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Wherefore most of the fighting men that came out of the land of Egypt, were uncircumcised, who disobeyed the commands of God; concerning whom also he determined that they should not see the land, which the Lord sware to give to their fathers, even a land flowing with milk and honey.

And it came to pass on a day, that behold, the angels of God came to stand before the Lord, and the devil came with them.

And they said to Jephthae, Come, and be our head, and we will fight with the sons of Ammon.

And he said to me, It is a great thing for thee to be called my servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and to recover the dispersion of Israel: behold, I have given thee for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth.

VAU. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased beyond the iniquities of Sodoma, the city that was overthrown very suddenly, and none laboured against her with their hands.

and my Spirit remains in the midst of you; be of good courage.

Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, I will betake me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Let all flesh fear before the Lord: for he has risen up from his holy clouds.

And ye shall be to me a royal priesthood and a holy nation: these words shalt thou speak to the children of Israel.

Forget not thy friend in thy mind, and be not unmindful of him in thy riches.

And now come, curse me this people, for it is stronger than we; if we may be able to smite some of them, and I will cast them out of the land: for I know that whomsoever thou dost bless, they are blessed, and whomsoever thou dost curse, they are cursed.

Ye have heard all this, but ye have not known: yet I have made known to thee the new things from henceforth, which are coming to pass, and thou saidst not,

I have brought down the proud with destruction; their corners are destroyed: I will make their ways completely waste, so that none shall go through: their cities are come to an end, by reason of no man living or dwelling in them.

And Joshua dismissed the people, and they went every man to his inheritance, to inherit the land.

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.

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

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

And David and his men, departed to Jerusalem, to the Jebusite that inhabited the land: and it was said to David, Thou shalt not come in hither: for the blind and the lame withstood him, saying, David shall not come in hither.

He has set me in dark places, as them that have long been dead.

And Saul heard that David was discovered, and his men with him: now Saul dwelt in the hill below the field that is in Rama, and his spear was in his hand, and all his servants stood near him.

And he shall restore the lamb seven-fold, because he has not spared.

Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled me, and has raised his bulwark against me.

And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and tore it down, and completely broke in pieces his altars and his images, and they slew Mathan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed overseers over the house of the Lord.

And it came to pass in the twenty-third year of king Joas the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

And Crete shall be a pasture of flocks, and a fold of sheep.

Thou hast rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever, even for ever and ever.

And the Lord sent among the people deadly serpents, and they bit the people, and much people of the children of Israel died.

And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

And the spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him, and he crushed him as he would have crushed a kid of the goats, and there was nothing in his hands: and he told not his father and his mother what he had done.

VAU. And he has scattered his tabernacle as a vine, he has marred his feast: the Lord has forgotten the feast and the sabbath which he appointed in Sion, and in the fury of his wrath has vexed the king, and priest, and prince.

And it was told Moses, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law Jothor is coming to thee, and thy wife and two sons with him.

all that the Lord willed, he did in heaven, and on the earth, in the sea, and in all deeps.

I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that ye do not rouse or wake my love, until he please.

and saidst, I shall be a princess for ever: thou didst not perceive these things in thine heart, nor didst thou remember the latter end.

Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers? or was thy wrath against the rivers, or thine anger against the sea? for thou wilt mount on thine horses, and thy chariots are salvation.

For he is my God and my Saviour; my helper, I shall not be moved.

ZAIN. Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and her rejection; she thought on all her desirable things which were from the days of old, when her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, and there was none to help her: when her enemies saw it they laughed at her habitation.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and lo! he comes to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor.

And he called the name of that place, Temptation, and Reviling, because of the reviling of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us or not?

And the priest shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall go into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean till evening.

And having turned back they came to the well of judgment; this is Cades, and they cut in pieces all the princes of Amalec, and the Amorites dwelling in Asasonthamar.

I am wearied with my groaning; I shall wash my bed every night; I shall water my couch with tears.

And we cried aloud to the Lord; and he put a cloud and darkness between us and the Egyptians, and he brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in the land of Egypt; and ye were in the wilderness many days.

They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move: and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.

And the man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law constrained him, and he stayed and lodged there.

Hear, O Lord, my voice which I have uttered aloud: pity me, and hearken to me.

By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished: and he altered seasons and feasts.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and there is good understanding to all that practise it: and piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will set at nought wisdom and instruction.

And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Deblatha, and he judged him.

He is terrible and famous; his judgment shall proceed of himself, and his dignity shall come out of himself.

And thou and thy sons after thee shall keep up your priestly ministration, according to the whole manner of the altar, and that which is within the veil; and ye shall minister in the services as the office of your priesthood; and the stranger that comes near shall die.

Who gathers the waters of the sea as in a bottle; who lays up the deeps in treasuries.

I am he that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make peace, and create evil; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.

The Lord is good to them that wait on him in the day of affliction; and he knows them that reverence him.

And Moses laid up the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness.

And Moses said, This shall be when the Lord gives you in the evening flesh to eat, and bread in the morning to satiety, because the Lord has heard your murmuring, which ye murmur against us: and what are we? for your murmuring is not against us, but against God.

And now thus has the Lord Almighty said, Wherefore do ye commit these great evils against your souls? to cut off man and woman of you, infant and suckling from the midst of Juda, to the end that not one of you should be left;

Let us enter into his tabernacles: let us worship at the place where his feet stood.

Thou shalt add days to the days of the king; thou shalt lengthen his years to all generations.

Tell me, thou whom my soul loves, where thou tendest thy flock, where thou causest them to rest at noon, lest I become as one that is veiled by the flocks of thy companions.

And the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those beyond Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead; and they leave their cities and flee: and the Philistines come and dwell in them.

And Urias arrived and went in to him, and David asked him how Joab was, and how the people were, and how the war went on.

both Pharsannes, and Delphon and Phasga,

to hear the voice of praise, and to declare all thy wonderful works.

And it shall be that every one that sees thee shall go down from thee, and shall say, Wretched Nineve! who shall lament for her? whence shall I seek comfort for her?

And he continued seven days for the appointed testimony, as Samuel told him, and Samuel came not to Galgala, and his people were dispersed from him.

He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies, and the ordinances which he gave them.

and put fire on them, and put incense on them before the Lord to-morrow; and it shall come to pass that the man whom the Lord has chosen, he shall be holy: let it be enough for you, ye sons of Levi.

Thou wilt destroy all that speak falsehood: the Lord abhors the bloody and deceitful man.

And Joshua said, I pray, Lord, wherefore has thy servant brought this people over Jordan to deliver them to the Amorite to destroy us? would we had remained and settled ourselves beyond Jordan.

Who is like me? let him stand, and call, and declare, and prepare for me from the time that I made man for ever; and let them tell you the things that are coming before they arrive.

And they came into Egypt: for they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord: and they entered into Taphnas.

And in the abundance of thy glory thou hast broken the adversaries to pieces: thou sentest forth thy wrath, it devoured them as stubble.

And if thou art afraid to go down, go down thou and thy servant Phara into the camp.

For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?

And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the afternoon; and both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

before the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.

Let the sea be moved, and the fullness of it; the world, and they that dwell in it.

And ye shall offer for a smell of sweet savour to the Lord wine for a drink-offering, the third part of a hin.

Be strong, therefore, and quit thyself like a man, to observe and do as Moses my servant commanded thee; and thou shalt not turn therefrom to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest be wise in whatsoever thou mayest do.

And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdmen of Lot's cattle, and the Chananites and the Pherezites then inhabited the land.

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples, as dew falling from the Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that none may assemble nor resist among the sons of men.

But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Saviour: my God will hearken to me.

even all who are called by my name: for I have prepared him for my glory, and I have formed him, and have made him:

Many say, Who will shew us good things? the light of thy countenance, O Lord, has been manifested towards us.

Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

There shall come a man out of his seed, and he shall rule over many nations; and the kingdom of Gog shall be exalted, and his kingdom shall be increased.

and at the hand of the whole house of Achaab: and thou shalt utterly cut off from the house of Achaab every male, and him that is shut up and left in Israel.

Moreover the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

That thy beloved ones may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.

And it came to pass, when they had entered into the midst of the city, that he slew them and cast them into a pit.

And the seers of night-visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed to scorn: and all the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to hearken to them.

having also taken six hundred chosen chariots, and all the cavalry of the Egyptians, and rulers over all.

and spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we surveyed is indeed extremely good.

When I am afflicted I will call upon the Lord, and will cry to my God, and he shall hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shalt come into his ears.

Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Sion? when the Lord brings back the captivity of his people, let Jacob exult, and Israel be glad.

So Abimelech the priest gave him the shewbread; for there were no loaves there, but only the presence loaves which had been removed from the presence of the Lord, in order that hot bread should be set on, on the day on which he took them.