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And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.


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And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.


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Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise to the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.


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Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.


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And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was three score and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.


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But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: why their brothers the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.


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And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.


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And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.


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And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel.


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For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.


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For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.


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So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.


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So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, You children of Israel, turn again to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.


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And be not you like your fathers, and like your brothers, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.


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Now be you not stiff necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.


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For if you turn again to the LORD, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.


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So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even to Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.


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Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.


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And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.


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And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.


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Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.


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And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.


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For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them to the LORD.


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For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one


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That prepares his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.


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And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments to the LORD.


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And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.


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And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.


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For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.


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And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelled in Judah, rejoiced.


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So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.


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Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even to heaven.


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Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.


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And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.


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He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.


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Moreover he commanded the people that dwelled in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.


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And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the first fruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.


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And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelled in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.


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In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.


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And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.


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And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.


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And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.


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And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.


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And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.


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And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brothers by courses, as well to the great as to the small:


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Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even to every one that enters into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;


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Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;


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And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:


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Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.


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And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and worked that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.


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And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.


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After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.


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And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,


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He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him.


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So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the middle of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?


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Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.


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And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying,


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Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:


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With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.


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After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,


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Thus said Sennacherib king of Assyria, Where on do you trust, that you abide in the siege in Jerusalem?


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Does not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?


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Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and burn incense on it?


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Know you not what I and my fathers have done to all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of my hand?


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Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?


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Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?


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He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of my hand.


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Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech to the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.


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And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.


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And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.


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And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.


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Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.


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And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thereafter.


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In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed to the LORD: and he spoke to him, and he gave him a sign.


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But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.


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Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not on them in the days of Hezekiah.


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And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;


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Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.


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Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.


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This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.


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However, in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.


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Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.


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And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the most chief of the sepulchers of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.


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Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:


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But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.


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For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.


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Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.


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And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.


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And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:


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Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.


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So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.


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Why the LORD brought on them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.


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And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,


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And prayed to him: and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.


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Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.


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And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.


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And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.


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Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.


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His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.


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So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.


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But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;


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And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.


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But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.


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Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.


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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.


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For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.


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And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.


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And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.


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And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.


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Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.


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And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.


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And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that worked in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:


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Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.


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And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of music.


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Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that worked the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.


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And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.


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And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.


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And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to your servants, they do it.


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And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.


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Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.


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And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,


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Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.


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And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelled in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spoke to her to that effect.


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Thus said the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:


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Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out on this place, and shall not be quenched.


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And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall you say to him, Thus said the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which you have heard;


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Because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbled yourself before me, and did rend your clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard you also, said the LORD.


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Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.


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And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.


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And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.


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And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.


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And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.


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Moreover Josiah kept a passover to the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.


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And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,


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And said to the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy to the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden on your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,


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And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.


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And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brothers the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.


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So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brothers, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.


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And his princes gave willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.


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Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave to the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.


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So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.


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And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.


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And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.


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And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.


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And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.


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And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.


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So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.


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And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.


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And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.


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But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear you from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy you not.


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Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and listened not to the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.


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And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.


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His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchers of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.


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And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.


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Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,


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And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.


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Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.


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Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.


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And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.


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And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.


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Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.


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Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.


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Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.


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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.


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Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.


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And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.


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Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.


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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.


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And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning to the LORD God of Israel.


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Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.


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And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:


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But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.


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Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.


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And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.


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And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.


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And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:


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To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfill three score and ten years.


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Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,


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Thus said Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has the LORD God of heaven given me; and he has charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people?  The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.


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Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,


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Thus said Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.


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Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.


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And whoever remains in any place where he sojournes, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.


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Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.


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And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.


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Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;


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Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.


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And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,


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Thirty basins of gold, silver basins of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.


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All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.


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Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and came again to Jerusalem and Judah, every one to his city;


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Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:


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The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.


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The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.


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The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,


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The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.


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And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not show their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:


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And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:


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These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.


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And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.


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Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.


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And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:


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They gave after their ability to the treasure of the work three score and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.


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So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelled in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.


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And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.


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Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.


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And they set the altar on his bases; for fear was on them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon to the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.


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They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;


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And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering to the LORD.


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From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.


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They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, to them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.


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Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity to Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.


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Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.


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And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.


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And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks to the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endures for ever toward Israel.  And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.


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But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:


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So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.


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Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity built the temple to the LORD God of Israel;


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Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said to them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as you do; and we do sacrifice to him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up here.


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But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said to them, You have nothing to do with us to build an house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.


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Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,


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And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.


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And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they to him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.


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And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.


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Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:


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Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,


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And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.


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This is the copy of the letter that they sent to him, even to Artaxerxes the king; Your servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.


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Be it known to the king, that the Jews which came up from you to us are come to Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.


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Be it known now to the king, that, if this city be built, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so you shall damage the revenue of the kings.


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Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore have we sent and certified the king;


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That search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: so shall you find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.


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We certify the king that, if this city be built again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means you shall have no portion on this side the river.


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Then sent the king an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and to the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time.


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And I commanded, and search has been made, and it is found that this city of old time has made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.


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There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid to them.


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Give you now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not built, until another commandment shall be given from me.


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Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.


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Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased to the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.


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Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even to them.


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Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.


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At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai and their companions, and said thus to them, Who has commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?


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But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.


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The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent to Darius the king:


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Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goes fast on, and prospers in their hands.


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Then asked we those elders, and said to them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?


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We asked their names also, to certify you, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.


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And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and set up.


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But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.


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But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.


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And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;


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And said to him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in his place.


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Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now has it been in building, and yet it is not finished.


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Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.


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Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.


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And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:


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In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be built, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof three score cubits, and the breadth thereof three score cubits;


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With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:


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And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored, and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.


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Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be you far from there:


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Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.


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Moreover I make a decree what you shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, immediately expenses be given to these men, that they be not hindered.


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And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:


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That they may offer sacrifices of sweet smells to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.


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Also I have made a decree, that whoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.


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And the God that has caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.


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Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shetharboznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.


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And the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.


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And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.


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And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.


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And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.


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And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.


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For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.


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And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,


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And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.


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Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,


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This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God on him.


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And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.


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For on the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.


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For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.


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Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.


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Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.


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I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with you.


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For as much as you are sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand;


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And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,


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And all the silver and gold that you can find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem:


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That you may buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.


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And whatever shall seem good to you, and to your brothers, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.


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The vessels also that are given you for the service of the house of your God, those deliver you before the God of Jerusalem.


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And whatever more shall be needful for the house of your God, which you shall have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure house.


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And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,


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To an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.


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Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?


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Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, on them.


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And you, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God, that is in your hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach you them that know them not.


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And whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily on him, whether it be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.


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Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:


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And has extended mercy to me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was on me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.


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These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.


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Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.


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And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them three score males.


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And I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there stayed we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.


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Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.


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And I sent them with commandment to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say to Iddo, and to his brothers the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.


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And by the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;


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Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.


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Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.


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For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is on all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.


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Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,


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And weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:


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I even weighed to their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;


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And I said to them, You are holy to the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD God of your fathers.


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Watch you, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.


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So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.


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Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.


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Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;


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Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering to the LORD.


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And they delivered the king's commissions to the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.


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Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.


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For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.


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And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonished.


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Then were assembled to me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice.


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And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to the LORD my God,


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And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up to the heavens.


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Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass to this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.


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And now for a little space grace has been showed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.


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For we were slaves; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.


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Which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.


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Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.


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And after all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that you our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such deliverance as this;


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Should we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? would not you be angry with us till you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?


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O LORD God of Israel, you are righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before you in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before you because of this.


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Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled to him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.


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And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.


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Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.


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Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they swore.


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Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.


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And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem;


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And that whoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.


