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for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.

And ye have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, with which he sent me to you.

And its windows, and its porches, and its palm-trees, were according to the dimensions of the gate looking eastward; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the porches were within.

and didst slay thy children, and gavest them up in offering them to them for an expiation.

and they that cause men to sin by a word: and men shall make all that reprove in the gates an offence, because they have unjustly turned aside the righteous.

And Esaias the son of Amos was sent to Ezekias, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, I have heard thy prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.

And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them.

If they will declare, let them draw nigh, that they may know together, who has caused these things to be heard from the beginning: then was it told you. I am God, and there is not another beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none but me.

And many peoples and many nations shall come to seek earnestly the face of the Lord Almighty in Jerusalem, and to obtain favour of the Lord.

yea, while I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, came flying, and he touched me about the hour of the evening sacrifice.

No injustice will please a just man; but the ungodly will be filled with mischief.

Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.

And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the feast of the passover; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread.

He that unjustly strikes hands shall not be unpunished: but he that sows righteousness he shall receive a faithful reward.

By three thing the earth is troubled, and the fourth it cannot bear:

A wise man assaults strong cities, and demolishes the fortress in which the ungodly trusted.

This will I lay up in my heart, therefore I will endure.

The bread of the needy is their life: he that defraudeth him thereof is a man of blood.

The Lord God has taken counsel that he might be justified, and might magnify his praise.

How has the faithful city Sion, once full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.

Evil shall pursue sinners; but good shall overtake the righteous.

Then the king commanded, and they cast him into the prison, and gave him a loaf a day out of the place where they bake, until the bread failed out of the city. So Jeremias continued in the court of the prison.

And I will set my glory among you, and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have wrought, and my hand which I have brought upon them.

And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the whole house of Israel out of the midst of the nations, among whom they have gone, and I will gather them from all that are round about them, and I will bring them into the land of Israel.

And I will take of them priests and Levites, saith the Lord.

And if they shall thirst, he shall lead them through the desert; he shall bring forth water to them out of the rock: the rock shall be cloven, and the water shall flow forth, and my people shall drink.

And the prince shall have the remainder on this side and on that side from the first-fruits of the sanctuary, and there shall be a possession of the city, for five and twenty thousand cubits in length, to the eastern and western borders, for five and twenty thousand to the western borders, next to the portions of the prince; and the first-fruits of the holy things and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it.

Be thou in the depth of the pit: to whom art thou superior? yea, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised, in the midst of them that are slain with the sword.

And the king sent Judin to fetch the roll: and he took it out of the house of Elisama: and Judin read in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood round the king.

The lips of the righteous know sublime truths: but the foolish die in want.

Son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it,

And king Joakim and all the princes heard all his words, and sought to slay him; and Urias heard it and went into Egypt.

And she makes proclamation on the top of the walls, and sits by the gates of princes; and at the gates of the city boldly says,

but bind them upon thy soul continually, and hang them as a chain about thy neck.

Rejoice then and be glad, ye children of Sion, in the Lord your God: for he has given you food fully, and he will rain on you the early and the latter rain, as before.

that I may divide substance to them that love me, and may fill their treasures with good things. If I declare to you the things that daily happen, I will remember also to recount the things of old.

And I will give Sedekias king of Judea, and their princes, into the hands of their enemies, and the host of the king of Babylon shall come upon them that run away from them.

A glad heart promotes health; but the bones of a sorrowful man dry up.

My son, fear God and the king; and do not disobey either of them.

Bruises and contusions befall bad men; and plagues shall come in the inward parts of their belly.

CHSEN. Hear, I pray you, for I groan: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of mine afflictions, and rejoice because thou hast done it: thou hast brought on the day, thou hast called the time: they are become like to me.

And thou shalt say in thine heart, Who has begotten me these? whereas I was childless, and a widow; but who has brought up these for me? and I was left alone; but whence came these to me?

And now we follow thee with all our heart, we fear thee, and seek thy face. Put us not to shame:

Therefore hear, thou afflicted one, and drunken, but not with wine;

For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.

They will hunt for the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

For there is such a man that his labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in fortitude; yet this man shall give his portion to one who has not laboured therein. This is also vanity and great evil.

He has forsaken his lair, as a lion: for their land is become desolate before the great sword.

In that day shall a horn spring forth for all the house of Israel, and I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Thus saith the Lord, And if I even send upon Jerusalem my four sore judgments, sword, and famine, and evil beasts, and pestilence, to destroy from out of it man and beast;

For there is not a righteous man in the earth, who will do good, and not sin

And they were silent, and none answered him a word; because the king had commanded that none should answer.

Therefore I will save my sheep, and they shall not be any more for a prey; and will judge between ram and ram.

And the Lord shall be known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day; and they shall offer sacrifices, and shall vow vows to the Lord, and pay them.

And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, that when ye shall be hungry, ye shall be grieved, and ye shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers' ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above,

Did not the Lord remember the incense which ye burned in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, and your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land? and came it not into his heart?

And it came to pass in the tenth year of our captivity, in the twelfth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is taken.

And who has seen the spirit of the sons of man, whether it goes upward? and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?

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

He that reverences not the persons of the just is not good: such a one will sell a man for a morsel of bread.

Will ye not know? will ye not hear? has it not been told you of old? Have ye not known the foundations of the earth?

And the word of the Lord came the second time to Aggaeus the prophet, on the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

to enter into the caverns of the solid rock, and into the clefts of the rocks, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

The ways of a foolish man are void of sense; but a wise man proceeds on his way aright.

And the holy place and the temple opened on four sides; in front of the holy places the appearance was as the look of

There are ways that seem to be right to a man, but the end of them looks to the depth of hell.

Your judgment draws nigh, saith the Lord God; your counsels have drawn nigh, saith the King of Jacob.

Prepare thy children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.

I have found David my servant; I have anointed him by my holy mercy.

But if thou warn the righteous not to sin, and he sin not, the righteous shall surely live, because thou hast warned him; and thou shalt deliver thine own soul.

Life and death are in the power of the tongue; and they that rule it shall eat the fruits thereof.

But they provoked me, and their children walked not in my commandments, and they took no heed to mine ordinances to do them, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned my sabbaths: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish mine anger upon them.

Now Esaias had said to Ezekias; Take a cake of figs, and mash them, and apply them as a plaster, and thou shalt be well.

And God shall bring his hand upon the host of heaven, and upon the kings of the earth.

And as for the heart set upon their abominations and their iniquities, as their heart went after them, I have recompensed their ways on their heads, saith the Lord.

And if thou hast been forced to eat, arise, go forth, vomit, and thou shalt have rest.

And if this people, or the priest, or the prophet, should ask, What is the burden of the Lord? then thou shalt say to them, Ye are the burden, and I will dash you down, saith the Lord.

and they shall build houses, and themselves shall dwell in them; and they shall plant vineyards, and themselves shall eat the fruit thereof.

Jechonias is dishonoured as a good-for-nothing vessel; for he is thrown out and cast forth into a land which he knew not.

So ye shall divide this land to them, even to the tribes of Israel.

So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from the right path.

and thou gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to give to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey;

And the remnant of Jacob shall trust on the mighty God.

He is thy boast, and he is thy God, who has wrought in the midst of thee these great and glorious things, which thine eyes have seen.

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: there shall be rest in seed-time and harvest.

Every one that touches it shall be unclean; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean till evening.

the numbering of them of the tribe of Ruben, was forty-six thousand and four hundred.

And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; and God shall be with you, and restore you to the land of your fathers.

To Gedson belongs the family of Lobeni, and the family of Semei: these are the families of Gedson.

And the fish in the river died, and the river stank thereupon; and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river, and the blood was in all the land of Egypt.

And they said, We have surely seen that the Lord was with thee, and we said, Let there be an oath between us and thee, and we will make a covenant with thee,

and the Amorites, and the Chananites, and the Evites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.

Nephthalim is a spreading stem, bestowing beauty on its fruit.

And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, and they shall ask of him before the Lord the judgment of the Urim: they shall go forth at his word, and at his word they shall come in, he and the children of Israel with one accord, and all the congregation.

Thou has rebuked the proud: cursed are they that turn aside from thy commandments.

Whoever shall take his brother's wife, it is uncleanness; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall die childless.

And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech spoke, and Ochozath his friend, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, to Abraam, saying, God is with thee in all things, whatsoever thou mayest do.

And Moses said, The people among whom I am are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou saidst, I will give them flesh to eat, and they shall eat a whole month.

And ye shall not hurt a stranger, nor afflict him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

But as I live and my name is living, so the glory of the Lord shall fill all the earth.