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Be ye not as horse and mule, which have no understanding; but thou must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, lest they should come nigh to thee.

Their houses are prosperous, neither have they any where cause for fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.

He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.

And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long wilt thou hold out, saying, Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? for, behold, thy memorial is abolished from the earth, even thy sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; and thou thyself sittest down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labours and my pangs which now beset me: but say some word against the Lord, and die.

The nations shall be troubled, and they that inhabit the ends of the earth shall be afraid of thy signs; thou wilt cause the outgoings of morning and evening to rejoice.

So the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse, departed from the children of Israel in Selo in the land of Chanaan, to go away into Galaad, into the land of their possession, which they inherited by the command of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.

And it came to pass when he turned his back to depart from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all these signs came to pass in that day.

To thee, O Lord, will I cry; and to my God will I make supplication.

He will not be always angry; neither will he be wrathful for ever.

And Jephthae said to the elders of Galaad, If ye turn me back to fight with the children of Ammon, and the Lord should deliver them before me, then will I be your head.

They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

And the mind of the king of Syria was very much disturbed concerning this thing; and he called his servants, and said to them, Will ye not tell me who betrays me to the king of Israel?

And all the people went up after him, and they danced in choirs, and rejoiced with great joy, and the earth quaked with their voice.

And she took the frying pan and poured them out before him, but he would not eat. And Amnon said, Send out every man from about me. And they removed every man from about him.

Galaad is mine; and Manasses is mine; and Ephraim is the help of mine head; Judas is my king;

And the children of Ammon went up, and encamped in Galaad; and the children of Israel were gathered together and encamped on the hill.

But thou shalt by no means hold him guiltless, for thou art a wise man, and wilt know what thou shalt do to him, and shalt bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.

And now hearken to their voice; only thou shalt solemnly testify to them, and thou shalt describe to them the manner of the king who shall reign over them.

And now this is the thing which shall be done in Gabaa; we will go up against it by lot.

And they buried him in the border of his inheritance, in Thamnathares, in mount Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaas.

And they forgot the Lord their God, and he sold them into the hands of Sisara captain of the host of Jabis king of Asor, and into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the king of Moab; and he fought with them.

or the price of the redemption of his soul, though he labour for ever,

And Doec the Syrian who was over the mules of Saul answered and said, I saw the son of Jessae as he came to Nomba to Abimelech son of Achitob the priest.

And Abessa the son of Saruia said to the king, Why does this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over now and take off his head.

and their tongues have set him at nought, all that saw them were troubled;

Turn not thy face away from me, turn not thou away from thy servant in anger: be thou my helper, forsake me not; and, O God my Saviour, overlook me not.

And Joshua did to them, as the Lord commanded him: he houghed their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.

Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.

I will take no bullocks out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks.

who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

And Joachaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria: and Joas his son reigned in his stead.

For, behold, he is now hidden in one of the hills or in some other place: and it shall come to pass when he falls upon them at the beginning, that some one will certainly hear, and say, There has been a slaughter among the people that follow after Abessalom.

Then the devil answered, and said before the Lord, Does Job worship the Lord for nothing?

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to thy name give glory, because of thy mercy and thy truth;

My heart inclines to the orders given in Israel; ye that are willing among the people, bless the Lord.

Also Astin the queen made a banquet for the women in the palace where king Artaxerxes dwelt.

Faint ye, and be amazed, and be overpowered, not with strong drink nor with wine.

Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew it not; and grey hairs came upon him, and he knew it not.

saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and bidding them that are in darkness shew themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths shall be their pasture.

and thy throat as good wine, going well with my kinsman, suiting my lips and teeth.

Thine hand shall be lifted up against them that afflict thee, and all thine enemies shall be utterly destroyed.

And the head of Ephraim is Somoron, and the head of Somoron the son of Romelias: but if ye believe not, neither will ye at all understand.

For thus saith the Lord; Suppose not in your hearts, saying, The Chaldeans will certainly depart from us: for they shall not depart.

And they shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David: and they saw that they were many, and that one had turned the water of the old pool into the city;

For before those days the wages of men could not be profitable, and there could be no hire of cattle, and there could be no peace by reason of the affliction to him that went out or to him that came in: for I would have let loose all men, every one against his neighbour.

A merciful man is long-suffering; and his triumph overtakes transgressors.

lest thou give away thy life to others, and thy substance to the merciless:

All nations whom thou hast made shall come, and shall worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

And it came to pass in the eighth year of king Joakim, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and the house of Juda, proclaimed a fast before the Lord.

For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.

for they shall be compassed with rocks as with a trench, and shall be worsted; and he that flees shall be taken. Thus saith the Lord, Blesses is he that has a seed in Sion, and household friends in Jerusalem.

And now, why hast thou known calamities? was there not a king to thee? or has thy counsel perished that pangs as of a woman in travail have seized upon thee?

Who is this that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, choice as the sun, terrible as armies set in array?

Let there be a cry in their houses: thou shalt bring upon them robbers suddenly: for they have formed a plan to take me, and have hidden snares for me.

Behold, the Lord, the Lord, will help me; who will hurt me? behold, all ye shall wax old as a garment, and a moth shall devour you.

A man who helps not himself by his labour is brother of him that ruins himself.

From the time the hills existed Israel has sinned: there they stood: war waged against the children of iniquity

What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, O thou beautiful among women? what is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, that thou hast so charged us?

out of all their affliction: not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but himself saved them, because he loved them and spared them: he himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up all the days of old.

Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of thine arm; awake as in the early time, as the ancient generation.

How long wilt thou lie, O sluggard? and when wilt thou awake out of sleep?

Help us, O God our Saviour; for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us; and be merciful to our sins, for thy name's sake.

A threat breaks down the heart of a wise man; but a fool, though scourged, understands not.

They shall seize upon the city, and run upon the walls, and go up upon the houses, and enter in through the windows as thieves.

and so as to build no houses to dwell in: and we have had no vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

Hear now these words, ye chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgment, and pervert all righteousness;

Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor sit down with her in thine arms, and spend not thy money with her at the wine; lest thine heart incline unto her, and so through thy desire thou fall into destruction.

Righteous lips are acceptable to a king; and he loves right words.

And I will send against them famine, and pestilence, and the sword, until they are consumed from off the land which I gave them.

Let the waste places of Jerusalem break forth in joy together, because the Lord has had mercy upon her, and has delivered Jerusalem.

Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice; ye confident daughters, hearken to my words.

But they that have gathered them shall eat them, and they shall praise the Lord; and they that have gathered the grapes shall drink thereof in my holy courts.

Proclaim these things among the Gentiles; declare war, arouse the warriors, draw near and go up, all ye men of war.

Is not my inheritance to me a hyaena's cave, or a cave round about her? Go ye, gather together all the wild beasts of the field, and let them come to devour her.

The leaders of my people shall be cast forth from their luxurious houses; they are rejected because of their evil practices; draw ye near to the everlasting mountains.

Shall I at all desire death of the sinner, saith the Lord, as I desire that he should turn from his evil way, and live?

The ways of an ungodly man are an abomination to the Lord; but he loves those that follow after righteousness.

And all the people of Ephraim, and they that dwelt in Samaria shall know, who say in their pride and lofty heart,

My sister, my spouse, thou hast ravished my heart; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

And I will give the wicked for his burial, and the rich for his death; for he practised no iniquity, nor craft with his mouth.

Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Idumea, and remembered not the covenant of brethren.

Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord; Shall it prosper? shall not the roots of her tender stem and her fruit be blighted? yea, all her early shoots shall be dried up, and that not by a mighty arm, nor by many people, to tear her up from her roots.

From the time of the water of Noe this is my purpose: as I sware to him at that time, saying of the earth, I will no more be wroth with thee, neither when thou art threatened,

Proclaim it to the regions among the Assyrians, and to the regions of Egypt, and say, Gather yourselves to the mountain of Samaria, and behold many wonderful things in the midst of it, and the oppression that is in it.

when there happens to be the stillness of night and of darkness:

Take thou also to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and bread-corn; and thou shalt cast them into one earthen vessel, and shalt make them into loaves for thyself; and thou shalt eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days during which thou sleepest on thy side.

For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Juda; and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

That every one should set at liberty his servant, and every one has handmaid, the Hebrew man and Hebrew woman, that no man of Juda should be a bondman.

The houses of transgressors will need purification; but the houses of the just are acceptable.

Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.

and thou shalt say to them, Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and all Judea, and all Jerusalem, all who go in at these gates:

But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is my way distant from your ways, and your thoughts from my mind.

King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon.

I smote you with parching, and with blight: ye multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig-grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your olive-yards: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.

I will expand and cheer with wine the soul of the priests the sons of Levi, and my people shall be satisfied with my good things: thus saith the Lord.

The righteous always have light: but the light of the ungodly is quenched. Crafty souls go astray in sins: but just men pity, and are merciful.

All ye beasts of the field, come, devour, all ye beasts of the forest.

But if thou forewarn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he turn not from his way, he shall die in his ungodliness; but thou hast delivered thine own soul.

They are all evident to those that understand, and right to those that find knowledge.

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at noon, and the light shall be darkened on the earth by day: