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So Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachis.

But now hear these words, thou luxurious one, who art the one that sits at ease, that is secure, that says in her heart, I am, and there is not another; I shall not sit a widow, neither shall I know bereavement.

When I say to the sinner, Thou shalt surely die; if thou speak not to warn the wicked from his way, the wicked himself shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

And now, because ye have done all these deeds, and I spoke to you, but ye hearkened not to me; and I called you, but ye answered not;

Thus saith the Lord, As a grape-stone shall be found in the cluster, and they shall say, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for the sake of him that serves me, for his sake I will not destroy them all.

Because ye rejoiced, and boasted, while plundering mine heritage; because ye exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.

Remove thy way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:

And an infant shall put his hand on the holes of asps, and on the nest of young asps.

He that has pity on the poor shall himself be maintained; for he has given of his own bread to the poor. He that gives liberally secures victory an honour; but he takes away the life of them that posses them.

They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their hearts on their iniquities.

A man's own wealth is the ransom of his life: but the poor endures not threatening.

and I will shake all nations, and the choice portions of all the nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord Almighty.

And shall not the land be troubled for these things, and shall not every one who dwells in it mourn? whereas destruction shall come up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.

Blow ye the trumpet on the hills, sound aloud on the heights: proclaim in the house of On, Benjamin is amazed.

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end: darkness shall pursue those that rise up against him and his enemies.

Behold, I am against thee, and I will execute judgment in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

Thus saith the Lord; Go and stand in the gates of the children of thy people, by which the kings of Juda enter, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem:

It is better to dwell in a corner on the house-top, than in plastered rooms with unrighteousness, and in an open house.

saith the Lord that gathers the dispersed of Israel; for I will gather to him a congregation.

Thou hast neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened thine ears: for I knew that thou wouldest surely deal treacherously, and wouldest be called a transgressor even from the womb.

for oppression makes a wise man mad, and destroys his noble heart.

Therefore wait upon me, saith the Lord, until the day when I rise up for a witness: because my judgment shall be on the gatherings of the nations, to draw to me kings, to pour out upon them all my fierce anger: for the whole earth shall be consumed with the fire of my jealousy.

But the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rasim; and yet within sixty and five years the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from being a people.

Surely I will strengthen myself with the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of power, to declare to Jacob his transgressions, and to Israel his sins.

And now, O Lord, thou art our Father, and we are clay, all of us the work of thine hands.

Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom us out of their hand.

And I will set my face against that man, and will make him desolate and ruined, and will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

And that day shall be to the Lord our God a day of vengeance, to take vengeance on his enemies: and the sword of the Lord shall devour, and be glutted, and be drunken with their blood: for the Lord has a sacrifice from the land of the north at the river Euphrates.

and he went forth to him, and spoke to the king and said,

O house of the king of Juda, hear ye the word of the Lord.

Thou hast set our transgressions before thee: our age is in the light of thy countenance.

Woe to them that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor's: will ye dwell alone upon the land?

Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words out of the mouth of the prophets, from the day that the house of the Lord Almighty was founded, and from the time that the temple was built.

Rejoice not against me, mine enemy; for I have fallen yet shall arise; for though I should sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me.

But the godly have devised wise measures, and this counsel shall stand.

For what advantage has the wise man over the fool, since even the poor knows how to walk in the direction of life?

Whenever a righteous king sits on the throne, no evil thing can stand before his presence.

there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.

Behold it is come, and thou shalt know that it shall be, saith the Lord God; this is the day concerning which I have spoken.

for he that has justified me draws near; who is he that pleads with me? let him stand up against me at the same time: yea, who is he that pleads with me? let him draw nigh to me.

Give the Lord his honour with a good eye, and diminish not the firstfruits of thine hands.

Remember not our old transgressions; let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us; for we are greatly impoverished.

Secure it, and it shall exalt thee: honour it, that it may embrace thee;

HETH. Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they are become as a stick.

Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate for want of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle: they were amazed, they are gone.

but, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel from the land of the north, and from all countries whither they were thrust out: and I will restore them to their own land, which I gave to their fathers.

For the way of the Lord is judgment: we have hoped in thy name, and on the remembrance of thee,

23 Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? then would I weep for this my people day and night, even for the slain of the daughter of my people.

And Abenner was very angry with Jebosthe for this saying; and Abenner said to him, Am I a dog's head? I have this day wrought kindness with the house of Saul thy father, and with his brethren and friends, and have not gone over to the house of David, and dost thou this day seek a charge against me concerning injury to a woman?

And Barac said to her, If thou wilt go with me, I will go; and if thou wilt not go, I will not go; for I know not the day on which the Lord prospers his messenger with me.

Thou wilt on no account save them; thou wilt bring down the people in wrath.

And the rest of the acts of Joachaz, and all that he did, and his mighty acts are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

But ye shall cleave to the Lord our God, as ye have done until this day.

Thou art terrible; and who shall withstand thee, because of thine anger?

Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us, and shalt preserve us, from this generation, and for ever.

The long-lived are not wise as such; neither do the aged know judgment.

All that saw me mocked me: they spoke with their lips, they shook the head, saying,

Then Amessias sent messengers to Joas son of Joachaz son of Ju king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.

And because the king's ordinance was published, many damsels were gathered to the city Susa under the hand of Gai; and Esther was brought to Gai the keeper of the women.

And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and sold them into the hand of Chusarsathaim king of Syria of the rivers: and the children of Israel served Chusarsathaim eight years.

Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the ends of the earth for thy possession.

My heart, O God, is ready, my heart is ready: I will sing, yea will sing psalms.

God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents.

In the thirty and eighth year of Azarias king of Juda Zacharias the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in Samaria six months.

And he brought us into the land of the Amorites that dwelt beyond Jordan, and the Lord delivered them into our hands; and ye inherited their land, and utterly destroyed them from before you.

And this banquet was not according to the appointed law; but so the king would have it: and he charged the stewards to perform his will and that of the company.

Let his days be few: and let another take his office of overseer.

And Joshua the son of Naue, the servant of the Lord, died, a hundred and ten years old.

Arise, Lord; deliver me, my God: for thou hast smitten all who were without cause mine enemies; thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

I will be exalted, and will divide Sicima, and will measure out the valley of tents.

They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.

Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, say they, has heard?

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and auspices, and sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him.

Ye shall do according to this word, lo! I have commanded you.

And the children of Judas fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote with the edge of the sword, and they burnt the city with fire.

And Abessa said to David, The Lord has this day shut up thine enemy into thine hands, and now I will smite him to the earth with the spear to the ground once for all, and I will not smite him again.

A voice of the Lord who shakes the wilderness; the Lord will shake the wilderness of Cades.

And thou shalt go down in front of Galgal, and behold, I come down to thee to offer a whole-burnt-offering and peace-offerings: seven days shalt thou wait until I shall come to thee, and I will make known to thee what thou shalt do.

The Lord is the strength of his people, and the saving defender of his anointed.

I foresaw the Lord always before my face; for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

Who is this king of Glory? the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

And David and his men went up, and made an attack on all the Gesirites and on the Amalekites: and behold, the land was inhabited, (even the land from Gelampsur) by those who come from the fortified cities even to the land of Egypt.

And he took Agag the king of Amalec alive, and he slew all the people and Hierim with the edge of the sword.

And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he goes, and two men with him, and they come to the woman by night; and he said to her, Divine to me, I pray thee, by the divining spirit within thee, and bring up to me him whom I shall name to thee.

And Saul said, Bring hither victims, that I may offer whole-burnt-offerings and peace-offerings: and he offered the whole-burnt-offering.

Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he instruct sinners in the way.

And the young man answered Saul again, and said, Behold, there is found in my hand a fourth part of a shekel of silver; and thou shalt give it to the man of God, and he shall tell us our way.

How hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! so the children of men shall trust in the shelter of thy wings.

Their seed is according to their desire, and their children are in their sight.

And David said to Anchus, What have I done to thee? and what hast thou found in thy servant from the first day that I was before thee even until this day, that I should not come and war against the enemies of the lord my king?

And David enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? and he said to him, Pursue, for thou shalt surely overtake them, and thou shalt surely rescue the captives.

According to all their doings which they have done to me, from the day that I brought them out of Egypt until this day, even as they have deserted me, and served other gods, so they do also to thee.

Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be well pleased no more?

to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments among the peoples;

And he stood and cried to the army of Israel, and said to them, Why are ye come forth to set yourselves in battle array against us? Am not I a Philistine, and ye Hebrews of Saul? Choose for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me.

Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night.

And they said to Joshua, We are thy servants: and Joshua said to them, Whence are ye, and whence have ye come?

And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry to the Lord thy God for us, and he shall save us out of the hand of the Philistines.

And it came to pass on the morrow that the Philistines come to strip the dead, and they find Saul and his three sons fallen on the mountains of Gelbue.

My heart said to thee, I have diligently sought thy face: thy face, O Lord, I will seek.