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Who is there among you that will give ear to these things? hearken ye to the things which are coming to pass.

When one buildeth, and another pulleth down, what profit have they then but labour?

And it shall come to pass from month to month, and from sabbath to sabbath, that all flesh shall come to worship before me in Jerusalem, saith the Lord.

And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell there, and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.

A bold and self-willed and insolent man is called a pest: and he that remembers injuries is a transgressor.

For many times he shall trespass against thee, and repeatedly shall he afflict thine heart; for thus also hast thou cursed others.

And I will give it into the hands of them that injured thee, and them that afflicted thee; who said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: and thou didst level thy body with the ground to them passing by without.

And as for the rest of the tribes, from the eastern parts as far as the western, Benjamin shall have one portion.

A bad man will by no means attend to counsel; neither will he say anything seasonable, or good for the common weal.

Therefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord; I will even set aside this parable, and the house of Israel shall no more at all use this parable: for thou shalt say to them, The days are at hand, and the import of every vision.

because of all the wickedness of the children of Israel and Juda, which they wrought to provoke me, they and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem.

And he will recompense to them their iniquity and their wickedness: the Lord our God shall utterly destroy them.

and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for his life.

And all the nations shall know that the house of Israel were led captive because of their sins, because they rebelled against me, and I turned away my face from them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.

and I the Lord will be to them a God, and David a prince in the midst of them; I the Lord have spoken it.

Do thou thoroughly know the number of thy flock, and pay attention to thine herds.

For all his days are days of sorrows, and vexation of spirit is his; in the night also his heart rests not. This is also vanity.

And it shall come to pass in that day, for every place where there shall be a thousand vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become barren land and thorns.

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

A fool does mischief in sport; but wisdom brings forth prudence for a man.

And I will recompense you for the years which the locust, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm have eaten, even my great army, which I sent against you.

Blood and death shall be in thy streets; and men wounded with swords shall fall in thee and on every side of thee; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, saith the Lord,

The countenance of a wise man is sensible; but the eyes of a fool go to the ends of the earth.

And this thing I say to you that are wise for you to learn: It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

An understanding man is a throne of wisdom; but the heart of fools shall meet with curses.

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their princesses thy nurses, they shall bow down to thee on the face of the earth, and shall lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and they that wait on me shall not be ashamed.

And for the seven days of the feast he shall offer as whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord seven calves and seven rams without blemish daily for the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin-offering, and a meat-offering.

But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: a foolish man digs up evil for himself, and treasures fire on his own lips.

Deliver us also according to thy marvellous works, and give glory to thy name, O Lord:

At the beginning of thy supplication the word came forth, and I am come to tell thee; for thou art a man much beloved: therefore consider the matter, understand the vision.

Whoso is liberal of his meat, men shall speak well of him; and the report of his good housekeeping will be believed.

and they brought him thence, and brought him into the king; and he smote him with the sword, and cast him into the sepulchre of the children of his people.

And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity.

For the commandment of the law is a lamp and a light; a way of life; reproof also and correction:

But when their children shall have seen my works, they shall sanctify my name for my sake, and they sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

By myself I swear, righteousness shall surely proceed out of my mouth; my words shall not be frustrated; that to me every knee shall bend, and every tongue shall swear by God,

or if a maid-servant should cast out her own mistress; and if a hateful woman should marry a good man.

When a pestilent character is scourged, a simple man is made wiser: and if thou reprove a wise man, he will understand discretion.

And thy most beautiful son whom thou lovest shall fall by the sword; and your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and shall be brought low.

And they shall bring forth thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt by no means escape, for thou shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burnt.

In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrians shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptians shall go to the Assyrians, and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrians.

And after they have finished the atonement, they shall bring an unblemished calf of the herd, and an unblemished ram of the flock.

Behold, I will bring forth to you the utterance of my breath, and I will instruct you in my speech.

In every good work trust thy own soul; for this is the keeping of the commandments.

A righteous father brings up his children well; and his soul rejoices over a wise son.

Thy cords are broken, for they had no strength: thy meat has given way, it shall not spread the sails, it shall not bear a signal, until it be given up for plunder; therefore shall many lame men take spoil.

My chosen shall not toil in vain, neither shall they beget children to be cursed; for they are a seed blessed of God, and their offspring with them.

Rejoice, ye heavens; for God has had mercy upon Israel: sound the trumpet, ye foundations of the earth: ye mountains, shout with joy, ye hills, and all the trees therein: for God has redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall be glorified.

And there were chambers in them round about, round about the four, and cooking-places formed under the chambers round about.

Write ye this man an outcast: for there shall none of his seed at all grow up to sit on the throne of David, or as a prince yet in Juda.

And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which was in front of the city.

Charra, and Chanaa, these were thy merchants: Assur, and Charman, were thy merchants:

Pride brings a man low, but the Lord upholds the humble-minded with honour.

All the desire of the righteous is good: but the hope of the ungodly shall perish.

He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because the Lord will make a short work in all the world.

and their burial is in the depth of the pit, and his company are set around about his tomb: all the slain that fell by the sword, who had caused the fear of them to be upon the land of the living.

Whom hast thou reproached and provoked? and against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice? and hast thou not lifted up thine eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel?

And Nabuzardan the captain of the king's guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Deblatha.

Then shall there be rain to the seed of thy land; and the bread of the fruit of thy land shall be plenteous and rich: and thy cattle shall feed in that day in a fertile and spacious place.

Hearken, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words.

Be not companion to a furious man; neither lodge with a passionate man:

Such a man dies with the uninstructed; and he is cast forth from the abundance of his own substance, and has perished through folly.

Silver dishonestly given is to be considered as a potsherd: smooth lips cover a grievous heart.

who justify the ungodly for rewards, and take away the righteousness of the righteous.

Thy princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

He established me before time was in the beginning, before he made the earth:

And he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on the earth, which shall excel all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and trample and destroy it.

She makes fine linens, and sells girdles to the Chananites: she opens her mouth heedfully and with propriety, and controls her tongue.

The north wind raises clouds; so an impudent face provokes the tongue.

With every one who is careful there is abundance: but the pleasure-taking and indolent shall be in want.

I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, and disperse them in the countries;

And it came to pass when Judin had read three or four leaves, he cut them off with a penknife, and cast them into the fire that was on the hearth, until the whole roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

tell us, declare ye to us the things that are coming on at the last time, and we shall know that ye are gods: do good, and do evil, and we shall wonder, and see at the same time

They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

because of your burning incense, and because of the things wherein ye sinned against the Lord: and ye have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in his ordinances, and in his law, and in his testimonies; and so these evils have come upon you.

Thou hast not brought me the sheep of thy whole-burnt-offering; neither hast thou glorified me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with sacrifices, neither have I wearied thee with frankincense.

he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.

that they may no more defile themselves with their idols; and I will deliver them from all their transgressions whereby they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be to me a people, and I the Lord will be to them a God.

The righteous shall spend many years in wealth: but the unrighteous shall perish suddenly.

And the borders of Ruben wereeven Jordan was the boundary; this is the inheritance of the children of Ruben according to their families, these were their cities and their villages.

And now the Lord God of Israel has removed the Amorite from before his people Israel, and shalt thou inherit his land?

Orna gave all to the king: and Orna said to the king, The Lord thy God bless thee.

And Achitophel saw that his counsel was not followed, and he saddled his ass, and rose and departed to his house into his city; and he gave orders to his household, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

And he went thence to Navath in Rama: and there came the Spirit of God upon him also, and he went on prophesying till he came to Navath in Rama.

So the Lord will leave these nations, so as not to cast them out suddenly; and he delivered them not into the hand of Joshua.

And they encamped and surveyed Baethel: and the name of the city before was Luza.

And the Lord had mercy and compassion upon them, and had respect to them because of his covenant with Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob; and the Lord would not destroy them, and did not cast them out from his presence.

and redeemed us from our enemies; for his mercy endures for ever.

And David came as far as Ros, where he worshipped God: and behold, Chusi the chief friend of David came out to meet him, having rent his garment, and earth was upon his head.

In the fifteenth year of Amessias son of Joas king of Juda began Jeroboam son of Joas to reign over Israel in Samaria forty and one years.

And the counsel of Achitophel, which he counselled in former days, was as if one should enquire of the word of God: so was all the counsel of Achitophel both to David and also to Abessalom.

But his wife said to him, If the Lord were pleased to slay us, he would not have received of our hand a whole-burnt-offering and a meat-offering; and he would not have shewn us all these things, neither would he have caused us to hear all these things

And if we have built to ourselves an altar, so as to apostatize from the Lord our God, so as to offer upon it a sacrifice of whole-burnt-offerings, so as to offer upon it a sacrifice of peace-offering, the Lord shall require it.

And Joab arose, and went to Gedsur, and brought Abessalom to Jerusalem.

I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts.

In the fiftieth year of Azarias king of Juda, began Phakesias the son of Manaem to reign over Israel in Samaria two years.

For, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter.

and the tribe of Dan, Helcothaim and its suburbs; and Gethedan and its suburbs:

Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths;