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The poor laboureth in his poor estate; and when he leaveth off, he is still needy.

For a thousand years in thy sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night.

Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flaming fire.

and I will stretch thee upon the earth: the fields shall be covered with thee, and I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon thee, and I will fill with thee all the wild beasts of the earth.

For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?

I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I sware unto David my servant.

The wilderness and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and as far as the extremity of the sea; your costs shall be from the setting of the sun.

Be ashamed, O Sidon: the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.

And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy river to stick to thy sides, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy river:

If, then, thou send our brother with us, we will go down, and buy thee food;

Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labour not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.

But thou, the praise of Israel, dwellest in a sanctuary.

And the sword shall come upon the Egyptians, and there shall be tumult in Ethiopia, and in Egypt men shall fall down slain together, and her foundations shall fall.

and I gave to him Isaac, and to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau mount Seir for him to inherit: and Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt, and became there a great and populous and mighty nation: and the Egyptians afflicted them.

And Eleazar shall take of her blood, and sprinkle of her blood seven times in front of the tabernacle of witness.

And Moses did as the Lord appointed him, and he assembled the congregation at the door of the tabernacle of witness.

In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim.

And it came to pass, when Elisaie heard that the king of Israel had rent his garments, that he sent to the king of Israel, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy garments? Let Naiman, I pray thee, come to me, and let him know that there is a prophet in Israel.

My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.

who redeems thy life from corruption; who crowns thee with mercy and compassion;

And his father and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord, that he sought to be revenged on the Philistines: and at that time the Philistines lorded it over Israel.

for thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Egypt exposed.

then he that offers his gift to the Lord shall bring a meat-offering of fine flour, a tenth part of an ephah mingled with oil, even with the fourth part of a hin.

And they shall cast down the walls of Sor, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.

For thou hast prevented him with blessings of goodness: thou has set upon his head a crown of precious stone.

For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn nigh to Hades.

The Lord spoke to you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire.

The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.

And it came to pass when they rose early in the morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off each before the threshold, and both the wrists of his hands had fallen on the floor of the porch; only the stump of Dagon was left.

Hast thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and gotten gold and silver in thy treasures?

Rejoice the sold of thy servant: for to thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul.

And I will deliver Egypt into the hands of men, of cruel lords; and cruel kings shall rule over them: thus saith the Lord of hosts.

And their names were Oola the elder, and Ooliba her sister: and they were mine, and bore sons and daughters: and as for their names, Samaria was Oola, and Jerusalem was Ooliba.

For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.

Remember all thy sacrifice, and enrich thy whole-burnt-offering. Pause.

in their blood which thou hast shed, thou hast transgressed; and in thy devices which thou hast formed, thou hast polluted thyself; and thou hast brought nigh thy days, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all the countries,

and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, that which is upon the thighs, and the caul upon the liver with the kidneys, he shall take them away.

And king Baltasar was troubled, and his countenance changed upon him, and his nobles were troubled with him.

and put the pieces into it, every prime piece, the leg and shoulder taken off from the bones,

and the first-fruits of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thine oil; and thou shalt give to him the first-fruits of the fleeces of thy sheep:

And all flesh shall know that I the Lord have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.

And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer, who shall flee thither, and shall live, whosoever shall have smitten his neighbour ignorantly, whereas he hated him not in times past.

But sent not Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, with his brethren; for he said, Lest, haply, disease befall him.

And Abraam circumcised Isaac on the eighth day, as God commanded him.

And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown, and they shall slay the heifer in the valley.

Thou has caused all thy wrath to cease: thou hast turned from thy fierce anger.

There are no speeches or words, in which their voices are not heard.

If thy sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression.

For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.

And the nations heard a report of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him into the land of Egypt in chains.

And he shall put off his robe, and put on another robe, and he shall take forth the offering that has been burnt without the camp into a clean place.

Send a thousand of each tribe from all the tribes of the children of Israel to set themselves in array.

And he persuaded the King of Moab, and they dwell with him continually, while David was in the hold.

Yea, the sparrow has found himself a home, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.

And a traveller came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his flocks and of his herds, to dress for the traveller that came to him; and he took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that came to him.

I will make mention of Raab and Babylon to them that know me: behold also the Philistines, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these were born there.

And the man of God said, Where did it fall? and he shewed him the place: and he broke off a stick, and threw it in there, and the iron came to the surface.

and shall not lend his money upon usury, and shall not receive usurious increase, and shall turn back his hand from injustice, shall execute righteous judgment between a man and his neighbor,

And he said to Giezi his servant, Call me this Somanite. and he called her, and she stood before him.

And the heart of the weak ones shall attend to hear, and the stammering tongues shall soon learn to speak peace.

I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the people; I will sing praise to thee among the Gentiles.

That unrighteous soul, which determines with his lips to do evil or to do good according to whatsoever a man may determine with an oath, and it shall have escaped his notice, and he shall afterwards know it, and so he should sin in some one of these things:

There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the riches of his glory shall be shaken.

Shall I utterly take vengeance on them, son of man? testify to them of the iniquities of their fathers:

And I will send a fire on the house of Azael, and it shall devour the foundations of the son of Ader.

And if a woman shall vow a vow to the Lord, or bind herself with an obligation in her youth in her father's house; and her father should hear her vows and her obligations, wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father should hold his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand,

For Esebon and Eleale have cried: their voice was heard to Jassa: therefore the loins of the region of Moab cry aloud; her soul shall know.

And the Lord said to Moses, This is the land of which I sware to Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it: and I have shewed it to thine eyes, but thou shalt not go in thither.

And as for thy birth in the day wherein thou wast born, thou didst not bind thy breasts, and thou wast not washed in water, neither wast thou salted with salt, neither wast thou swathed in swaddling-bands.

Whenever I lie down, I say, When will it be day? and whenever I rise up, again I say when will it be evening? and I am full of pains from evening to morning.

Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints.

It is only given to the fire to be consumed; the fire consumes that which is yearly pruned of it, and it is utterly gone. Will it be useful for any work?

And Moab said to the elders of Madiam, Now shall this assembly lick up all that are round about us, as a calf would lick up the green herbs of the field:and Balac son of Sepphor was king of Moab at that time.

As for the works of men, by the words of thy lips I have guarded myself from hard ways.

See, that I have given to you these nations that are left to you by lots to your tribes, all the nations beginning at Jordan; and some I have destroyed; and the boundaries shall be at the great sea westward.

And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!

Therefore speak to them, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; Any man of the house of Israel, who shall conceive his devices in his heart, and shall set the punishment of his iniquity before his face, and shall come to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him according to the things in which his mind is entangled,

For behold the sinners have bent their bow, they have prepared their arrows for the quiver, to shoot For privily at the upright in heart.

And David sent messengers, and took her, and went in to her, and he lay with her: and she was purified from her uncleanness, and returned to her house.

Thy prophets, O Israel, are like foxes in the deserts.

The Divine Spirit is that which formed me, and the breath of the Almighty that which teaches me.

And God said, I will blot out man whom I have made from the face of the earth, even man with cattle, and reptiles with flying creatures of the sky, for I am grieved that I have made them.

Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.

Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of your feast.

And he shall bring the calf to the door of the tabernacle of witness before the Lord, and he shall put his hand on the head of the calf before the Lord, and shall slay the calf in the presence of the Lord.

And thou shalt carry forth thy baggage, baggage for captivity, by day before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth at even, as a captive goes forth, in their sight.

But Abimelech had not touched her, and he said, Lord, wilt thou destroy an ignorantly and just nation?

And, behold, seven ears thin and blasted with the wind, grew up after them.

And now if there are under thy hand five loaves, give into my hand what is ready.

A voice of many nations on the mountains, even like to that of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts has given command to a war-like nation,

And in that day thou shalt say, sing to the Lord, call aloud upon his name, proclaim his glorious deeds among the Gentiles; make mention that his name is exalted.

And the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them; he shall take away that which is on the thighs, and the caul above the liver together with the kidneys.

And now be very cautious, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat no unclean thing;

When mine enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at thy presence.

And Eliu said to Elisaie, Stay here, I pray thee; for the Lord has sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the Lord lives and thy soul lives, I will not leave thee. And they came to Jericho.

Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.

And he sent to him a captain of fifty and his fifty; and he went up to him: and, behold, Eliu sat on the top of a mountain. And the captain of fifty spoke to him, and said, O man of God, the king has called thee, come down.

And if he bring as a gift a sacrifice baked from the oven, a gift to the Lord of fine flour, he shall bring unleavened bread kneaded with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil.

And Annon took the servants of David, and shaved their beards, and cut off their garments in the midst as far as their haunches, and sent them away.

And, behold, the glory of the Lord God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain.