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And by thee I will scatter the shepherd and his flock; and by thee I will scatter the husbandman and his husbandry; and by thee I will scatter leaders and the captains.

Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest deep compassed me, my head went down

For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.

His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is as cast iron.

If thou art pure and true, he will hearken to thy supplication, and will restore to thee the habitation of righteousness.

And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.

And thou shalt know to-day, that it is not for thy righteousnesses the Lord thy God gives thee this good land to inherit, for thou art a stiff-necked people.

He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.

And thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of thy servants, and all the houses in all the land of the Egyptians; things which thy fathers have never seen, nor their forefathers, from the day that they were upon the earth until this day. And Moses turned away and departed from Pharao.

the borders go up to Baethaglaam, and they go along from the north to Baetharaba, and the borders go on up to the stone of Baeon the son of Ruben.

The name of the one, Phisom, this it is which encircles the whole land of Evilat, where there is gold.

And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, Why snorest thou? arise, and call upon thy God, that God may save us, and we perish not.

And David answered and spoke to Abimelech the Chettite, and to Abessa the son Saruia the brother of Joab, saying, Who will go in with me to Saul into the camp? And Abessa said, I will go in with thee.

Thou art wonderful in righteousness. Hearken to us, O God our Saviour; the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are on the sea afar off:

And why do ye harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharao hardened their hearts? was it not so when he mocked them, that they let the people go, and they departed?

Pray now for the peace of Jerusalem: and let there be prosperity to them that love thee.

And the Philistines heard the cry, and the Philistines said, What is this great cry in the camp of the Hebrews: and they understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp.

How has Esau been searched out, and how have his hidden things been detected?

The waters of Egypt shall come up like a river: and he said, I will go up, and will cover the earth, and will destroy the dwellers in it.

Ye were sold to the nations, not for your destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.

And Moses took the waggons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.

(for the Lord thy God has blessed thee in the way of which he spoke to thee,) then thou shalt lend to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.

And Memphibosthe the son of Jonathan the son of Saul comes to the king David, and he fell upon his face and did obeisance to him: and David said to him, Memphibosthe: and he said, Behold thy servant.

And they came to Galaad, and into the land of Thabason, which is Adasai, and they came to Danidan and Udan, and compassed Sidon.

This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek the face of the God of Jacob. Pause.

Who turns the sea into dry land; they shall go through the river on foot; there shall we rejoice in him,

And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour, Come, let us go over to Messab of these uncircumcised, if peradventure the Lord may do something for us; for the Lord is not straitened to save by many or by few.

And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus.

all the days of his vow to the Lord: he shall not come nigh to any dead body,

But now our soul is dried up; our eyes turn to nothing but to the manna.

And the Lord did this thing on the next day, and all the cattle of the Egyptians died, but of the cattle of the children of Israel there died not one.

And they buried him in Gai near the house of Phogor; and no one has seen his sepulchre to this day.

And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God: for they shall turn to me with all their heart.

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim, and Astaroth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Phylistines; and they forsook the Lord, and did not serve him.

and as if there should be left stubble therein, or as it were the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or as if four or five should be left on their branches; thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel.

They have set up for themselves an evil matter, they have given counsel to hide snares; they have said, Who shall see them?

And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.

And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.

The righteousness of upright men delivers them: but transgressors are caught in their own destruction.

And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well. And behold Rachel his daughter came with the sheep.

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Every man or woman who shall commit any sin that is common to man, or if that soul shall in anywise have neglected the commandment and transgressed;

And the children of Juda came to Joshua in Galgal, and Chaleb the son of Jephone the Kenezite said to him, Thou knowest the word that the Lord spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Cades Barne.

On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it?

And now may the Lord deal in mercy and truth towards you: and I also will requite towards you this good deed, because ye have done this.

It is he that builds his ascent up to the sky, and establishes his promise on the earth; who calls the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth; the Lord Almighty is his name.

And the sons of Gedson had thirteen cities, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Aser, and out of the tribe of Nephthali, and out of the half tribe of Manasse in Basan.

they have ears, but they cannot hear; they have noses, but they cannot smell;

And he said, On the morrow: he said therefore, As thou has said; that thou mayest know, that there is no other God but the Lord.

