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

is good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord.

and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the kings that were with him in Babylon,

He that forbears to utter a hard word is discreet, and a patient man is wise.

May he that hoards corn leave it to the nation: but blessing be on the head of him that gives it.

therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; and I will rejoice against you when ruin comes upon you:

For God has given to the man who is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but he has given to the sinner trouble, to add and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God; for this is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.

And there was a gate opposite the gate of the inner court southward: and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits in breadth southward.

And they shall bear their reproach, and the iniquity which they committed when they dwelt upon their land in peace. Yet there shall be none to terrify them

for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable.

And the man that fixes his eyes devises perverse things, and marks out with his lips all evil: he is a furnace of wickedness.

A just arbitrator shall be his own friend; but mischief shall pursue sinners; and the way of ungodly men shall lead them astray.

And I will make with them a covenant of peace; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will establish my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever.

And thou didst go a-whoring after the children of Egypt thy neighbors, great of flesh; and didst go a-whoring, often to provoke me to anger.

And the king's servants, that put them in, ceased not to make the oven hot with rosin, pitch, tow, and small wood;

I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account of things, and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.

And the king commanded Jeremeel the king's son, and Saraeas the son of Esriel, to take Baruch and Jeremias: but they were hidden.

And they that afflicted thee shall eat their own flesh; and they shall drink their own blood as new wine, and shall be drunken: and all flesh shall perceive that I am the Lord that delivers thee, and that upholds the strength of Jacob.

He removed the south wind from heaven; and by his might he brought in the south-west wind.

And the trees that are in the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her strength, and they shall dwell in the confidence of peace on their land, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken their yoke; and I will deliver them out of the hand of those that enslaved them.

As a sour grape is hurtful to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so iniquity hurts those that practise it.

An unrighteous thought is abomination to the Lord; but the sayings of the pure are held in honour.

And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

Therefore shall he lift up a signal to the nations that are afar, and shall hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they are coming very quickly.

Therefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord God, As I live, surely they that are in the desolate places shall fall by swords and they that are in the open plain shall be given for food to the wild beasts of the field, and them that are in the fortified cities and them that are in the caves I will slay with pestilence.

This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth: and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations.

There were laid Mosoch, and Thobel, and all his strength round about his tomb: all his slain men, all the uncircumcised, slain with the sword, who caused their fear to be in the land of the living.

CONCERNING KEDAR THE QUEEN OF THE PALACE, WHOM NABUCHODONOSOR KING OF BABYLON SMOTE, thus saith the Lord; Arise ye, and go up to Kedar, and fill the sons of Kedem.

And I will establish thy judges as before, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: and afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness, the faithful mother-city of Sion.

And I will give them another way, and another heart, to fear me continually, and that for good to them and their children after them.

For who will declare the things from the beginning, that we may know also the former things, and we will say that they are true? there is no one that speaks beforehand, nor anyone that hears your words.

The Lord made countries and uninhabited tracks, and the highest inhabited parts of the world.

And God will stir up enemies against them, according to the stroke of Madiam in the place of affliction: and his wrath shall be by the way of the sea, even to the way that leads to Egypt.

Yea, they shall dwell upon it safely, and they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and dwell securely, when I shall execute judgment on all that have dishonoured them, even on those that are round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and the God of their fathers.

In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and he leaves his children a support.

And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon every one that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.

Turn, rest not in this place wherein thou wert born: in thine own land will I judge thee.

Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? even he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by means of his great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped thee.

And they shall strip thee of thy raiment, and take away thine ornaments.

And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one shall be destroyed, and there is no judgment in him: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint the city to desolations.

and confirming the word of his servant, and verifying the counsel of his messengers: who says to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Idumea, Ye shall be built, and her desert places shall spring forth.

Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind has broken thee in the heart of the sea.

For if those have not whence to give compensation, they will take the bed that is under thee.

For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow.

So is it with a man that fasteth for his sins, and goeth again, and doeth the same: who will hear his prayer? or what doth his humbling profit him?

For the Lord shall be over all thy ways, and shall establish thy foot that thou be not moved.