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Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.


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And Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.


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Now therefore make confession to the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.


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But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.


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Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.


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Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.


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And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.


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And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.


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And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.


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And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.


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Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.


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Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.


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And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.


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The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,


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That Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.


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And they said to me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.


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And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,


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And said, I beseech you, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keeps covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:


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Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may hear the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you now, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you: both I and my father's house have sinned.


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We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which you commanded your servant Moses.


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Remember, I beseech you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, If you transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:


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But if you turn to me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out to the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen to set my name there.


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Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.


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O LORD, I beseech you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who desire to fear your name: and prosper, I pray you, your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.


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And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.


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Why the king said to me, Why is your countenance sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,


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And said to the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lies waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?


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And I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant have found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' sepulchers, that I may build it.


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And the king said to me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall your journey be? and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.


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Moreover I said to the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;


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And a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God on me.


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Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.


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When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.


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And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode on.


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And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.


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Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.


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Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.


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And the rulers knew not where I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.


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Then said I to them, You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.


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Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me; as also the king's words that he had spoken to me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.


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But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?


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Then answered I them, and said to them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.


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Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even to the tower of Meah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananeel.


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But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.


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And next to them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next to them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next to them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.


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And next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their LORD.


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Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.


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And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, to the throne of the governor on this side the river.


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Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths.  Next to him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem to the broad wall.


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And next to them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next to him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah.


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Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.


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And next to him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.


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The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall to the dung gate.


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But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.


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But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and to the stairs that go down from the city of David.


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After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, to the place over against the sepulchers of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty.


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After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part.


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And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armory at the turning of the wall.


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After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.


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After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.


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After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house.  After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.


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After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece, from the house of Azariah to the turning of the wall, even to the corner.


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Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lies out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.


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Moreover the Nethinims dwelled in Ophel, to the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lies out.


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After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lies out, even to the wall of Ophel.


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After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house.  After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate.


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After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.


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After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son to the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.


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But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we built the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.


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And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice?  will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?


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Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.


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Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach on their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:


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And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before you: for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.


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So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.


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But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,


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Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.


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And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.


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And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the middle among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.


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And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelled by them came, they said to us ten times, From all places from where you shall return to us they will be on you.


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Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.


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And I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not you afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.


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And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one to his work.


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And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants worked in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.


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They which built on the wall, and they that bore burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands worked in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.


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For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so built. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.


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And I said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, one far from another.


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In what place therefore you hear the sound of the trumpet, resort you thither to us: our God shall fight for us.


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So we labored in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.


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Likewise at the same time said I to the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labor on the day.


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So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.


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For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.


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Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.


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There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that on our lands and vineyards.


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Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and, see, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought to bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.


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Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said to them, You exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.


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And I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, which were sold to the heathen; and will you even sell your brothers? or shall they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.


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Also I said, It is not good that you do: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?


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I likewise, and my brothers, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.


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Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that you exact of them.


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Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as you say. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.


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Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performes not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.


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Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.


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But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable to the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.


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Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither to the work.


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Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came to us from among the heathen that are about us.


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Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy on this people.


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Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors on the gates;)


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That Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.


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And I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?


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Then sent Sanballat his servant to me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;


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Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu said it, that you and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause you build the wall, that you may be their king, according to these words.


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And you have also appointed prophets to preach of you at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.


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Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.


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For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.


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Afterward I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay you; yes, in the night will they come to slay you.


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And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.


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And, see, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.


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Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.


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My God, think you on Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.


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And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was worked of our God.


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Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came to them.


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For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.


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Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.


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Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,


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That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.


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And I said to them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.


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And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,


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These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his city;


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Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;


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The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.


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The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.


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The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,


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The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon.


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And these were they which went up also from Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not show their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.


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And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.


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These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.


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And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.


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Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.


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And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.


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And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.


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And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and three score and seven priests' garments.


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So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelled in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.


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And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.


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And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.


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And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.


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And Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.


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And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:


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And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.


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Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.


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So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.


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And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.


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Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy to our LORD: neither be you sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.


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So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be you grieved.


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And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.


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And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.


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And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:


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And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.


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So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one on the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.


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And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.


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Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the manner.


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Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloths, and earth on them.


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And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.


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And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.


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Then stood up on the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God.


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Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.


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You, even you, are LORD alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and you preserve them all; and the host of heaven worships you.


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You are the LORD the God, who did choose Abram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham;


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And found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous:


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And showed signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for you knew that they dealt proudly against them. So did you get you a name, as it is this day.


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And you did divide the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors you threw into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.


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Moreover you led them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.


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You came down also on mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:


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And made known to them your holy sabbath, and commanded them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses your servant:


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And gave them bread from heaven for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promised them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.


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But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and listened not to your commandments,


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And refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsook them not.


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Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is your God that brought you up out of Egypt, and had worked great provocations;


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Yet you in your manifold mercies forsook them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go.


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You gave also your good spirit to instruct them, and withheld not your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.


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Yes, forty years did you sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.


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Moreover you gave them kingdoms and nations, and did divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.


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Their children also multiplied you as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land, concerning which you had promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.


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So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.


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And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells dig, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.


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Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their backs, and slew your prophets which testified against them to turn them to you, and they worked great provocations.


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Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard them from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.


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But after they had rest, they did evil again before you: therefore left you them in the land of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard them from heaven; and many times did you deliver them according to your mercies;


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And testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law: yet they dealt proudly, and listened not to your commandments, but sinned against your judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.


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Yet many years did you forbear them, and testified against them by your spirit in your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gave you them into the hand of the people of the lands.


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Nevertheless for your great mercies' sake you did not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.


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Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keep covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.


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However, you are just in all that is brought on us; for you have done right, but we have done wickedly:


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Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies, with which you did testify against them.


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For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat land which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.


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Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:


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And it yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.


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And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal to it.


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And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;


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They joined to their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;


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And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons:


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And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.


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Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;


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For the show bread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.


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And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:


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And to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of the LORD:


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Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests that minister in the house of our God:


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And that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.


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And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.


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For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.


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And the rulers of the people dwelled at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.


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Now these are the chief of the province that dwelled in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelled every one in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants.


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And at Jerusalem dwelled certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez;


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And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.


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All the sons of Perez that dwelled at Jerusalem were four hundred three score and eight valiant men.


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And these are the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jesaiah.


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And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer: and Judah the son of Senuah was second over the city.


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Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God.


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And their brothers that did the work of the house were eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah.


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And his brothers, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,


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And their brothers, mighty men of valor, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men.


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Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;


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And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.


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And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brothers, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.


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Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.


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And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.


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The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.


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For it was the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.


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And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.


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And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelled at Kirjatharba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof,


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Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelled from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.


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The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelled at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages.


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Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,


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Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.


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Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers.


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And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;


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The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.


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The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.


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And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.


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Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.


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These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.


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And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.


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And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;


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Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built them villages round about Jerusalem.


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And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.


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Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate:


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And certain of the priests' sons with trumpets; namely, Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:


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And his brothers, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.


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And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water gate eastward.


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And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people on the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even to the broad wall;


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And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.


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So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:


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And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;


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And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.


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Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.


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And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.


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And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.


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For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.


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And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things to the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them to the children of Aaron.


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On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;


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Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: however, our God turned the curse into a blessing.


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Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.


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And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied to Tobiah:


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And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.


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But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I to the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:


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And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.


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And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff to Tobiah out of the chamber.


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Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense.


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And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.


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Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.


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And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute to their brothers.


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Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.


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In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.


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There dwelled men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.


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Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the sabbath day?


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Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the sabbath.


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And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.


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Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why lodge you about the wall? if you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.


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And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day.  Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your mercy.


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And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.


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And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons, or for yourselves.


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Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.


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Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?


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And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.


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Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.


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Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;


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And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.


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Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even to Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)


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That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,


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In the third year of his reign, he made a feast to all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:


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When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.


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And when these days were expired, the king made a feast to all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both to great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;


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Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.


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And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.


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And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.


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Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.


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On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,


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To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.


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But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.


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Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:


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And the next to him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)


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What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?


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And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen has not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.


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For this deed of the queen shall come abroad to all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.


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Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day to all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.


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If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another that is better than she.


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And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.


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For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.


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After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.


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Then said the king's servants that ministered to him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:


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And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins to Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, to the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:


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And let the maiden which pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.  And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.


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Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;


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Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.


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And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.


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So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also to the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.


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And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids to the best place of the house of the women.


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Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it.


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And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.


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Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)


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Then thus came every maiden to the king; whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women to the king's house.


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In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in to the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.


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Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all them that looked on her.


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So Esther was taken to king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.


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And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.


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Then the king made a great feast to all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.


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Esther had not yet showed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.


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In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.


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And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it to Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.


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And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.


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After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.


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And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.


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Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, Why transgress you the king's commandment?


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Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he listened not to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.


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And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had showed him the people of Mordecai: why Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.


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In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.


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And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.


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If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.


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And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.


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And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.


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Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded to the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.


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And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.


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The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published to all people, that they should be ready against that day.


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The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.


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When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;


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And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.


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And in every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.


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So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.


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Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend on her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.


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And Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.


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Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to charge her that she should go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him for her people.


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All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or women, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.


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Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with yourself that you shall escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.


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For if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but you and your father's house shall be destroyed: and who knows whether you are come to the kingdom for such a time as this?


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Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast you for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in to the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.


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Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.


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And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favor in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the scepter.


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Then said the king to her, What will you, queen Esther? and what is your request? it shall be even given you to the half of the kingdom.


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And Esther answered, If it seem good to the king, let the king and Haman come this day to the banquet that I have prepared for him.


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Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther has said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.


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And the king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, What is your petition? and it shall be granted you: and what is your request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.


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If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king has said.


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Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.


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Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.


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And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.


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Haman said moreover, Yes, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited to her also with the king.


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Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak you to the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go you in merrily with the king to the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.


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On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.


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And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.


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And the king said, What honor and dignity has been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered to him, There is nothing done for him.


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And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.


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And the king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman stands in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.


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So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?


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Let the royal apparel be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and the crown royal which is set on his head:


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And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man with whom the king delights to honor, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.


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Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sits at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.


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Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.


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And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house mourning, and having his head covered.


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And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife to him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom you have begun to fall, you shall not prevail against him, but shall surely fall before him.


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And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.


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And the king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is your petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted you: and what is your request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.


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Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:


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For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for slaves and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.


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Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that dared presume in his heart to do so?


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And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.


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And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.


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Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen on the bed where on Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.


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And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who spoken good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.


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So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.


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On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.


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And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.


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And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and sought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.


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Then the king held out the golden scepter toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,


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And said, If it please the king, and if I have favor in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:


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For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?


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Then the king Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.


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Write you also for the Jews, as it likes you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.


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Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.


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And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:


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Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,


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On one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.


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The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published to all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.


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So the posts that rode on mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.


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And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.


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And in every province, and in every city, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell on them.


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Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)


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The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell on all people.


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And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell on them.


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For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.


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Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would to those that hated them.


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The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.


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And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is your petition? and it shall be granted you: or what is your request further? and it shall be done.


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Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged on the gallows.


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And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.


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For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.


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But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,


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On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.


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But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.


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Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelled in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.


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And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,


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To establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,


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As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.


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Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;


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But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.


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Why they called these days Purim after the name of Pur.  Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come to them,


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The Jews ordained, and took on them, and on their seed, and on all such as joined themselves to them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;


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And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.


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Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.


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And he sent the letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,


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To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.


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And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?


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For Mordecai the Jew was next to king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brothers, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.


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There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.


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His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.


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And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.


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And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.


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Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.


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And the LORD said to Satan, From where come you? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.


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And the LORD said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God, and eschews evil?


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Have not you made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has on every side? you have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.


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And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power; only on himself put not forth your hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.


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And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house:


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And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:


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And the Sabeans fell on them, and took them away; yes, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell you.


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While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and has burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell you.


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While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell on the camels, and have carried them away, yes, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell you.


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While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house:


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And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell you.


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Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshipped,


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And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.


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Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.


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And the LORD said to Satan, From where come you? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.


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And the LORD said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God, and eschews evil? and still he holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause.


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And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yes, all that a man has will he give for his life.


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So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.


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But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.


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Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come on him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.


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And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven.


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So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him: for they saw that his grief was very great.


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Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.


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Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.


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As for that night, let darkness seize on it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.


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Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:


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The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.


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It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before my eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,


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How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?


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His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.


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Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance.


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Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:


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You shall be hid from the whip of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.


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For you shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.


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And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin.


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For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.


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Then should I yet have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.


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To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.


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When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day.


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As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.


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Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.


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I have sinned; what shall I do to you, O you preserver of men?  why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?


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And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.


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How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?


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If you were pure and upright; surely now he would awake for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.


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They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nothing.


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He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and has prospered?


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If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.


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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?


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My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.


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Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked?


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If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see you my affliction;


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You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me; changes and war are against me.


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Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!


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A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.


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And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.


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And you shall be secure, because there is hope; yes, you shall dig about you, and you shall take your rest in safety.


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But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.


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But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yes, who knows not such things as these?


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I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls on God, and he answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.


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The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.


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But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell you:


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Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.


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Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up: also he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.


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He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.


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You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly to all my paths; you set a print on the heels of my feet.


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Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;


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For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.


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So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.


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O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!


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If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.


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The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroy the hope of man.


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His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.


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He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.


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Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.


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And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.


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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof on the earth.


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He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.


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For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.


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I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.


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And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.


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He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes on me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes on me.


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They have gaped on me with their mouth; they have smitten me on the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.


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I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.


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His archers compass me round about, he splits my reins asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.


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Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.


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The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.


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He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?


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His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.


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It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered on his habitation.


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Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.


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Be you afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.


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He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.


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He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.


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That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.


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Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away an house which he built not;


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In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come on him.


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When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath on him, and shall rain it on him while he is eating.


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It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yes, the glittering sword comes out of his gall: terrors are on him.


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All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.


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How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft comes their destruction on them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.


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For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the middle?


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That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.


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The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.


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Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? or is it gain to him, that you make your ways perfect?


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For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.


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If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tabernacles.


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You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you: and the light shall shine on your ways.


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When men are cast down, then you shall say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.


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On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:


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Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.


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Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.


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Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God lays not folly to them.


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They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.


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The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises his face.


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In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.


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For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.


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He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not the way of the vineyards.


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The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.


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They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.


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How have you counceled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?


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See, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?


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My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.


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This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.


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If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.


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He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.


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The flood breaks out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.


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The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.


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And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.


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The blessing of him that was ready to perish came on me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.


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I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelled as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.


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But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.


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For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.


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On my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.


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If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has stuck to my hands;


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(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)


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This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.


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Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?


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Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.


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If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:


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Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.


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Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.


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When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.


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And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; why I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion.


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Yes, I attended to you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:


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If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man his uprightness:


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Then he is gracious to him, and said, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.


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He shall pray to God, and he will be favorable to him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render to man his righteousness.


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He looks on men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;


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Therefore listen to me you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.


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How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.


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In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.


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When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:


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Should it be according to your mind? he will recompense it, whether you refuse, or whether you choose; and not I: therefore speak what you know.


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For he adds rebellion to his sin, he clapps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.


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For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?


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By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.


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He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yes, he does establish them for ever, and they are exalted.


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If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.


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Even so would he have removed you out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no narrow place; and that which should be set on your table should be full of fatness.


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Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.


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After it a voice roars: he thunders with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.


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For he said to the snow, Be you on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.


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And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatever he commands them on the face of the world in the earth.


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Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.


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That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?


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Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the hinds do calve?


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She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labor is in vain without fear;


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He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believes he that it is the sound of the trumpet.


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He said among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.


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Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.


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And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends: for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.


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Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.


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So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.


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And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.


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Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought on him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.


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So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.


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And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.


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And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.


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After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.


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Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.


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And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.


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Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.


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The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,


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Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.


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Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.


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Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies on the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.


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Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.


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O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.


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But know that the LORD has set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call to him.


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There be many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift you up the light of your countenance on us.


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My voice shall you hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer to you, and will look up.


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But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.


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Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face.


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For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.


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Destroy you them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.


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But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you.


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If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him that without cause is my enemy:)


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Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yes, let him tread down my life on the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.


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Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.


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So shall the congregation of the people compass you about: for their sakes therefore return you on high.


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The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.


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Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tries the hearts and reins.


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He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.


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I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.


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O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.


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Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.


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When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;


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You have rebuked the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name for ever and ever.


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O you enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.


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And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.


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And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.


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Have mercy on me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:


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That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.


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The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.


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The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.


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The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.


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The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.


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His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.


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He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are privately set against the poor.


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He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.


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You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.


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LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:


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For, see, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow on the string, that they may privately shoot at the upright in heart.


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The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.


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On the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.


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They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.


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For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, said the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffs at him.


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How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?


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The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.


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The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.


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They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.


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Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not on the LORD.


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Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.


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He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.


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In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honors them that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt, and changes not.


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He that puts not out his money to usury, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.


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Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.


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You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for ever more.


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You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.


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Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.


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Show your marvelous loving kindness, O you that save by your right hand them which put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.


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From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.


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As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.


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The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.


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In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.


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Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.


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He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.


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The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.


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Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.


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He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.


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The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.


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Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.


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With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;


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As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.


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You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great.


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For you have girded me with strength to the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.


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Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.


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You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.


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He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.


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Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for ever more.


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Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,


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His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.


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The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.


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The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.


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The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.


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More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.


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Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.


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Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.


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We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfill all your petitions.


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Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.


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For you have made him most blessed for ever: you have made him exceeding glad with your countenance.


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You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.


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For they intended evil against you: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.


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Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows on your strings against the face of them.


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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?


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But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was on my mother's breasts.


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I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the middle of my bowels.


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My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue sticks to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death.


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For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.


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You that fear the LORD, praise him; all you the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you the seed of Israel.


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For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.


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The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.


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All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before you.


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All they that be fat on earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.


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They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he has done this.


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Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.


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You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies: you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.


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Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.


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He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.


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Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be you lift up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.


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Lift up your heads, O you gates; even lift them up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.


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Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.


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Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember you me for your goodness' sake, O LORD.


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Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.


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The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?


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When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.


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Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.


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One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.


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For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up on a rock.


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And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.


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Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.


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Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.


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To you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.


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Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.


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Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.


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Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.


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Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.


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The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will I praise him.


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The voice of the LORD makes the hinds to calve, and discovers the forests: and in his temple does every one speak of his glory.


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O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.


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For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.


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LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled.


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What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?


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You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;


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To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent.  O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you for ever.


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Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be you my strong rock, for an house of defense to save me.


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I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;


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Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly.


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For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.


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I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.


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For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.


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Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called on you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.


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Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.


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Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have worked for them that trust in you before the sons of men!


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You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.


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For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.


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O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.


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For day and night your hand was heavy on me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.


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I acknowledge my sin to you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.


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For this shall every one that is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near to him.


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You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.


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Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near to you.


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Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.


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The LORD brings the counsel of the heathen to nothing: he makes the devices of the people of none effect.


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Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.


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The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.


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The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.


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Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I am your salvation.


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Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.


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For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dig for my soul.


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Let destruction come on him at unawares; and let his net that he has hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.


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All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like to you, which deliver the poor from him that is too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him?


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But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.


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I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.


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But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yes, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:


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Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.


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For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.


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Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.


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Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.


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Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yes, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.


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Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.


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How excellent is your loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.


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They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; and you shall make them drink of the river of your pleasures.


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O continue your loving kindness to them that know you; and your righteousness to the upright in heart.


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Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.


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For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yes, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.


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The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.


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But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.


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For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.


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I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.


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For the LORD loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.


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Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.


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And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.


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There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.


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They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.


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For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.


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I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.


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LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.


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Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity.  Selah.


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Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.


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When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.


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Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.


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He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and established my goings.


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And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.


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Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.


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Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order to you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.


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Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.


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I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.


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I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great congregation.


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Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.


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For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.


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Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.


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Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.


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But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks on me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.


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The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed on the earth: and you will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.


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And if he come to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells it.


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Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.


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When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holy day.


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Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted in me?  hope you in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.


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O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.


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Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterspouts: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.


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Yet the LORD will command his loving kindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life.


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I will say to God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


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Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope you in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.


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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.


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For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


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O send out your light and your truth: let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill, and to your tabernacles.


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Then will I go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy: yes, on the harp will I praise you, O God my God.


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Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.


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We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.


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How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.


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For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had a favor to them.


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Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.


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All this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.


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My heart is gushing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.


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You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever.


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And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things.


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You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.


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All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad.


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Kings' daughters were among your honorable women: on your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.


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Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father's house;


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And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat your favor.


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She shall be brought to the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought to you.


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I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you for ever and ever.


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Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the middle of the sea;


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Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.


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There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.


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He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and cuts the spear in sunder; he burns the chariot in the fire.


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Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.


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The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong to God: he is greatly exalted.


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Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.


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Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.


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As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.


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According to your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth: your right hand is full of righteousness.


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For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.


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Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.


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Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.


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The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.


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Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.


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Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.


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I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.


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But to the wicked God said, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?


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These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such an one as yourself: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.


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Whoever offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.


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Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness: according to the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.


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Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge.


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Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part you shall make me to know wisdom.


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Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, you God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.


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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.


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Then shall you be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks on your altar.


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God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.


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See, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.


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But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.


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I will praise you for ever, because you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before your saints.


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The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.


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God looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.


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Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that does good, no, not one.


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Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called on God.


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There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you: you have put them to shame, because God has despised them.


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Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.


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For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.


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Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity on me, and in wrath they hate me.


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Day and night they go about it on the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the middle of it.


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For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:


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Let death seize on them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.


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God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that stays of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.


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The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.


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Cast your burden on the LORD, and he shall sustain you: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.


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But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.


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They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.


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For you have delivered my soul from death: will not you deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?


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Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: for my soul trusts in you: yes, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be over.


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He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.


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My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.


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They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have dig a pit before me, into the middle whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.


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Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.


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As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.


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Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.


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The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.


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So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God that judges in the earth.


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For, see, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.


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You therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.


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Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by your power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.


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For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.


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Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God rules in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah.


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But I will sing of your power; yes, I will sing aloud of your mercy in the morning: for you have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.


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O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.


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You have given a banner to them that fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.


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God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.


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Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;


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From the end of the earth will I cry to you, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.


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How long will you imagine mischief against a man? you shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall you be, and as a tottering fence.


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They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.


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Trust in him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.


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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.


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Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart on them.


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O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;


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My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:


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But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.


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They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privately; they say, Who shall see them?


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They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.


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And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.


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The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.


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Blessed is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach to you, that he may dwell in your courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, even of your holy temple.


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By terrible things in righteousness will you answer us, O God of our salvation; who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off on the sea:


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They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at your tokens: you make the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.


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You visit the earth, and water it: you greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water: you prepare them corn, when you have so provided for it.


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You water the ridges thereof abundantly: you settle the furrows thereof: you make it soft with showers: you bless the springing thereof.


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The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.


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Say to God, How terrible are you in your works! through the greatness of your power shall your enemies submit themselves to you.


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He rules by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.


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You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but you brought us out into a wealthy place.


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I will offer to you burnt sacrifices of fatted calves, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.


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O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for you shall judge the people righteously, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.


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As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.


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Sing to God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rides on the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.


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God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.


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The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.


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Though you have lien among the pots, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.


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Why leap you, you high hills? this is the hill which God desires to dwell in; yes, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.


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The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.


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You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yes, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.


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But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goes on still in his trespasses.


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The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:


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The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with tambourines.


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There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.


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Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter you the people that delight in war.


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To him that rides on the heavens of heavens, which were of old; see, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.


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O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power to his people. Blessed be God.


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I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.


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They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.


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Let not them that wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.


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For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen on me.


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But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.


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Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.


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Let not the flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth on me.


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Hear me, O LORD; for your loving kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.


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Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.


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Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.


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For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.


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For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.


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Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.


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Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such as love your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.


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But I am poor and needy: make haste to me, O God: you are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.


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Be you my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.


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Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.


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By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of you.


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Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.


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My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.


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I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of your righteousness, even of your only.


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Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength to this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.


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Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like to you!


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You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall quicken me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.


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I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: to you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.


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My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, that seek my hurt.


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He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.


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The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.


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He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.


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And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.


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There shall be an handful of corn in the earth on the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.


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His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.


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And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.


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For, see, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that go a whoring from you.


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But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all your works.


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O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?


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Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelled.


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Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.


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They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.


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They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.


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We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.


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You brake the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.


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Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.


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O deliver not the soul of your turtledove to the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor for ever.


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Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.


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Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually.


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To you, O God, do we give thanks, to you do we give thanks: for that your name is near your wondrous works declare.


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For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he pours out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.


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The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.


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Vow, and pay to the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents to him that ought to be feared.


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In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.


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I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.


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The voice of your thunder was in the heaven: the lightning lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.


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We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he has done.


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For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:


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That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:


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And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.


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Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?


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Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;


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The wrath of God came on them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.


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But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yes, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.


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He cast on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.


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He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;


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And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.


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He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.


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But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.


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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.


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From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.


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So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.


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O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.


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The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be meat to the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.


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Pour out your wrath on the heathen that have not known you, and on the kingdoms that have not called on your name.


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O remember not against us former iniquities: let your tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.


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Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for your name's sake.


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Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of your servants which is shed.


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Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you; according to the greatness of your power preserve you those that are appointed to die;


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And render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached you, O Lord.


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So we your people and sheep of your pasture will give you thanks for ever: we will show forth your praise to all generations.


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Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that dwell between the cherubim, shine forth.


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And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.


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Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.


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This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.


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You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder: I proved you at the waters of Meribah.  Selah.


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I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.


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The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves to him: but their time should have endured for ever.


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He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.


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They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.


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They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.


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My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cries out for the living God.


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Yes, the sparrow has found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.


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For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.


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For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.


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I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.


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All nations whom you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your name.


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O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set you before them.


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But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.


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O turn to me, and have mercy on me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your handmaid.


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Show me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because you, LORD, have helped me, and comforted me.


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I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.


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And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.


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Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.


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You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.


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My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily on you, I have stretched out my hands to you.


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I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations.


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For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens.


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And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O LORD: your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.


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For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD?


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God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.


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You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm.


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The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: as for the world and the fullness thereof, you have founded them.


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Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance.


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Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help on one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.


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Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.


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You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.


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What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.


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Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;


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With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.


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Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.


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For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.


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You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.


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The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.


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Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.


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And let the beauty of the LORD our God be on us: and establish you the work of our hands on us; yes, the work of our hands establish you it.


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He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings shall you trust: his truth shall be your shield and buckler.


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A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.


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Because he has set his love on me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name.


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He shall call on me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him.


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When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:


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For, see, your enemies, O LORD, for, see, your enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.


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My eye also shall see my desire on my enemies, and my ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.


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The LORD reigns, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, with which he has girded himself: the world also is established, that it cannot be moved.


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The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.


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He that chastises the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teaches man knowledge, shall not he know?


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Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?


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And he shall bring on them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yes, the LORD our God shall cut them off.


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For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if you will hear his voice,


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Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:


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Say among the heathen that the LORD reigns: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.


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Before the LORD: for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.


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Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.


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The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.


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Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all you gods.


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You that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.


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O sing to the LORD a new song; for he has done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, has gotten him the victory.


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The LORD has made known his salvation: his righteousness has he openly showed in the sight of the heathen.


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He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.


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Before the LORD; for he comes to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.


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The king's strength also loves judgment; you do establish equity, you execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.


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Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call on his name; they called on the LORD, and he answered them.


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He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.


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You answered them, O LORD our God: you were a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance of their inventions.


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Know you that the LORD he is God: it is he that has made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.


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Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful to him, and bless his name.


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I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.


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I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not stick to me.


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Whoever privately slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that has an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.


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My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walks in a perfect way, he shall serve me.


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He that works deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that tells lies shall not tarry in my sight.


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I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.


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Hide not your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline your ear to me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.


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This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.


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I said, O my God, take me not away in the middle of my days: your years are throughout all generations.


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They shall perish, but you shall endure: yes, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a clothing shall you change them, and they shall be changed:


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But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on them that fear him, and his righteousness to children's children;


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Bless the LORD, you his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening to the voice of his word.


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Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with honor and majesty.


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Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters: who makes the clouds his chariot: who walks on the wings of the wind:


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They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which you have founded for them.


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He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;


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And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart.


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O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth is full of your riches.


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So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.


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You hide your face, they are troubled: you take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.


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Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless you the LORD, O my soul. Praise you the LORD.


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He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.


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That I may see the good of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.


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Our fathers understood not your wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of your mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.


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He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.


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And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.


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Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.


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And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.


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Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, so that he abhorred his own inheritance.


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Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.


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Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks to your holy name, and to triumph in your praise.


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Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise you the LORD.


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And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.


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Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!


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They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.


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Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.


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He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffers not their cattle to decrease.


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Whoever is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the loving kindness of the LORD.


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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.


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Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.


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Let there be none to extend mercy to him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.


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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.


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Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.


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As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.


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As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.


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Let it be to him as the garment which covers him, and for a girdle with which he is girded continually.


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Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.


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But do you for me, O GOD the Lord, for your name's sake: because your mercy is good, deliver you me.


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Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.


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Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth.


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He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.


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Praise you the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.


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He sent redemption to his people: he has commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.


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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endures for ever.


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Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that delights greatly in his commandments.


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To the upright there rises light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.


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He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.


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The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.


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He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise you the LORD.


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Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your mercy, and for your truth's sake.


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They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.


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The LORD has been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.


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The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold on me: I found trouble and sorrow.


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O LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, and the son of your handmaid: you have loosed my bonds.


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For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endures for ever. Praise you the LORD.


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The LORD takes my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire on them that hate me.


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They compassed me about; yes, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.


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They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.


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The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.


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God is the LORD, which has showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.


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My hands also will I lift up to your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes.


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Your hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.


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Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts.


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The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even for ever more.


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Where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, to the testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.


