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Yet deliver us not up wholly, for thy name's sake, neither disannul thou thy covenant:

And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves a place of rest.

NUN. Thy prophets have seen for thee vanities and folly: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn back thy captivity; but they have seen for thee vain burdens, and worthless visions.

Thou art my dove, in the shelter of the rock, near the wall: shew me thy face, and cause me to hear thy voice; for thy voice is sweet, and thy countenance is beautiful.

thus says the king, Let not Ezekias deceive you with words: he will not be able to deliver you.

gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the infants at the breast: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

Pride goes before destruction, and folly before a fall.

But every one shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats the sour grape shall be set on edge.

And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures lifted themselves off the earth, the wheels were lifted off.

As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me, and removed

As a door turns on the hinge, so does a sluggard on his bed.

I became a laughing-stock to all my people; and their song all the day.

And Ezekias received the letter from the messengers, and read it, and went up to the house of the Lord, and opened it before the Lord.

And ye shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall thrive like grass: and the hand of the Lord shall be known to them that fear him, and he shall threaten the disobedient.

He that pronounces the unjust just, and the just unjust, is unclean and abominable with God.

And when I say to the ungodly, Thou shalt surely die; and he shall turn from his sin, and do judgment and justice,

As winds and clouds and rains are most evident objects, so is he that boasts of a false gift.

And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.

Therefore shall destruction rise up among thy people, and all thy strong places shall be ruined: as a prince Solomon departed out of the house of Jeroboam, in the days of battle they dashed the mother to the ground upon the children,

A wise servant calms a man's anger; but who can endure a faint-hearted man?

My kinsman is to me a cluster of camphor in the vineyards of Engaddi.

And I will make thee a bare rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord.

And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they pined for oil and wine.

He that keeps the commandment keeps his own soul; but he that despises his ways shall perish.

And to him was given the dominion, and the honour, and the kingdom; and all nations, tribes, and languages, shall serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed.

A double weight is an abomination to the Lord; and a deceitful balance is not good in his sight.

Stretch not thine hand whithersoever it looketh, and thrust it not with him into the dish.

Thus shalt thou perceive wisdom in thy soul: for if thou find it, thine end shall be good, and hope shall not fail thee.

Wherefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Juda: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.

And the sons of them that afflicted thee, and of them that provoked thee, shall come to thee in fear; and thou shalt be called Sion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

It is the joy of the righteous to do judgment: but a holy man is abominable with evil-doers.

The Lord also has watched, and brought the evils upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his work which he has executed, but we have not hearkened to his voice.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with everything that has been overlooked, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.

Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are then far from him.

and I will turn the captivity of the Egyptians, and will cause them to dwell in the land of Phathore, in the land whence they were taken;

and the earth shall hearken to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hearken to Jezrael.

NUN. her watchmen staggered in the streets, they were defiled with blood in their weakness, they touched their raiment with it.

And he said, These are the two anointed ones that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.

Whoso feareth the Lord shall not fear nor be afraid; for he is his hope.

For thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from death.

And thy multitude has fainted and fallen; and each one said to his neighbour, Let us arise, and return into our country to our people, from the Grecian sword.

For thus saith the Lord; There shall yet be bought fields and houses and vineyards in this land.

I will feed them in a good pasture, on a high mountain of Israel: and their folds shall be there, and they shall lie down, and there shall they rest in perfect prosperity, and they shall feed in a fat pasture on the mountains of Israel.

Then the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, and I commanded them not, and I spoke not to them: for they prophesy to you false visions, and divinations, and auguries, and devices of their own heart.

A fool moreover multiplies words: man knows not what has been, nor what will be: who shall tell him what will come after him?

O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that persecute me; do not bear long with them; know how I have met with reproach for thy sake, from those who set at nought thy words;

your fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: ye have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins.

suppose there were a little city, and few men in it; and there should come against it a great king, and surround it, and build great mounds against it;

Therefore, behold, I will at this time manifest my hand to them, and will make known to them my power; and they shall know that my name is the Lord.

that there shall enter through the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, and riding on their chariots and horses, they, and their princes, the men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever.

And I said, So be it, Lord, for thou saidst I will set thee among children, and will give thee a choice land, the inheritance of the Almighty God of the Gentiles: and I said, Ye shall call me Father; and ye shall not turn away from me.

