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There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword:


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Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living.


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There is Elam and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword, who have gone down without circumcision into the lowest parts of the earth, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld:


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They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all her people are round about her resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death with the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: they have been given a place among those who have been put to the sword.


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There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death by the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living.


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And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.


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But you will have your bed among those without circumcision, and will be put to rest with those who have been put to death with the sword.


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There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who have been given a resting-place with those who were put to the sword: they will be resting among those without circumcision, even with those who go down to the underworld.


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There are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with those who have been put to the sword: they are shamed on account of all the fear caused by their strength; they are resting there without circumcision, among those who have been put to the sword, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld.


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Pharaoh will see them and be comforted on account of all his people: even Pharaoh and all his army, put to death by the sword, says the Lord.


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For he put his fear in the land of the living: and he will be put to rest among those without circumcision, with those who have been put to death with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.


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Son of man, give a word to the children of your people, and say to them, When I make the sword come on a land, if the people of the land take a man from among their number and make him their watchman:


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If, when he sees the sword coming on the land, by sounding the horn he gives the people news of their danger;


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Then anyone who, hearing the sound of the horn, does not take note of it, will himself be responsible for his death, if the sword comes and takes him away.


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On hearing the sound of the horn, he did not take note; his blood will be on him; for if he had taken note his life would have been safe.


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But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not give a note on the horn, and the people have no word of the danger, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them; he will be taken away in his sin, but I will make the watchman responsible for his blood.


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So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel; and you are to give ear to the word of my mouth and give them news from me of their danger.


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When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly overtake you; and you say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way; death will overtake that evil man in his evil-doing, but I will make you responsible for his blood.


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But if you make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way for the purpose of turning him from it, and he is not turned from his way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, but your life will be safe.


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And you, son of man, say to the children of Israel, You say, Our wrongdoing and our sins are on us and we are wasting away in them; how then may we have life?


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Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel?


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And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil.


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When I say to the upright that life will certainly be his; if he puts his faith in his righteousness and does evil, not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory; but in the evil he has done, death will overtake him.


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And when I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; if he is turned from his sin and does what is ordered and right;


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If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him.


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Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his.


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But the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: when it is they whose way is not equal.


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When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.


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And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it.


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And still you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, I will be your judge, giving to everyone the reward of his ways.


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Now in the twelfth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, one who had got away in flight from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The town has been taken.


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Now the hand of the Lord had been on me in the evening, before the man who had got away came to me; and he made my mouth open, ready for his coming to me in the morning; and my mouth was open and I was no longer without voice.


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Son of man, those who are living in these waste places in the land of Israel say, Abraham was but one, and he had land for his heritage: but we are a great number; the land is given to us for our heritage.


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For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?


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You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have the land for your heritage?


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This is what you are to say to them: The Lord has said, By my life, truly, those who are in the waste places will be put to the sword, and him who is in the open field I will give to the beasts for their food, and those who are in the strong places and in holes in the rocks will come to their death by disease.


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And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.


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Then they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a waste and a cause of wonder, because of all the disgusting things which they have done,


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And as for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking together about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, saying to one another, Come now, give ear to the word which comes from the Lord.


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And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.


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And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.


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And when this comes about (see, it is coming), then it will be clear to them that a prophet has been among them.


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Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?


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You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.


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You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.


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And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.


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And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.


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By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food;


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This is what the Lord has said: See I am against the keepers of the flock, and I will make search and see what they have done with my sheep, and will let them be keepers of my sheep no longer; and the keepers will no longer get food for themselves; I will take my sheep out of their mouths so that they may not be food for them.


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As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night.


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And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country.


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I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel.


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I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.


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And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats.


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Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet?


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And as for my sheep, their food is the grass which has been stamped on by your feet, and their drink the water which has been made dirty by your feet.


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For this reason the Lord has said to them, Truly, I, even I, will be judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.


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Because you have been pushing with side and leg, pushing the diseased with your horns till they were sent away in every direction;


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I will make my flock safe, and they will no longer be taken away, and I will be judge between sheep and sheep.


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And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper.


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And I will make with them an agreement of peace, and will put an end to evil beasts through all the land: and they will be living safely in the waste land, sleeping in the woods.


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And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing.


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And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the earth will give its increase, and they will be safe in their land; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have had their yoke broken and have given them salvation from the hands of those who made them servants.


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And their goods will no longer be taken by the nations, and they will not again be food for the beasts of the earth; but they will be living safely and no one will be a cause of fear to them.


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And I will give them planting-places of peace, and they will no longer be wasted from need of food or put to shame by the nations.


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And they will be certain that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, the children of Israel, are my people, says the Lord.


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And say to it, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and my hand will be stretched out against you, and I will make you a waste and a cause for wonder.


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I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


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Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:


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For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.


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And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings.


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I will make his mountains full of those who have been put to death; in your valleys and in all your water-streams men will be falling by the sword.


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I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


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Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there:


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For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, I will do to you as you have done in your wrath and in your envy, which you have made clear in your hate for them; and I will make clear to you who I am when you are judged by me.


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And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage.


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And you have made yourselves great against me with your mouths, increasing your words against me; and it has come to my ears.


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This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you:


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You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


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And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord:


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This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them:


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For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people:


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For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:


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For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it:


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For this cause be a prophet about the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, This is what the Lord has said: Truly, in my bitter feeling and in my wrath I have said these things, because you have undergone the shame of the nations:


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For this cause the Lord has said, See, I have taken an oath that the nations which are round about you are themselves to undergo the shame which they have put on you.


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But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come.


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And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings;


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Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


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Yes, I will have you walked on by the feet of men, even my people Israel; they will have you for a heritage and you will be theirs, and never again will you take their children from them.


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This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation;


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For this reason you will no longer take the lives of men and will never again be the cause of loss of children to your nation, says the Lord.


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And I will not let the shaming of the nations come to your ears, and no longer will you be looked down on by the peoples, says the Lord.


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Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in their land, they made it unclean by their way and their acts: their way before me was as when a woman is unclean at the time when she is kept separate.


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So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom they had violently put to death in the land, and because they had made it unclean with their images:


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And I sent them in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for their way and their acts.


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And when they came among the nations, wherever they went, they made my holy name unclean, when it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord who have gone out from his land.


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For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went.


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And I will make holy my great name which has been made unclean among the nations, which you have made unclean among them; and it will be clear to the nations that I am the Lord, says the Lord, when I make myself holy in you before their eyes.


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For I will take you out from among the nations, and get you together from all the countries, and take you into your land.


