# t_wbt

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\\53:6\\O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.


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\\54:1\\To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us? Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.


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\\54:3\\For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.


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\\54:7\\For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye hath seen its desire upon my enemies.


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\\55:1\\To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.


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\\55:3\\Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.


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\\55:10\\Day and night they go about it upon its walls: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.


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\\55:12\\For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that magnified himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:


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\\55:15\\Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.


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\\55:18\\He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.


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\\55:19\\God will hear and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.


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\\55:20\\He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.


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\\55:21\\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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\\55:22\\Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he will sustain thee: he will never suffer the righteous to be moved.


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\\55:23\\But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.


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\\56:1\\To the chief Musician upon Jonathelem-rechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.


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\\56:2\\My enemies would daily swallow me up: for they are many that fight against me, O thou Most High.


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\\56:4\\In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do to me.


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\\56:6\\They assemble themselves, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.


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\\56:13\\For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt thou not deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?


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\\57:1\\To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yes, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities are overpast.


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\\57:3\\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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\\57:4\\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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\\57:6\\They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst of which they have fallen themselves. Selah.


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\\58:1\\To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?


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\\58:3\\The wicked are estranged from their birth: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.


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\\58:4\\Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;


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\\58:6\\Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.


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\\58:7\\Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.


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\\58:8\\As a snail which melteth, 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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\\58:9\\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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\\58:10\\The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.


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\\58:11\\So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.


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\\59:1\\To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.


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\\59:3\\For lo, 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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\\59:5\\Thou 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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\\59:7\\Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?


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\\59:11\\Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.


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\\59:12\\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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\\59:13\\Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah.


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\\59:14\\And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go about the city.


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\\59:16\\But I will sing of thy power; yes, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.


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\\60:1\\To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.


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\\60:2\\Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal its breaches; for it shaketh.


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\\60:3\\Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.


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\\60:4\\Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.


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\\60:6\\God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.


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\\60:7\\Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;


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\\60:8\\Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.


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\\60:10\\Wilt thou not, O God, who hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, who didst not go out with our armies?


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\\61:1\\To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.


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\\61:2\\From the end of the earth will I cry to thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.


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\\61:5\\For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.


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\\62:1\\To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.


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\\62:3\\How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.


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\\62:4\\They only consult to cast him down from his excellence: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.


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\\62:8\\Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.


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\\62:9\\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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\\62:10\\Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.


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\\62:12\\Also to thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.


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\\63:1\\A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;


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\\63:5\\My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:


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\\63:11\\But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.


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\\64:1\\To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.


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\\64:2\\Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:


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\\64:3\\Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:


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\\64:5\\They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who will see them?


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\\64:6\\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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\\64:8\\So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.


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\\64:9\\And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.


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\\64:10\\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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\\65:1\\To the chief Musician, A Psalm and Song of David. Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion: and to thee shall the vow be performed.


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\\65:4\\Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach to thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.


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\\65:5\\By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:


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\\65:8\\They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.


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\\65:9\\Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.


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\\65:10\\Thou waterest the ridges of it abundantly: thou settlest the furrows of it: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing of it.


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\\65:13\\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 art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thy enemies submit themselves to thee.


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I will offer to thee burnt-sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.


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\\67:1\\To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song. God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us. Selah.


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\\67:4\\O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.


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\\68:1\\To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.


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\\68:2\\As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.


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\\68:3\\But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yes, let them exceedingly rejoice.


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\\68:4\\Sing to God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.


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\\68:6\\God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.


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\\68:7\\O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:


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\\68:8\\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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\\68:9\\Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, by which thou didst confirm thy inheritance, when it was weary.


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\\68:10\\Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.


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\\68:13\\Though ye have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.


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\\68:16\\Why leap ye, ye lofty hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yes, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.


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\\68:17\\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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\\68:18\\Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yes, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.


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\\68:19\\Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.


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\\68:20\\He that is our God is the God of salvation; and to GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.


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\\68:21\\But God will wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such one as goeth on still in his trespasses.


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\\68:22\\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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\\68:23\\That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.


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\\68:25\\The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.


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\\68:27\\There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their counsel, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.


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\\68:28\\Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.


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\\68:30\\Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one shall submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.


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\\68:33\\To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.


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\\68:34\\Ascribe ye strength to God: his excellence is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.


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\\68:35\\O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power to his people. Blessed be God.


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\\69:1\\To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul.


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\\69:2\\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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\\69:4\\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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\\69:6\\Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.


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\\69:9\\For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have fallen upon me.


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\\69:13\\But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.


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\\69:14\\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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\\69:15\\Let not the water-flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.


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\\69:16\\Hear me, O LORD; for thy loving-kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.


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\\69:19\\Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before thee.


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\\69:20\\Reproach hath 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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\\69:22\\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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\\69:26\\For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.


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\\69:35\\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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\\69:36\\The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.


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\\70:1\\To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David to bring to remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.


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\\70:2\\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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\\70:4\\Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.


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\\70:5\\But I am poor and needy: make haste to me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no delay.


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Be thou my strong habitation, to which I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.


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By thee have I been sustained from my birth: thou art he that brought me into life: my praise shall be continually of thee.


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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 thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.


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Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown thy strength to this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.


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Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like to thee!


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Thou, who hast shown me great and severe troubles, wilt revive me again, and wilt bring me again from the depths of the earth.


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I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: to thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.


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My tongue also shall talk of thy 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 redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall be their blood in his sight.


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There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit of it shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.


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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 lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go astray from thee.


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Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?


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Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old: the rod of thy inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, in which thou hast dwelt.


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Lift up thy feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.


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They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground.


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Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, and didst give him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.


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O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove to the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy 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 thy enemies: the tumult of those that rise against thee increaseth continually.


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\\75:1\\To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph. To thee, O God, do we give thanks, to thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near, thy wondrous works declare.


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\\75:8\\For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs of it all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.


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\\75:10\\All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.


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\\76:1\\To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph. In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.


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\\76:5\\The stout-hearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.


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\\76:11\\Vow, and pay to the LORD your God: let all that are about him bring presents to him that ought to be feared.


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\\77:1\\To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried to God with my voice, even to God with my voice; and he gave ear to me.


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\\77:2\\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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\\77:6\\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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\\77:10\\And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.


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\\77:16\\The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were disturbed.


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\\77:18\\The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings 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 hath done.


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That the generation to come might know them, even the children who 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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But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yes, many a time he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.


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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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A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.


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The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food to the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints, to the beasts of the earth.


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O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily succor us: for we are brought very low.


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Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by avenging the blood of thy servants which is shed.


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And render to our neighbors seven-fold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, O Lord.


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So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will show forth thy praise to all generations.


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\\80:1\\To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth.


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\\80:9\\Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.


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\\80:12\\Why hast thou then broke down her hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck her?


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\\80:14\\Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;


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\\80:15\\And the vineyard which thy right hand planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.


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\\80:17\\Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.


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\\81:1\\To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm  of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.


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\\81:5\\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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\\81:7\\Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.


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\\81:10\\I am the LORD thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.


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\\81:15\\The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves to him: and their time should have endured for ever.


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\\81:16\\He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock I should have satisfied thee.


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\\83:1\\A song, or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.


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\\83:4\\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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\\83:11\\Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yes, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:


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\\83:18\\That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.


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\\84:1\\To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!


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\\84:2\\My soul longeth, and even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.


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\\84:3\\Yes, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.


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\\84:10\\For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.


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\\84:11\\For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.


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\\85:1\\To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. LORD, thou hast been favorable to thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.


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\\85:3\\Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thy anger.


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\\85:8\\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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For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy to all them that call upon thee.


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O God, the proud have risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.


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But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious; long-suffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.


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O turn to me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.


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Show me a token for good; that they who hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast 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 Cush; 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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\\88:1\\A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:


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\\88:5\\Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.


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\\88:8\\Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.


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\\88:9\\My eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands to thee.


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\\88:12\\Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?


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\\88:15\\I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.


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\\89:1\\Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.


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\\89:2\\For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.


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\\89:5\\And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD; thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.


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\\89:6\\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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\\89:7\\God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence by all them that are about him.


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\\89:10\\Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thy enemies with thy strong arm.


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\\89:11\\The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world, and the fullness of it, thou hast founded them.


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\\89:12\\The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.


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\\89:14\\Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.


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\\89:15\\Blessed are the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.


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\\89:16\\In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.


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\\89:19\\Then thou didst speak in vision to thy holy one, and say, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.


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\\89:24\\But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.


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\\89:33\\Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.


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\\89:39\\Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.


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\\89:42\\Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.


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\\89:48\\What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.


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\\89:49\\Lord, where are thy former loving-kindnesses, which thou didst swear to David in thy truth?


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\\89:50\\Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;


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\\89:51\\With which thy enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of thy anointed


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Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth.


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The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty 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 in which thou hast afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil.


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And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yes, the work of our hands establish thou it.


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He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him.


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\\92:1\\A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to thy name, O Most High.


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\\92:3\\Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.


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\\92:4\\For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.


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\\92:7\\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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\\92:9\\For lo, thy enemies, O LORD, for lo, thy enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.


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\\92:10\\But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.


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\\92:11\\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 reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, with which he hath 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 their waves.


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He that chastiseth the heathen, shall he not correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not know?


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Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?


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And he will bring upon them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness; yes, the LORD our God will 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 ye will hear his voice,


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Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he will judge the people righteously.


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Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the LORD:


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For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.


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Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols; worship him, all ye gods.


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A Psalm. O sing to the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.


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The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shown in the sight of the heathen.


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He hath remembered his mercy and his truth towards 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 cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness will he judge the world, and the people with equity.


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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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Thou didst answer them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.


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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 wilt thou 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 cleave to me.


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Whoever privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.


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My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.


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I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all who practice wickedness from the city of the LORD.


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\\102:1\\A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come to thee.


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\\102:2\\Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thy ear to me: in the day when I call, answer me speedily.


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\\102:8\\My enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are enraged against me are sworn against me.


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\\102:13\\Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yes, the set time, is come.


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\\102:18\\This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.


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\\102:19\\For he hath looked down from the hight of his sanctuary; from heaven hath the LORD beheld the earth;


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\\102:24\\I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.


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\\102:25\\Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.


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\\102:26\\They shall perish, but thou wilt endure: yes, all of them shall grow old like a garment; as a vesture wilt thou change them, and they shall be changed:


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\\102:28\\The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.


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But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness to children's children;


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Bless the LORD, ye 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, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honor and majesty.


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They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which thou hast founded for them.


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So is this great and wide sea, in which are creeping animals innumerable, both small and great beasts.


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Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.


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That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thy inheritance.


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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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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 thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.


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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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\\108:1\\A Song or Psalm of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.


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\\108:3\\I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises to thee among the nations.


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\\108:7\\God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.


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\\108:8\\Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;


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\\108:11\\Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our armies?


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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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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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Let it be to him as the garment which covereth 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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Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.


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A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool.


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Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness: from the womb of the morning, thou hast the dew of thy youth.


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The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.


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He will judge among the heathen, he will fill the places with the dead bodies; he will wound the heads over many countries.


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He sent redemption to his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.


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To the upright there ariseth light in darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.


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He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.


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The sorrows of death encompassed me, and the pains of hell came upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.


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O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.


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For his merciful kindness is great towards us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.


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They encompassed me 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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God is the LORD, who hath shown us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.


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My hands also will I lift to thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.


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JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.


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Whither 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 upon the LORD our God, until he shall have mercy upon us.


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Our soul hath escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we have escaped.


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A Song of degrees. They that trust in the LORD, shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.


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As the mountains are round Jerusalem, so the LORD is around his people from henceforth even for ever.


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For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon 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 upon Israel.


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He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless return with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.


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A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD shall build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD shall keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain.


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It is vain for you to rise early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.


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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thy house: thy children like olive plants around thy table.


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Neither do they who go by, say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.


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A Song of degrees of David. 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 by his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.


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The LORD hath sworn in truth to David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.


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If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them; their children also shall sit upon thy throne for ever.


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A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!


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It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garment;


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As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for ever.


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A Song of degrees. Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, who by night stand in the house of the LORD.


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He causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.


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Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to its foundation.


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A Psalm of David. I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise to thee.


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I will worship towards thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.


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Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand will save me.


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The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works thy own hands.


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Yes, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.


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I will praise thee: for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: wonderful are thy works; and that my soul well knoweth.


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My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret, and curiously formed in the lowest parts of the earth.


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Thy eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.


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\\140:1\\To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;


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\\140:3\\They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adder's poison is under their lips. Selah.


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\\140:4\\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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\\140:5\\The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way side: they have set gins for me. Selah.


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\\140:7\\O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.


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\\140:8\\Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.


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\\140:10\\Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not again.


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\\140:11\\Let not an evil speaker be established on the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.


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\\140:13\\Surely the righteous shall give thanks to thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.


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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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\\142:1\\Maschil of David; a prayer when he was in the cave. I cried to the LORD with my voice; with my voice to the LORD I made my supplication.


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\\142:3\\When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way in which I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.


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\\142:4\\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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\\142:5\\I cried to thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.


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\\142:6\\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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\\142:7\\Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall encompass me; for thou wilt deal bountifully with me.


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A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.


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Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like them that go down into the pit.


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Cause me to hear thy loving-kindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way in which I should walk; for I lift up my soul to thee.


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And of thy mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.


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A Psalm of David. Blessed be the LORD my strength, who teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight;


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Send thy 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 thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises to thee.


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That our granaries 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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David's Psalm of praise. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.


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Who executeth judgment for the oppressed: who giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:


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Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.


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He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise ye 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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Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known to you my words.


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Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thy heart:


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For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain of it than fine gold.


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She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared to her.


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When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: but thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.


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For by means of a lewd 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 committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.


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With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him.


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He goeth after her quickly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;


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Till a dart striketh through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.


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The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.


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He that reproveth a scorner, getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.


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Whoever is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,


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A hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.


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He that diligently seeketh good procureth favor: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come to him.


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He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoreth himself, and is destitute of bread.


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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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Whoever despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.


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Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honored.


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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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The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD; but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.


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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 ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.


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He that mocketh the poor reproacheth 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 letteth out water: therefore withdraw from contention, before it be meddled with.


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A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.


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He that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth to the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.


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Smite a scorner and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.


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The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.


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He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.


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Whoever stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.


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There is a treasure to be desired, and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.


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For it is a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.


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That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send to thee?


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Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven.


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Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.


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And thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.


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They have stricken me, wilt thou 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 thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and will not he render to every man according to his works?


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So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.


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He that saith to the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:


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And lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.


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For better it is that it be said to thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldst be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thy eyes have seen.


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Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.


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Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.


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As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre; so is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart.


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Thy own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near, than a brother far off.


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He that keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit of it: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored.


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Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.


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And thou shalt have goats milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for maintenance for thy maidens.


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For the transgression of a land many are its princes: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.


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Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.


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Whoever causeth 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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The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor man that hath understanding searcheth him out.


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He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but he who confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.


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He that robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.


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He that loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.


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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 hath ascended into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst 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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There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.


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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-leech hath 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 eye that mocketh at its father, and despiseth to obey its mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.


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If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thy hand upon thy mouth.


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She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth food to her household, and a portion to her maidens.


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The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about to the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits.


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All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from whence 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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Is there any thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.


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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 grievous labor hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised with it.


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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, Lo, I have come to great estate, and have gained more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: and my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.


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I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee 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 procured 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 procured me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and of all sorts.


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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 wrought, 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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Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought 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 knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which 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 hath not labored in it, shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.


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For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he hath labored under the sun?


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For all his days are sorrows, and his labor grief; yes, his heart taketh 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 giveth to a man who is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth toil, to gather, and to amass, 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 cast away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;


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He hath made every thing beautiful in its time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh 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 doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.


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I said in my heart, God will 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 state 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 befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yes, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity.


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Yes, better is he than both they, who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.


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Again, I considered all labor, and every right work, that for this a man is envied by 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 hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yes, it is a grievous labor.


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For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him to rise.


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And if one prevaileth against him, two shall withstand him; and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken.


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I considered all the living who walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.


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\\5:1\\Keep thy foot when thou goest 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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\\5:2\\Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.


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\\5:3\\For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.


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\\5:4\\When thou vowest a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.


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\\5:6\\Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?


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\\5:7\\For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.


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\\5:8\\If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perversion of judgment and justice in a province, wonder not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there are higher than they.


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\\5:10\\He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.


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\\5:11\\When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners of them, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?


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\\5:12\\The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eateth little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.


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\\5:13\\There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners of them to their hurt.


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\\5:14\\But those riches perish by evil labor: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.


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\\5:15\\As he came into the world, 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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\\5:16\\And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath labored for the wind?


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\\5:17\\All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.


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\\5:18\\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 taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.


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\\5:19\\Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.


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\\5:20\\For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.


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A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.


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If a man begetteth a hundred children, and liveth many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he hath no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.


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Yes, though he liveth a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?


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Better is the end of a thing than its beginning: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.


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For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense: but the excellence of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.


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It is good that thou shouldst take hold of this; yes, also from this withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall escape from 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 pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.


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Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatever pleaseth him.


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He who keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.


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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 in which one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.


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Though a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet surely I know that it will be well with them that fear God, who fear before him:


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But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.


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There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, to whom it happeneth 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 hath 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 giveth him under the sun.


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When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth 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 may labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yes further; though a wise man thinketh to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.


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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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Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, hath now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.


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Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labor which thou takest under the sun.


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Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.


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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 an offensive odor: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor.


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Also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.


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If the spirit of the ruler riseth against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offenses.


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If the iron is blunt, and he doth not whet the edge, then must he use more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.


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Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber: for a bird of the air will carry the voice, and that which hath wings will tell the matter.


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If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree falleth towards the south, or towards the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.


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As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor the structure of the parts of conception in her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.


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In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.


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But if a man shall live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.


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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.


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While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are 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 shall be darkened,


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And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding shall be 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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Or ever the silver cord shall 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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For God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.


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Because of the savor of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.


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Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers; we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.


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Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon 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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If thou knowest not, O thou fairest among women, go forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy 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 ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not, nor awake my love, till he please.


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My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice.


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The fig-tree putteth 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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Until the day shall break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.


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He made its pillars of silver, the bottom of it of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst of it being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.


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Go forth, O ye 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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Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; all of which bear twins, and none is barren among them.


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Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of pomegranate within thy locks.


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Thy neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, on which hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.


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Until the day shall break, and the shadows flee away, I will repair to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.


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


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How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thy ointments than all spices!


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Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honey-comb; honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.


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Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.


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I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh, with my spice; I have eaten my honey-comb with my honey; I have drank my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.


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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, upon 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 vail from me.


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I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick with love.


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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 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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Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.


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Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, of which every one beareth 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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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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How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.


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Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.


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Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thy eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh towards Damascus.


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Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy 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 its boughs: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;


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Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourisheth, whether the tender grape appeareth, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.


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O that thou wert as my brother, that was nourished at the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yes, I should not be despised.


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Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple-tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bore thee.


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Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals of it are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.


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If she is a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she is a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.


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Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; every one for the fruit of it was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.


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My vineyard which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit of it two hundred.


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Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, 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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From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.


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Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom; we should have been like Gomorrah.


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Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.


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To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith 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 endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.


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Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them.


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And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yes, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.


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Wash ye, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;


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Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow, though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.


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How is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.


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Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come to them.


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Therefore saith 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 thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.


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And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mount of the LORD'S house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.


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And he will judge among the nations, and will rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, 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 thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are replenished from the east, and are sooth-sayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.


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The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be abased, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.


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And the loftiness of man shall be abased, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.


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For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the rod and the staff, the whole support of bread, and the whole support of water,


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The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the skillful 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 elder, and the base against the honorable.


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In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.


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The show of their countenance doth 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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As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.


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The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and with their princes: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.


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Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with extended 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 uncover their secret parts.


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In that day the Lord will take away the show 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 an offensive odor; 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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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 have escaped of Israel.


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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 midst of it by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.


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And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defense.


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And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade 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 concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:


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And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein: and he expected that it would bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.


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What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected that it would bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?


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And now come; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down:


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Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there is no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst 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 early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflameth them!


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Therefore my people have 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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And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be abased.


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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 is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills trembled, and their carcasses were torn in the midst 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 afar, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:


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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 looketh to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in its heavens.


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In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and elevated, and his train filled the temple.


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Above it stood seraphim: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.


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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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Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.


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Then one of the seraphim flew 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 upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.


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Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities shall be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate;


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And the LORD shall have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.


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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 of it.


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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 towards Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.


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Then said the LORD to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy 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 faint-hearted for the two tails of these smoking fire-brands, 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 harass it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst 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 sixty five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.


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And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David? Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?


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Therefore the Lord himself will 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 thou abhorrest shall be forsaken by both her kings.


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The LORD will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy 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 will 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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In the same day will 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 pieces of silver, it shall even be for briers and thorns.


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Moreover, the LORD said to me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.


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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 Maher-shalal-hash-baz.


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Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;


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Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon 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 its channels, and go over all its 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 extension of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.


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Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; 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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And he will be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth 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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And they shall pass through it, distressed 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 distress, 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 shades of death, upon them hath the light shined.


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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.


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The bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.


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Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, neither will have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is a hypocrite and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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For wickedness burneth 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 rising of smoke.


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Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;


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I will send him against a 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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As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images excelled them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;


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Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth with it? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it, or as if the staff should lift itself, as if it were no wood.


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Therefore will the Lord, the LORD of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he will kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them; but shall lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.


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And the LORD of hosts will raise up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.


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They have gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul hath fled.


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Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts will 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 he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.


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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 will rest upon 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 will make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he will not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:


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But with righteousness will he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he will smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips will he slay the wicked.


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And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the den of the basilisk.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will 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 isles 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 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 distress Ephraim.


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But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines towards the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.


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And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind will he shake his hand over the river, and will smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dry shod.


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And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; as it was to Israel in the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.


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And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thy anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.


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Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.


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Lift ye up a banner upon 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, as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations assembled: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.


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Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he will destroy its sinners out of it.


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For the stars of heaven and its constellations 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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And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one to 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 plundered, and their wives ravished.


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Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who 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 eye shall not spare children.


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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellence, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.


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And the wild beasts of the isles 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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And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage in which thou wast made to serve,


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Yes, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.


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For thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:


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They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms:


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That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; that opened not the house of his prisoners?


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But thou art cast out of thy 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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Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.


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Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.


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For I will arise against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.


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The LORD of hosts hath 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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This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched over all the nations.


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Rejoice not thou, all Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a basilisk, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.


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And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.


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Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, all Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.


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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 shorn.


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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, a heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise a cry of destruction.


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For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the herb is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.


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Therefore the abundance they have gained, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.


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For the cry hath gone round the borders of Moab, her howling to Eglaim, and her howling to Beer-elim.


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Send ye 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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Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noon-day; hide the outcasts; discover not him that wandereth.


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Let my outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.


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Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye 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 her principal plants, they have come even to Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are extended, they have gone over the sea.


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And gladness is taken away, and joy from 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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But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a 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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And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be diminished, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.


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And it shall be as when the harvest-man gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth 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 of it, saith the LORD God of Israel.


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Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with foreign slips:


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Woe to the multitude of many people, who 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 will 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 the time of evening trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that ravage us, and the lot of them that rob us.


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That sendeth embassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation measured by line and trodden down, whose land the rivers have laid waste.


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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 upon 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 upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon 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 hitherto; a nation measured by line 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 rideth upon a swift cloud, and will come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst 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 midst of her, and I will destroy her counsel: 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 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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Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?


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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 support of its tribes.


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The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst of it: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work of it, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.


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In that day shall Egypt be like women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.


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And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt, every one that maketh mention of it shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.


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In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border 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 will smite Egypt: he will smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.


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In that day shall there be a highway from 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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Whom the LORD of hosts will 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 thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.


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And the LORD said, As my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Cush;


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So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Cushites captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their hind-parts uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.


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A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler plundereth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all her sighing have I made to cease.


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My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear to me.


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And he cried, a lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day time, and I am set in my ward whole nights.


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And behold, here cometh 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 hath broken to the ground.


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O my threshing, and the corn of my floor; that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared to you.


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The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.


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The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye traveling companies of Dedanim.


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The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they met with their bread him that fled.


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For thus hath the Lord said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:


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The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou hast wholly gone up to the house-tops?


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Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.


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All thy rulers have fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, who 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 devastation of the daughter of my people.


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And he uncovered the coverings of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armor of the house of the forest.


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Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye collected the waters of the lower pool.


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Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked to its maker, neither had respect to him that fashioned it long ago.


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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 ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.


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Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, repair to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,


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What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulcher here, as he that heweth him out a sepulcher on high, and that graveth a habitation for himself in a rock?


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With violence he will surely turn and toss thee like a ball into a wide country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.


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Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish 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 far off to sojourn.


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Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?


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The LORD of hosts hath 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 his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy its strong holds.


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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 its towers, they raised up its palaces; 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 a harlot.


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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, for sufficient food, and for durable clothing.


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Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.


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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 interest, so with the giver of interest to him.


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The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.


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Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell in it 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 midst 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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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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The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression of it shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.


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And they shall be gathered, 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 on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.


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O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.


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For thou hast made of a city a heap; of a fortified city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.


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For thou hast been a defense to the poor, a defense to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.


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Thou wilt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shade of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.


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And on this mountain will 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 on this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail 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 will he remove from all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.


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And it shall be said in that day, Lo, 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 on 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 will spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he will bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.


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And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls will he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.


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Yes, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.


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With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.


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Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.


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LORD, when thy 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 thy enemies shall devour them.


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O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.


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Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far to all the ends of the earth.


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As a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy 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 wrought any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.


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Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself as it were for a little moment until the indignation shall be overpast.


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For behold, the LORD cometh 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 keen and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.


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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 descend from Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.


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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 maketh all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are beaten asunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.


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Yet the fortified 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 its branches.


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When its boughs 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 gather from the channel of the river to the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye 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 who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD on 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; who are on the head of the rich valleys of them that are overcome with wine!


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And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the early fruit before the summer; which, when he that looketh upon it, seeth while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.


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In that day will 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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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 overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.


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To whom he said, This is the rest with which ye 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 upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon 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 ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not reach us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:


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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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For the LORD will rise as on mount Perazim, he will 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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When he hath made even the face of it, doth he not cast abroad the vetches, 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 vetches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the vetches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.


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Bread-corn is bruised; because he will not always be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.


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This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in operation.


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And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.


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Moreover, the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yes, it shall be at an instant suddenly.


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Thou shalt be visited by 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 munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night-vision.


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It shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.


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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 thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:


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Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch 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 towards 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 an astonishing 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 seeth us? and who knoweth us?


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For the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scoffer 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 reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of naught.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now become pale.


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But when he seeth his children, the work of my hands, in the midst 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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Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from 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 shade of Egypt!


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Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shade of Egypt your confusion.


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They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a 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 whence come the young and the old lion, the viper and flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.


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For the Egyptian shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.


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Who 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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Withdraw from the way, turn aside from the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.


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Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and lean upon it:


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And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a piece to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.


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One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a 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 upon 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: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious to thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.


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And though the Lord shall give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thy eyes shall see thy teachers:


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And thy ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.


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Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a polluted cloth; thou shalt say to it, Be gone from me.


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Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.


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The oxen likewise and the young asses that plow the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.


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Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven-fold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.


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Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden of it is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:


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Ye shall have a song, as in the night, when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come upon the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.


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And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.


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For Tophet is ordained of old; yes, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile of it is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.


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Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!


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Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.


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Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.


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For thus hath the LORD spoken to me, As the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.


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For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.


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And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.


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For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry; and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.


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Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip ye, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.


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Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; also, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:


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Until the spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness shall be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be counted for a forest.


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And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places;


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Woe to thee that layest waste, and thou wast not laid waste; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to lay waste, thou shalt be wasted; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.


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O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.


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And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.


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The highways lie waste, the way-faring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.


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He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.


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Thy heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?


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Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.


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Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thy eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be removed, neither shall any of its cords be broken.


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But there the glorious LORD will be to us a place of broad rivers and streams; in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass through it.


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And the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.


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Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that spring from it.


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Their slain also shall be cast out, and their ill smell shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.


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And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their hosts shall fall down, as the leaf falleth from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig-tree.


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For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.


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The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.


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And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.


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And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.


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It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall ascend for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.


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They shall call her nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.


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And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in her fortresses, and it shall be a habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.


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The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the isle, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech-owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.


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And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.


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The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.


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It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice, even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellence of our God.


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Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.


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Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.


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And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the way-faring men, though fools, shall not err therein.


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And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem against king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.


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Then came forth to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.


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And Rabshakeh said to them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which thou trustest?


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I say, sayest thou (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?


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Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; on which if a man lean, it will enter his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.


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But if thou shalt say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?


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Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou canst on thy part set riders upon them.


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And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.


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Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jew's language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.


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But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may devour their vilest excretions with you?


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Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jew's language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.


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Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, the LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.


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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;


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Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?


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And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.


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And they said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.


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And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.


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Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.


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So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.


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And he heard it said concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,


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Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.


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Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?


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Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?


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And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.


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O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.


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Incline thy ear, O LORD, and hear; open thy eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to reproach the living God.


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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:


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This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and derided thee; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.


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Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed; and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted thy eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.


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By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots have I come up to the hight of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir-trees: and I will enter into the hight of its border, and the forest of its Carmel.


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I have digged, and drank water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.


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Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldst be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.


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Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house-tops, and as corn blasted before it is grown up.


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Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.


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And this shall be a sign to thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.


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And the remnant that hath escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:


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For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape from mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a mound against it.


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Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.


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And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.


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In those days was Hezekiah sick with a mortal disease. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.


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And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly.


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Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.


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And I will deliver thee and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.


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And this shall be a sign to thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;


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Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which hath gone down on the sun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it had gone down.


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My age hath departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.


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Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.


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What shall I say? he hath both spoken to me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.


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O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.


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For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he will recover.


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At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.


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And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah did not show them.


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Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to thee? and Hezekiah said, They have come to me from a far country, even from Babylon.


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Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.


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Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.


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Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.


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And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see it: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.


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The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field:


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O Zion, that bringest good tidings, go up upon the high mountain: O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!


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Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm will rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.


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He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that are with young.


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Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?


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With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?


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He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.


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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:


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Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown: yes, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.


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Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.


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Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over by my God?


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But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.


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Keep silence before me, O isles; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.


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Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said to thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.


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Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yes, I will help thee; yes, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.


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Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that contend with thee shall perish.


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Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.


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Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.


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I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together:


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Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they are that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come.


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Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.


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I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.


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Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and before time, that we may say, He is righteous? verily, there is none that showeth, verily, there is none that declareth, verily, there is none that heareth your words.


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For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counselor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.


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Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.


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A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment to truth.


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He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he hath set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.


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Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and expanded them; he that spread forth the earth, and that which it produceth; he that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein.


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I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;


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To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.


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Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.


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Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is in it; the isles, and their inhabitants.


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Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.


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The LORD will go forth as a mighty man, he will stir up jealousy like a man of war: he will cry, yes, roar; he will prevail against his enemies.


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I have long time held my peace; I have been still, and restrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.


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I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers to be islands, and I will dry up the pools.


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And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do for them, and not forsake them.


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Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?


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The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable.


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But this is a people robbed and pillaged; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.


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Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient to his law.


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Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire around, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.


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For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Cush and Seba for thee.


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Since thou hast been precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.


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Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; verily, I have made him.


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Let all the nations be collected, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.


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Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no god formed, neither shall there be after me.


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I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.


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Yes, before the day was, I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall hinder it?


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Thus saith the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.


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Who bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.


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The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.


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Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt-offerings; neither hast thou honored me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.


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Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities.


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I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember thy sins.


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Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, who will help thee: Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.


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For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy offspring:


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One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand to the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.


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Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.


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And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them show to them.


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Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? verily there is no God; I know not any.


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Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be assembled, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.


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The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yes, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.


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He heweth down cedars for himself, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.


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Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take of it, and warm himself; indeed he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yes, he maketh a god, and worshipeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down to it.


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He burneth part of it in the fire; with part of it he eateth flesh; he roasteth meat, and is satisfied: yes, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:


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And the residue of it he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down to it, and worshipeth it, and prayeth to it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.


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And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; I have also baked bread upon its coals; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?


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Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten by me.


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I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and as a cloud, thy sins: return to me; for I have redeemed thee.


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Thus saith the LORD thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself:


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That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up her decayed places:


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That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and he shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.


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Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two-leaved gates, and the gates shall not be shut;


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I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut asunder the bars of iron:


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And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, who call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.


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For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me:


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I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God besides me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:


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That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.


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Woe to him that contendeth with his Maker! Let the potsherd contend with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?


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Woe to him that saith to his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?


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Thus saith the LORD, The labor of Egypt, and merchandise of Cush and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to thee, they shall make supplication to thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.


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I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.


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Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that have escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god that cannot save.


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Tell ye, and bring them near; yes, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else besides me; a just God and a Savior; there is none besides me.


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I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.


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Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your loads were heavy; they were a burden to the weary beast.


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They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves have gone into captivity.


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Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the birth, which are carried from the womb:


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And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoary hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.


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They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.


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They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yes, one shall cry to him, yet he cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.


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Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yes, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also perform it.


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I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not delay: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.


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Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.


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I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.


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Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thy heart, I am, and none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:


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But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection, for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thy enchantments.


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For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and none else besides me.


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Stand now with thy enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast labored from thy youth; if thou shalt be able to profit, if thou mayest prevail.


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Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.


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Thus shall they be to thee with whom thou hast labored, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.


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Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.


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I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth from my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.


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I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I showed it thee: lest thou shouldst say, My idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.


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Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have showed ye new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.


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They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardst them not; lest thou shouldst say, Behold, I knew them.


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Yes, thou heardst not; yes, thou knewest not; yes, from that time that thy ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.


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For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.


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For my own sake, even for my own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory to another.


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My hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.


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All ye, assemble yourselves and hear; who among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.


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I, even I, have spoken, yes, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.


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Come ye near to me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.


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Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldst go.


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Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like its gravel; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.


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Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.


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And they thirsted not, when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he cleaved the rock also, and the waters gushed out.


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Listen to me, O Isles; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.


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And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shade of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;


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Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain; yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.


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And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the end of the earth.


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Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.


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Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages:


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That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.


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They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.


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Behold, these shall come from far: and lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.


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Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.


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Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee.


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Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste, shall go forth from thee.


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Lift up thy eyes around, and behold: all these assemble themselves, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.


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The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thy ears, The place is too narrow for me: give place to me that I may dwell.


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Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten these for me, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been?


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Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.


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And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow to thee with their face towards the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.


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And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.


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Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish becometh putrid, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.


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The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth my ear to hear as the learned.


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He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together; who is my adversary? let him come near to me.


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Behold the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.


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Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.


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Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that encompass yourselves with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.


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Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look to the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.


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Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.


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For the LORD will comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.


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Hearken to me, my people; and give ear to me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.


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My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust.


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Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall become old like a garment, and its inhabitants shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.


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Hearken to me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.


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For the moth shall eat them like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.


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Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not that which hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?


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Art thou not that which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?


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Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.


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I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;


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And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shade of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, Thou art my people.


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Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drank at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drank the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.


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These two things have come to thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?


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Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:


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But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; who have said to thy soul, Prostrate thyself, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.


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For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for naught; and ye shall be redeemed without money.


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For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down formerly into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.


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Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for naught? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.


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How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith to Zion, Thy God reigneth!


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The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations: and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.


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For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear-ward.


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As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:


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He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.


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Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.


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But he was wounded for our transgression, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.


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He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.


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He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off from the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.


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And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death: because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.


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Therefore I will divide to him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul to death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.


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Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them extend the curtains of thy habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;


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Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame; for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.


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For thy maker is thy husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.


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For this is as the waters of Noah to me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more overflow the earth; so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.


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For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.


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Oh thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.


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Behold, they shall surely assemble but not by me: whoever shall assemble against thee shall fall for thy sake.


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No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from me, saith the LORD.


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Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.


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Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.


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Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.


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Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run to thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.


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Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.


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So shall my word be that proceedeth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.


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Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.


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Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.


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For thus saith the LORD to the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;


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Even to them will I give in my house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.


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Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and taketh hold of my covenant;


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Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.


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The Lord GOD who gathereth the outcasts of Israel, Yet will I gather others to him, besides those that are gathered to him.


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Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.


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Come ye, say they, I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.


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Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and thrust out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,


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Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks?


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Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink-offering, thou hast offered a meat-offering. Should I receive comfort in these?


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Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither thou wentest up to offer sacrifice.


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Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast uncovered thyself to another than me, and hast gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.


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And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even to hell.


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Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thy hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.


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And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.


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For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made.


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For the iniquity of his covetousness I was wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.


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I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.


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Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.


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Why have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? why have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labors.


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Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou shouldst bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou shouldst cover him; and that thou shouldst not hide thyself from thy own flesh?


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Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rear-ward.


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Then shalt thou call, and the LORD will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;


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And if thou shalt draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:


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And the LORD will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drouth, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.


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If thou shalt turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thy own ways, nor finding thy own pleasure, nor speaking thy own words:


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Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:


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For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath uttered perverseness.


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They hatch cockatrice eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.


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The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whoever goeth therein shall not know peace.


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We all roar like bears, and mourn bitterly like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.


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Yes, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.


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And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.


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For he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.


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According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the isles he will repay recompense.


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So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him.


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And the Redeemer will come to Zion, and to them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.


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For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD will arise upon thee, and his glory will be seen upon thee.


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Lift up thy eyes around, and see: all they assemble themselves, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.


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Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thy heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted to thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come to thee.


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The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD.


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All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to thee: they shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.


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Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.


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And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee.


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Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.


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For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.


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The glory of Lebanon shall come to thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.


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The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending to thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.


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Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations.


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Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.


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For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thy exactors righteousness.


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The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light to thee: but the LORD will be to thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.


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Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD will be thy everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.


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A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in its time.


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The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to publish good tidings to the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;


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To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.


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And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.


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For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be to them.


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For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt-offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.


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For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until its righteousness shall go forth as brightness, and its salvation as a lamp that burneth.


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Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.


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For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so will thy God rejoice over thee.


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And give him no rest, till he shall establish, and till he shall make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.


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The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be food for thy enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast labored:


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But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have collected it shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.


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Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed to the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; Behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.


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Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.


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I have trodden the wine-press alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in my anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.


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And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my fury, it upheld me.


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And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.


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I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness towards the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.


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In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.


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Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?


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As a beast goeth down in the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.


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Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies towards me? are they restrained?


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Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our Redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.


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O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thy inheritance.


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\\10:19\\And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be to thee, be strong, yes, be strong. And when he had spoken to me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.


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\\10:20\\Then said he, Knowest thou for what cause I come to thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.


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\\10:21\\But I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.


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And now will I show thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.


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And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided towards the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.


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But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, who shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:


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And the king of the south shall be moved with wrath, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.


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So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fortified cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.


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After this shall he turn his face to the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.


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Then he shall turn his face towards the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.


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And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.


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And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflowed from before him, and shall be broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant.


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He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yes, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.


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Yes, they that feed of the portion of his provisions shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.


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And both these kings hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.


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At the time appointed he shall return, and come towards the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.


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And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.


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Now when they shall fall, they shall be assisted with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.


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And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that which is determined shall be done.


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But in his estate shall he honor the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.


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But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Cushites shall be at his steps.


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And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain: yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.


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And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.


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Then I Daniel looked, and behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.


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And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?


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And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him that liveth for ever, that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.


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The word of the LORD that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.


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The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go take to thee a wife addicted to lewdness and children of lewdness; for the land hath committed great lewdness, departing from the LORD.


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And the LORD said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.


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And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And God said to him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.


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Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said to them, Ye are the sons of the living God.


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Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be assembled, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up from the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.


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Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her prostitutions out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;


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Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.


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For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.


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Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.


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And now will I disclose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.


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And I will destroy her vines and her fig-trees, of which she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.


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And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, in which she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the LORD.


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Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her.


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And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came from the land of Egypt.


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And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping animals of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down in safety.


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And I will betroth thee to me for ever; yes, I will betroth thee to me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies.


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And I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them who were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.


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Then said the LORD to me, Go yet, love a woman beloved by her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD towards the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.


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So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:


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And I said to her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.


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For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:


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Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yes, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.


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Yet let no man contend, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that contend with the priest.


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For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall be guilty of lewdness, and shall not increase: because they have ceased to take heed to the LORD.


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My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth to them: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they have gone astray from under their God.


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They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shade of them is agreeable: therefore your daughters shall be guilty of lewdness, and your spouses shall commit adultery.


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I will not punish your daughters when they are guilty of lewdness, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for they themselves are separated with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.


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Though thou, Israel, playest the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye to Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.


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Their drink is sour: they have been guilty of lewd deeds continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.


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Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is towards you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.


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I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou art guilty of lewdness, and Israel is defiled.


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They will not frame their doings to turn to their God: for the spirit of lewdness is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.


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And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.


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Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin.


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When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.


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For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.


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I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.


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Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.


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After two days will he revive us: in the third day will he raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.


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Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.


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O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? for your goodness is as the morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.


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I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.


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When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was disclosed, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers strippeth without.


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And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them around; they are before my face.


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They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.


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They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth to me.


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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yes, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.


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Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.


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And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.


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They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made for themselves idols, that they may be cut off.


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Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocence?


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For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if it shall yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.


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Yes, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.


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They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.


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For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.


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Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast apostatized from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every corn-floor.


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They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.


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They shall not offer wine-offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all that eat of it shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.


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For lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.


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The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the great hatred.


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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig-tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves to that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.


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Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!


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Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.


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All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.


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Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.


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My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.


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Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit to himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath multiplied the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.


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The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for its people shall mourn over it, and its priests that rejoiced on it, for its glory, because it is departed from it.


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It shall also be carried to Assyria, for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.


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And Ephraim is as a heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.


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Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he shall come and reign righteousness upon you.


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Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou hast trusted in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.


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Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be plundered, as Shalman plundered Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.


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So shall Beth-el do to you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off.


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As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.


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I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid food for them.


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He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.


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How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? my heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.


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I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.


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\\11:12\\Ephraim encompasseth me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.


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\\12:1\\Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily multiplieth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.


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\\12:2\\The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.


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\\12:4\\Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spoke with us;


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\\12:8\\And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found for myself substance: in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that were sin.


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\\12:9\\And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.


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\\12:10\\I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.


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\\12:11\\Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.


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\\12:12\\And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.


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\\12:14\\Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore will he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach will his Lord return to him.


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And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of artificers: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.


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Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind from the floor, and as the smoke from the chimney.


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Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me: for there is no savior besides me.


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I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues, O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from my eyes.


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Though he is fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall pillage the treasure of all pleasant vessels.


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\\13:16\\Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.


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\\14:2\\Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.


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\\14:3\\Ashur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.


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\\14:4\\I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him.


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\\14:5\\I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall grow as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.


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\\14:6\\His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.


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\\14:7\\They that dwell under his shade shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent of it shall be as the wine of Lebanon.


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\\14:8\\Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir-tree. From me is thy fruit found.


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\\14:9\\Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.


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He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; its branches are made white.


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The meat-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.


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The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted; the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.


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Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field hath perished.


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The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.


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Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat-offering and the drink-offering is withheld from the house of your God.


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Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry to the LORD,


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The seed hath perished under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.


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How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.


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The beasts of the field cry also to thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.


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A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; and nothing shall escape them.


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They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.


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And the LORD will utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?


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Therefore also now, saith the LORD, Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:


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And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth of the evil.


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Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat-offering and a drink-offering to the LORD your God?


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Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.


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Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: why should they say among the people, Where is their God?


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And the LORD will answer and say to his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied with it; and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:


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But I will remove far from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face towards the east sea, and his hinder part towards the utmost sea, and his odious scent shall come up, and his ill savor shall come up, because he hath done great things.


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Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth its fruit, the fig-tree and the vine do yield their strength.


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\\2:28\\And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:


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\\2:30\\And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.


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\\2:31\\The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD shall come.


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\\2:32\\And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.


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\\3:1\\For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,


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\\3:2\\I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided my land.


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\\3:3\\And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.


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\\3:4\\Yes, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense upon your own head;


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\\3:5\\Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.


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\\3:6\\The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold to the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.


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\\3:7\\Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head:


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\\3:8\\And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.


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\\3:9\\Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:


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\\3:10\\Beat your plow-shares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.


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\\3:11\\Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together around: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.


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\\3:12\\Let the heathen be awakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen on every side.


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\\3:13\\Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, go down; for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.


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\\3:14\\Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.


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\\3:16\\The LORD also will roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.


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\\3:17\\So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.


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\\3:18\\And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.


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\\3:19\\Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.


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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:


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I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the scepter from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir, saith the LORD.


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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment: because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:


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And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the scepter from Ashkelon, and I will turn my hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.


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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment: because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:


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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment: because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:


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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away their punishment: because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:


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But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:


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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away his punishment: because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:


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And I will cut off the judge from the midst of it, and will slay all its princes with him, saith the LORD.


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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away their punishment: because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked:


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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away their punishment: because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;


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That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in to the same maid, to profane my holy name:


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Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose hight was like the hight of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.


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Also I brought you from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.


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Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he hath taken nothing?


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Shalt a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?


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Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst of it, and the oppressed in the midst of it.


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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even around the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered.


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Thus saith the LORD: As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.


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That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of Beth-el: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.


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And I will smite the winter-house with the summer-house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.


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Hear this word, ye heifers of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.


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The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks,


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Come to Beth-el and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:


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And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free-offerings: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.


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And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD.


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And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece on which it rained not withered.


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So two or three cities wandered to one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD.


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I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees increased, the palmer-worm devoured them: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD.


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I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the ill savor of your camps to come up to your nostrils: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD.


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I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a fire-brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD.


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Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: and because I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.


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For lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth to man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.


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The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise! she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.


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For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.


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But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to naught.


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Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.


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Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shades of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: JEHOVAH is his name:


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Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.


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Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful in lamentation to wailing.


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Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.


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As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.


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Though ye offer me burnt-offerings and your meat-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.


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Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.


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Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, who are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!


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Pass ye to Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?


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That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall;


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The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellence of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore I will deliver up the city with all its abundance.


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And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.


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For behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.


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But behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the river of the wilderness.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD shown to me; and behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.


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Thus hath the Lord GOD shown to me: and behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.


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Thus he showed me: and behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.


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And the LORD said to me, Amos, what seest thou? and I said, A plumb-line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:


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Also Amaziah said to Amos, O thou seer, go flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:


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But prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.


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Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:


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And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go from his land into captivity.


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And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD to me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.


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That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and even sell the refuse of the wheat?


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Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth in it? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood: and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.


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And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end of it as a bitter day.


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They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise again.


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I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.


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Though they dig into the place of the dead, thence shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:


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And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they are hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:


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And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.


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And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell in it shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.


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It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: the LORD is his name.


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Are ye not as children of the Cushites to me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel from the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Assyrians from Kir?


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For lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.


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All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake nor fall upon us.


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In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up their breaches; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:


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That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, who are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.


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And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine of them; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.


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The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumor from the LORD, and an embassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.


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The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?


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Though thou shalt exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou shalt set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.


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If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?


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All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is no understanding in him.


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In the day that thou stoodst on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.


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But thou shouldst not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldst thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldst thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.


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Thou shouldst not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yes, thou shouldst not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;


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Neither shouldst thou have stood in the cross-way, to cut off those of his that escaped; neither shouldst thou have delivered up those of his that remained in the day of distress.


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For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done to thee: thy reward shall return upon thy own head.


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For as ye have drank upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yes, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.


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And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even to Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.


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And saviors shall come upon mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.


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But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare of it, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.


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But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was in danger of being broken.


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Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god, and cast the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah had gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.


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So the ship-master came to him, and said to him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, it may be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.


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Then said they to him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thy occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?


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And he said to them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.


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Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.


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Then said they to him, What shall we do to thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.


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And he said to them, Take me, and cast me into the sea; so shall the sea be calm to you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.


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Wherefore they cried to the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.


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\\1:17\\Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.


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\\2:2\\And said, I cried by reason of my affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardst my voice.


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\\2:3\\For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods encompassed me: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.


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\\2:5\\The waters encompassed me, even to the soul: the depth inclosed me on every side, the weeds were wrapped about my head.


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\\2:6\\I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.


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\\2:7\\When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came to thee, into thy holy temple.


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\\2:9\\But I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.


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So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.


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For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.


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But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God: yes, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.


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And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do to them; and he did it not.


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And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest of the evil.


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So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.


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And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.


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And it came to pass, when the sun rose that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.


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And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death.


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Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:


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And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many cattle?


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Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.


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For behold, the LORD cometh forth from his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.


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And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.


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Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down her stones into the valley, and I will lay bare her foundations.


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And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with the fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate: for she gathered it from the hire of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot.


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For her wound is incurable; for it is come to Judah; he is come to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.


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Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame exposed: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive from you his standing.


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For the inhabitant of Maroth waited anxiously for good: but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.


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Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.


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Yet will I bring an heir to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come to Adullam the glory of Israel.


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Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.


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In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a grievous lamentation, and say, We are utterly wasted: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.


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Even of late my people hath risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse to war.


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Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a grievous destruction.


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If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood doth lie, saying, I will prophesy to thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.


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The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and have gone out by it; and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.


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And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?


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Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;


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Then shall they cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.


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Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:


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Therefore night shall be to you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark to you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.


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Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.


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But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.


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Her heads judge for reward, and her priests teach for hire, and her prophets divine for money; yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.


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But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mount of the house of the LORD shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow to it.


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And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.


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And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.


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But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.


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In that day, saith the LORD, I will assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;


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And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD will reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.


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And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, to thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come, to the daughter of Jerusalem.


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Now why dost thou cry aloud? is there no king in thee? hath thy counselor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.


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Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth from the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thy enemies.


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But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he will gather them as sheaves into the floor.


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Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain to JEHOVAH, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.


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\\5:1\\Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.


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\\5:2\\But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou art little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.


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\\5:3\\Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she who travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return to the children of Israel.


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\\5:4\\And he will stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now will he be great to the ends of the earth.


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\\5:5\\And this man will be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.


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\\5:6\\And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its entrances: thus will he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.


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\\5:7\\And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.


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\\5:8\\And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he goeth through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.


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\\5:10\\And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:


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\\5:13\\Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands.


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\\5:15\\And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.


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Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.


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For I brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee from the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.


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O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.


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Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old?


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Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?


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He hath shown thee, O man, what is good; and what the LORD doth require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?


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The LORD'S voice crieth to the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.


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Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fruit.


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The good man hath perished from the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.


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Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.


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I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he shall plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.


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Then she that is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is the LORD thy God? my eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.


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Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.


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Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, who dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.


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Who is a God like to thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.


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Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.


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God is jealous, and the LORD avengeth; the LORD avengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.


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The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, even the world, and all that dwell therein.


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But with an over-running flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.


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For while they are folded together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.


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Thus saith the LORD; Though they are quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.


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\\1:15\\Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.


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\\2:1\\He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.


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\\2:2\\For the LORD hath turned away the excellence of Jacob, as the excellence of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.


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\\2:3\\The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir-trees shall be terribly shaken.


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\\2:4\\The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.


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\\2:5\\He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared.


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\\2:7\\And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.


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\\2:8\\But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.


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\\2:9\\Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is no end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.


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\\2:10\\She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.


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\\2:11\\Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?


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\\2:12\\The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.


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\\2:13\\Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.


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The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots.


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The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword, and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcasses; and there is no end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:


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Because of the multitude of the lewd deeds of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her lewd deeds, and families through her witchcrafts.


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Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will remove thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.


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And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her; whence shall I seek comforters for thee?


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Art thou better than populous No, that was situated among the rivers, that had the waters around it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?


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Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.


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All thy strong holds shall be like fig-trees with the first ripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.


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Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open to thy enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.


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Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.


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There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm, make thyself many as the locusts.


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Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm spoileth, and flieth away.


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Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which settle in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.


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Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.


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There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the fame of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?


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O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out to thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!


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Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for devastation and violence are before me: and there are that raise strife and contention.


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Therefore the law is slackened, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth encompass the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.


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Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.


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For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs.


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And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn to them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.


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Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.


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Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: why lookest thou on them that deal treacherously, and keepest silence when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?


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Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their food plenteous.


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I will stand upon my watch, and seat myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.


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For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it may tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.


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Yes also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire, as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth to him all nations, and collecteth to him all people:


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Shall they not rise suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall disturb thee, and thou shalt be for booties to them?


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Because thou hast laid waste many nations, all the remnant of the people shall lay thee waste; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.


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Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?


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Woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!


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Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned to thee, and shameful vomiting shall be on thy glory.


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What profiteth the graven image that its maker hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?


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Woe to him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.


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And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand; and there was the hiding of his power.


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Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thy anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thy horses, and thy chariots of salvation?


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The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thy arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.


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Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thy anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by uncovering the foundation to the neck. Selah.


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Thou didst strike through with his staffs the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.


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When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up to the people, he will invade them with his troops.


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Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:


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The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon my high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.


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The word of the LORD which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.


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I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.


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I will also stretch out my hand upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;


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And them that worship the host of heaven upon the house-tops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;


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And them that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him.


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Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath invited his guests.


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And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.


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In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshhold, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish-gate, and a howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.


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Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine of them.


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That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasting and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,


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Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.


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Before the decree bringeth forth, before the day passeth as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD cometh upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger cometh upon you.


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Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, who have performed his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.


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Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coasts, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.


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And the coasts shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed upon them: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God will visit them, and turn away their captivity.


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I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, by which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.


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Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall lay them waste, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.


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The LORD will be terrible to them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.


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And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the threshholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.


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This is the rejoicing city that dwelt in security, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.


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The just LORD is in the midst of her; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.


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I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is no inhabitant.


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I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, however I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.


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Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.


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From beyond the rivers of Cush my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring my offering.


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In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, in which thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.


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The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thy enemy: the King of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.


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In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,


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Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.


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Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.


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Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that is waste, and ye run every man to his own house.


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And I called for a drouth upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.


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Then spoke Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message to the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.


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And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and performed work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,


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Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,


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If one shall bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt shall touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.


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Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body shall touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.


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Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the press-vat to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.


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I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.


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Consider now from this day, and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.


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Is the seed yet in the barn? yes, as yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.


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And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen: and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.


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In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet; for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.


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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD to Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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Therefore say thou to them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye to me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, saith the LORD of hosts.


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Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, saith the LORD.


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But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, As the LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.


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Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD to Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.


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Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show thee what these are.


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And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.


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And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle-trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.


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Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these seventy years.


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So the angel that communed with me said to me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.


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And I am very greatly displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD; I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.


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\\1:19\\And I said to the angel that talked with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.


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\\1:21\\Then said I, What come these to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head: but these are come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.


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\\2:2\\Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth, and what is its length.


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\\2:3\\And behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,


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\\2:4\\And said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle in it.


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\\2:5\\For I, saith the LORD, will be to her a wall of fire on every side, and will be the glory in the midst of her.


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\\2:6\\Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.


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\\2:8\\For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me to the nations which wasted you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye.


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\\2:9\\For behold, I will shake my hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.


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\\2:10\\Sing, and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.


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\\2:11\\And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me to thee.


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\\2:12\\And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.


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And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.


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And the LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?


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And he answered and spoke to those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And to him he said, Behold, I have caused thy iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.


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And I said, Let them set a fair miter upon his head. So they set a fair miter upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.


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Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.


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For behold, the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes; behold, I will engrave the graving of it saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.


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In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig-tree.


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And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,


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And said to me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick: all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which were upon the top of it.


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Then the angel that talked with me answered and said to me, Knowest thou not what these are? and I said, No, my lord.


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Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.


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Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth its head-stone with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace, to it.


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The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me to you.


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Then I answered, and said to him, What are these two olive-trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon its left side?


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And I answered again, and said to him, What are these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?


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And he said to me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits.


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Then said he to me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.


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I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with its timber and its stones.


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Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now thy eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.


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And behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.


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And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon its mouth.


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Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked and behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.


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And he said to me, To build for it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.


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And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.


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And the angel answered and said to me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.


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The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grizzled go forth towards the south country.


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And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Go hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.


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Then he cried upon me, and spoke to me, saying, Behold, these that go towards the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.


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Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, who are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;


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Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest.


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And speak to him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD;


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Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne: and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.


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And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.


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And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;


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When they had sent to the house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,


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And to speak to the priests who were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?


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Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast to me, even to me?


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Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities around her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?


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Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:


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But they refused to hearken, and withdrew the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.


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Yes, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.


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Thus saith the LORD; I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.


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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.


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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, who were in the day when the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.


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For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbor.


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And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, let your hands be strong.


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For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not;


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So again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.


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These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:


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And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.


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Thus saith the LORD of hosts: It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:


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And many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.


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Thus saith the LORD of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men out of all languages of the nations, shall take hold, shall even take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.


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The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest of it: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be towards the LORD.


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And Tyre built herself a strong hold, and amassed silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.


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Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.


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And I will encamp about my house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with my eyes.


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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh to thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.


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And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle-bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace to the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.


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As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit in which is no water.


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Turn ye to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double to thee;


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And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.


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The LORD of hosts will defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling-stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.


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And the LORD their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.


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Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD will make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.


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For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled because there was no shepherd.


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My anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.


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Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle-bow, out of him every oppressor together.


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And they shall be as mighty men, who tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.


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And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yes, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.


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I will hiss for them, and gather them: for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.


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And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in remote countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.


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And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.


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Howl, fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are laid waste: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.


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There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is laid waste.


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For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.


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And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took to me two staffs; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.


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Then said I, I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat, every one the flesh of another.


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And I said to them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.


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And the LORD said to me, Cast it to the potter: a goodly price that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.


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Then I cut asunder my other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.


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For lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not visit those that are cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.


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Woe to the idle shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be wholly dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.


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The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.


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Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the people around, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.


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And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be assembled against it.


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In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open my eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.


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In that day will I make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people around, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.


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The LORD also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not magnify themselves against Judah.


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In that day will the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.


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And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.


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And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say to him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.


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But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.


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And one shall say to him, What are these wounds in thy hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.


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Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.


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And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The LORD is my God.


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Then will the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.


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And his feet will stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst of it towards the east and towards the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove towards the north, and half of it towards the south.


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And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal: yes, ye shall flee as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.


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But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening it shall be light.


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And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them towards the former sea, and half of them towards the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.


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All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel to the king's wine-presses.


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And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.


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And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen around shall be collected, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.


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And it shall be, that whoever will not come up of all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.


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And if the family of Egypt shall not go up, and shall not come, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, with which the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.


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In that day there shall be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS TO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.


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Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe in them: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.


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I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, In what hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,


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A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, In what have we despised thy name?


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Ye offer polluted bread upon my altar? and ye say, In what have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.


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And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now to thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.


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And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious to us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your person? saith the LORD of hosts.


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Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on my altar for naught. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.


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For from the rising of the sun even to the setting of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.


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But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit of it, even his provision, is contemptible.


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Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this from your hand? saith the LORD.


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But cursed be the deceiver, who hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth to the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.


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If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.


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And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.


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My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me, and was afraid before my name.


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The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and turned many away from iniquity.


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But ye have departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.


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Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD whom he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.


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The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering to the LORD of hosts.


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Yet ye say, Why? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.


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And did he not make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.


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For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith, that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.


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Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, In what have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?


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Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he will come, saith the LORD of hosts.


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But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.


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And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.


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Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.


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Even from the days of your fathers ye have gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, In what shall we return?


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Will a man rob God? yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, In what have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.


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Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now with this, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.


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And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are set up; even they that tempt God are delivered.


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Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.


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For behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.


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But to you that fear my name, shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.


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Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.


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And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Uriah;


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So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon to Christ are fourteen generations.


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Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this manner: When his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child by the Holy Spirit.


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Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, purposed to put her away privately.


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But while he thought on these things, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take to thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is by the Holy Spirit.


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Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken from the Lord by the prophet, saying,


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Then Joseph, being raised from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took to him his wife:


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Now, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,


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Saying, Where is he that is born king of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and have come to worship him.


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And when he had assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where Christ should be born.


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And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, art not the least among the princes of Judah: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.


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Then Herod, when he had privately called the wise men, inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.


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And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go, and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.


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When they had heard the king, they departed; and lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.


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And when they had come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshiped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented to him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.


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And being warned by God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.


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And when they had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.


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And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken from the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.


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Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.


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Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead who sought the young child's life.


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But when he heard that Archelaus reigned in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned by God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:


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For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.


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And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.


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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?


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And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.


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And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.


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I indeed baptize you with water to repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit, and with fire:


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Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and gather his wheat into the granary; but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.


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And Jesus answering said to him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him.


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And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up immediately out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:


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And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou art the son of God, command that these stones be made bread.


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And saith to him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall uphold thee, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.


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Again, the devil taketh him up upon an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,


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Then saith Jesus to him, Be gone, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.


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And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim;


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The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles:


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The people who sat in darkness, saw great light; and to them who sat in the region and shades of death, light hath arisen.


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And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and he called them.


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And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease among the people.


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And his fame spread throughout all Syria: and they brought to him all sick people that were taken with diverse diseases and torments, and those who were possessed with demons, and those who were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.


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And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan.


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And seeing the multitudes, he ascended a mountain: and when he was seated, his disciples came to him.


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Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.


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Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.


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Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt hath lost its savor, with what shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot by men.


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Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a close vessel, but on a candlestick: and it giveth light to all that are in the house.


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Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.


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Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.


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For verily I say to you, Till heaven and earth shall pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.


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Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever shall do, and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.


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For I say to you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.


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Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment:


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But I say to you, That whoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment: and whoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell-fire.


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Therefore if thou shalt bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath aught against thee;


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Agree with thy adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.


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Verily, I say to thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.


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But I say to you, That whoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.


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And if thy right eye shall cause thee to sin, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.


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And if thy right hand shall cause thee to sin, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.


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But I say to you, That whoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of lewdness, causeth her to commit adultery: and whoever shall marry her that is divorced, committeth adultery.


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Again, ye have heard that it hath been said to them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform to the Lord thy oaths:


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Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King,


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But I say to you, That ye resist not evil: but whoever shall strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.


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But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you, and persecute you;


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That ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.


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Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen by them: otherwise ye have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.


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Therefore, when thou doest thy alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Verily, I say to you, they have their reward.


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That thy alms may be in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret, himself will reward thee openly.


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And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Verily, I say to you, they have their reward.


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But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret, will reward thee openly.


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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.


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Moreover, when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Verily, I say to you, they have their reward.


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That thou mayest not appear to men to fast, but to thy Father, who is in secret: and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.


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But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.


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The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thy eye be single, thy whole body will be full of light.


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But if thy eye be evil, thy whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is that darkness!


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Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?


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And why are ye anxious for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow? they toil not, neither do they spin?


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Wherefore, if God so clotheth the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?


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Therefore be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or, with what shall we be clothed?


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(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.


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But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.


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Therefore be not anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be solicitous for the things of itself. Sufficient to the day is its own evil.


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For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and the measure which ye give, shall be measured to you again.


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And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thy own eye?


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Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thy eye; and behold, a beam is in thy own eye?


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Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thy own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.


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Give not that which is holy to dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.


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Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you:


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For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, the door shall be opened.


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If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?


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Therefore all things whatever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.


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Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in by it.


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Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth to life, and few there are that find it.


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Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.


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Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.


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Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out demons? and in thy name done many wonderful works?


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Therefore whoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house upon a rock:


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And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:


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And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell, and great was the fall of it.


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And behold, there came a leper and worshiped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.


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And Jesus saith to him, See thou tell no man; but go, show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.


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The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant will be healed.


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When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say to you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.


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And I say to you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.


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But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into utter darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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And Jesus said to the centurion, Depart; and as thou hast believed, so be it done to thee. And his servant was healed in the same hour.


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When the evening was come, they brought to him many that were possessed with demons: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick;


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That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, He himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses.


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And Jesus saith to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.


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And he saith to them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.


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And when he had come to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with demons, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.


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And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?


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So the demons besought him, saying, If thou expellest us, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.


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And he said to them, Go. And when they had come out, they went into the herd of swine: and behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.


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And they that kept them, fled, and went into the city, and told every thing; and what had befallen to the possessed with demons.


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And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their borders.


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And behold, they brought to him a man sick with the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the sick of the palsy, Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven thee.


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But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick with the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go to thy house.


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And as Jesus was passing from thence, he saw a man named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith to him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.


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And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at table in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.


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And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?


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But when Jesus heard that, he said to them, They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are sick.


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Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but thy disciples fast not?


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And Jesus said to them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they will fast.


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No man putteth a piece of new cloth to an old garment: for that which is put in to fill it up, taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.


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While he was speaking these things to them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshiped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she will live.


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(And behold, a woman who was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment.


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But Jesus turned himself about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.)


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And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith to them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord.


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And when the demon was cast out, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes marveled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.


