is saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation: they shall not be ashamed nor confounded for evermore.

And thou tookest thy fair ornaments of my gold and of my silver, of what I gave thee, and thou madest to thyself male images, and thou didst commit whoredom with them.

And there shall be lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

But if ye will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret because of pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because the Lord's flock is sorely bruised.

There shall be an abiding home for thy children.

And the rest he makes a graven god, and worships, and prays, saying, Deliver me; for thou art my God.

that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.

Or again if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Let the sword go through the land; and I cut off from them man and beast:

But on mount Sion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be a sanctuary; and the house of Jacob shall take for an inheritance those that took them for an inheritance.

And thou, son of man, set thy face firmly against the daughters of thy people, that prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them.

But if they will not return, then will I cut off that nation with utter ruin and destruction.

O ever living Lord! thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power, and with thy high and lofty arm: nothing can be hidden from thee.

who brought forth chariots and horse, and a mighty multitude: but they have lain down, and shall not rise: they are extinct, as quenched flax.

But they are turned back: be ye utterly ashamed that trust in graven images, who say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

And the poor and the needy shall exult; for when they shall seek water, and there shall be none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord God, I the God of Israel will hear, and will not forsake them:

Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroy such a man, and will take away thy robe and thy glorious crown,

Therefore say thou, Thus saith the Lord; I will also take them from the heathen, and gather them out of the lands wherein I have scattered them, and will give them the land of Israel.

Call ye the name of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, Saon esbeie moed.

And it shall come to pass when they enter the gates of the inner court, that they shall put on linen robes; and they shall not put on woollen garments when they minister at the gate of the inner court.

And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

And do thou gird up thy loins, and stand up, and speak all the words that I shall command thee: be not afraid of their face, neither be thou alarmed before them; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

When they stood, the wheels stood; and when they mounted up, the wheels mounted up with them: because the spirit of life was in them.

and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.

Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of Assyria first devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.

And he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen this. Is it a little thing to the house of Juda to practise the iniquities which they have practised here? for they have filled the land with iniquity: and, behold, these are as scorners.

Alas for the vain shepherds that have forsaken the sheep! the sword shall be upon the arms of such a one, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be completely withered, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

And the Lord that planted thee has pronounced evils against thee, because of the iniquity of the house of Israel and the house of Juda, whatsoever they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger by burning incense to Baal.

Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast cast all my sins behind me.

I sent them not.

All hands shall be completely weakened, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture.

So I will send forth against thee famine and evil beasts, and I will take vengeance upon thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through upon thee; and I will bring a sword upon thee round about. I the Lord have spoken.

Every man has completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images: for they have cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

Yet the children of thy people will say, The way of the Lord is not straight: whereas this their way is not straight.

that they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.

Has not thy forsaking me brought these things upon thee? saith the Lord thy God.

They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of thee.

And through the prince shall be offered the whole-burnt-offerings and the meat-offerings, and the drink-offerings in the feasts, and at the new moons, and on the sabbaths; and in all the feasts of the house of Israel: he shall offer the sin-offerings, and the meat-offering, and the whole-burnt-offerings, and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

ye that have provoked God with your words. But ye said, Wherein have we provoked him? In that ye say, Every one that does evil is a pleasing object in the sight of the Lord, and he takes pleasure in such; and where is the God of justice?

Incline thine ear, O Lord, hearken, O Lord; open thine eyes, O Lord, look, O Lord: and behold the words of Sennacherim, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel; and thou shalt hear a word of my mouth, and shalt threaten them from me.

Therefore will he cast his net, and will not spare to slay the nations continually.

until I come and take you to a land, like your own land, a land of corn and wine, and bread, and vineyards.

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever of all the families of the earth shall not come up to Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, even these shall be added to the others.

For the ungodliness of Libanus shall cover thee, and distress because of wild beasts shall dismay thee, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.

And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out their pasture, saying, Ye shall inherit the land for ever: they shall rest on it through all generations.

So he died in the seventh month.

They went on their four sides: they turned not as they went;

For though the fig-tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs;

The crown has fallen from our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.

And as for you, ye sheep, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will distinguish between sheep and sheep, between rams and he-goats.

Ye shall see a king with glory: your eyes shall behold a land from afar.

And almost all the way to the inner, and close to the outer side, and upon all the wall round about within and without,

And I will greatly afflict the men, and they shall walk as blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord; therefore he shall pour out their blood as dust, and their flesh as dung.

PHE. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. TSADE. We looked to a nation that could not save.

And he turned to the north and measured in front of the north side five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.

In those days and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered to it: and they shall not walk any more after the imaginations of their evil heart.

He has gathered thy substance from without the lodged in choice vessels.

And the works of righteousness shall be peace; and righteousness shall ensure rest, and the righteous shall be confident for ever.

The Lord thy God is in thee; the Mighty One shall save thee: he shall bring joy upon thee, and shall refresh thee with his love; and he shall rejoice over thee with delight as in a day of feasting.

And there shall be a space to the city northward two hundred and fifty, and southward two hundred and fifty, and eastward two hundred and fifty, and westward two hundred and fifty.

A thousand shall flee because of the voice of one, and many shall flee on account of the voice of five; until ye be left as a signal-post upon a mountain, and as one bearing an ensign upon a hill.

Behold, I will stir up against you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.

When ye cast into the corn-bin twenty measures of barley, and there were only ten measures of barley: and ye went to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were but twenty.