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And the princes have defiled my sanctuaries: so I gave Jacob to enemies to destroy, and Israel to reproach.

Who bids Cyrus be wise, and he shall perform all my will: who says to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built, and I will lay the foundation of my holy house.

Say not, Come back another time, to-morrow I will give; while thou art able to do him good: for thou knowest not what the next day will bring forth.

And Jeremias remained in the court of the prison, until the time when Jerusalem was taken.

And it passed through, and burned those Chaldeans it found about the furnace.

For it shall be that when ye call upon me, I will not hearken to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find me.

And they fell into the midst of their camp, round about their tents.

Again take thou another roll, and write all the words that were on the roll, which king Joakim has burnt.

And I will make him my first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.

And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord has not spoken.

Thou shalt be fuel for fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of thy land; there shall be no remembrance at all of thee: for I the Lord have spoken it.

Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hands of those whom thou hatest, from whom thy soul is alienated.

Say not, As he has treated me, so will I treat him, and I will avenge myself on him for that wherein he has injured me.

He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.

And he shall pass by the valley, and shall arrive at Angai: fear shall seize upon Rama, the city of Saul.

They rage as lions, and draw nigh as a lion's whelps: and he shall seize, and roar as a wild beast, and he shall cast them forth, and there shall be none to deliver them.

That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.

And thy wrath wherewith thou hast been enraged, and thy rancour has come up to me; therefore I will put a hook in thy nose, and a bit in thy lips, and will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

There are laid the princes of Assur, who yielded their strength to a wound of the sword: these are laid with the slain, with them that go down to the pit.

Rejoice not, all ye Philistines, because the yoke of him that smote you is broken: for out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth the young asps, and their young shall come forth flying serpents,

And they shall buy fields for money, and thou shalt write a book, and seal it, and shalt take the testimony of witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda, and in the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity.

And I said to them, What is Abama, that ye go in thither? and they called its name Abama, until this day.

For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the word of the Lord:

For these are your makers, as ye think, and they that cause you to err in vain.

He that deals not graciously with his own house shall inherit the wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise man.

Give her of the fruit of her lips; and let her husband be praised in the gates.

And these signs came forth from the Lord of hosts. Take counsel, exalt vain comfort.

Are not those of them that stay long at wine? are not those of them that haunt the places where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse with them openly.

And thou didst multiply thy covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these wast thou satisfied.

But the angel of the Lord came down into the oven together with Azarias and his fellows, and smote the flame of the fire out of the oven;

For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they delighted in, and they are made ashamed of the gardens which they coveted.

A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom: but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish.

And there are three things which go well, and a fourth which passes along finely.

And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people are they that speak concerning thee by the walls, and in the porches of the houses, and they talk one to another, saying, Let us come together, and let us hear the words that proceed from the Lord.

God is far from the ungodly; but he hearkens to the prayers of the righteous. Better are small receipts with righteousness, than abundant fruits with unrighteousness. Let the heart of a man think justly, that his steps may be rightly ordered of God. The eye that sees rightly rejoices the heart; and a good report fattens the bones.

So is he that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither any one that touches her.

Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep a feast? and must ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice, into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel?

which my soul sought after, but I found not: for I have found one man of a thousand; but a woman in all these I have not found.

And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and they my people. O house of Israel, saith the Lord God,

The fear of the Lord is a strong hold of the saints: but ruin comes to them that work wickedness.

And I will no more turn away my face from them, because I have poured out my wrath upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of thy labours and thy toils, and thou shalt be naked and bare: and the shame of thy fornication shall be exposed: and thy ungodliness and thy fornication

And all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land.

And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast burnt this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come in, and destroy this land, and man and cattle shall fail from off it?

This is the land, which ye shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, saith the Lord God.

I will keep my mercy for him for ever, and my covenant shall be firm with him.

and the porches, according to these measures: and there were windows to it and to the porches round about: its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits,

Devise not evil against thy friend, living near thee and trusting in thee.

There is no wisdom, there is no courage, there is no counsel against the ungodly.

All evils come upon the ungodly into their bosoms; but all righteous things come of the Lord.

So they ate, and were completely filled; and he gave them their desire.

decree. and when he strengthened the foundations of the earth:

But wine drunken with excess maketh bitterness of the mind, with brawling and quarrelling.

JOD. He will give his cheek to him that smites him: he will be filled full with reproaches.

And this shall be a sign to you, that I will visit you for evil.

He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

Esthai the son of Riba of Gabaeth, son of Benjamin the Ephrathite; Asmoth the Bardiamite; Emasu the Salabonite:

And Gaal the son of Jobel went forth, and stood by the door of the gate of the city: and Abimelech and the people with him rose up from the ambuscade.

In the days of Phakee king of Israel came Thalgath-phellasar king of the Assyrians, and took Ain, and Abel, and Thamaacha, and Anioch, and Kenez, and Asor, and Galaa, and Galilee, even all the land of Nephthali, and carried them away to the Assyrians.

And he commands the storm, and it is calmed into a gentle breeze, and its waves are still.

But when thou hast turned away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou wilt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and return to their dust.

For there is no injustice in my tongue; and does not my throat meditate understanding?

For thou, Lord, art my lamp, and the Lord shall shine forth to me in my darkness.

and to those in Geth, and to those in Cimath, and to those in Saphec, and to those in Themath, and to those in Carmel, and to those in the cities of Jeremeel, and to those in the cities of the Kenezite;

And Israel shall be divided to two: and God will not turn nor repent, for he is not as a man to repent.

and he said, Let me go, I pray thee, for we have a family sacrifice in the city, and my brethren have sent for me; and now, if I have found grace in thine eyes, I will even go over and see my brethren: therefore he is not present at the table of the king.

The children of thy servants shall dwell securely, and their seed shall prosper for ever.

And the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthae, and he passed over Galaad, and Manasse, and passed by the watch-tower of Galaad to the other side of the children of Ammon.

Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.

And Abenner and his men departed at evening, and went all that night, and crossed over Jordan, and went along the whole adjacent country, and they come to the camp.

Far be it from us therefore that we should turn away from the Lord this day so as to apostatize from the Lord, so as that we should build an altar for burnt-offerings, and for peace-offerings, besides the altar of the Lord which is before his tabernacle.

And Ephraim did not drive out the Chananite that dwelt in Gazer; and the Chananite dwelt in the midst of him in Gazer, and became tributary.

And the children of Israel set an ambush against Gabaa round about it.

And it came to pass after these things that Joshua the son of Naue the servant of the Lord died, at the age of a hundred and ten years.

and Remmath and its suburbs; and the well of Letters, and its suburbs; four cities.

And Abessalom sent to Joab to bring him in to the king, and he would not come to him: and he sent to him the second time, and he would not come.

And David gathered all the people, and went to Rabbath, and fought against it, and took it.

Let it fall upon the head of Joab, and upon all the house of his father; and let there not be wanting of the house of Joab one that has an issue, or a leper, or that leans on a staff, or that falls by the sword, or that wants bread.

And the Lord delivered it into the hands of Israel: and they took it, and its king, and slew the inhabitants with the edge of the sword, and every thing breathing in it; and there was not left in it any that survived and escaped; and they did to its king, as they did to the king of Jericho.

For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he is the governor of the nations.

And David said what have I done now? Have I no business here?

and Jonathan knew it, and said, My father has destroyed the land: see how my eyes have received sight now that I have tasted a little of this honey.

Let those that falsely accuse me be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle.

And a man said to his neighbour, Who has done this thing? and they enquired and searched, and learnt that Gedeon the son of Joas had done this thing.

And wherefore hast thou looked upon my incense-offering and my meat-offering with a shameless eye, and hast honoured thy sons above me, so that they should bless themselves with the first-fruits of every sacrifice of Israel before me?

And the servants of Abessalom did to Amnon as Abessalom commanded them: and all the sons of the king rose up, and they mounted every man his mule, and fled.

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous.

and destruction, was multiplied among them.

And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zacharias his son reigned in his stead.

He lies in wait with rich men in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor.

Bala and Bacoc, and Asom,

And the borders shall turn back to Rama, and to the fountain of Masphassat, and the Tyrians; and the borders shall return to Jasiph, and their going forth shall be the sea, and Apoleb, and Echozob,

and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheeses of kine: and they brought them to David and to his people with him to eat; for one said, The people is faint and hungry and thirsty in the wilderness.

And now begin and bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee; for thou, O Lord, my Lord, hast spoken, and the house of thy servant shall be blessed with thy blessing so as to continue for ever.

But the righteous shall inherit the earth, and dwell upon it for ever.

And if a man shall rise up persecuting thee and seeking thy life, yet shall the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord God, and thou shalt whirl the life of thine enemies as in the midst of a sling.

Her wise ladies answered her, and she returned answers to herself, saying,