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And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness, and every disease among the people.


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And when he had called to him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease.


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Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whose surname was Thaddeus;


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These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and enter ye not into any city of the Samaritans.


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Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons: freely ye have received, freely give.


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Nor bag for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor a staff: for the workman is worthy of his food.


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And into whatever city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there abide till ye go thence.


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And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart from that house, or city, shake off the dust of your feet.


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Verily, I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah, in the day of judgment, than for that city.


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But beware of men: for they will deliver you to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.


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And ye will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.


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But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given to you in that same hour what ye shall speak.


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And the brother will deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children will rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.


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But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of man shall have come.


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It is enough for the disciple that he should be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord: if they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call them of his household?


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What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that publish ye upon the house-tops.


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And fear not them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.


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Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father.


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Whoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven.


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For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.


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He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.


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He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward.


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And whoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones, a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily, I say to you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.


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And it came to pass when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.


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The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.


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And as they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? a reed shaken with the wind?


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But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.


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For this is he concerning whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.


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Verily, I say to you, among them that are born of women, there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding, he that is least in the kingdom of heaven, is greater than he.


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And from the days of John the Baptist, until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.


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But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like to children sitting in the markets, and calling to their fellows,


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And saying, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced; We have mourned to you, and ye have not lamented.


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The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a man gluttonous, and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.


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Then he began to upbraid the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they repented not.


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Woe to thee, Chorazin; woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.


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But I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.


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And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.


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But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, in the day of judgment, than for thee.


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At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes.


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All things are delivered to me by my Father; and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.


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Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me: for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls.


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At that time Jesus went on the sabbath through the corn, and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.


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But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath.


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But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him;


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How he entered into the house of God, and ate the show-bread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them who were with him, but only for the priests?


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Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?


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And behold, there was a man who had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath? that they might accuse him.


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And he said to them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it shall fall into a pit on the sabbath, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?


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Then saith he to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched it out; and it was restored to a sound state like the other.


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But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all.


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Behold, my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles.


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A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he shall send forth judgment to victory.


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Then was brought to him one possessed with a demon, blind and dumb; and he healed him, so that the blind and dumb both spoke and saw.


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And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself, is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself, shall not stand.


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And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your children expel them? therefore they shall be your judges.


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Or else, how can one enter into a strong man's house, and seize his goods, except he shall first bind the strong man? and then he will plunder his house.


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Wherefore I say to you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven to men.


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And whoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whoever speaketh against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.


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Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.


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O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.


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A good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, bringeth forth good things: and an evil man, out of the evil treasure, bringeth forth evil things.


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But I say to you, That for every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account in the day of judgment.


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But he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh for a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah.


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For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly: so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


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The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.


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The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.


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When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and he findeth none.


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Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also to this wicked generation.


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While he was yet speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.


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Then one said to him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.


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For whoever shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.


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And great multitudes were gathered to him, so that he went into a boat, and sat down; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.


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But others fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundred-fold, some sixty-fold, some thirty-fold.


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He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.


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For whoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.


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Therefore I speak to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.


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And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:


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For this people's heart is become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.


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For verily I say to you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see the things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things which ye hear, and have not heard them.


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When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the way side.


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But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and immediately with joy receiveth it;


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Yet he hath not root in himself, but endureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, forthwith he is offended.


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He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.


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But he that receiveth seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundred fold, some sixty, some thirty.


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Another parable he proposed to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field:


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So the servants of the householder came and said to him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?


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He said to them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said to him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them?


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Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.


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Another parable he proposed to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:


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Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge on its branches.


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Another parable he spoke to them; The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.


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All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable he spoke not to them:


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Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came to him, saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field.


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The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them who do iniquity;


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Then shall the righteous shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.


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Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hid in a field; which, when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.


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Which, when it was full, they drew to the shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast away the bad.


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Then said he to them, Therefore every scribe who is instructed to the kingdom of heaven, is like a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.


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And when he had come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?


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And they were offended in him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.


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And said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he hath risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in him.


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But when Herod's birth-day was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.


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And she, being before instructed by her mother, said, Give me here the head of John the Baptist in a dish.


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And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the sake of the oath, and of them who sat with him at table, he commanded it to be given her.


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When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence in a boat, into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard of it, they followed him on foot out of the cities.


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And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion towards them, and he healed their sick.


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And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.


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And they all ate, and were satisfied: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.


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And immediately Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a boat, and to go before him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.


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And when he had sent the multitudes away, he ascended a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.


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And he said, Come. And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.


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And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said to him, O thou of little faith, Why didst thou doubt?


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And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all the surrounding country, and brought to him all that were diseased;


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And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were restored to health.


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But he answered and said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?


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For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.


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But ye say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever thou mightest be profited by me;


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And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.


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This people draw nigh to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.


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Then came his disciples, and said to him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying?


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But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be extirpated.


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Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leadeth the blind, both will fall into the ditch.


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Do ye not yet understand, that whatever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?


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And behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same territories, and cried to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously afflicted with a demon.


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Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it to thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that very hour.


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And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh to the sea of Galilee; and ascended a mountain, and sat down there.


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And great multitudes came to him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:


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So that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.


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Then Jesus called his disciples to him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.


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And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to satisfy so great a multitude?


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And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and broke them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.


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And they all ate and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that were left seven baskets full.


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The Pharisees also and the Sadducees came, and, tempting, desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven.


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He answered and said to them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.


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And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?


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A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh for a sign; and there shall no sign been to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah. And he left them, and departed.


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Which when Jesus perceived, he said to them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?


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How is it that ye do not understand that I spoke not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?


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Then they understood that he did not caution them against the leaven of bread, but against the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.


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When Jesus came into the borders of Cesarea Phillippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say that I the Son of man am?


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And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.


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And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon-Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.


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And I say also to thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church: and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.


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And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven; and whatever thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.


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From that time forth Jesus began to show to his disciples, that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.


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Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be to thee.


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But he turned, and said to Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan; thou art an offense to me: for thou savorest not the things that are of God, but those that are of men.


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Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.


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For whoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whoever will lose his life for my sake, shall find it.


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For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father, with his angels; and then he will reward every man according to his works.


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Verily I say to you, There are some standing here, who shall not taste death, till they shall see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.


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And after six days, Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them upon a high mountain apart.


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And he was transfigured before them: and his face shone as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.


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Then answered Peter, and said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.


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While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold, a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him.


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And as they were descending the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be raised again from the dead.


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But I say to you, that Elijah is come already, and they knew him not, but have done to him whatever they pleased: likewise will also the Son of man suffer by them.


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And when they had come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man kneeling down to him, and saying,


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Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic, and grievously distressed; for often he falleth into the fire, and often into the water.


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And Jesus rebuked the demon, and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.


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And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say to you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye shall say to this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.


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And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man will be betrayed into the hands of men:


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And they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised again: And they were exceedingly grieved.


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And when they had come to Capernaum, they that received tribute-money, came to Peter, and said, Doth not your Master pay tribute?


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He saith, Yes. And when he had come into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? from their own children, or from strangers?


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Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast a hook, and take the fish that first cometh up: and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: take that, and give to them for me and thee.


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And said, Verily I say to you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.


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Whoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.


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But whoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in me, to sin, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.


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Woe to the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!


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Wherefore, if thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to sin, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire.


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And if thy eye causeth thee to sin, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell-fire.


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Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.


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How think ye? if a man hath a hundred sheep, and one of them is gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go to the mountains, and seek that which is gone astray?


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And if he findeth it, verily I say to you, he rejoiceth more over that sheep, than over the ninety and nine which went not astray.


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Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.


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And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church: but if he shall neglect to hear the church, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican.


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Verily I say to you, Whatever ye shall bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven: and whatever ye shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.


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Again I say to you, That if two of you shall agree on earth, concerning any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.


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Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?


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Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a certain king who would take account of his servants.


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But as he had not ability to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.


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The servant therefore fell down, and worshiped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.


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But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him a hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me what thou owest.


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And his fellow-servant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.


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So when his fellow-servants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.


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Then his lord, having called him, said to him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:


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And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due to him.


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So likewise shall my heavenly Father do to you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.


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And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea, beyond Jordan:


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The Pharisees also came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?


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And he answered and said to them, Have ye not read, that he who made them, at the beginning made them male and female,


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And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?


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Wherefore they are no more two, but one flesh. Therefore what God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.


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He saith to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.


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And I say to you, Whoever shall put away his wife, except for lewdness, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoever marrieth her who is put away, committeth adultery.


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For there are some eunuchs, who were so born from their mothers womb: and there are some eunuchs, who were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.


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Then were brought to him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.


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But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.


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And behold, one came and said to him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?


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And he said to him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.


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He saith to him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,


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Jesus said to him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.


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Then said Jesus to his disciples, Verily I say to you, that a rich man shall with difficulty enter into the kingdom of heaven.


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And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.


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But Jesus beheld them, and said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.


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Then answered Peter, and said to him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee? what shall we have therefore?


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And Jesus said to them, Verily I say to you, that ye who have followed me in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive a hundred-fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.


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For the kingdom of heaven is like to a man that is a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.


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And said to them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatever is right, I will give you. And they departed.


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And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?


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They say to him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatever is right, that shall ye receive.


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So when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last to the first.


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But when the first came, they supposed that they should receive more; and they likewise received every man a penny.


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Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day.


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But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?


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Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests, and to the scribes, and they will condemn him to death,


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And will deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he will rise again.


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Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children, with her sons, worshiping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.


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And he said to her, What wilt thou: She saith to him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left in thy kingdom.


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But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say to him, We are able.


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And he saith to them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared by my Father.


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But Jesus called them to him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.


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Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.


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And behold, two blind men sitting by the way-side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David.


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And the multitude rebuked them, that they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David.


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And when they drew nigh to Jerusalem, and had come to Bethphage, to the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,


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Saying to them, Go into the village over against you, and immediately ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her, loose them, and bring them to me.


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And if any man shall say aught to you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and immediately he will send them.


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Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh to thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.


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And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strewed them in the way.


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And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David: blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.


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And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.


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And said to them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.


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And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were greatly displeased,


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And said to him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith to them, Yes: have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?


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And when he saw a fig-tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing on it, but leaves only, and said to it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforth for ever. And immediately the fig-tree withered.


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Jesus answered and said to them, Verily I say to you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig-tree, but also, if ye shall say to this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.


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And when he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things; and who gave thee this authority?


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And Jesus answered and said to them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things.


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The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or from men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, if we shall say, From heaven; he will say to us, Why then did ye not believe him?


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And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.


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But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go, work to-day in my vineyard.


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Which of the two did the will of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus saith to them, Verily I say to you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.


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For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.


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Hear another parable; There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it around, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a remote country:


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They say to him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, who will render him the fruits in their seasons.


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Jesus saith to them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?


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Therefore I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits of it.


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And whoever shall fall on this stone, shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.


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And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke of them.


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Again, he sent other servants, saying, Tell them who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come to the marriage.


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But when the king heard of it, he was wroth: and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.


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So those servants went out into the highways, and collected all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.


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And he saith to him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless.


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Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into utter darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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And they sent out to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.


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They say to him, Cesar's. Then saith he to them, Render therefore to Cesar, the things which are Cesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.


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Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man shall die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.


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Now there were with us seven brothers: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased; and having no issue, left his wife to his brother.


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But as concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,


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But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were assembled about him.


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Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.


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And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man, from that day forth, ask him any more questions.


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All therefore, whatever they bid you observe, that observe and do: but do not ye according to their works: for they say, and do not.


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For they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.


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But all their works they do to be seen by men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,


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And whoever shall exalt himself, shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself, shall be exalted.


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But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees! hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering, to go in.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves.


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Woe to you, ye blind guides, who say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.


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And whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ye ought to have done, and not to leave the others undone.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitened sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,


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Wherefore behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:


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That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.


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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them who are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!


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For I say to you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.


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And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.


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And Jesus said to them, See ye not all these things? verily I say to you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.


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And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? and what will be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?


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And ye will hear of wars, and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.


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For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there will be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.


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Then will they deliver you up to be afflicted, and will kill you: and ye will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.


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And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a testimony to all nations; and then shall the end come.


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When therefore ye shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoever readeth, let him understand,)


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For then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.


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And except those days should be shortened, there would no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.


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For false Christs will arise, and false prophets, and will show great signs and wonders; so that, if it were possible, they would deceive the very elect.


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Wherefore, if they shall say to you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.


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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even to the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.


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Immediately after the tribulation of those days, shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:


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And he will send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.


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Now learn a parable of the fig-tree; When its branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:


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For as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,


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And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away: so also will be the coming of the Son of man.


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But know this, that if the master of the house knew in what watch the thief would come, he would watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken up.


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Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?


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The Lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,


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And will cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.


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And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready, went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.


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For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods.


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And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and forthwith took his journey.


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Then he that had received the five talents, went and traded with the same, and gained other five talents.


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And he that had received five talents, came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst to me five talents: behold, I have gained besides them five talents more.


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His lord said to him, Well done thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.


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He also that had received two talents came, and said, Lord, thou deliveredst to me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents besides them.


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His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.


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Then he who had received the one talent came, and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strewed:


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His lord answered and said to him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not strewed:


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Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received my own with interest.


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For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.


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And cast ye the unprofitable servant into utter darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then will he sit upon the throne of his glory:


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And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:


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Then will the King say to them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:


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For I was hungry, and ye gave me food: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:


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Then will the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?


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And the king will answer and say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.


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Then will he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:


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Then will they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee?


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Then will he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.


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Then assembled the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,


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There came to him a woman having an alabaster-box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head as he sat at table.


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When Jesus understood it, he said to them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.


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Verily I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, which this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.


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And said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.


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Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?


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And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say to him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.


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The Son of man goeth, as it is written concerning him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man, if he had not been born.


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And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.


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But I say to you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.


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Then saith Jesus to them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.


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Peter answered and said to him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.


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Jesus said to him, Verily I say to thee, that this night, before the cock shall crow, thou wilt deny me thrice.


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Peter said to him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.


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Then cometh Jesus with them to a place called Gethsemane, and saith to the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go yonder and pray.


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Then saith he to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even to death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.


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And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.


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And he cometh to the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith to Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?


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Then he cometh to his disciples, and saith to them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.


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And while he was yet speaking, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staffs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.


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Now he that betrayed him, gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; hold him fast.


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And Jesus said to him, Friend, Why art thou come? Then they came, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.


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And behold, one of them, who were with Jesus, stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest, and smote off his ear.


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Then said Jesus to him, Put up again thy sword into its place: for all they that take the sword, shall perish by the sword.


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Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he will presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?


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In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staffs to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.


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And they that had laid hold on Jesus, led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.


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But Peter followed him at a distance, to the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants to see the end.


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Now the chief priests and elders, and all the council, sought false testimony against Jesus, to put him to death;


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But found none: and, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,


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And the high priest arose, and said to him, Answerest thou nothing, what is it which these testify against thee?


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But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said to him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ the Son of God.


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Jesus saith to him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say to you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.


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Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came to him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.


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And when he had gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said to them that were there, This man was also with Jesus of Nazareth.


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And after a while came to him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech betrayeth thee.


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And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, who said to him, Before the cock shall crow, thou wilt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.


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When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.


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Then Judas, who had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,


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Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.


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And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.


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Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;


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And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said to him, Thou sayest.


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Therefore when they were assembled, Pilate said to them, Whom will ye that I release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?


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When he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream, because of him.


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The governor answered and said to them, Which of the two will ye that I release to you? They said, Barabbas.


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Pilate saith to them, What shall I do then with Jesus, who is called Christ? They all say to him, Let him be crucified.


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When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.


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Then he released Barabbas to them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.


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Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered to him the whole band of soldiers.


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And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews?


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And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they constrained to bear his cross.


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They gave him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall: and when he had tasted of it, he would not drink.


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And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture they cast lots.


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And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross.


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He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he is King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.


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And immediately one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.


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And behold, the vail of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom: and the earth shook, and the rocks rent;


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And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared to many.


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And many women were there (beholding at a distance) who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him:


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Among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.


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When the evening was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus.


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And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed.


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Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate,


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Command therefore that the sepulcher be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error will be worse than the first.


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In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.


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And behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.


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And the angel answered and said to the women, Fear ye not: for I know that ye seek Jesus, who was crucified.


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And go quickly, and tell his disciples, that he is risen from the dead, and behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.


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And they departed quickly from the sepulcher, with fear and great joy; and ran to bring word to his disciples.


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And as they were going to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came, and held him by the feet, and worshiped him.


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Then said Jesus to them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren, that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.


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Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and showed to the chief priests all the things that had been done.


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And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,


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So they took the money, and did as they were instructed: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.


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Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.


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Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world. Amen.


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As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;


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John was baptizing in the wilderness, and preaching the baptism of repentance, for the remission of sins.


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And there went out to him all the land of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.


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And John was clothed with camels hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he ate locusts and wild honey;


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And preached, saying, There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.


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And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth to Galilee, and was baptized by John in Jordan.


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And immediately coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him.


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And he was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan: and was with the wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him.


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Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,


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Now as he was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.


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And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the boat mending their nets.


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And immediately he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.


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And they went into Capernaum; and immediately on the sabbath he entered into the synagogue and taught.


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And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority he commandeth even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.


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And forthwith, when they had come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.


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And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered to them.


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And at evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with demons.


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And he healed many that were sick with divers diseases, and cast out many demons; and suffered not the demons to speak, because they knew him.


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And in the morning, rising a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.


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And he said to them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for, for this purpose have I come.


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And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying to him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.


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And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith to him, I will; be thou clean.


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And saith to him, See thou say nothing to any man; but go, show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.


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But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.


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And again he entered into Capernaum, after some days; and it was understood that he was in the house.


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And forthwith many were assembled, so that there was no room to receive them, no not so much as about the door: and he preached the word to them.


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And when they could not come nigh to him by reason of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed on which the sick with the palsy lay.


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And immediately, when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said to them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?


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Which is easier, to say to the sick with the palsy, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?


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But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, he saith to the sick with the palsy,


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And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.


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And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alpheus, sitting at the receipt of custom, and said to him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.


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And it came to pass, that as Jesus sat at table in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many, and they followed him.


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And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eating with publicans and sinners, they said to his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners.


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When Jesus heard it, he saith to them, They that are in health, have no need of a physician, but they that are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.


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And the disciples of John, and of the Pharisees, used to fast: and they come, and say to him, Why do the disciples of John, and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?


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And Jesus said to them, Can the children of the bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.


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But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then they will fast in those days.


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No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up, taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.


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And no man putteth new wine into old bottles, else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.


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And it came to pass, that he went through the corn-fields on the sabbath; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.


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And he said to them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, he and they that were with him?


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How he went into the house of God, in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show-bread, which it is not lawful to eat, but for the priests, and gave also to them who were with him?


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And he saith to them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? but they held their peace.


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And when he had looked around on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith to the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.


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And the Pharisees went forth, and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.


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But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judea.


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And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came to him.


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And he spoke to his disciples, that a small boat should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.


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And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, (and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder,)


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And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,


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And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem, said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the demons he casteth out demons.


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No man can enter into a strong man's house, and seize his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.


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Verily I say to you, All sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and any blasphemies with which they shall blaspheme:


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But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never hath forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:


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And the multitude sat about him, and they said to him, Behold, thy mother, and thy brethren without seek for thee.


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And he began again to teach by the sea-side: and there was gathered to him a great multitude, so that he entered into a boat, and sat on the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea, on the land.


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And it came to pass as he sowed, some fell by the way-side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it.


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And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth.


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And other fell on good ground, and yielded fruit that sprang up, and increased, and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some a hundred.


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And he said to them, To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all these things are done in parables:


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And these are they by the way-side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.


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And these are they likewise who are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;


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And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they relapse.


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And these are they who are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirty-fold, some sixty, and some a hundred.


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And he said to them, Is a candle brought to be put under a close vessel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?


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For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither hath any thing been kept secret, but that it should come abroad.


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And he said to them, Take heed what ye hear: With the measure which ye give, it shall be measured to you: and to you that hear shall more be given.


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For the earth bringeth forth fruit of itself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.


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And he said, To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?


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It is like a grain of mustard-seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth.


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But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under its shade.


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But without a parable he spoke not to them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.


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And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the boat. And there were also with him other small boats.


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And he was in the hinder part of the boat, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say to him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?


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And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Peace, be still: and the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.


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And when he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,


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For he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.


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And always, night and day, he was on the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.


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And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.


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And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea (they were about two thousand) and were choked in the sea.


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And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the demon, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.


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And they that saw it told them how it befell him that was possessed with the demon, and also concerning the swine.


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And when he had come into the boat, he that had been possessed with the demon prayed him that he might be with him.


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Yet Jesus suffered him not, but saith to him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.


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And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him. And all men wondered.


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And when Jesus had passed over again in a boat to the other side, much people gathered to him: and he was nigh to the sea.


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And behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,


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And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she will live.


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And had suffered many things from many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was not relieved, but rather grew worse,


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And immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that infirmity.


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And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the throng, and said, Who touched my clothes?


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And his disciples said to him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?


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And he said to her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be healed of thy infirmity.


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While he was yet speaking, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain who said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?


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As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith to the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe,


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And when he had come in, he saith to them, Why make ye this tumult, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.


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And they derided him: but when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.


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And he took the damsel by the hand, and said to her, Talitha cumi: which is, being interpreted, Damsel (I say to thee) arise.


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And forthwith the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.


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And he charged them strictly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.


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And when the sabbath was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given to him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?


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Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.


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But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kindred, and in his own house.


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And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick persons, and healed them.


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And he calleth to him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;