Hast thou not heard of these things which I did of old? I appointed them from ancient times; but now have I manifested my purpose of desolating nations in their strong holds, and them that dwell in strong cities.

He is merciful, and lends continually; and his seed shall be blessed.

and to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;

And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.

His ways are profane at all times; thy judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.

for thou hast written evil things against me, and thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth.

In the beginning thou, O Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.

And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;

Even because ye attack the fatherless, and insult your friend.

There go the ships; and this dragon whom thou hast made to play in it.

And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time.

I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.

He sent fort Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.

And they did so to them; and Joshua rescued them in that day out of the hands of the children of Israel, and they did not slay them.

So he lifted up his hand against them, to cast them down in the wilderness;

Therefore these days were called Phrurae, because of the lots; (for in their language they are called Phrurae;) because of the words of this letter, and because of all they suffered on this account, and all that happened to them.

They go up to the heavens, and go down to the depths; their soul melts because of troubles.

And the rest of the acts of Phakesias, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, and that they were few in number, straitened and in want, and destitute, and Israel had no helper.

Help me, O Lord my God; and save me according to thy mercy.

And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:

But we, the living, will bless the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Selles the Kelothite: Iras the son of Isca the Thecoite.

With the holy thou wilt be holy, and with the perfect man thou will be perfect,

Moreover Iras the son of Iarin was priest to David.

And it came to pass when he went into Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why didst thou not go with me, Memphibosthe?

And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman cried at the gate, and said, And look, another man running alone. And the king said, He also brings glad tidings.

And all Israel and Abessalom encamped in the land of Galaad.

And, behold, there are there with thee Sadoc and Abiathar the priests; and it shall be that every word that thou shalt hear of the house of the king, thou shalt report it to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests.

And when he polled his head, (and it was at the beginning of every year that he polled it, because it grew, heavy upon him,) even when he polled it, he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels according to the royal shekel.

And Abessalom said to him, And if not, let I pray thee, my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said to him, Why should he go with thee?

I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.

And Joab fought against Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

And the wife of Urias heard that Urias her husband was dead, and she mourned for her husband.

Let thy name be magnified for ever.

And Joab returned from David, and sent messengers to Abenner after him; and they bring him back from the well of Seiram: but David knew it not.

And Abenner called Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour perpetually? knowest thou not that it will be bitter at last? How long then wilt thou refuse to tell the people to turn from following our brethren?

I am grieved for thee, my brother Jonathan; thou wast very lovely to me; thy love to me was wonderful beyond the love of women.

And David came to Sekelac, and sent of the spoils to the elders of Juda, and to his friends, saying, Behold some of the spoils of the enemies of the Lord;

And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted of him; he shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression of praise: for he will render to men their due.

And now, my lord, as the Lord lives, and thy soul lives, as the Lord has kept thee from coming against innocent blood, and from executing vengeance for thyself, now therefore let thine enemies, and those that seek evil against my lord, become as Nabal.

And Saul and his men go on one side of the mountain, and David and his men are on the other side of the mountain: and David was hiding himself to escape from Saul: and Saul and his men encamped against David and his men, in order to take them.

And with the excellent man thou wilt be excellent; and with the perverse thou wilt shew frowardness.

And Saul said nothing on that day, for he said, It seems to have fallen out that he is not clean, because he has not purified himself.

My praise is of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Josaphat king of Juda, that they said, this seems to be the king of Israel. And they compassed him about to fight against him; and Josaphat cried out.

and David spoke to the men who stood with him saying, Shall it indeed be done thus to the man who shall smite that Philistine, and take away reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he has defied the army of the living God?

And Joshua burnt the city with fire: he made it an uninhabited heap for ever, even to this day.

And Samuel said to Saul, I will not turn back with thee, for thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord will reject thee from being king over Israel.

And the people went into the place of the bees, and, behold, they continued speaking; and, behold, there was none that put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath of the Lord.

And Saul departed to his house to Gabaa; and there went with Saul mighty men whose hearts God had touched.

An it came to pass when the morning dawned, that Samuel called Saul on the roof, saying, Rise up, and I will dismiss thee. And Saul arose, and he and Samuel went out.