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And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.


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And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.


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And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.


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So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.


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And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food.


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And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.


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And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.


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Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.


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This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make you clean from all your evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled and there will be building on the waste places.


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And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.


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And they will say, This land which was waste has become like the garden of Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and wasted and pulled down are walled and peopled.


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Then the rest of the nations round about you will be certain that I the Lord am the builder of the places which were pulled down and the planter of that which was waste: I the Lord have said it, and I will do it.


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This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.


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Like sheep for the offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem at her fixed feasts, so the unpeopled towns will be made full of men: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


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The hand of the Lord had been on me, and he took me out in the spirit of the Lord and put me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones;


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And he made me go past them round about: and I saw that there was a very great number of them on the face of the wide valley, and they were very dry.


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And he said to me, Son of man, is it possible for these bones to come to life? And I made answer, and said, It is for you to say, O Lord.


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And again he said to me, Be a prophet to these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, give ear to the word of the Lord.


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This is what the Lord has said to these bones: See, I will make breath come into you so that you may come to life;


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And I will put muscles on you and make flesh come on you, and put skin over you, and breath into you, so that you may have life; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


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So I gave the word as I was ordered: and at my words there was a shaking of the earth, and the bones came together, bone to bone.


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And looking I saw that there were muscles on them and flesh came up, and they were covered with skin: but there was no breath in them.


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And he said to me, Be a prophet to the wind, be a prophet, son of man, and say to the wind, The Lord has said: Come from the four winds, O wind, breathing on these dead so that they may come to life.


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And I gave the word at his orders, and breath came into them, and they came to life and got up on their feet, a very great army.


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Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.


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For this cause be a prophet to them, and say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am opening the resting-places of your dead, and I will make you come up out of your resting-places, O my people; and I will take you into the land of Israel.


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And you will be certain that I am the Lord by my opening the resting-places of your dead and making you come up out of your resting-places, O my people.


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And I will put my spirit in you, so that you may come to life, and I will give you a rest in your land: and you will be certain that I the Lord have said it and have done it, says the Lord.


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And you, son of man, take one stick, writing on it, For Judah and for the children of Israel who are in his company: then take another stick, writing on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel who are in his company:


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And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us?


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Then say to them, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am taking the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel who are in his company; and I will put it on the stick of Judah and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand.


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And say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am taking the children of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and will get them together on every side, and take them into their land:


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And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king over them all: and they will no longer be two nations, and will no longer be parted into two kingdoms:


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And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.


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And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them.


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And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.


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And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.


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And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.


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Son of man, let your face be turned against Gog, of the land of Magog, the ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and be a prophet against him,


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And say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:


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And turning you round, I will put hooks in your mouth and make you come out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them in full war-dress, a great force with breastplate and body-cover, all of them armed with swords:


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Gomer and all her forces; the people of Togarmah in the inmost parts of the north, with all his forces: a great number of peoples with you.


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After a long time you will get your orders: in the last years you will come into the land which has been given back from the sword, which has been got together out of a great number of peoples, on the mountains of Israel which have ever been a waste: but it has been taken out from the peoples and they will be living, all of them, without fear of danger.


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And you will go up, you will come like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your forces, and a great number of peoples with you.


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This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design:


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And you will say, I will go up to the land of small unwalled towns; I will go to those who are quiet, living, all of them, without fear of danger, without walls or locks or doors:


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To take their property by force and go off with their goods; turning your hand against the waste places which now are peopled, and against the people who have been got together out of the nations, who have got cattle and goods for themselves, who are living in the middle of the earth.


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Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all her traders, will say to you, Have you come to take our goods? have you got your armies together to take away our property by force? to take away silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go off with great wealth?


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For this cause, son of man, be a prophet and say to Gog, These are the words of the Lord: In that day, when my people Israel are living without fear of danger, will you not be moved against them?


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And you will come from your place in the inmost parts of the north, you and a great number of peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a great force and a strong army:


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And you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land; and it will come about, in the last days, that I will make you come against my land, so that the nations may have knowledge of me when I make myself holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes.


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This is what the Lord has said: You are he of whom I gave them word in earlier times by my servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those days went on saying, year after year, that I would make you come up against them.


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And it will come about in that day, when Gog comes up against the land of Israel, says the Lord, that my wrath will come up, and my passion and my bitter feeling.


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For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;


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So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.


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And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man's sword will be against his brother.


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And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning.


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And I will make my name great and make myself holy, and I will make myself clear to a number of nations; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


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And you, son of man, be a prophet against Gog, and say, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:


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And turning you round, I will be your guide, and make you come up from the inmost parts of the north; I will make you come on to the mountains of Israel:


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And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand and your arrows falling from your right hand.


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On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food.


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And I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who are living in the sea-lands without fear: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


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And I will make clear my holy name among my people Israel; I will no longer let my holy name be made unclean: and the nations will be certain that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.


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And those who are living in the towns of Israel will go out and make fires of the instruments of war, burning the body-covers and the breastplates, the bows and the arrows and the sticks and the spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them:


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And they will take no wood out of the field or have any cut down in the woods; for they will make their fires of the instruments of war: and they will take by force the property of those who took their property, and go off with the goods of those who took their goods, says the Lord.


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And it will come about in those days, that I will give to Gog a last resting-place there in Israel, in the valley of Abarim on the east of the sea: and those who go through will be stopped: and there Gog and all his people will be put to rest, and the place will be named, The valley of Hamon-gog.


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And the children of Israel will be seven months putting them in the earth, so as to make the land clean.


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And all the people of the land will put them in the earth; and it will be to their honour in the day when I let my glory be seen, says the Lord.


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And they will put on one side men to do no other work but to go through the land and put in the earth the rest of those who are still on the face of the land, to make it clean: after seven months are ended they are to make a search.


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And while they go through the land, if anyone sees a man's bone, he is to put up a sign by the place till those who are doing the work have put it in the earth in the valley of Hamon-gog.


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And you, son of man, this is what the Lord has said: Say to the birds of every sort and to all the beasts of the field, Get together and come; come together on every side to the offering which I am putting to death for you, a great offering on the mountains of Israel, so that you may have flesh for your food and blood for your drink.


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The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.


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You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.


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At my table you will have food in full measure, horses and war-carriages, great men and all the men of war, says the Lord.


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And I will put my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see my punishments which I have put into effect, and my hand which I have put on them.


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So the children of Israel will be certain that I am the Lord their God, from that day and for the future.


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And it will be clear to the nations that the children of Israel were taken away prisoners for their evil-doing; because they did wrong against me, and my face was covered from them: so I gave them up into the hands of their attackers, and they all came to their end by the sword.


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In the measure of their unclean ways and their sins, so I did to them; and I kept my face covered from them.


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For this cause the Lord has said, Now I will let the fate of Jacob be changed, and I will have mercy on all the children of Israel, and will take care of the honour of my holy name.


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And they will be conscious of their shame and of all the wrong which they have done against me, when they are living in their land with no sense of danger and with no one to be a cause of fear to them;


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When I have taken them back from among the peoples and got them together out of the lands of their haters, and have made myself holy in them before the eyes of a great number of nations.


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And they will be certain that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away as prisoners among the nations, and have taken them together back to their land; and I have not let one of them be there any longer.


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And my face will no longer be covered from them: for I have sent the out-flowing of my spirit on the children of Israel, says the Lord.


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In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there.


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In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me.


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He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway.


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And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel.


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And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod.


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Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.


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And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.


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And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on this side and three on that; all three were of the same size; and the uprights on this side and on that were of the same size.


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And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits;


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And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side; and the rooms six cubits on this side and six cubits on that.


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And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door.


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And he took the measure of the covered way, twenty cubits; and opening from the covered way of the doorway was the open square round about.


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And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits.


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And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on the inside: and on every upright there were palm-trees.


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Then he took me into the outer square, and there were rooms and a stone floor made for the open square all round: there were thirty rooms on the stone floor.


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And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways, and was as wide as the doorways were long, even the lower floor.


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Then he took the measure of the square across, from before the lower doorway inside to before the inner doorway outside, one hundred cubits. And he took me in the direction of the north,


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And there was a doorway to the outer square, looking to the north; and he took the measure of it to see how wide and how long it was.


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And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on that; its uprights and its covered ways were the same size as those of the first doorway: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


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And its windows, and the windows of its covered ways, and its palm-trees, were the same as those of the doorway looking to the east; and there were seven steps up to it; and the covered way went inside.


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And there was a doorway to the inner square opposite the doorway on the north, like the doorway on the east; and he took the measure from doorway to doorway, a hundred cubits.


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And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway looking to the south: and he took the measure of its rooms and its uprights and its covered ways by these measures.


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And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round, like the other windows: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


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And there were seven steps up to it, and its covered way went inside: and it had palm-trees, one on this side and one on that, on its uprights.


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And there was a doorway to the inner square looking to the south: he took the measure from doorway to doorway to the south, a hundred cubits.


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Then he took me to the inner square by the south doorway: and he took the measure of the south doorway by these measures;


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And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


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The covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; and there were palm-trees on the uprights: and there were eight steps going up to it.


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And he took me into the inner square facing the east: and he took the measure of the doorway by these measures;


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And of the rooms in it and its uprights and its covered ways, by these measures: and there were windows in it and in the covered way round about: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


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And the covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.


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Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the same measures, and its covered way had windows all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


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Its uprights were on the side nearest to the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.


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And there was a room with a door in the covered way of the doorway, where the burned offering was washed.


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And in the covered way of the doorway there were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which the burned offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error were put to death:


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There were four tables on one side and four tables on the other, by the side of the doorway; eight tables, on which they put to death the beasts for the offerings.


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And there were four tables for the burned offering, made of cut stone, one and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide and a cubit high, where the instruments were placed which were used for putting to death the burned offering and the beasts for the offerings.


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And they had edges all round as wide as a man's hand: and on the tables was the flesh of the offerings.


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And he took me into the inner square, and there were two rooms in the inner square, one at the side of the north doorway, facing south; and one at the side of the south doorway, facing north.


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And the room facing north is for the priests who have the care of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who, from among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord to do the work of his house.


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And he took the measure of the open square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, being square; and the altar was in front of the house.


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Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other.


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The covered way was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits wide, and they went up to it by ten steps; and there were pillars by the uprights, one on one side and one on the other.


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And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of the uprights, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other.


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And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.


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And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other.


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And by his measure it was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide in front of the Temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.


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Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide.


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And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times thirty; there were inlets in the wall of the house for the side-rooms round about, for supports in the wall of the house.


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The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor.


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And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.


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The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house.


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And the free space had doors opening from the side-rooms, one door on the north and one door on the south: and the free space was five cubits wide all round.


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And the building which was in front of the separate place at the side to the west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all round and ninety cubits long.


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And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building with its walls was a hundred cubits long;


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And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in;


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And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows;


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And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.


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And it had pictured forms of winged beings and palm-trees; a palm-tree between two winged ones, and every winged one had two faces;


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So that there was the face of a man turned to the palm-tree on one side, and the face of a young lion on the other side: so it was made all round the house.


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The altar was made of wood, and was three cubits high and two cubits long; it had angles, and its base and sides were of wood; and he said to me, This is the table which is before the Lord.


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And the holy place had two doors, and the doors had two turning leaves, two for one and two for the other.


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And on them were pictured winged ones and palm-trees, as on the walls; and a ... of wood was on the front of the covered way outside.


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And there were sloping windows and palm-trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the covered way: and the side-rooms of the house and the ...


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And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north.


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Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.


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And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.


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And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.


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For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.


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And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.


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For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.


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And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall.


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(And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.


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And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors.


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And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in.


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And he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms in front of the separate place are the holy rooms, where the priests who come near the Lord take the most holy things for their food: there the most holy things are placed, with the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; for the place is holy.


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When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people.


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And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.


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He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.


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And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.


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And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.


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And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.


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He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.


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And there was the glory of the God of Israel coming from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of great waters, and the earth was shining with his glory.


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And the vision which I saw was like the vision I had seen when he came for the destruction of the town: and like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar; and I went down on my face.


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And the spirit, lifting me up, took me into the inner square; and I saw that the house was full of the glory of the Lord.


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And the voice of one talking to me came to my ears from inside the house; and the man was by my side.


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And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings;


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By putting their doorstep by my doorstep, and the pillar of their door by the pillar of my door, with only a wall between me and them; and they have made my holy name unclean by the disgusting things which they have done: so in my wrath I sent destruction on them.


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Now let them put their loose ways and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will be among them for ever.


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You, son of man, give the children of Israel an account of this house, so that they may be shamed because of their evil-doing: and let them see the vision of it and its image.


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And they will be shamed by what they have done; so give them the knowledge of the form of the house and its structure, and the ways out of it and into it, and all its laws and its rules, writing it down for them: so that they may keep all its laws and do them.


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This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain all the space round it on every side will be most holy. See, this is the law of the house.


