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For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

A poor man loves mirth, loving wine and oil in abundance;

For a righteous man will fall seven times, and rise again: but the ungodly shall be without strength in troubles.

And if thou shouldest say in thine heart, Wherefore have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of thine iniquity have thy skirts been discovered, that thine heels might be exposed.

It is a snare to a man hastily to consecrate some of his own property: for in that case repentance comes after vowing.

And I drew near to one of them that stood by, and I sought to learn of him the truth of all these things: and he told me the truth, and made known to me the interpretation of the things.

Chasten thy son, for so he shall be hopeful; and be not exalted in thy soul to haughtiness.

They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nought in the land of Egypt.

The Lord's enemies should have lied to him: but their time shall be for ever.

A man's gift enlarges him, and seats him among princes.

Behold, thou art fair, my kinsman, yea, beautiful, overshadowing our bed.

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

And Jeremias said to Saraeas, When thou art come to Babylon, and shalt see and read all these words;

Have thou a friend for every time, and let brethren be useful in distress; for on this account are they born.

Having found honey, eat only what is enough, lest haply thou be filled, and vomit it up.

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they abode not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith the Lord.

O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who sittest upon the cherubs, thou alone art the God of every kingdom of the world: thou hast made heaven and earth.

Look thou upon me, and have mercy upon me: give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes.

He who is skillful in business finds good: but he that trusts in God is most blessed.

Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the families that have not called upon thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his pasture desolate.

A sluggard seems to himself wiser than one who most satisfactorily brings back a message.

Yea, O Lord, for it was told thee concerning this; and thou hast revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live.

For thou art our Father; for though Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do thou, O Lord, our Father, deliver us: thy name has been upon us from the beginning.

For with the fire of the Lord all the earth shall be judged, and all flesh with his sword: many shall be slain by the Lord.

When those went, the wheels went; and when those stood, the wheels stood; and when those lifted themselves off the earth, they were lifted off with them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.

to whom thou hast spoken and promised, that thou wouldest multiply their seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that lieth upon the seashore.

Hearken not to Ezekias: thus says the king of the Assyrians, If ye wish to be blessed, come out to me: and ye shall eat every one of his vine and his fig-trees, and ye shall drink water out of your own cisterns:

As I live, saith the Lord, verily in the place where the king is that made him king, who dishonoured my oath, and who broke my covenant, shall he die with him in the midst of Babylon.

AIN. All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up: moreover this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

They passed by in full number, and not one of them perished: they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and his Spirit gathered them.

But the Lord was jealous of his land, and spared his people.

Of the abundance of thy merchandise thou hast filled thy storehouses with iniquity, and hast sinned: therefore thou hast been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought thee out of the midst of the stones of fire.

And the Lord shall cry out of Sion, and shall utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heaven and the earth shall be shaken, but the Lord shall spare his people, and shall strengthen the children of Israel.

And Libanus is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole-burnt offering:

But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be glorified in righteousness.

The north wind is sharp, but it is called by name propitious.

Better is a small portion with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures without the fear of the Lord.

And after the seven days the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man,

And the king spoke with them; and there were not found out of them all any like Daniel, and Ananias and Misael, and Azarias: and they stood before the king.

AIN. Mine eye has poured out water, because he that should comfort me, that should restore my soul, has been removed far from me: my sons have been destroyed, because the enemy has prevailed.

Therefore say thou, Thus saith the Lord; I will cast them off among the nations, and will disperse them into every land, yet will I be to them for a little sanctuary in the countries which they shall enter.

A wise man fears, and departs from evil; but the fool trusts in himself, and joins himself with the transgressor.

he shall dwell in a high cave of a strong rock: bread shall be given him, and his water shall be sure.

A king in need of revenues is a great oppressor: but he that hates injustice shall live a long time.

Every prudent man acts with knowledge: but the fool displays his own mischief.

Then judgment shall abide in the wilderness, and righteousness shall dwell in Carmel.

A fool declares his wrath the same day; but a prudent man hides his own disgrace.

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.

PHE. Sion has spread out her hand, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord has commanded concerning Jacob, his oppressors are round about him: Jerusalem has become among them as a removed woman.

And in every matter of wisdom and knowledge wherein the king questioned them, he found them ten times wiser than all the enchanters and sorcerers that were in all his kingdom.

And the likeness over the heads of the living creatures was as a firmament, as the appearance of crystal, spread out over their wings above.

Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, turn, my kinsman, be thou like to a roe or young hart on the mountains of the ravines.

Granting mercy to thousands, and recompensing the sins of the fathers into the bosoms of their children after them: the great, the strong God;

Consult not with a fool; for he cannot keep counsel.

And he fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.

A passionate man acts inconsiderately; but a sensible man bears up under many things.

But God shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the house of thy father, days which have never come, from the day that Ephraim took away from Juda the king of the Assyrians.

For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

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

They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, and eat swine's flesh in the porches, and the abominations, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.

Why hast thou caused us to err, O Lord, from thy way? and has hardened our hearts, that we should not fear thee? Return for thy servants' sake, for the sake of the tribes of thine inheritance,

A rash king shall fall into mischief: but a wise messenger shall deliver him.

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,

Blessed art thou, O land, whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes shall eat seasonably, for strength, and shall not be ashamed.

He that becomes surety for a man charged with murder shall be an exile, and not in safety. Chasten thy son, and he shall love thee, and give honour to thy soul: he shall not obey a sinful nation.

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.

Thy wrath has passed over me; and thy terrors have greatly disquieted me.

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

As he that lays hold of a dog's tail, so is he that makes himself the champion of another's cause.

A righteous man declares the open truth; but an unjust witness is deceitful.

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

For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them.

The beams of our house are cedars, our ceilings are of cypress.

and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small: for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it.

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.

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 the two pillars, and the one sea, and the twelve brazen oxen under the sea, which things king Solomon made for the house of the Lord; the brass of which articles was without weight.

O daughter of Egypt dwelling at home, prepare thee stuff for removing: for Memphis shall be utterly desolate, and shall be called Woe, because there are no inhabitants in it.

yet I will exult in the Lord, I will joy in God my Saviour.

If the Lord had not helped me, my soul had almost sojourned in Hades.

For we, O Lord, are become less than any nation, and be kept under this day in all the world because of our sins.

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:

A merciful man does good to his own soul: but the merciless destroys his own body.

And for brass I will bring thee gold, and for iron I will bring thee silver, and instead of wood I will bring thee brass, and instead of stones, iron; and I will make thy princes peaceable, and thine overseers righteous.

These are the borders from the sea, from the habitations of Aenan, the coasts of Damascus, and the northern coasts.

If the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then shall ye be able to do good, having learnt evil.

Thy heart has been lifted up because of thy beauty; thy knowledge has been corrupted with thy beauty: because of the multitude of thy sins I have cast thee to the ground, I have caused thee to be put to open shame before kings.

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.

For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth: and they shall not at all remember the former, neither shall they at all come into their mind.

He raiseth up the soul, and lighteneth the eyes: he giveth health, life, and blessing.

And I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the ungodly: for there is a time there for every action and for every work.

Enter sparingly into thy friend's house, lest he be satiated with thy company, and hate thee.

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.

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

And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall fall: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

Chasten thy son, and he shall give thee rest; and he shall give honour to thy soul.

But if he give a gift to one of his servants, then it shall belong to him until the year of release; and then he shall restore it to the prince: but of the inheritance of his sons the possession shall continue to them.

Cry out and howl, son of man: for this sword is come upon my people, this sword is come upon all the princes of Israel: they shall be as strangers: judgment with the sword is come upon my people: therefore clap thine hands, for sentence has been passed: