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Sem and Seth were in great honour among men, and so was Adam above every living thing in creation.

He called upon the mighty Lord, when his enemies pressed upon him on every side, when he offered the sucking lamb.

Give, and take, and sanctify thy soul; for there is no seeking of dainties in the grave.

Then looked he unto the king, and said, Thou hast power over men, thou art corruptible, thou doest what thou wilt; yet think not that our nation is forsaken of God;

At his sight the mountains are shaken, and at his will the south wind bloweth.

The talking of a fool is like a burden in the way: but grace shall be found in the lips of the wise.

For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, sheweth herself favourably unto them in the ways, and meeteth them in every thought.

For man made them, and he that borrowed his own spirit fashioned them: but no man can make a god like unto himself.

For the ungodly, that denied to know thee, were scourged by the strength of thine arm: with strange rains, hails, and showers, were they persecuted, that they could not avoid, and through fire were they consumed.

For Jerusalem shall be built up with sapphires and emeralds, and precious stone: thy walls and towers and battlements with pure gold.

Then they were both troubled, and fell upon their faces: for they feared.

That they might know, that wherewithal a man sinneth, by the same also shall he be punished.

What fellowship hath the wolf with the lamb? so the sinner with the godly.

If adversity come upon thee, thou shalt find him there first; and though he pretend to help thee, yet shall he undermine thee.

So he returned afterward to Nineve, both he and all his company of sundry nations being a very great multitude of men of war, and there he took his ease, and banqueted, both he and his army, an hundred and twenty days.

Pales set on an high place will never stand against the wind: so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool cannot stand against any fear.

The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things, and the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.

He that serveth the Lord shall be accepted with favour, and his prayer shall reach unto the clouds.

For thy power is the beginning of righteousness, and because thou art the Lord of all, it maketh thee to be gracious unto all.

Then shouted the sons of Aaron, and sounded the silver trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard, for a remembrance before the most High.

So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, shut up in a prison without iron bars,

Therefore be shamefaced according to my word: for it is not good to retain all shamefacedness; neither is it altogether approved in every thing.

And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people.

Two sorts of men multiply sin, and the third will bring wrath: a hot mind is as a burning fire, it will never be quenched till it be consumed: a fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he hath kindled a fire.

Reward them that wait for thee, and let thy prophets be found faithful.

And brought thine unfeigned commandment as a sharp sword, and standing up filled all things with death; and it touched the heaven, but it stood upon the earth.

O Lord God of heaven, behold their pride, and pity the low estate of our nation, and look upon the face of those that are sanctified unto thee this day.

There is that waxeth rich by his wariness and pinching, and this his the portion of his reward:

God be judge between us and you: for ye have done us great injury, in that ye have not required peace of the children of Assur.

She entered into the soul of the servant of the Lord, and withstood dreadful kings in wonders and signs;

Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord's hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.

Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the deep, and the earth, and all that therein is, shall be moved when he shall visit.

The weed growing upon every water and bank of a river shall be pulled up before all grass.

As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace.

But these very grievously afflicted them, whom they had received with feastings, and were already made partakers of the same laws with them.

To fear the Lord is fulness of wisdom, and filleth men with her fruits.

Do not bind the counsels of the Lord our God: for God is not as man, that he may be threatened; neither is he as the son of man, that he should be wavering.

Of whom some did that which was pleasing to God, and some multiplied sins.

Thus the righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly which are living; and youth that is soon perfected the many years and old age of the unrighteous.

I bowed down mine ear a little, and received her, and gat much learning.

The Lord overthrew countries of the heathen, and destroyed them to the foundations of the earth.

Thy name went far unto the islands; and for thy peace thou wast beloved.

And let just men eat and drink with thee; and let thy glorying be in the fear of the Lord.

Strive not with an angry man, and go not with him into a solitary place: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there is no help, he will overthrow thee.

And there was no body there save the two elders, that had hid themselves, and watched her.

The wickedness of a woman changeth her face, and darkeneth her countenance like sackcloth.

Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a gracious man.

All the works of the Lord are exceeding good, and whatsoever he commandeth shall be accomplished in due season.

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall be left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem, shall even come up every year to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

As for the children of adulterers, they shall not come to their perfection, and the seed of an unrighteous bed shall be rooted out.

For like as a vessel that a man useth is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temple, their eyes be full of dust through the feet of them that come in.

There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart; and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue?

And to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers:

As the sun when it ariseth in the high heaven; so is the beauty of a good wife in the ordering of her house.

My son, let tears fall down over the dead, and begin to lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harm thyself; and then cover his body according to the custom, and neglect not his burial.

He chose him out of all men living to offer sacrifices to the Lord, incense, and a sweet savour, for a memorial, to make reconciliation for his people.

And when thou standest before him, be not afraid in thine heart, but shew unto him according to thy word; and he will entreat thee well.

They that fear the Lord will seek that which is well, pleasing unto him; and they that love him shall be filled with the law.

Whoso discovereth secrets loseth his credit; and shall never find friend to his mind.

He that forsaketh his father is as a blasphemer; and he that angereth his mother is cursed: of God.

We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.

But ungodly men with their works and words called it to them: for when they thought to have it their friend, they consumed to nought, and made a covenant with it, because they are worthy to take part with it.

Let reason go before every enterprise, and counsel before every action.

These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.

My kinsman is mine, and I am his: he feeds his flock among the lilies.

even men as thy merchandise, from the multitude of thy trading population, myrrh and embroidered works from Tharsis: Ramoth also and Chorchor furnished thy market.

And he said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight and in want; and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin:

and the basons, and the snuffers, and the oil-funnels, and the candlesticks, and the censers, and the cups, the golden, of gold, and the silver, of silver, the captain of the guard took away.

And these shall be its dimensions; from the northern side four thousand and five hundred, and from the southern side four thousand and five hundred, and from the eastern side four thousand and five hundred, and from the western side they shall measure four thousand five hundred.

There is a lamentation, and thou shalt utter it; and the daughters of the nations shall utter it, even for Egypt, and they shall mourn for it over all the strength thereof, saith the Lord God.

and thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them: but thou shalt rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.

A gracious wife brings glory to her husband: but a woman hating righteousness is a theme of dishonour. The slothful come to want: but the diligent support themselves with wealth.

Maabthera, Ebrameliam, between the coasts of Damascus and the coasts of Emathi, the habitation of Saunan, which places are above the coasts of Auranitis.

For as thou hast drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, he is their mighty protection and strong stay, a defence from heat, and a cover from the sun at noon, a preservation from stumbling, and an help from falling.

They that fear the Lord shall find judgment, and shall kindle justice as a light.

And when I have sent against them shafts of famine, then they shall be consumed, and I will break the strength of thy bread.

And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied.

When the ungodly abound, sins abound: but when they fall, the righteous are warned.

Thus saith the Lord God; If the prince shall give a gift to one of his sons out of his inheritance, this shall be to his sons a possession as an inheritance.

And the men feared the Lord very greatly, and offered a sacrifice to the Lord, and vowed vows.

And the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth.

but ye said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will be aided by swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

They that see thee shall wonder at thee, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;

The works of the righteous produce life; but the fruits of the ungodly produce sins.

saying, Whoso is most senseless of you, let him turn aside to me; and I exhort those that want prudence, saying,

As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee.

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will cause them to tread paths which they have not known: I will turn darkness into light for them, and crooked things into straight. These things will I do, and will not forsake them.

because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my commandments, but profaned my sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.

The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough.

Shall ye not be counted as clay of the potter? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Thou didst not form me? or the work to the maker, Thou hast not made me wisely?

Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.

But they that escape of them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains: and I will slay all the rest, every one for his iniquities.

And all the people shall give these first-fruits to the prince of Israel.

By me nobles become great, and monarchs by me rule over the earth.

Thus saith the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty water;

and let none of you devise evil in his heart against his neighbour; and love not a false oath: for all these things I hate, saith the Lord Almighty.

And the altar shall be of the length of twelve cubits, by twelve cubits in breadth, square upon its four sides.

Awake, O north wind; and come, O south; and blow through my garden, and let my spices flow out.

And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.