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That thy foot may be dipped in blood, and the tongue of thy dogs be stained with that of thine enemies.

And thou has prepared for thyself thy people Israel to be a people for ever, and thou, Lord, art become their God.

And he took off his clothes, and prophesied before them; and lay down naked all that day and all that night: therefore they said, Is Saul also among the prophets?

And Joab and Abessa pursued after Abenner, and the sun went down: and they went as far as the hill of Amman, which is in the front of Gai, by the desert way of Gabaon.

Who gives food to all flesh; for his mercy endures for ever.

And Moses gave inheritance to the sons of Gad according to their families.

Daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you with scarlet together with your adorning, who added golden ornaments to your apparel.

And Gedeon built there an altar to the Lord, and called it The peace of the Lord, until this day, as it is still inEphratha of the father of Esdri.

Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye seed of Jacob, glorify him: let all the seed of Israel fear him.

And he went out: and Eglom's servants came, and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked; and they said, Does he not uncover his feet in the summer-chamber?

with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks!

the king of Thersa: all these were twenty-nine kings.

And he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.

And Azael king of Syria died, and the son of Ader his son reigned in his stead.

And Joshua took Achar the son of Zara, and brought him to the valley of Achor, and his sons, and his daughters, and his calves, and his asses, and all his sheep, and his tent, and all his property, and all the people were with him; and he brought them to Emec Achor.

shewing how Aman the son of Amadathes the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast lots to destroy them utterly;

And who will hearken to these your words? for they are not inferior to us; for according to the portion of him that went down to the battle, so shall be the portion of him that abides with the baggage; they shall share alike.

And David said to him, If thou shouldest go over with me, then wilt thou be a burden to me;

And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, in that I have transgressed the word of the Lord and thy direction; for I feared the people, and I hearkened to their voice.

Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.

For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror.

And the woman had a fat heifer in the house; and she hasted and slew it; and she took meal and kneaded it, and baked unleavened cakes.

And they that fell in that day, men and women, were twelve thousand: they slew all the inhabitants of Gai.

And, behold, as thy life has been precious this very day in my eyes, so let my life be precious before the Lord, and may he protect me, and deliver me out of all affliction.

And David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up on the top of the gate of the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone before him.

Thou hast guided me by thy counsel, and thou hast taken me to thyself with glory.

lest thou learn of his ways, and get snares to thy soul.

and rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven.

There are some who scatter their own, and make it more: and there are some also who gather, yet have less.

whence ye are, and whence is your works: they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.

The ungodly is engulphed in destruction; but the desire of the righteous is acceptable.

bringing for merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood.

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Be not afraid, my people who dwell in Sion, of the Assyrians, because he shall smite thee with a rod: for I am bringing a stroke upon thee, that thou mayest see the way of Egypt.

And thou, son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may enter in: the two shall go forth of one country; and there shall be a force at the top of the way of the city, thou shalt set it at the top of the way,

And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be levelled with the ground.

because they kept not mine ordinances, and rejected my commandments, and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.

Son of man, say to her, Thou art the land that is not rained upon, neither has rain come upon thee in the day of wrath;

Therefore thus saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Woe to the mighty men of Israel; for my wrath shall not cease against mine adversaries, and I will execute judgment on mine enemies.

And they built to Baal the altars that are in the valley of the son of Ennom, to offer their sons and their daughters to king Moloch; which things I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Juda to sin.

There is Aelam and all his host round about his tomb: all the slain that fell by the sword, and the uncircumcised that go down to the deep of the earth, who caused their fear to be upon the land of the living: and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit,

And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be: and as I have purposed, so the matter shall remain:

Son of man, they that inhabit the desolate places on the land of Israel say, Abram was one, and he possessed the land: and we are more numerous; to us the land is given for a possession.

And I will hew down his foes before him, and put to flight those that hate him.

And they shall go forth, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh.

Therefore shall the young men fall in thy streets, and all thy warriors shall fall, saith the Lord.

And I will make with David a covenant of peace and I will utterly destroy evil beasts from off the land; and they shall dwell in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests.

and let all them that do thy servants hurt be ashamed; and let them be confounded in all their power and might, and let their strength be broken;

Will any one take spoils from a giant? and if one should take a man captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?

And the king and his servants that heard all these words sought not the Lord, and rent not their garments.

Therefore as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel.

All these things have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

that thou didst build thyself a house of fornication, and didst make thyself a public place in every street;

And my servant David shall be a prince in the midst of them: there shall be one shepherd of them all; for they shall walk in mine ordinances, and keep my judgments, and do them.

In that day shall Israel be third with the Egyptians and the Assyrians, blessed in the land which the Lord of hosts has blessed,

According to their uncleannesses and according to their transgressions did I deal with them, and I turned away my face from them.

And its windows and its porches round about were according to the windows of the porch: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was five and twenty cubits.

And every one that is glorious in the house of his father shall trust in him, from the least to the greatest; and they shall depend upon him in that day.

Since I called, and ye did not hearken; and I spoke at length, and ye gave no heed;

A man has nothing really good to eat, and to drink, and to shew his soul as good in his trouble. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

For there shall no more be any false vision, nor any one prophesying flatteries in the midst of the children of Israel.

two leaves to the one, and two leaves to the other door.

He that believeth in the Lord taketh heed to the commandment; and he that trusteth in him shall fare never the worse.

But she opens her mouth wisely, and according to law.

Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?

And ye shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall sprinkle salt upon them, and shall offer them up as whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord.

Then the king said to him, Let no man know any of these words, and certainly thou shalt not die.

And there are four very little things upon the earth, but these are wiser than the wise:

And I will turn back the boasting of their strength; and their holy things shall be defiled.

And thou shalt prepare a cake for the calf, and cakes for the ram, and a hin of oil for the cake.

And they that erred in spirit shall know understanding, and the murmurers shall learn obedience, and the stammering tongues shall learn to speak peace.

And he said to me, These are the cooks' houses, where they that serve the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.

He that shares with a thief, hates his own soul: and if any having heard an oath uttered tell not of it,

Your bulls and your oxen that till the ground, shall eat chaff mixed with winnowed barley.

He that casts off father or mother, and thinks he sins not; the same is partaker with an ungodly man.

And from the borders of Benjamin, from the eastern parts to the western, Symeon, one.

And thou, son of man, behold, bonds are prepared for thee, and they shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not come forth of the midst of them.

For a man has not strength and power for ever; neither does he transmit it from generation to generation.

But against him that is a niggard of his meat the whole city shall murmur; and the testimonies of his niggardness shall not be doubted of.

A weeping enemy promises all things with his lips, but in his heart he contrives deceit.

And the people dwelling among them shall by no means say, I am in pain: for their sin shall be forgiven them.

saying, Righteousness and glory shall come to him: and all that remove them from their borders shall be ashamed.

It is better to dwell on a corner of the roof, than with a railing woman in an open house.

And the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the land of the Chaldeans, to the captivity, in a vision by the Spirit of God: and I went up after the vision which I saw.

He that says of the ungodly, He is righteous, shall be cursed by peoples, and hateful among the nations.

And his ten horns are ten kings that shall arise: and after them shall arise another, who shall exceed all the former ones in wickedness and he shall subdue three kings.

For thou hast reproached the Lord by messengers; for thou hast said, With the multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Libanus; and I have cropped the height of his cedars and the beauty of his cypresses; and I entered into the height of the forest region:

For if thou rest, thou shalt be undismayed; and if thou sleep, thou shalt slumber sweetly.

Let thy father and thy mother rejoice over thee, and let her that bore thee be glad.

Nevertheless the hand of Achicam son of Saphan was with Jeremias, to prevent his being delivered into the hands of the people, or being killed.

Seventy weeks have been determined upon thy people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, and to seal up transgressions, and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy.

Thus saith the Lord that redeems thee, and who formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that performs all things: I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.

When one prayeth, and another curseth, whose voice will the Lord hear?

Desires kill the sluggard; for his hands do not choose to do anything.

to keep thee continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.

Neither hast thou purchased for me victims for silver, neither have I desired the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou didst stand before me in thy sins, and in thine iniquities.

He that dishonours his father, and drives away his mother, shall be disgraced and shall be exposed to reproach.

And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about them, who dishonoured them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Now then, my son, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

A foolish son is a cause of anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.