And I will give you dullness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord.

In his days both Juda shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell securely: and this is his name, which the Lord shall call him, Josedec among the prophets.

And David placed a garrison in Syria near Damascus, and the Syrians became servants and tributaries to David: and the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.

We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride: thy prophecy shall not be thus, no not thus.

All these are as a thorn thrust forth, for they shall not be taken with the hand,

They cried to thee, and were saved: they hoped in thee, and were not ashamed.

Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; and my joyful lips shall praise thy name.

And they came to Joshua into the camp of Israel to Galgala, and said to Joshua and Israel, We are come from a far land: now then make a covenant with us.

And they shall put on it a cover, even a blue skin, and put on it above a garment all of blue, and shall put the staves through the rings.

Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?

And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:

And they took their daughters for wives to themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just: but untimely grief shall cover the mouth of the ungodly.

Thy mercy also shall follow me all the days of my life: and my dwelling shall be in the house of the Lord for a very long time.

But I have hoped in thy mercy; my heart shall exult in thy salvation. I will sing to the Lord who has dealt bountifully with me, and I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord most high.

And he shall leave them together to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth: and the fowls of the sky shall be gathered upon them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon him.

And Esau saw that Isaac blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Mesopotamia of Syria as he blessed him, to take to himself a wife thence, and he charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites;

The words of ungodly men are crafty; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

For thus saith the Lord concerning the house of the king of Juda; Thou art Galaad to me, and the head of Libanus: yet surely I will make thee a desert, even cities that shall not be inhabited:

And thus shall ye say, May thou and thy house seasonably prosper, and all thine be in prosperity.

And the Lord called again, Samuel, Samuel: and he went to Heli the second time, and said, Behold here am I, for thou didst call me: and he said, I called thee not; return, go to sleep.

And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, so did they.

He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by famine: but he that goes forth to advance to the Chaldeans that have besieged you, shall live, and his life shall be to him for a spoil, and he shall live.

The water of Nemerim shall be desolate, and the grass thereof shall fail: for there shall be no green grass.

Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut them up into Idumea.

But he slew not the sons of those that had slain him; according as it is written in the book of the laws of Moses, as the Lord gave commandment, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the children shall not be put to death for the fathers; but every one shall die for his own sins.

Take the tribe of Levi, and thou shalt set them before Aaron the priest, and they shall minister to him,

Nevertheless do thou, my soul, be subjected to God; for of him is my patient hope.

and ye have sold the children of Juda and the children of Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, that ye might expel them from their coasts.

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs?

And they that went over went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Galaad: and Saul was yet in Galgala, and all the people followed after him in amazement.

And Chusi went in to Abessalom, and Abessalom spoke to him, saying, After this manner spoke Achitophel: shall we do according to his word? but if not, do thou speak.

Shall bread be eaten without salt? or again, is there taste in empty words?

And from the breath of the Mighty One he will send frost; and he guides the water in whatever way he pleases.

Before them shall the people be crushed: every face shall be as the blackness of a caldron.

His glory is great in thy salvation: thou wilt crown him with glory and majesty.

His forces that were numbered, were fifty-four thousand and four hundred.

Leave folly, that ye may reign for ever; and seek wisdom, and improve understanding by knowledge.

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when this place shall no more be called, The fall and burial-place of the son of Ennom, but, The burial-place of slaughter.

And ye shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold, this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

For thou, o God, hast heard my prayers; thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name.

So they two sat down together and ate and drank: and the father of the damsel said to her husband, Tarry now the night, and let thy heart be merry.

Hear me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my pleading.

I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Your meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.

Be courageous and strong, fear not, neither be cowardly neither be afraid before them; for it is the Lord your God that advances with you in the midst of you, neither will he by any means forsake thee, nor desert thee.

Go, speak to the children of Israel, saying, I am the Lord; and I will lead you forth from the tyranny of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from bondage, and I will ransom you with a high arm, and great judgment.

Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.