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Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait on the LORD our God, until that he have mercy on us.


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Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.


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Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.


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As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from now on even for ever.


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For the rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity.


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As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be on Israel.


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Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD has done great things for them.


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He that goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.


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Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.


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It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.


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Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.


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Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of your house: your children like olive plants round about your table.


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The LORD shall bless you out of Zion: and you shall see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.


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Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be on you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.


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My soul waits for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.


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


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Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.


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Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.


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The LORD has sworn in truth to David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set on your throne.


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If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit on your throne for ever more.


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It is like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;


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As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended on the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for ever more.


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Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.


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He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain; he brings the wind out of his treasuries.


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For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.


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If I do not remember you, let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.


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Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.


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O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards you as you have served us.


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I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your loving kindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name.


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Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me: you shall stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand shall save me.


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The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, endures for ever: forsake not the works of your own hands.


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Yes, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.


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I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.


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My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously worked in the lowest parts of the earth.


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Your eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.


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Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?


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Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.


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The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.


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Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.


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Let burning coals fall on them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.


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Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.


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Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.


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Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.


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Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.


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When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then you knew my path.  In the way wherein I walked have they privately laid a snare for me.


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I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.


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Attend to my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.


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Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise your name: the righteous shall compass me about; for you shall deal bountifully with me.


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Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness.


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For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.


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Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like to them that go down into the pit.


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Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning; for in you do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul to you.


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Teach me to do your will; for you are my God: your spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.


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Quicken me, O LORD, for your name's sake: for your righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.


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And of your mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am your servant.


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My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdues my people under me.


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Send your hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;


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I will sing a new song to you, O God: on a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises to you.


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Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:


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That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:


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That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:


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That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.


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They shall abundantly utter the memory of your great goodness, and shall sing of your righteousness.


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My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.


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Which executes judgment for the oppressed: which gives food to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners:


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The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous:


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The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.


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Praise you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.


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Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains.


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He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise you the LORD.


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Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.


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He also exalts the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise you the LORD.


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A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:


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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause:


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So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof.


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She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,


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How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?


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Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you.


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When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes on you.


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Then shall they call on me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:


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Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them on the table of your heart:


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For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.


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For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.


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Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love.


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Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you are come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.


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When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you wake, it shall talk with you.


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For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:


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For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.


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But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.


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He goes after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;


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Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.


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For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.


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The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the fraudulent mouth, do I hate.


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While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.


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When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:


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Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;


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He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot.


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Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.


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The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.


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The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casts away the substance of the wicked.


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In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.


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The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.


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The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.


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The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.


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The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.


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An hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.


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When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.


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By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.


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They that are of a fraudulent heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.


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Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.


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There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is that withholds more than is meet, but it tends to poverty.


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He that withholds corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be on the head of him that sells it.


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He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.


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A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.


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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.


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A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.


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He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows vain persons is void of understanding.


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A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered to him.


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The slothful man roasts not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.


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A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.


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There is that makes himself rich, yet has nothing: there is that makes himself poor, yet has great riches.


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Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuses instruction: but he that regards reproof shall be honored.


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A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.


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The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.


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In the multitude of people is the king's honor: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.


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Wisdom rests in the heart of him that has understanding: but that which is in the middle of fools is made known.


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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.


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The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but he loves him that follows after righteousness.


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The heart of him that has understanding seeks knowledge: but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.


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Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.


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The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.


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Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.


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How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!


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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city.


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A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brothers.


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Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.


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The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.


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He that justifies the wicked, and he that comdemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.


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He that has a fraudulent heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.


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Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.


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A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.


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A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.


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A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.


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Better is the poor that walks in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.


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All the brothers of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursues them with words, yet they are wanting to him.


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A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.


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The fear of the LORD tends to life: and he that has it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.


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Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.


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He that wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame, and brings reproach.


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The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.


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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.


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He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.


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When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.


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The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked: but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.


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There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spends it up.


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Thorns and snares are in the way of the fraudulent: he that does keep his soul shall be far from them.


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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.


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He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.


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That I might make you know the certainty of the words of truth; that you might answer the words of truth to them that send to you?


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See you a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.


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Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.


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For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, said he to you; but his heart is not with you.


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For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.


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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy of him.


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Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?


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Look not you on the wine when it is red, when it gives his color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.


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Yes, you shall be as he that lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he that lies on the top of a mast.


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They have stricken me, shall you say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.


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If you say, Behold, we knew it not; does not he that ponders the heart consider it? and he that keeps your soul, does not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?


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So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your expectation shall not be cut off.


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Prepare your work without, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house.


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And, see, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.


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For better it is that it be said to you, Come up here; than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince whom your eyes have seen.


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Go not forth hastily to strive, lest you know not what to do in the end thereof, when your neighbor has put you to shame.


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As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refreshes the soul of his masters.


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Have you found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled therewith, and vomit it.


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As he that takes away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar on nitre, so is he that singes songs to an heavy heart.


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It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.


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He that passes by, and meddles with strife belonging not to him, is like one that takes a dog by the ears.


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Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.


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He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.


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Whoever keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waits on his master shall be honored.


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Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.


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And you shall have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidens.


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For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.


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Better is the poor that walks in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.


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He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.


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Whoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.


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He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.


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The prince that wants understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hates covetousness shall prolong his days.


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He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that follows after vain persons shall have poverty enough.


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A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent.


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Whoever robs his father or his mother, and said, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.


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He that is of a proud heart stirs up strife: but he that puts his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.


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He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.


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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bears rule, the people mourn.


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Whoever loves wisdom rejoices his father: but he that keeps company with harlots spends his substance.


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An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.


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The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spoke to Ithiel, even to Ithiel and Ucal,


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Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? who has gathered the wind in his fists? who has bound the waters in a garment? who has established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you can tell?


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Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:


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Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.


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There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.


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The horse leach has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yes, four things say not, It is enough:


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The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that said not, It is enough.


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The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.


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The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of a ship in the middle of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.


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Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and said, I have done no wickedness.


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If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand on your mouth.


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Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood: so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.


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She rises also while it is yet night, and gives meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.


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The wind goes toward the south, and turns about to the north; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to his circuits.


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All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, thither they return again.


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All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.


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The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.


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Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it has been already of old time, which was before us.


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There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.


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And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail has God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.


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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.


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I communed with my own heart, saying, See, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yes, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.


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And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.


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I said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.


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I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.


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I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:


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I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I got me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.


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So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.


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And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.


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Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.


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And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that comes after the king? even that which has been already done.


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The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happens to them all.


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Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.


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For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten.  And how dies the wise man? as the fool.


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Therefore I hated life; because the work that is worked under the sun is grievous to me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.


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Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me.


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And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.


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For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that has not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.


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For what has man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he has labored under the sun?


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For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yes, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity.


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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.


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For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.


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A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;


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A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;


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He has made every thing beautiful in his time: also he has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.


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And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.


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I know that, whatever God does, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.


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That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires that which is past.


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And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.


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I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.


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I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.


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For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yes, they have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.


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Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?


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Why I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?


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So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.


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Yes, better is he than both they, which has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.


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Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.


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There is one alone, and there is not a second; yes, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither said he, For whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yes, it is a sore travail.


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For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up.


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And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.


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I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.


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There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.


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Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.


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Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and you on earth: therefore let your words be few.


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For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.


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When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed.


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Suffer not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say you before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?


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If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regards; and there be higher than they.


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He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity.


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When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?


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The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.


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There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.


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As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.


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And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he that has labored for the wind?


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Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he takes under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him: for it is his portion.


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Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.


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For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answers him in the joy of his heart.


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A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.


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If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.


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Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet has he seen no good: do not all go to one place?


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Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.


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That which has been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.


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For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?


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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.


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Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.


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Say not you, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for you do not inquire wisely concerning this.


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For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom gives life to them that have it.


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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.


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All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickedness.


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It is good that you should take hold of this; yes, also from this withdraw not your hand: for he that fears God shall come forth of them all.


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I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:


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And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.


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Which yet my soul seeks, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.


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See, this only have I found, that God has made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.


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Who is as the wise man? and who knows the interpretation of a thing?  a man's wisdom makes his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.


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Whoever keeps the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerns both time and judgment.


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There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.


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All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man rules over another to his own hurt.


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And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.


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Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.


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Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:


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But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.


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There is a vanity which is done on the earth; that there be just men, to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.


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Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.


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When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes:)


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Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yes farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.


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For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.


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All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that swears, as he that fears an oath.


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This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.


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For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.


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For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.


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Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.


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Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works.


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Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity: for that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you take under the sun.


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Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go.


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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all.


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For man also knows not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.


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There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:


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Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.


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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.


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Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking smell: so does a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor.


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Yes also, when he that is a fool walks by the way, his wisdom fails him, and he said to every one that he is a fool.


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If the spirit of the ruler rise up against you, leave not your place; for yielding pacifies great offenses.


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Whoever removes stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that splits wood shall be endangered thereby.


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If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.


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The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.


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A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?


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Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!


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By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house drops through.


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Curse not the king, no not in your thought; and curse not the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.


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If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.


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As you know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so you know not the works of God who makes all.


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In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening withhold not your hand: for you know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.


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But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.


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Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know you, that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.


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Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.


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Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them;


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While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:


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In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,


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And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;


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Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:


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Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.


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And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.


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The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.


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The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.


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And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.


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Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.


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For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.


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Because of the smell of your good ointments your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you.


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Draw me, we will run after you: the king has brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in you, we will remember your love more than wine: the upright love you.


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I am black, but comely, O you daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.


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Look not on me, because I am black, because the sun has looked on me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but my own vineyard have I not kept.


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Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turns aside by the flocks of your companions?


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If you know not, O you fairest among women, go your way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed your kids beside the shepherds' tents.


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As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.


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I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that you stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.


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My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice.


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The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;


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The fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.


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O my dove, that are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see your countenance, let me hear your voice; for sweet is your voice, and your countenance is comely.


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Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be you like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bether.


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I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.


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It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.


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Who is this that comes out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?


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They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man has his sword on his thigh because of fear in the night.


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He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the middle thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.


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Go forth, O you daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.


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Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes within your locks: your hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.


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Your teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.


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Your lips are like a thread of scarlet, and your speech is comely: your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within your locks.


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Your neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, where on there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.


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Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.


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Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.


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You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.


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How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the smell of your ointments than all spices!


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Your lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.


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Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:


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Awake, O north wind; and come, you south; blow on my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.


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I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.


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I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.


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I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, on the handles of the lock.


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I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.


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The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.


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I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him, that I am sick of love.


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What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you fairest among women? what is your beloved more than another beloved, that you do so charge us?


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His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.


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His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.


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His legs are as pillars of marble, set on sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.


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His mouth is most sweet: yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.


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Where is your beloved gone, O you fairest among women? where is your beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with you.


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My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.


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Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me: your hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.


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Your teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one bears twins, and there is not one barren among them.


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My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yes, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.


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Who is she that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?


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I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates budded.


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Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look on you. What will you see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.


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How beautiful are your feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.


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Your navel is like a round goblet, which wants not liquor: your belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.


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Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: your nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.


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Your head on you is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.


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I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also your breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose like apples;


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And the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goes down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.


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Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give you my loves.


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The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.


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O that you were as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother!  when I should find you without, I would kiss you; yes, I should not be despised.


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I would lead you, and bring you into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.


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Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I raised you up under the apple tree: there your mother brought you forth: there she brought you forth that bore you.


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Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which has a most vehement flame.


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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.


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We have a little sister, and she has no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?


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If she be a wall, we will build on her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.


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Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.


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My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.


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The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.


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Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.


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The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people does not consider.


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Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone away backward.


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Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.


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From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.


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Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.


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And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.


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Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrah.


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Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.


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To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? said the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.


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Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.


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Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them.


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And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.


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Come now, and let us reason together, said the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.


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But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.


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How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.


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Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.


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Therefore said the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies:


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And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.


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And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.


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For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.


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And the strong shall be as wick, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.


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And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.


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And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.


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And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.


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Therefore you have forsaken your people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.


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Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:


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Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:


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Enter into the rock, and hide you in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.


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The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.


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For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be on every one that is proud and lofty, and on every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:


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And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.


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And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he rises to shake terribly the earth.


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In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;


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To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he rises to shake terribly the earth.


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For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.


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The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.


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And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.


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When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be you our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:


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In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.


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For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.


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The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe to their soul! for they have rewarded evil to themselves.


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Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.


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As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.


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The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.


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What mean you that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? said the Lord GOD of hosts.


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Moreover the LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:


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Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.


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In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,


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And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.


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And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.


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In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:


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When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the middle thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.


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And the LORD will create on every dwelling place of mount Zion, and on her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for on all the glory shall be a defense.


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And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.


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Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:


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And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the middle of it, and also made a wine press therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.


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And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.


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What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?


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And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:


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And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dig; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.


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For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.


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Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the middle of the earth!


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In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.


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Woe to them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!


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And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.


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Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.


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Therefore hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoices, shall descend into it.


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And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:


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But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.


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Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.


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That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!


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Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!


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Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.


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Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn in the middle of the streets.  For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:


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None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the lace of their shoes be broken:


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Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:


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Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.


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And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.


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In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.


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Above it stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he did fly.


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And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.


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And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.


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Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the middle of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.


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Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:


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And he laid it on my mouth, and said, See, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.


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Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.


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And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear you indeed, but understand not; and see you indeed, but perceive not.


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Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.


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Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,


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But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.


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And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.


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And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.


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Then said the LORD to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;


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And say to him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.


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Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the middle of it, even the son of Tabeal:


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For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within three score and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.


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And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.


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And he said, Hear you now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?


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Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.


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For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that you abhor shall be forsaken of both her kings.


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The LORD shall bring on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.


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And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorns, and on all bushes.


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In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.


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And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand sliver coins, it shall even be for briers and thorns.


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With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.


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And on all hills that shall be dig with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.


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Moreover the LORD said to me, Take you a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.


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And I took to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.


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And I went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son.  Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.


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For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.


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For as much as this people refuses the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;


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Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:


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And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.


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Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.


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Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.


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For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,


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Say you not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear you their fear, nor be afraid.


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And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwells in mount Zion.


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And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that have familiar spirits, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek to their God? for the living to the dead?


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To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.


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And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.


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And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.


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Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.


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The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.


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You have multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.


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For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.


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For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.


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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.


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Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from now on even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.


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And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,


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The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.


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Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;


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The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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For wickedness burns as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.


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Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.


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And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:


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Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;


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To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!


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And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?


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Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.


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However, he means not so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.


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As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;


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Why it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed his whole work on mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.


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For he said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:


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And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.


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Shall the ax boast itself against him that hews therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shakes it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.


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Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.


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And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;


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And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay on him that smote them; but shall stay on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.


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For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.


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Therefore thus said the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt.


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And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a whip for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was on the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.


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They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.


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As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.


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Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.


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And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:


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And the spirit of the LORD shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;


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And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:


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But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.


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The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatted calf together; and a little child shall lead them.


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And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.


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And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.


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They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.


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And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.


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And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.


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The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.


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But they shall fly on the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.