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And these are the measures of the altar in cubits: (the cubit being a cubit and a hand's measure;) its hollow base is a cubit high and a cubit wide, and it has an overhanging edge as wide as a hand-stretch all round it:


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And from the base on the earth level to the lower shelf, the altar is two cubits high and a cubit wide; and from the smaller shelf to the greater shelf it is four cubits high and a cubit wide.


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And the fireplace is four cubits high: and coming up from the fireplace are the horns, a cubit high.


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And the shelf is fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, on its four sides; the edge round it is half a cubit; the base of it is a cubit all round, and its steps are facing the east.


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And he said to me, Son of man, the Lord God has said, These are the rules for the altar, when they make it, for the offering of burned offerings on it and the draining out of the blood.


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You are to give to the priests, the Levites of the seed of Zadok, who come near to me, says the Lord God, to do my work, a young ox for a sin-offering.


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You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns and on the four angles of the shelf and on the edge all round: and you are to make it clean and free from sin.


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And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and have it burned in the special place ordered for it in the house, outside the holy place.


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And on the second day you are to have a he-goat without any mark on it offered for a sin-offering; and they are to make the altar clean as they did with the young ox.


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And after you have made it clean, let a young ox without a mark be offered, and a male sheep from the flock without a mark.


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And you are to take them before the Lord, and the priests will put salt on them, offering them up for a burned offering to the Lord.


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Every day for seven days you are to give a goat for a sin-offering: and let them give in addition a young ox and a male sheep from the flock without any mark on them.


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For seven days they are to make offerings to take away sin from the altar and to make it clean; so they are to make it holy.


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And when these days have come to an end, then on the eighth day and after, the priests will make your burned offerings on the altar and your peace-offerings; and I will take pleasure in you, says the Lord.


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And the Lord said to me, This doorway is to be shut, it is not to be open, and no man is to go in by it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has gone in by it; and it is to be shut.


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But the ruler will be seated there to take his food before the Lord; he will go in by the covered way to the door, and will come out by the same way.


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And he took me to the north doorway in front of the house; and, looking, I saw that the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord; and I went down on my face.


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And the Lord said to me, Son of man, take to heart, and let your eyes see and your ears be open to everything I say to you about all the rules of the house of the Lord and all its laws; and take note of the ways into the house and all the ways out of the holy place.


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And say to the uncontrolled children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: O you children of Israel, let it be enough for you, among the disgusting things which you have done,


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To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken.


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And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you have put them as keepers to take care of my work in my holy place.


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For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place.


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But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.


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But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants.


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Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them.


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And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done.


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But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it.


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But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of my holy place when the children of Israel were turned away from me, they are to come near me to do my work, they will take their places before me, offering to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord;


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They are to come into my holy place and they are to come near to my table, to do my work and have the care of my house.


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And when they come in by the doorways of the inner square, they are to be clothed in linen robes; there is to be no wool on them while they are doing my work in the doorway of the inner square and inside the house.


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They are to have linen head-dresses on their heads and linen trousers on their legs, and they are to have nothing round them to make their skin wet with heat.


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And when they go out into the outer square to the people, they are to take off the robes in which they do the work of priests, and put them away in the holy rooms, and put on other clothing, so that the people may not be made holy by their robes.


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They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.


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And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.


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And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.


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In any cause, they are to be in the position of judges, judging in harmony with my decisions: they are to keep my laws and my rules in all my fixed feasts; and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.


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They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son or daughter or brother or for a sister who has no husband, they may make themselves unclean.


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And on the day when he goes into the inner square, to do the work of the holy place, he is to make his sin-offering, says the Lord.


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And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.


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Their food is to be the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; and everything given specially to the Lord in Israel will be theirs.


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And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house.


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The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death has been caused by another animal.


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And when you are making a distribution of the land, by the decision of the Lord, for your heritage, you are to make an offering to the Lord of a part of the land as holy: it is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide: all the land inside these limits is to be holy.


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Of this, a square five hundred long and five hundred wide is to be for the holy place, with a space of fifty cubits all round it.


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And of this measure, let a space be measured, twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide: in it there will be the holy place, even the most holy.


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This holy part of the land is to be for the priests, the servants of the holy place, who come near to the Lord to do his work; it is to be a place for their houses and for grass-land and for cattle.


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A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places.


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And as the property for the town you are to have a part five thousand wide and twenty-five thousand long, by the side of the offering of the holy part of the land: this is to be for all the children of Israel.


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And for the ruler there is to be a part on one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the holy offering and in front of the property of the town on the west of it and on the east: measured in the same line as one of the parts of the land, from its limit on the west to its limit on the east of the land.


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And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers will no longer be cruel masters to my people; but they will give the land as a heritage to the children of Israel by their tribes.


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This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.


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The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure, so that the bath is equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to a tenth of a homer: the unit of measure is to be a homer.


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And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels


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This is the offering you are to give: a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of barley;


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And the fixed measure of oil is to be a tenth of a bath from the cor, for ten baths make up the cor;


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And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred, from all the families of Israel, for a meal offering and for a burned offering and for peace-offerings, to take away their sin, says the Lord.


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And the ruler will be responsible for the burned offering and the meal offering and the drink offering, at the feasts and the new moons and the Sabbaths, at all the fixed feasts of the children of Israel: he will give the sin-offering and meal offering and burned offering and the peace-offerings, to take away the sin of the children of Israel.


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This is what the Lord has said: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young ox without any mark on him, and you are to make the holy place clean.


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And the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin-offering and put it on the uprights at the sides of the doors of the house, and on the four angles of the shelf of the altar, and on the sides of the doorway of the inner square.


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And this you are to do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who is in error and for the feeble-minded: you are to make the house free from sin.


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In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread is to be your food.


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And on that day the ruler is to give for himself and for all the people of the land an ox for a sin-offering.


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And on the seven days of the feast he is to give a burned offering to the Lord, seven oxen and seven sheep without any mark on them, every day for seven days; and a he-goat every day for a sin-offering.


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And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for every ox and an ephah for every sheep and a hin of oil to every ephah.


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In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he is to give the same for seven days; the sin-offering, the burned offering, the meal offering, and the oil as before.


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This is what the Lord has said: The doorway of the inner square looking to the east is to be shut on the six working days; but on the Sabbath it is to be open, and at the time of the new moon it is to be open.


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And the ruler is to go in through the covered way of the outer doorway outside, and take his place by the pillar of the doorway, and the priests will make his burned offering and his peace-offerings and he will give worship at the doorstep of the doorway; then he will go out, and the door will not be shut till the evening.


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And the people of the land are to give worship at the door of that doorway before the Lord on the Sabbaths and at the new moons.


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And the burned offering offered to the Lord by the ruler on the Sabbath day is to be six lambs without a mark on them and a male sheep without a mark;


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And the meal offering is to be an ephah for the sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.


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And at the time of the new moon it is to be a young ox of the herd without a mark on him, and six lambs and a male sheep, all without a mark:


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And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for the ox and an ephah for the sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.


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And when the ruler comes in, he is to go in through the covered way of the doorway, and he is to go out by the same way.


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But when the people of the land come before the Lord at the fixed feasts, he who comes in by the north doorway to give worship is to go out by the south doorway; and he who comes in by the south doorway is to go out by the north doorway: he is not to come back by the doorway through which he went in, but is to go straight before him.


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At the feasts and the fixed meetings the meal offerings are to be an ephah for an ox, and an ephah for a male sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.


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And when the ruler makes a free offering, a burned offering or a peace-offering freely given to the Lord, the doorway looking to the east is to be made open for him, and he is to make his burned offering and his peace-offerings as he does on the Sabbath day: and he will go out; and the door will be shut after he has gone out.


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And you are to give a lamb a year old without any mark on it for a burned offering to the Lord every day: morning by morning you are to give it.


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And you are to give, morning by morning, a meal offering with it, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil dropped on the best meal; a meal offering offered to the Lord at all times by an eternal order.


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And they are to give the lamb and the meal offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a burned offering at all times.


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This is what the Lord has said: If the ruler gives a property to any of his sons, it is his heritage and will be the property of his sons; it is theirs for their heritage.


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And if he gives a part of his heritage to one of his servants, it will be his till the year of making free, and then it will go back to the ruler; for it is his sons' heritage, and is to be theirs.


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And the ruler is not to take the heritage of any of the people, driving them out of their property; he is to give a heritage to his sons out of the property which is his: so that my people may not be sent away from their property.


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And he took me through by the way in at the side of the doorway into the holy rooms which are the priests', looking to the north: and I saw a place at the side of them to the west.


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And he said to me, This is the place where the offering for error and the sin-offering are to be cooked in water by the priests, and where the meal offering is to be cooked in the oven; so that they may not be taken out into the outer square to make the people holy.


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And he took me out into the outer square and made me go by the four angles of the square; and I saw that in every angle of the open square there was a space shut in.


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In the four angles there were spaces walled in, forty cubits long and thirty wide; the four were of the same size.


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And there was a line of wall all round inside them, round all four, and boiling-places were made under it all round about.


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And he said to me, These are the boiling-rooms, where the offering of the people is cooked by the servants of the house.


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And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar.


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And he took me out by the north doorway, and made me go round to the outside of the doorway looking to the east; and I saw waters running slowly out on the south side.


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And the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, and after measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters, which came over my feet.


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And again, measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters which came up to my knees. Again, measuring a thousand, he made me go through the waters up to the middle of my body.


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Again, after his measuring a thousand, it became a river which it was not possible to go through: for the waters had become deep enough for swimming, a river it was not possible to go through.


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And he took me back, and I saw at the edge of the river a very great number of trees on this side and on that.


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And he said to me, These waters are flowing out to the east part of the land and down into the Arabah; and they will go to the sea, and the waters will be made sweet.


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And it will come about that every living and moving thing, wherever their streams come, will have life; and there will be very much fish because these waters have come there and have been made sweet: and everything wherever the river comes will have life.


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And fishermen will take up their places by it: from En-gedi as far as En-eglaim will be a place for the stretching out of nets; the fish will be of every sort, like the fish of the Great Sea, a very great number.


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And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill.


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This is what the Lord has said: These are the limits by which you will take up your heritage in the land among the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph is to have two parts.


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And you are to make an equal division of it; as I gave my oath to your fathers to give it to you: for this land is to be your heritage.


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And this is to be the limit of the land: on the north side, from the Great Sea, in the direction of Hethlon, as far as the way into Hamath;


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To Zedad, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the limit of Damascus and the limit of Hazar-hatticon, which is on the limit of Hauran.


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And this is the limit from the sea in the direction of Hazar-enon; and the limit of Damascus is to the north, and on the north is the limit of Hamath. This is the north side.


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And the east side will be from Hazar-enon, which is between Hauran and Damascus; and between Gilead and the land of Israel the Jordan will be the limit, to the east sea, to Tamar. This is the east side.


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And the south side to the south will be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream of Egypt, to the Great Sea. This is the south side, on the south.


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And the west side will be the Great Sea, from the limit on the south to a point opposite the way into Hamath. This is the west side.


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And you are to make a distribution of it, by the decision of the Lord, for a heritage to you and to the men from other lands who are living among you and who have children in your land: they will be the same to you as if they were Israelites by birth, they will have their heritage with you among the tribes of Israel.


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In whatever tribe the man from a strange land is living, there you are to give him his heritage, says the Lord.


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Now these are the names of the tribes: from the north end, from the west on the way of Hethlon to the way into Hamath, in the direction of Hazar-enon, with the limit of Damascus to the north, by Hamath; and on the limit from the east side to the west side: Dan, one part.


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And on the limit of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the offering which you are to make, twenty-five thousand wide, and as long as one of the parts, from the east side to the west side: and the holy place will be in the middle of it.


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The offering you will give to the Lord is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty-five thousand wide.


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And for these, that is the priests, the holy offering is to be twenty-five thousand long to the north, ten thousand wide to the west, ten thousand wide to the east and twenty-five thousand long to the south; and the holy place of the Lord will be in the middle of it.


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For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did,


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Even for them will be the offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, on the limit of the land given to the Levites.


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And the Levites are to have a part of the land equal to the limit of the priests', twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide, all of it together to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide.


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And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord.


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And the other five thousand, measured from side to side, in front of the twenty-five thousand, is to be for common use, for the town, for living in and for a free space: and the town will be in the middle of it.


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And these will be its measures: the north side, four thousand five hundred, and the south side, four thousand five hundred, and on the east side, four thousand five hundred, and on the west side, four thousand five hundred.


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And the town will have a free space on the north of two hundred and fifty, on the south of two hundred and fifty, on the east of two hundred and fifty, and on the west of two hundred and fifty.


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And the rest, in measure as long as the holy offering, will be ten thousand to the east and ten thousand to the west: and its produce will be for food for the workers of the town.


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The size of the offering all together is to be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you are to make the holy offering a square, together with the property of the town.


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And the rest is to be for the prince, on this side and on that side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the twenty-five thousand to the east, as far as the east limit, and to the west, in front of the twenty-five thousand, as far as the west limit, and of the same measure as those parts; it will be the property of the prince: and the holy offering and holy place of the house will be in the middle of it.


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And the property of the Levites and the property of the town will be in the middle of the prince's property; between the limit of Judah's part and the limit of Benjamin's part will be for the prince.


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And on the limit of Gad, on the south side and to the south of it, the limit will be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream, to the Great Sea.


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This is the land of which distribution is to be made by the decision of the Lord, among the tribes of Israel for their heritage, and these are their heritages, says the Lord.


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And the doors of the town are to be named by the names of the tribes of Israel; three doors on the north, one for Reuben, one for Judah, one for Levi;


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And at the east side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Joseph, one for Benjamin, one for Dan;


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And at the south side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Simeon, one for Issachar, one for Zebulun;


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At the west side, four thousand five hundred by measure, with their three doors, one for Gad, one for Asher, one for Naphtali.


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It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name of the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.


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In the third year of the rule of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, shutting it in with his forces.


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And the Lord gave into his hands Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he took them away into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he put the vessels into the store-house of his god.


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And the king gave orders to Ashpenaz, the captain of his unsexed servants, to take in some of the children of Israel, certain of the king's family, and those of high birth;


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Young men who were strong and healthy, good-looking, and trained in all wisdom, having a good education and much knowledge, and able to take positions in the king's house; and to have them trained in the writing and language of the Chaldaeans.


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And a regular amount of food and wine every day from the king's table was ordered for them by the king; and they were to be cared for for three years so that at the end of that time they might take their places before the king.


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And the captain of the unsexed servants gave them names; to Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar, to Hananiah the name of Shadrach, to Mishael the name of Meshach, and to Azariah the name of Abed-nego.


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And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.


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And God put into the heart of the captain of the unsexed servants kind feelings and pity for Daniel.


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And the captain of the unsexed servants said to Daniel, I am in fear of my lord the king, who has given orders about your food and your drink; what if he sees you looking less happy than the other young men of your generation? then you would have put my head in danger from the king.


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Then Daniel said to the keeper in whose care the captain of the unsexed servants had put Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:


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Put your servants to the test for ten days; let them give us grain for our food and water for our drink.


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Then take a look at our faces and the faces of the young men who have food from the king's table; and, having seen them, do to your servants as it seems right to you.


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And at the end of ten days their faces seemed fairer and they were fatter in flesh than all the young men who had their food from the king's table.


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So the keeper regularly took away their meat and the wine which was to have been their drink, and gave them grain.


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Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams.


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Now at the end of the time fixed by the king for them to go in, the captain of the unsexed servants took them in to Nebuchadnezzar.


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And the king had talk with them; and among them all there was no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; so they were given places before the king.


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And in any business needing wisdom and good sense, about which the king put questions to them, he saw that they were ten times better than all the wonder-workers and users of secret arts in all his kingdom.


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In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him.


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Then the king gave orders that the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and those who made use of evil powers, and the Chaldaeans, were to be sent for to make clear to the king his dreams. So they came and took their places before the king.


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And the king said to them, I have had a dream, and my spirit is troubled by the desire to have the dream made clear to me.


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Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in the Aramaean language, O King, have life for ever: give your servants an account of your dream, and we will make clear to you the sense of it.


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The king made answer and said to the Chaldaeans, This is my decision: if you do not make clear to me the dream and the sense of it, you will be cut in bits and your houses made waste.


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But if you make clear the dream and the sense of it, you will have from me offerings and rewards and great honour: so make clear to me the dream and the sense of it.


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A second time they said in answer, Let the king give his servants an account of his dream, and we will make clear the sense.


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The king made answer and said, I am certain that you are attempting to get more time, because you see that my decision is fixed;


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That if you do not make my dream clear to me there is only one fate for you: for you have made ready false and evil words to say before me till the times are changed: so give me an account of the dream, and I will be certain that you are able to make the sense of it clear.


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Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in answer, There is not a man on earth able to make clear the king's business; for no king, however great his power, has ever made such a request to any wonder-worker or user of secret arts or Chaldaean.


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The king's request is a very hard one, and there is no other who is able to make it clear to the king, but the gods, whose living-place is not with flesh.


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Because of this the king was angry and full of wrath, and gave orders for the destruction of all the wise men of Babylon.


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So the order went out that the wise men were to be put to death; and they were looking for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.


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Then Daniel gave an answer with wisdom and good sense to Arioch, the captain of the king's armed men, who had gone out to put to death the wise men of Babylon;


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He made answer and said to Arioch, O captain of the king, why is the king's order so cruel? Then Arioch gave Daniel an account of the business.


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And Daniel went in and made a request to the king to give him time and he would make clear the sense of his dream to the king.


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So that they might make a request for the mercy of the God of heaven in the question of this secret; so that Daniel and his friends might not come to destruction with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.


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Then the secret was made clear to Daniel in a vision of the night. And Daniel gave blessing to the God of heaven.


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And Daniel said in answer, May the name of God be praised for ever and ever: for wisdom and strength are his:


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By him times and years are changed: by him kings are taken away and kings are lifted up: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those whose minds are awake:


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He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him.


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I give you praise and worship, O God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and strength, and have now made clear to me what we were requesting from you: for you have given us knowledge of the king's business.


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For this reason Daniel went to Arioch, to whom the king had given orders for the destruction of the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, Do not put to death the wise men of Babylon: take me in before the king and I will make clear to him the sense of the dream.


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Then Arioch quickly took Daniel in before the king, and said to him, Here is a man from among the prisoners of Judah, who will make clear to the king the sense of the dream.


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The king made answer and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make clear to me the dream which I saw and its sense?


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Then Daniel said in answer to the king, No wise men, or users of secret arts, or wonder-workers, or readers of signs, are able to make clear to the king the secret he is searching for;


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But there is a God in heaven, the unveiler of secrets, and he has given to King Nebuchadnezzar knowledge of what will take place in the last days. Your dreams and the visions of your head on your bed are these:


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As for you, O King, the thoughts which came to you on your bed were of what will come about after this: and the unveiler of secrets has made clear to you what is to come.


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As for me, this secret is not made clear to me because of any wisdom which I have more than any living man, but in order that the sense of the dream may be made clear to the king, and that you may have knowledge of the thoughts of your heart.


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You, O King, were looking, and a great image was there. This image, which was very great, and whose glory was very bright, was placed before you: its form sent fear into the heart.


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As for this image, its head was made of the best gold, its breast and its arms were of silver, its middle and its sides were of brass,


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While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits.


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Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth.


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You, O King, king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory,


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Wherever the children of men are living; into whose hands he has given the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven, and has made you ruler over them all, you are the head of gold.


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And after you another kingdom, lower than you, will come to power; and a third kingdom, of brass, ruling over all the earth.


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And the fourth kingdom will be strong as iron: because, as all things are broken and overcome by iron, so it will have the power of crushing and smashing down all the earth.


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And as you saw the feet and toes, part of potter's work and part of iron, there will be a division in the kingdom; but there will be some of the strength of iron in it, because you saw the iron mixed with the potter's earth.


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And as the toes of the feet were in part of iron and in part of earth, so part of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will readily be broken.


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And as you saw the iron mixed with earth, they will give their daughters to one another as wives: but they will not be united one with another, even as iron is not mixed with earth.


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And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever.


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Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that by it the iron and the brass and the earth and the silver and the gold were broken to bits, a great God has given the king knowledge of what is to take place in the future: the dream is fixed, and its sense is certain.


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Then King Nebuchadnezzar, falling down on his face, gave worship to Daniel, and gave orders for an offering and spices to be given to him;


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And the king made answer to Daniel and said, Truly, your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings, and an unveiler of secrets, for you have been able to make this secret clear.


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Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him offerings in great number, and made him ruler over all the land of Babylon, and chief over all the wise men of Babylon.


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And at Daniel's request, the king gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego authority over the business of the land of Babylon: but Daniel was kept near the king's person.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide: he put it up in the valley of Dura, in the land of Babylon.


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And Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to get together all the captains, the chiefs, the rulers, the wise men, the keepers of public money, the judges, the overseers, and all the rulers of the divisions of the country, to come to see the unveiling of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up.


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Then the captains, the chiefs, the rulers, the wise men, the keepers of public money, the judges, the overseers, and all the rulers of the divisions of the country, came together to see the unveiling of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up; and they took their places before the image which Nebuchadnezzar had put up.


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Then one of the king's criers said in a loud voice, To you the order is given, O peoples, nations, and languages,


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That when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, comes to your ears, you are to go down on your faces in worship before the image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar the king has put up:


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And anyone not falling down and worshipping will that same hour be put into a burning and flaming fire.


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So at that time, all the people, when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, and all sorts of instruments, came to their ears, went down on their faces in worship before the image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up.


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You, O King, have given an order that every man, when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, comes to his ears, is to go down on his face in worship before the image of gold:


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There are certain Jews whom you have put over the business of the land of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men have not given attention to you, O King: they are not servants of your gods or worshippers of the gold image which you have put up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar in his wrath and passion gave orders for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego to be sent for. Then they made these men come in before the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said to them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that you will not be servants of my god or give worship to the image of gold which I have put up?


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Now if you are ready, on hearing the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, to go down on your faces in worship before the image which I have made, it is well: but if you will not give worship, that same hour you will be put into a burning and flaming fire; and what god is there who will be able to take you out of my hands?


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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answering Nebuchadnezzar the king, said, There is no need for us to give you an answer to this question.


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If our God, whose servants we are, is able to keep us safe from the burning and flaming fire, and from your hands, O King, he will keep us safe.


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But if not, be certain, O King, that we will not be the servants of your gods, or give worship to the image of gold which you have put up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: and he gave orders that the fire was to be heated up seven times more than it was generally heated.


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And he gave orders to certain strong men in his army to put cords on Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego and put them into the burning and flaming fire.


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Then these men had cords put round them as they were, in their coats, their trousers, their hats, and their clothing, and were dropped into the burning and flaming fire.


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And because the king's order was not to be put on one side, and the heat of the fire was so great, the men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego were burned to death by the flame of the fire.


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And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, with the cords about them, went down into the burning and flaming fire.


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Then King Nebuchadnezzar, full of fear and wonder, got up quickly, and said to his wise men, Did we not put three men in cords into the fire? and they made answer and said to the king, True, O King.


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He made answer and said, Look! I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are not damaged; and the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar came near the door of the burning and flaming fire: he made answer and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, you servants of the Most High God, come out and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came out of the fire.


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And the captains, the chiefs, and the rulers, and the king's wise men who had come together, saw these men, over whose bodies the fire had no power, and not a hair of their heads was burned, and their coats were not changed, and there was no smell of fire about them.


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Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said, Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent his angel and kept his servants safe who had faith in him, and who put the king's word on one side and gave up their bodies to the fire, so that they might not be servants or worshippers of any other god but their God.


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And it is my decision that any people, nation, or language saying evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, will be cut to bits and their houses made waste: because there is no other god who is able to give salvation such as this.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages living in all the earth: May your peace be increased.


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It has seemed good to me to make clear the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done with me.


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How great are his signs! and how full of power are his wonders! his kingdom is an eternal kingdom and his rule goes on from generation to generation.


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I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my place, and all things were going well for me in my great house:


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I saw a dream which was a cause of great fear to me; I was troubled by the images of my mind on my bed, and by the visions of my head.


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And I gave orders for all the wise men of Babylon to come in before me so that they might make clear to me the sense of my dream.


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Then the wonder-workers, the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs came in to me: and I put the dream before them but they did not make clear the sense of it to me.


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But at last Daniel came in before me, he whose name was Belteshazzar, after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and I put the dream before him, saying,


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O Belteshazzar, master of the wonder-workers, because I am certain that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and you are troubled by no secret; this is the dream which I saw: make clear to me its sense.


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And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth:


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Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things.


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Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches:


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But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts.


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Let his heart be changed from that of a man, and the heart of a beast be given to him; and let seven times go by him.


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This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.


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This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw; and do you, O Belteshazzar, make clear the sense of it, for all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to make the sense of it clear to me; but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.


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Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was at a loss for a time, his thoughts troubling him. The king made answer and said, Belteshazzar, do not be troubled by the dream or by the sense of it. Belteshazzar, answering, said, My lord, may the dream be about your haters, and its sense about those who are against you.


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The tree which you saw, which became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven and seen from the ends of the earth;


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Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places:


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It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.


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And as for the vision which the king saw of a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, saying, Let the tree be cut down and given to destruction;


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This is the sense of it, O King, and it is the decision of the Most High which has come on my lord the king:


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That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.


