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Comfort one another, ye fainthearted; be strong, fear not; behold, our God renders judgment, and he will render it; he will come and save us.

Thus they spoke daily to him, but he hearkened not unto them; so they represented to Aman that Mardochaeus resisted the commands of the king: and Mardochaeus had shewn to them that he was a Jew.

and he passed through the water; it was water of a fountain: and again he measured a thousand, and passed through the water; and the water was up to the thighs: and again he measured a thousand; and he passed through water up to the loins.

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

And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree.

so shalt thou find favour: and do thou provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men.

And the man said to me, Look with thine eyes at him whom thou hast seen, son of man, and hear with thine ears, and lay up in thine heart all things that I show thee; for thou hast come in hither that I might show thee, and thou shalt show all things that thou seest to the house of Israel.

Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, who had salt herbs for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.

and I said, I will inform thee, saying, Buy it before those that sit, and before the elders of my people: if thou wilt redeem it, redeem it, but if thou wilt not redeem it, tell me, and I shall know; for there is no one beside thee to do the office of a kinsman, and I am after thee: and he said, I am here, I will redeem it.

And let the woman who shall please the king be queen instead of Astin. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

Thy garments grew not old from off thee, thy shoes were not worn from off thee, thy feet were not painfully hardened, lo! these forty years.

And he had thirty-two sons riding on thirty-two colts, and they had thirty-two cities; and they called them Jair's towns until this day in the land of Galaad.

Look on me, hearken to me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death;

And Saul summoned the people, and he numbered them in Galgala, four hundred thousand regular troops, and Juda thirty thousand regular troops.

Nevertheless the word of the king prevailed against Joab an the captains of the host: And Joab and the captains of the host went out before the king to number the people of Israel.

Yea, our soul has been exceedingly filled with it: let the reproach be to them that are at ease, and contempt to the proud.

My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,

And now shall the spoils of your small and great be gathered: as if one should gather locusts, so shall they mock you.

and thou and all that belong to thee shall fall, and the nations that are with thee shall be given to multitudes of birds, even to every fowl, and I have given thee to all the wild beasts of the field to be devoured.

And his brethren having seen that his father loved him more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak anything peaceable to him.

And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the doors of the tabernacle of testimony, and thou shalt wash them with water.

and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but as a worm in wood, so a bad woman destroys her husband.

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

Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon the Lord.

after he had smitten Seon king of the Amorites who dwelt in Esebon, and Og the king of Basan who dwelt in Astaroth and in Edrain;

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.

But before they went to sleep, the men of the city, the Sodomites, compassed the house, both young and old, all the people together.

and I dispersed them among the nations, and utterly scattered them through the countries: I judged them according to their way and according to their sin.

And he said to me, Prophesy upon these bones, and thou shalt say to them, Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

And we mastered all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; sixty cities, all the country round about Argob, belonging to king Og in Basan:

My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is thy God?

And I will cause desolation in thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

Wilt thou maintain and plead thine own cause? and will he enter into judgment with thee?

verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent.

And having departed from mount Or by the way leading to the Red Sea, they compassed the land of Edom, and the people lost courage by the way.

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber with thine eyelids;

And it shall be as soon as ye are gone over Jordan, ye shall set up these stones, which I command thee this day, on mount Gaebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster.

Of an unclean thing what can be cleansed? and from that thing which is false what truth can come?

And after this, after he had shewn to them the wealth of his kingdom, and the abundant glory of his wealth during a hundred and eighty days,

and he that hears the sound of the trumpet shall hear indeed, and yet not take heed, and the sword shall come upon him, and overtake him, his blood shall be upon his own head.

And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, from the light of which the Lord passed on, and as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with hymns; give thanks to him, praise his name.

And these are the garments which they shall make: the breast-plate, and the shoulder-piece, and the full-length robe, and the tunic with a fringe, and the tire, and the girdle; and they shall make holy garments for Aaron and his sons to minister to me as priests.

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.

For thus said the Lord to me, As a lion would roar, or a lion's whelp over prey which he has taken, and cry over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and the animals are awe-struck and tremble at the fierceness of his wrath: so the Lord of hosts shall descend to fight upon the mount Sion, even upon her mountains.

As when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house.

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.

And thy words shall be brought down to the earth, and thy words shall sink down to the earth, and thy voice shall be as they that speak out of the earth, and thy voice shall be lowered to the ground.

For there are princes in Tanes, evil messengers.

Delight thyself in the Lord; and he shall grant thee the requests of thine heart.

And the days of Adam, which he lived after his begetting Seth, were seven hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.

And thou shalt make for it a brazen grate with net-work; and thou shalt make for the grate four brazen rings under the four sides.

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 your border shall go round you from the south to the ascent of Acrabin, and shall proceed by Ennac, and the going forth of it shall be southward to Cades Barne, and it shall go forth to the village of Arad, and shall proceed by Asemona.

And the fading flower of the glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.

And the men of Judea come, and anoint David there to reign over the house of Juda; and they reported to David, saying, The men of Jabis of the country of Galaad have buried Saul.

And the king's honour loves judgment; thou hast prepared equity, thou hast wrought judgment and justice in Jacob.

And the fourth was Ornia, the son of Aggith, and the fifth was Saphatia, the son of Abital.

Let water now be brought, and let them wash your feet, and do ye refresh under the tree.

Hast thou not known these things of old, from the time that man was set upon the earth?

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:

What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry?

Shout to God, all the earth; sing, and exult, and sing psalms.

And Ada bore to him Eliphas; and Basemath bore Raguel.

Behold, he that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep.

For thither the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.

Fifty loops shalt thou make for one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make on the part of the curtain answering to the coupling of the second, opposite each other, corresponding to each other at each point.

And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me continually.

And it shall come to pass when he lies down, that thou shalt mark the place where he lies down, and shalt come and lift up the covering of his feet, and shalt lie down; and he shall tell thee what thou shalt do.

The weak one ye have not strengthened, and the sick ye have not cherished, and the bruised ye have not bound up, and the stray one ye have not turned back, and the lost ye have not sought; and the strong ye have wearied with labour.

His lightnings appeared to the world; the earth saw, and trembled.

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

And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come, reign over us.

And in the midst of the passage whereby Jonathan sought to pass over to the encampment of the Philistines, there was both a sharp rock on this side, and a sharp rock on the other side: the name of the one was Bases, and the name of the other Senna.

And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraam, for I have made thee a father of many nations.

they have trusted with confidence for ever, the great, the eternal God;

But I chose Jerusalem that my name should be there; and I chose David to be over my people Israel.

And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and set up twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.

There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble in the field? because of this enemy I have set her aside; therefore on this account the Lord has done all that he appointed.

I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised, and I shall be saved from my enemies.

And the lot came out for the children of Caath; and the sons of Aaron, the priests the Levites, had by lot thirteen cities out of the tribe of Juda, and out of the tribe of Symeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

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 art my strength and my refuge; and thou shalt guide me for thy name's sake, and maintain me.

And these are the works of the sons of Caath in the tabernacle of witness; it is most holy.

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 thou hast been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: thou shalt deliver them from wicked men: thou hast been a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.

For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is terrible above all gods.

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

So Israel departed from Secima, and the fear of God was upon the cities round about them, and they did not pursue after the children of Israel.

And he went in to Agar, and she conceived, and saw that she was with child, and her mistress was dishonoured before her.

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,

And if thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt turn them back and restore them to him.

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

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

The words of his mouth are transgression and deceit: he is not inclined to understand how to do good.

For there is no health in my flesh because of thine anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins.

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,

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