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And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over with dry sandals.


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And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.


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And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comforted me.


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Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.


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And in that day shall you say, Praise the LORD, call on his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.


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Cry out and shout, you inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the middle of you.


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Lift you up a banner on the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.


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I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.


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The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts musters the host of the battle.


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They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.


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And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.


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Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.


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For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.


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And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.


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Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.


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And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.


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Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined to them shall fall by the sword.


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Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.


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Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.


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Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.


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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.


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It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelled in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.


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But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.


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And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.


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For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall join to the house of Jacob.


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And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.


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And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage wherein you were made to serve,


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That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!


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He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders.


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Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid down, no feller is come up against us.


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Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.


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Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you.


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How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!


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For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also on the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:


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They that see you shall narrowly look on you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;


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That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?


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But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.


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You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.


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Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.


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For I will rise up against them, said the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, said the LORD.


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I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, said the LORD of hosts.


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The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:


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That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.


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This is the purpose that is purposed on the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out on all the nations.


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For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who shall cancel it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?


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Rejoice not you, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote you is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.


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And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill your root with famine, and he shall slay your remnant.


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Howl, O gate; cry, O city; you, whole Palestina, are dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.


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What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.


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The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;


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He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.


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In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.


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And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.


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My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee to Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.


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For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass fails, there is no green thing.


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Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.


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For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof to Eglaim, and the howling thereof to Beerelim.


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For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more on Dimon, lions on him that escapes of Moab, and on the remnant of the land.


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Send you the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.


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For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.


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Take counsel, execute judgment; make your shadow as the night in the middle of the noonday; hide the outcasts; denude not him that wanders.


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Let my outcasts dwell with you, Moab; be you a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortionist is at an end, the spoiler ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.


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And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit on it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hastening righteousness.


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We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.


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Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall you mourn; surely they are stricken.


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For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even to Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.


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Therefore I will mourn with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for your summer fruits and for your harvest is fallen.


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And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.


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And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.


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But now the LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.


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The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.


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The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.


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The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, said the LORD of hosts.


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And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.


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And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the corn, and reaps the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathers ears in the valley of Rephaim.


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Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, said the LORD God of Israel.


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At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.


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And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.


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In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.


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Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant pleasant plants, and shall set it with strange slips:


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In the day shall you make your plant to grow, and in the morning shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.


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Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!


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The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.


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And behold at evening trouble; and before the morning he is not.  This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.


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That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes on the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning till now; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!


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All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see you, when he lifts up an ensign on the mountains; and when he blows a trumpet, hear you.


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For so the LORD said to me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat on herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.


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For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.


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They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter on them.


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In that time shall the present be brought to the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning till now; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.


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The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the middle of it.


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And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.


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And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the middle thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.


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And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, said the Lord, the LORD of hosts.


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And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.


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The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.


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The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets on the waters shall languish.


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Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say you to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?


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Where are they? where are your wise men? and let them tell you now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts has purposed on Egypt.


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The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.


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The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in the middle thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.


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In that day shall Egypt be like to women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shakes over it.


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And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt, every one that makes mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he has determined against it.


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In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.


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In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.


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And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.


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And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yes, they shall vow a vow to the LORD, and perform it.


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And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them.


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In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.


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In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the middle of the land:


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Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.


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In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;


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At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put off your shoe from your foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.


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And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder on Egypt and on Ethiopia;


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So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.


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And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, where we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?


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The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.


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A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the spoiler spoils. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.


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Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman that travails: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.


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And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he listened diligently with much heed:


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And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:


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And, behold, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.  And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he has broken to the ground.


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O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared to you.


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The burden of Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?


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The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night: if you will inquire, inquire you: return, come.


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The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall you lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanim.


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The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.


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For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.


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For thus has the LORD said to me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:


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And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel has spoken it.


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The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?


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You that are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.


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All your rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in you are bound together, which have fled from far.


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Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.


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For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.


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And it shall come to pass, that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.


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And he discovered the covering of Judah, and you did look in that day to the armor of the house of the forest.


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You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.


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And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall.


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You made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but you have not looked to the maker thereof, neither had respect to him that fashioned it long ago.


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And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:


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And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.


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And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die, said the Lord GOD of hosts.


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Thus said the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get you to this treasurer, even to Shebna, which is over the house, and say,


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What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed you out a sepulcher here, as he that hews him out a sepulcher on high, and that engraves an habitation for himself in a rock?


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He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country: there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord's house.


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And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle, and I will commit your government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.


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And the key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.


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And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.


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And they shall hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.


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In that day, said the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was on it shall be cut off: for the LORD has spoken it.


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The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.


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Be still, you inhabitants of the isle; you whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.


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And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.


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Be you ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea has spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.


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Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.


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Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?


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The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.


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He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD has given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.


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And he said, You shall no more rejoice, O you oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shall you have no rest.


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Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.


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Take an harp, go about the city, you harlot that have been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.


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And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.


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And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.


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Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof.


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And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.


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The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.


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The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.


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Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.


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When thus it shall be in the middle of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.


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They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.


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Why glorify you the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.


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From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.


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And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the middle of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.


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The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy on it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.


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And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.


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Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.


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O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.


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For you have made of a city an heap; of a defended city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.


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For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.


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You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.


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And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.


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And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.


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He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it.


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And it shall be said in that day, See, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.


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For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.


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And he shall spread forth his hands in the middle of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.


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And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.


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In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.


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For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.


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Yes, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance of you.


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With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.


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Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.


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LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yes, the fire of your enemies shall devour them.


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O LORD our God, other lords beside you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention of your name.


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They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.


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You have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you had removed it far to all the ends of the earth.


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Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, O LORD.


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We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.


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Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.


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Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be over.


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For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.


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In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.


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I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.


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Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.


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Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.


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He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.


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Has he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?


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In measure, when it shoots forth, you will debate with it: he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind.


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By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.


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Yet the defended city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.


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When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river to the stream of Egypt, and you shall be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.


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Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!


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Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.


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And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looks on it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.


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In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people,


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And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.


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But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.


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Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.


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For precept must be on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, and there a little:


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To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.


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But the word of the LORD was to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.


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Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing whip shall pass through, it shall not come to us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:


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Therefore thus said the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.


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Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.


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And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing whip shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.


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From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.


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For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.


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For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.


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Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined on the whole earth.


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When he has made plain the face thereof, does he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place?


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For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about on the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.


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Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.


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This also comes forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.


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Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelled! add you year to year; let them kill sacrifices.


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And I will camp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with a mount, and I will raise forts against you.


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And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust, and your voice shall be, as of one that has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.


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Moreover the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away: yes, it shall be at an instant suddenly.


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You shall be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.


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And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her fortification, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.


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It shall even be as when an hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he wakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he wakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.


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Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.


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For the LORD has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has he covered.


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And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he said, I cannot; for it is sealed:


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And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he said, I am not learned.


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Why the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:


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Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.


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Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?


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Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?


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Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?


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And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.


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The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.


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For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:


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That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.


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Therefore thus said the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.


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But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.


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They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.


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Woe to the rebellious children, said the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:


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That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!


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Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.


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They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.


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The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from where come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures on the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.


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For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.


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Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:


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Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:


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Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.


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Why thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:


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Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant.


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And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water with out of the pit.


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For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not.


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But you said, No; for we will flee on horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride on the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.


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One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you be left as a beacon on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.


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And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy on you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.


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For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you shall weep no more: he will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer you.


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And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers:


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And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.


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You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstruous cloth; you shall say to it, Get you hence.


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Then shall he give the rain of your seed, that you shall sow the ground with; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures.


