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Enquire of the Lord for us; for the king of Babylon has risen up against us; if the Lord will do according to all his wonderful works, and the king shall depart from us.

I will exalt thee, my God, my king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

And he smote him, and cast him into the dungeon which was by the gate of the upper house that was set apart, which was by the house of the Lord.

To thee, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent toward me: lest thou be silent toward me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit.

Hear these words, ye elders, and hearken all ye that inhabit the land. Have such things happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side: or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? blessed is the short lived offspring of woman.

I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

Thus saith the Lord God that made thee, and he that formed thee from the womb; Thou shalt yet be helped: fear not, my servant Jacob; and beloved Israel, whom I have chosen.

Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

My soul, praise the Lord.

and thou shalt say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Juda, that sittest on the throne of David, thou, and thy house, and thy people, and they that go in at these gates:

which he spoke to all the people of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

Jeremias, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there thou shalt hear my words.

And the Lord, said to the devil, Whence comest thou? Then the devil said before the Lord, I am come from going through the world, and walking about the whole earth.

Weary I intreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods.

and shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice, according to all things which I charge thee this day, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that does good.

O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is thy name in all the earth! for thy magnificence is exalted above the heavens.

I will sing of thy mercies, O Lord, for ever: I will declare thy truth with my mouth to all generations.

and thou shalt go forth to the burial-place of the sons of their children, which is at the entrance of the gate of Charsith; and do thou read there all these words which I shall speak to thee:

And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord has commanded.

What is this that thou thinkest to be according to right? who art thou that thou hast said, I am righteous before the Lord?

and there shall be no son born to thee, nor daughter in this place.

then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of stripes, thou shalt lay him down before the judges, and they shall scourge him before them according to his iniquity.

who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are led away captive.

Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, and my fingers for war.

Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy might.

I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: neither do ye understand more than I.

O Lord my God, in thee have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.

Why dost thou, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in thy mischief? All the day

O Lord, why are they that afflict me multiplied? many rise up against me.

I cried to the Lord with my voice, yea, my voice was addressed to God; and he gave heed to me.

His foundations are in the holy mountains.

I cried to the Lord with my voice; with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.

And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and sees Israel encamped by their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him.

They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he that dwells in Jerusalem shall never be moved.

Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; thou art near to their mouth, and far from their reins.

So I procured the girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins.

Judea has mourned, and her gates are emptied, and are darkened upon the earth; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Speak to the children of Israel, and take rods of them, according to the houses of their families, a rod from all their princes, according to the houses of their families, twelve rods, and write the name of each on his rod.

Hear me, ye wise men; hearken, ye that have knowledge.

O Lord, I have cried to thee; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to thee.

When the Lord turned the captivity of Sion, we became as comforted ones.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy great mercy; and according to the multitude of thy compassions blot out my transgression.

The Lord is my light and my Saviour; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Is it not the Lord that teaches understanding and knowledge?

And the princes of Israel brought gifts, twelve princes of their fathers' houses: these were the heads of tribes, these are they that presided over the numbering.

Thus saith the Lord, Learn ye not the ways of the heathen, and be not alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are alarmed at them, falling on their faces.

Hear ye the words of this covenant, and thou shalt speak to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem;

O Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me.

And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me?

and they shall spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshipped; they shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,

O Lord, incline thine ear, and hearken to me; for I am poor and needy.

Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in my innocence: and hoping in the Lord I shall not be moved.

Ye shall utterly destroy all the places in which they served their gods, whose land ye inherit, on the high mountains and on the hills, and under the thick tree.

Hear ye the word of the Lord, all Judea.

O Lord, attend to my prayer: hearken to my supplication in thy truth; hear me in thy righteousness.

The Lord your God made a covenant with you in Choreb.

The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.

saying,

I will give thee thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart; and I will sing psalms to thee before the angels; for thou hast heard all the words of my mouth.

O Lord, thou has taken pleasure in thy land: thou hast turned back the captivity of Jacob.

Rescue me, O Lord, from the evil man; deliver me from the unjust man.

And thy pride, O daughter of Sion, shall be taken away.

Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? for they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.

And it shall be, if they say to thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; As many as are for death, to death; and as many as are for famine, to famine; and as many as are for the sword, to the sword; and as many as are for captivity, to captivity.

And it shall come to pass whenever thou shalt draw nigh to battle, that the priest shall draw nigh and speak to the people, and shall say to them,

Lift up thine eyes to look straight forward, and see where thou hast not been utterly defiled. Thou hast sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and hast defiled the land with thy fornications and thy wickedness.

Give thanks to the Lord: for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.

On the first day of the first month, at the new moon, thou shalt set up the tabernacle of witness,

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat; and wept when we remembered Sion.

Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together!

O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thine anger.

I remember the kindness of thy youth, and the love of thine espousals,

The Lord lives, with truth, in judgment and righteousness, then shall nations bless by him, and by him they shall praise God in Jerusalem.

O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God.

Charge the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are entering into the land of Chanaan: it shall be to you for an inheritance, the land of Chanaan with its boundaries.

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

accordingly as the word of God came to him in the days of Josias son of Amos king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whatsoever man or woman shall specially vow a vow to separate oneself with purity to the Lord,

To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul.

And the offering of silver from the men that were numbered of the congregation a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, one drachm apiece, even the half shekel, according to the holy shekel.

Hear these words, all ye nations, hearken, all ye that dwell upon the earth:

For all these things are mine, saith the Lord: and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the man that trembles at my words?

And if there should be found in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee, a man or a woman who shall do that which is evil before the Lord thy God, so as to transgress his covenant,

And thou shalt sacrifice the passover to the Lord thy God, sheep and oxen in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called upon it.

Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.

Praise ye the name of the Lord; praise the Lord, ye his servants,

A Song of Degrees. Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say:

How long will ye vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.

Behold now, bless ye the Lord, all the servants of the Lord, who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.

Charge the children of Israel, and let them send forth out of the camp every leper, and every one who has in issue of the reins, and every one who is unclean from a dead body.

Give orders to the children of Israel, and they shall give to the Levites cities to dwell in from the lot of their possession, and they shall give to the Levites the suburbs of the cities round about them.

as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall burn up the enemies, and thy name shall be manifest among the adversaries: at thy presence the nations shall be troubled,

I have stretched forth my hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins.

Rejoice ye in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob.

O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee.

And the Lord said to me, Fear him not, for I have delivered him, and all his people, and all his land, into thy hands; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Seon king of the Amorites who dwelt in Esebon.

See now! what is so good, or what so pleasant, as for brethren to dwell together?