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For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good: it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall consume it with fire.

and I will bring upon thee a destroying man, and his axe: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

My heart is broken within me; all my bones are shaken: I am become as a broken-down man, and as a man overcome with wine, because of the Lord, and because of the excellence of his glory.

the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for there the law-giver will grant blessings.

And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Juda as at the beginning, that the boast of the house of David, and the pride of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, may not magnify themselves against Juda.

The sacrifice of a just man is acceptable. and the memorial thereof shall never be forgotten.

O God, thou wilt turn and quicken us; and thy people shall rejoice in thee.

In the day of my trouble I cried to thee: for thou didst hear me.

The dwelling of all within thee is as the dwelling of those that rejoice.

They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, and in the shadow of death.

And the angel of the Lord testified to Jesus, saying,

For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? and who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God?

For thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

I said, But do ye fear me, and receive instruction, and ye shall not be cut off from the face of the land for all the vengeance I have brought upon her: prepare thou, rise early: all their produce is spoilt.

For we have perished in thine anger, and in thy wrath we have been troubled.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

And the sea cost shall be for the remnant of the house of Juda; they shall pasture upon them in the houses of Ascalon; they shall rest in the evening because of the children of Juda; for the Lord their God has visited them, and he will turn away their captivity.

A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this.

And they said, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

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 our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

Bring to the Lord, ye families of the Gentiles, bring to the Lord glory and honour.

Let all that worship graven images be ashamed, who boast of their idols; worship him, all ye his angels.

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

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

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.

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

and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way;

And I will tend the flock of slaughter in the land of Chanaan: and I will take for myself two rods; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Line; and I will tend the flock.

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?

Be not wise in thine own conceit; but fear God, and depart from all evil.

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

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

Now then, my son, hear me, and make not my words of none effect.

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.

For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master,

And I will make her that was bruised a remnant, and her that was rejected a mighty nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Sion from henceforth, even for ever.

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.

who says, The house of Jacob has provoked the Spirit of the Lord; are not these his practices? Are not the Lord's words right with him? and have they not proceeded correctly?

passing by the corner in the passages near her house,

For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.

And they shall cut in pieces all the graven images, and all that she has hired they shall burn with fire, and I will utterly destroy all her idols: because she has gathered of the hires of fornication, and of the hires of fornication has she amassed wealth.

For my throat shall meditate truth; and false lips are an abomination before me.

And God commanded a worm the next morning, and it smote the gourd, and it withered away.

And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineve by the king an by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste any thing, nor feed, nor drink water.

He that reproves evil men shall get dishonour to himself; and he that rebukes an ungodly man shall disgrace himself.

to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.

The memory of the just is praised; but the name of the ungodly man is extinguished.

And each man said to his neighbour, Come, let us cast lots, and find out for whose sake this mischief is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas.

At the death of a just man his hope does not perish: but the boast of the ungodly perishes.

They sent thee to thy coasts: all the men of thy covenant have withstood thee; thine allies have prevailed against thee, they have set snares under thee: they have no understanding.

Are not ye to me as the sons of the Ethiopians, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of the deep?

When the ungodly is overthrown, he vanishes away; but the houses of the just remain.

The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.

There are some who, having nothing, enrich themselves: and there are some who bring themselves down in the midst of much wealth.

Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest: and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain: one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.

All things are adverse to a foolish man; but wise lips are the weapons of discretion.

For the Lord God will do nothing, without revealing instruction to his servants the prophets.

and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall in no wise escape; and the horseman shall not save his life.

And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Gaza, and it shall devour its foundations.

Therefore, behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and I will return your recompense on your own heads.

The poise of the balance is righteousness with the Lord; and his works are righteous measures.

As warriors shall they run, and as men of war shall they mount on the walls; and each shall move in his right path, and they shall not turn aside from their tracks:

Instruction is to them that use it a gracious reward; and whithersoever it may turn, it shall prosper.

Samaria has cast off her king as a twig on the surface of the water.

A fool's mouth is ruin to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

for they sowed blighted seed, and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.

A false witness shall not be unpunished; and whosoever shall kindle mischief shall perish by it.

They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.

But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:

He that walks blameless in justice, shall leave his children blessed.

To the froward God sends froward ways; for his works are pure and right.

and I will bring them in, and cause them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God, in truth and in righteousness.

For they have forsaken the Lord; for strange children have been born to them: now shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritages.

According to their multitude, so they sinned against me: I will turn their glory into shame.

He that sows wickedness shall reap troubles; and shall fully receive the punishment of his deeds. God loves a cheerful and liberal man; but a man shall fully prove the folly of his works.

And I will give her her possessions from thence, and the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

so he eats and drinks as if any one should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to thyself, nor eat thy morsel with him:

Yet I heard the voice of his words: and when I heard him I was pricked in the heart, and I fell with my face to the earth.

To thee, O Lord, belongs righteousness, an to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever thou has scattered them, for the sin which they committed.

Wisdom and good understanding are in the gates of the wise: the wise turn not aside from the mouth of the Lord,

And his power shall be great, and he shall destroy wonderfully, and prosper, and practise, and shall destroy mighty men, and the holy people.

After this one I looked, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong, and its teeth were of iron; devouring and crushing to atoms, and it trampled the remainder with its feet: and it was altogether different from the beasts that were before it; and it had ten hours.

All who preside over thy kingdom, captains and satraps, chiefs and local governors, have taken counsel together, to establish by a royal statue and to confirm a decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.

As well take away the motion of the legs, as transgression from the mouth of fools.

And Daniel said, before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give the present of thine house to another; but I will read the writing, and will make known to thee the interpretation of it.

for thou art righteous in all the things that thou hast done to us: yea, true are all thy works, thy ways are right, and all thy judgments truth.

A full soul scorns honeycombs; but to a hungry soul even bitter things appear sweet.

And the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your meat and your drink, lest he see your countenances gloomy in comparison of the young men your equals; also shall ye endanger my head to the king.

A wise son keeps the law: but he that keeps up debauchery dishonours his father.

And from the borders of Ruben, from the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Juda, one.

A righteous man knows how to judge for the poor: but the ungodly understands not knowledge; and the poor man has not an understanding mind.

as I returned; and, behold, on the brink of the river there were very many trees on this side and on that side.

Two things I ask of thee; take not favour from me before I die.

and a meat-offering for the ram, and there shall be a meat-offering for the calf as a freewill-offering, and for the lambs, according as his hand can furnish, and there shall be a hin of oil for the cake.

And the prince shall have a portion out of this, and out of this there shall be a portion for the first-fruits of the sanctuary, and for the possession of the city, in front of the first-fruits of the sanctuary, and in front of the possession of the city westward, and from the western parts eastward: and the length shall be equal to one of the parts of the western borders, and the length shall be to the eastern borders of the land.

that they may forget their poverty, and may not remember their troubles any more.

and he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, in which my name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel for ever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of their princes in the midst of them;

And there was light without, corresponding to the chambers of the outer court looking toward the front of the northern chambers; the length of them was fifty cubits.