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maintaining also the name of the holy city, and staying themselves on the God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name. The former things I have already declared;

O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old.

For thou, O God, art my strength: wherefore hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?

Take a millstone, grind meal: remove thy veil, uncover thy white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.

when they shall come and pray toward this place,

And ye shall know this day; for I speak not to your children, who know not and have not seen the discipline of the Lord thy God, and his wonderful works, and his strong hand, and his high arm,

What beginning or fear is hiseven he that makes all things in the highest?

As the hart earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for thee, O God.

Look to Abraam your father, and to Sarrha that bore you: for he was alone when I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.

Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifice not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.

And if thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked, in holiness of heart and uprightness, and so as to do according to all that I commanded him, and shalt keep my ordinances and my commandments:

and he spoke to the man of God that came out of Juda, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast resisted the word of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,

Speak ye to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat of all beasts that are upon the earth.

I will go before thee, and will level mountains: I will break to pieces brazen doors, and burst iron bars.

And Jephthae said to them, I and my people and the children of Ammon were very much engaged in war; and I called for you, and ye did not save me out of their hand.

Blessed is the man who thinks, on the poor and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day.

And let us rise and go up to Baethel, and let us there make an alter to God who hearkened to me in the day of calamity, who was with me, and preserved me throughout in the journey, by which I went.

Thus saith the Lord God that made thee, and he that formed thee from the womb; Thou shalt yet be helped: fear not, my servant Jacob; and beloved Israel, whom I have chosen.

Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon, ruling from Arnon, which is in the valley, on the side of the valley, and half of Galaad as far as Jaboc, the borders of the children of Ammon.

And Sara said to Abram, Behold, the Lord has restrained me from bearing, go therefore in to my maid, that I may get children for myself through her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sara.

And Saul and the men of Israel gather together, and they encamp in the valley, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

And if thou pass through water, I am with thee; and the rivers shall not overflow thee: and if thou go through fire, thou shalt not be burned; the flame shall not burn thee.

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil there shall be upon the earth.

I cried to the Lord with my voice; with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.

Is it not a grief unto death, when a companion and friend is turned to an enemy?

who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are led away captive.

Yea, I know that pleading is out of my reach; and his hand has been made heavy upon my groaning.

If any man should have in the skin of his flesh a bright clear spot, and there should be in the skin of his flesh a plague of leprosy, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests.

And Samuel said, How can I go? whereas Saul will hear of it, and slay me: and the Lord said, Take a heifer in thine hand and thou shall say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence.

And this man had a son, and his name was Saul, of great stature, a goodly man; and there was not among the sons of Israel a goodlier than he, high above all the people from his shoulders and upward.

Who raised up righteousness from the east, and called it to his feet, so that it should go? shall appoint it an adversary of Gentiles, and shall dismay kings, and bury their swords in the earth, and cast forth their bows and arrows as sticks?

And Ezekias was glad of their coming, and he shewed them the house of his spices, and of silver, and gold, and myrrh, and incense, and ointment, and all the houses of his treasures, and all that he had in his stores: and there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, which Ezekias did not shew.

And they said, Has the Lord spoken to Moses only? has he not also spoken to us? and the Lord heard it.

Speak, ye priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord's hand double the amount of her sins.

And Moses wrote their removals and their stages, by the word of the Lord: and these are the stages of their journeying.

As a lily among thorns, so is my companion among the daughters.

And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed with sackcloth, to Esaias the son of Amos, the prophet. And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias,

And the wife of Galaad bore him sons; and the sons of his wife grew up, and they cast out Jephthae, and said to him, Thou shalt not inherit in the house of our father, for thou art the son of a concubine.

behold, I have done according to thy word: behold, I have given thee an understanding and wise heart: there has not been any one like thee before thee, and after thee there shall not arise one like thee.

that thou shalt take of the first of the fruits of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee, and thou shalt put them into a basket, and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there.

For they shall soon be withered as the grass, and shall soon fall away as the green herbs.

O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thine anger.

And Ezekias turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying,

If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee, and in the seventh year he shall go forth free for nothing.

He shall not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor shall his voice be heard without.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, and whose mouth there is no guile.

Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and let them take heed concerning the holy things of the children of Israel, so they shall not profane my holy name in any of the things which they consecrate to me: I am the Lord.

And the desert places of Jordan shall blossom and rejoice; the glory of Libanus has been given to it, and the honour of Carmel; and my people shall see the glory of the Lord, and the majesty of God.

For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and his anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.

And Sychem the son of Emmor the Evite, the ruler of the land, saw her, and took her and lay with her, and humbled her.

And Aaron stretched forth his hand over the waters of Egypt, and brought up the frogs: and the frog was brought up, and covered the land of Egypt.

Hear ye, hear ye my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.

but be thou strong, and shew thyself a man;

And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

The transgressor, that he may sin, says within himself, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces out of Laches to Jerusalem to king Ezekias with a large force: and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller's field.

I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication.

Take the sum of the children of Caath from the midst of the sons of Levi, after their families, according to the houses of their fathers' households;

Is it not the Lord that teaches understanding and knowledge?

then they were greatly terrified by them, for the king knew that Gabaon was a great city, as one of the chief cities, and all its men were mighty.

Therefore he has wisely brought evils upon them, and his word shall not be frustrated; and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope,

And Abram said, Master Lord, what wilt thou give me? whereas I am departing without a child, but the son of Masek my home-born female slave, this Eliezer of Damascus

And the king said to them, Take the servants of your lord with you, and mount my son Solomon upon my own mule, and bring him down to Gion.

I would take thee, I would bring thee into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me; I would make thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.

Thus said the Lord of hosts, Now will I take vengeance for what Amalec did to Israel, when he met him in the way as he came up out of Egypt.

O Lord, I have hoped in thee; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness and rescue me.

And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall appear in Sion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.

And he put the two handmaidens and their children with the first, and Lea and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.

Moses my servant is dead; now then arise, go over Jordan, thou and all this people, into the land, which I give them.

And they called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols.

I will exalt thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and not caused mine enemies to rejoice over me.

Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? or as a hireling waiting for his pay?

And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and try thee, and that the things in thine heart might be made manifest, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

Behold, the anger of the Lord is strong and severe, as descending hail where there is no shelter, violently descending; as a great body of water sweeping away the soil, he shall make rest for the land.

that the king said to Nathan the prophet, Behold now, I live in a house of cedar, and the ark of the Lord dwells in the midst of a tent.

How long will ye vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.

For I will grievously afflict Ariel: and her strength and her wealth shall be mine.

even they that proceed to go down into Egypt, but they have not enquired of me, that they might be helped by Pharao, and protected by the Egyptians.

If however thou wilt not send my people away, but yet detainest them:

Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him, Whenever thou shalt set the lamps in order, the seven lamps shall give light opposite the candlestick.

Open ye the gates, let the nation enter that keeps righteousness, and keeps truth,

Then the servants of the king said, Let there be sought for the king chaste and beautiful young virgins.

Bring to the Lord glory, due to his name; worship the lord in his holy court.

And when Balac son of Sepphor saw all that Israel did to the Amorite,

And he went up and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Phylistines; and now take her to me for a wife.

Take Aaron and his sons, and his robes and the anointing oil, and the calf for the sin-offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,

Hearken to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy temple.

A good man shall eat of the fruits of righteousness: but the lives of transgressors shall perish before their time.

This is the constitution of the law, as the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them take for thee a red heifer without spot, which has no spot on her, and on which no yoke has been put.

In that day there shall be a fair vineyard, and a desire to commence a song concerning it.

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin unwillingly before the Lord, in any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which he ought not to do, and shall do some of them;

commanding the snow, Be thou upon the earth, and the stormy rain, and the storm of the showers of his might.

When evil-doers drew nigh against me to eat up my flesh, my persecutors and mine enemies, they fainted and fell.

Hear me, ye wise men; hearken, ye that have knowledge.

and to the kings who were by the great Sidon, to the hill country and to Araba opposite Keneroth, and to the plain, and to Phenaeddor,

while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd?

Bana son of Achiluth had Ithaanach, and Mageddo, and his was the whole house of San which was by Sesathan below Esrae, and from Bethsan as far as Sabelmaula, as far as Maeber Lucam, one.

For thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.

I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: neither do ye understand more than I.