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The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

I waited for him that should deliver me from distress of spirit and tempest.

he will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners.

Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.

Strengthen yourselves and behave yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye may not serve the Hebrews as they have served us, but be ye men and fight with them.

And he said, Thou shalt go forth to-morrow, and shalt stand before the Lord in the mount; behold, the Lord will pass by. And, behold, a great and strong wind rending the mountains, and crushing the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:

And David answered and Rechab and Baana his brother, the sons of Remmon the Berothite, and said to them, As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all affliction;

And Esther said to Achrathaeus, Go to Mardochaeus, and say,

Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

And he said, Return, child, go to sleep; and it shall come to pass if he shall call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak for thy servant hears: and Samuel went and lay down in his place.

Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.

To him who smote Egypt with their first-born; for his mercy endures for ever.

And an evil spirit from God was upon Saul, and he was resting in his house, and a spear was in his hand, and David was playing on the harp with his hands.

And David dwelt in the hold, and it was called the city of David, and he built the city itself round about from the citadel, and he built his own house.

And the tribe of the children of Juda, and the tribe of the children of Symeon, and part of the tribe of the children of Benjamin gave these cities, and they were assigned

The king of Jericho, and the king of Gai, which is near Baethel;

I am blameless, for I have not transgressed.

And the border going forth from the top of the mountain terminates at the fountain of the water of Naphtho, and terminates at mount Ephron; and the border will lead to Baal; this is the city of Jarim.

And David knew that Saul spoke openly of mischief against him: and David said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod of the Lord.

Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.

The Lord is good to those that wait on him; and his compassions are over all his works.

But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.

And he has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.

Depart from me, all ye that work iniquity; for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.

In God will we make our boast all the day, and to thy name will we give thanks for ever. Pause.

And David said to Abimelech, See if there is here under thy hand spear or sword, for I have not brought in my hand my sword or my weapons, for the word of the king was urgent.

I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart.

And David feared the Lord in that day, saying, How shall the ark of the Lord come in to me?

And Anchus answered David, I know that thou art good in my eyes, but the lords of the Philistines say, He shall not come with us to the war.

Howbeit, do ye all strengthen yourselves and come now, for I do not find truth in you.

And Gedeon said to the men of Phanuel, When I return in peace, I will break down this tower.

Deliver me not, O Lord, to the sinner, according to my desire: they have devised mischief against me; forsake me not, lest they should be exalted. Pause.

Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head;

the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, the creatures passing through the paths of the sea.

God do thus and more also to Abenner, if as the Lord swore to David, so do I not to him this day;

And the cities separated to the sons of Ephraim were in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasse, all the cities and their villages.

In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.

O God, I have declared my life to thee; thou has set my tears before thee, even according to thy promise.

And Jonathan said, That be far from thee: for if I surely know that evil is determined by my father to come upon thee, although it should not be against thy cities, I will tell thee.

And the Lord shall destroy them before you, even great and strong nations; and no one has stood before us until this day.

They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.

Because they afflicted the weak and helpless: and he will vindicate the judgment of the meek.

And I was with thee wheresoever thou wentest, and I destroyed all thine enemies before thee, and I made thee renowned according to the renown of the great ones on the earth.

And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.

And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep as through the wilderness.

from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook of Arnon, and the city in the midst of the valley, and all Misor from Maedaban.

They are overthrown and fallen: but we are risen, and have been set upright.

The meek will he guide in judgment: the meek will he teach his ways.

O God, I will sing a new song to thee: I will play to thee on a psaltery of ten strings.

And Achaab numbered the young men the heads of the districts, and they were two hundred and thirty: and afterwards he numbered the people, even every man fit for war, seven thousand.

And they were written by order of the king, and sealed with his ring, and they sent the letters by the posts:

And Abessalom went to meet the servants of David: and Abessalom was mounted on his mule, and the mule came under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head was entangled in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth; and the mule passed on from under him.

granting his petition to him that prays; and he blesses the years of the righteous, for by strength cannot man prevail.

And Jodae the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it by the altar in the house of a man belonging to the house of the Lord, and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was found in the house of the Lord.

and gives cattle their food, and to the young ravens that call upon him.

And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness.

Deliver me from all my transgressions: thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish.

And Thou the king of Hemath heard that David had smitten all the host of Adraazar.

And it came to pass when he had finished offering the whole-burnt-offering, that Samuel arrived, and Saul went out to meet him, and to bless him.

And it came to pass after it went about to Geth, that the hand of the Lord comes upon the city, a very great confusion; and he smote the men of the city small and great, and smote them in their secret parts: and the Gittites made to themselves images of emerods.

For what knowest thou, that, we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?

Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces as a potter's vessel.

And when Joshua came suddenly upon them, he had advanced all the night out of Galgala.

(for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:)

And Joas the king of Israel sent to Amessias king of Juda, saying, The thistle that was in Libanus sent to the cedar that was in Libanus, saying, Give my daughter to thy son to wife: and the wild beasts of the field that were in Libanus passed by and trod down the thistle.

They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

And ye shall see, if it shall go the way of its coasts along by Baethsamys, he has brought upon us this great affliction; and if not, then shall we know that his hand has not touched us, but this is a chance which has happened to us.

For he satisfies the empty soul, and fills the hungry soul with good things,

And the king called Siba the servant of Saul, and said to him, All that belonged to Saul and to all his house have I given to the son of thy lord.

And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or my handmaid, when they pleaded with me;

And Joshua sent them, and they went to lie in ambush; and they lay between Baethel and Gai, westward of Gai.

They shall be fully satisfied with the fatness of thine house; and thou shalt cause them to drink of the full stream of thy delights.

If they should say thus to us, Stand aloof there until we shall send you word; then we will stand still by ourselves, and will not go up against them.

And Anna rose up after they had eaten in Selom, and stood before the Lord: and Heli the priest was on a seat by the threshold of the temple of the Lord.

And Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him from that which was opposed in front and from behind, and he chose out some of all the young men of Israel, and they set themselves in array against Syria.

Deliver me from mine enemies, O Lord; for I have fled to thee for refuge.

He has not done so to any other nation; and he has not shewn them his judgments.

it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.

He sent signs and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, on Pharao, and on all his servants.

Now before time in Israel every one in going to enquire of God said, Come and let us go to the seer; for the people beforetime called the prophet, the seer.

And it came to pass while they were crossing over, that Eliu said to Elisaie, Ask what I shall do for thee before I am taken up from thee. And Elisaie said, Let there be, I pray thee, a double portion of thy spirit upon me.

Destroy not my soul together with the ungodly, nor my life with bloody men:

And Moses sware on that day, saying, The land on which thou art gone up, it shall be thy inheritance and thy children's for ever, because thou hast applied thyself to follow the Lord our God.

Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:

And the borders shall go down to the valley of Carana southward by the valley of Jariel, (there is a turpentine tree belonging to Ephraim between that and the city of Manasse:) and the borders of Manasse are northward to the brook; and the sea shall be its termination.

who settles the barren woman in a house, as a mother rejoicing over children.

And Urias slept at the door of the king with the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw a traveller in the street of the city; and the old man said to him, Whither goest thou, and whence comest thou?

Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.

And he said to me, Stand, I pray thee, over me, and slay me, for a dreadful darkness has come upon me, for all my life is in me.

And Booz said to the elders and to all the people, Ye are this day witnesses, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that belonged to Chelaion and Maalon, of the hand of Noemin.

Deliverance is the Lord's, and thy blessing is upon thy people.

And Jessae caused Sama to pass by: and he said, Neither has God chosen this one.

The ordinances of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is bright, enlightening the eyes.

Or longer than the measure of the earth, or the breadth of the sea.

and he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.

Then the king arose, and sat in the gate: and all the people reported, saying, Behold, the king sits in the gate. And all the people went in before the king to the gate; for Israel had fled every man to his tent.

And Bugathan, one of the chamberlains, said to the king, Behold, Aman has also prepared a gallows for Mardochaeus, who spoke concerning the king, and a gallows of fifty cubits high has been set up in the premises of Aman. And the king said, Let him be hanged thereon.

And they turned him, and stripped off his armour, and sent it into the land of the Philistines, sending round glad tidings to their idols and to the people.