His hands are as turned gold set with beryl: his belly is an ivory tablet on a sapphire stone.

And we have turned judgment back, and righteousness has departed afar off: for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straight path.

then shalt thou trust on the Lord; and he shall bring thee up to the good places of the land, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

I the Lord have spoken; and it shall come, and I will do it; I will not delay, neither will I have any mercy: I will judge thee, saith the Lord, according to thy ways, and according to thy devices: therefore will I judge thee according to thy bloodshed, and according to thy devices will I judge thee, thou unclean, notorious, and abundantly provoking one.

Whoso feareth the Lord will receive his discipline; and they that seek him early shall find favour.

O God, transgressors have risen up against me, and an assembly of violent men have sought my life; and have not set thee before them.

Thus saith the Lord; When all the earth is rejoicing, I will make thee desert.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous persons to whom it happens according to the doing of the ungodly; and there are ungodly men, to whom it happens according to the doing of the just: I said, This is also vanity.

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel.

And they shall say, Clear the ways before him, and take up the stumbling-blocks out of the way of my people.

And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and multiply it, and will not bring famine upon you.

And behold, I am in your hands; do to me as is expedient, and as it is best for you.

Behold the works of God: for who shall be able to straighten him whom God has made crooked?

When six years are accomplished, thou shalt set free thy brother the Hebrew, who shall be sold to thee: for he shall serve thee six years, and then thou shalt let him go free: but they hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear.

And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines: they shall at the same time spoil the sea, and them that come from the east, and Idumea: and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall first obey them.

And I will put my Spirit within you, and ye shall live, and I will place you upon your own land: and ye shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and will do it, saith the Lord.

I am a God nigh at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off.

Thine is the mighty arm: let thy hand be strengthened, let thy right hand be exalted.

And thou shalt be built in righteousness: abstain from injustice, and thou shalt not fear; and trembling shall not come nigh thee.

But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.

As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, he shall return back as he came, and he shall receive nothing for his labour, that it should go with him in his hand.

From the day that thou wast created thou wast with the cherub: I set thee on the holy mount of God; thou wast in the midst of the stones of fire.

As many shall be amazed at thee, so shall thy face be without glory from men, and thy glory shall not be honoured by the sons of men.

And thy name went forth among the nations for thy beauty: because it was perfected with elegance, and in the comeliness which I put upon thee, saith the Lord.

And Aggaeus said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled.

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set his steps in the way.

The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the word which he commanded his children, that they should drink no wine; and they have not drunk it: but I spoke to you early, and ye hearkened not.

And fire is gone out of a rod of her choice boughs, and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race is become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.

And now I say, in three years, of the years of an hireling, the glory of Moab shall be dishonoured with all his great wealth; and he shall be left few in number, and not honoured.

Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance.

Son of man, prophesy, and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, Sword, sword, be sharpened and rage,

Rejoice, O daughter of Sion; cry aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; rejoice and delight thyself with all thine heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

For the Lord has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused Egypt to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.

Out of the house of Thogarma horses and horsemen furnished the market.

For in thy deliverance he shall not halt, nor tarry;

We have been satisfied in the morning with thy mercy; and we did exult and rejoice:

And all the princes sent to Baruch son of Nerias Judin the son of Nathanias, the son of Selemias, the son of Chusi, saying, Take in thine hand the roll in which thou readest in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch took the roll, and went down to them.

And they shall appoint men continually to go over the land, to bury them that have been left on the face of the earth, to cleanse it after the space of seven months, and they shall seek them out.

Thus saith the Lord, The whole land shall be desolate; but I will not make a full end.

Ye that dwell in the country of Thaeman, bring water to meet him that is thirsty;

For he has hoped in me, and I will deliver him: I will protect him, because he has known my name.

For he shall come forth out of the house of the prisoners to reign, because he also that was in his kingdom has become poor.

They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.

For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance;

And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather them: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.

And though these three men should be in the midst of it, Noe, and Daniel, and Job, they alone should be delivered by their righteousness, saith the Lord.

Away, my kinsman, and be like a doe or a fawn on the mountains of spices.

And thou dost cause thine horses to enter the sea, disturbing much water.