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And as they gave orders to let the broken end and the roots of the tree be, so your kingdom will be safe for you after it is clear to you that the heavens are ruling.


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For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.


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The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?


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While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you:


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And they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.


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That very hour the order about Nebuchadnezzar was put into effect: and he was sent out from among men, and had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair became long as eagles' feathers and his nails like those of birds.


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And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifting up my eyes to heaven, got back my reason, and, blessing the Most High, I gave praise and honour to him who is living for ever, whose rule is an eternal rule and whose kingdom goes on from generation to generation.


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And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?


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At the same time my reason came back to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my great name came back to me; and my wise men and my lords were turned to me again; and I was made safe in my kingdom and had more power than before.


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Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.


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Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.


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Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.


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Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them.


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They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.


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In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.


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Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.


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The king, crying out with a loud voice, said that the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs, were to be sent for. The king made answer and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever is able to make out this writing, and make clear to me the sense of it, will be clothed in purple and have a chain of gold round his neck, and will be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.


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Then all the king's wise men came in: but they were not able to make out the writing or give the sense of it to the king.


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Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled and the colour went from his face, and his lords were at a loss.


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The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the house of the feast: the queen made answer and said, O King, have life for ever; do not be troubled by your thoughts or let the colour go from your face:


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There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, light and reason like the wisdom of the gods were seen in him: and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him master of the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs;


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Because a most special spirit, and knowledge and reason and the power of reading dreams and unfolding dark sayings and answering hard questions, were seen to be in him, even in Daniel (named Belteshazzar by the king): now let Daniel be sent for, and he will make clear the sense of the writing.


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Then they took Daniel in before the king; the king made answer and said to Daniel, So you are that Daniel, of the prisoners of Judah, whom my father took out of Judah.


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And I have had news of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and reason and special wisdom have been seen in you.


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And now the wise men, the users of secret arts, have been sent in before me for the purpose of reading this writing and making clear to me the sense of it: but they are not able to make clear the sense of the thing:


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And I have had news of you, that you have the power of making things clear, and of answering hard questions: now if you are able to make out the writing and give me the sense of it, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain round your neck and be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.


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Then Daniel made answer and said to the king, Keep your offerings for yourself, and give your rewards to another; but I, after reading the writing to the king, will give him the sense of it.


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As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour:


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And because of the great power he gave him, all peoples and nations and languages were shaking in fear before him: some he put to death and others he kept living, at his pleasure, lifting up some and putting others down as it pleased him.


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But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:


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And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure.


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And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this;


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But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;


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Then, by the order of Belshazzar, they put a purple robe on Daniel, and a gold chain round his neck, and a public statement was made that he was to be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.


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Darius was pleased to put over the kingdom a hundred and twenty captains, who were to be all through the kingdom;


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And over them were three chief rulers, of whom Daniel was one; and the captains were to be responsible to the chief rulers, so that the king might undergo no loss.


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Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king's purpose to put him over all the kingdom.


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Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him.


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Then these men said, We will only get a reason for attacking Daniel in connection with the law of his God.


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Then these chief rulers and the captains came to the king and said to him, O King Darius, have life for ever.


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All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.


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Now, O King, put the order in force, signing the writing so that it may not be changed, like the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.


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And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.


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Then they came near before the king and said, O King, have you not put your name to an order that any man who makes a request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole? The king made answer and said, The thing is fixed by the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.


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Then they made answer and said before the king, Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah, has no respect for you, O King, or for the order signed by you, but three times a day he makes his prayer to God.


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When this thing came to the king's ears, it was very evil to him, and his heart was fixed on keeping Daniel safe, and till the going down of the sun he was doing everything in his power to get him free.


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Then these men said to the king, Be certain, O King, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no order or law which the king has put into force may be changed.


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Then the king gave the order, and they took Daniel and put him into the lions' hole. The king made answer and said to Daniel, Your God, whose servant you are at all times, will keep you safe.


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Then they got a stone and put it over the mouth of the hole, and it was stamped with the king's stamp and with the stamp of the lords, so that the decision about Daniel might not be changed.


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Then the king went to his great house, and took no food that night, and no ... were placed before him, and his sleep went from him.


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And when he came near the hole where Daniel was, he gave a loud cry of grief; the king made answer and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whose servant you are at all times, able to keep you safe from the lions?


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My God has sent his angel to keep the lions' mouths shut, and they have done me no damage: because I was seen to be without sin before him; and further, before you, O King, I have done no wrong.


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Then the king was very glad, and gave orders for them to take Daniel up out of the hole. So Daniel was taken up out of the hole and he was seen to be untouched, because he had faith in his God.


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And at the king's order, they took those men who had said evil against Daniel, and put them in the lions' hole, with their wives and their children; and they had not got to the floor of the hole before the lions overcame them and all their bones were broken.


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Then King Darius sent a letter to all the peoples, nations, and languages, living in all the earth: May your peace be increased.


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It is my order that in all the kingdom of which I am ruler, men are to be shaking with fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, unchanging for ever, and his kingdom is one which will never come to destruction, his rule will go on to the end.


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He gives salvation and makes men free from danger, and does signs and wonders in heaven and earth, who has kept Daniel safe from the power of the lions.


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In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream, and visions came into his head on his bed: then he put the dream in writing.


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The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings; while I was watching its wings were pulled off, and it was lifted up from the earth and placed on two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it.


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And I saw another beast, like a bear, and it was lifted up on one side, and three side-bones were in its mouth, between its teeth: and they said to it, Up! take much flesh.


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After this I saw another beast, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings like those of a bird; and the beast had four heads, and the power of a ruler was given to it.


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After this, in my vision of the night, I saw a fourth beast, a thing causing fear and very troubling, full of power and very strong; and it had great iron teeth: it took its food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping down the rest with its feet: it was different from all the beasts before it; and it had ten horns.


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I was watching the horns with care, and I saw another coming up among them, a little one, before which three of the first horns were pulled up by the roots: and there were eyes like a man's eyes in this horn, and a mouth saying great things.


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I went on looking till the seats of kings were placed, and one like a very old man took his seat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool; his seat was flames of fire and its wheels burning fire.


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A stream of fire was flowing and coming out from before him: a thousand thousands were his servants, and ten thousand times ten thousand were in their places before him: the judge was seated and the books were open.


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Then I saw--because of the voice of the great words which the horn said--I saw till the beast was put to death, and its body was given to destruction, and the beast was given to the burning of fire.


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As for the rest of the beasts, their authority was taken away: but they let them go on living for a measure of time.


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I saw in visions of the night, and there was coming with the clouds of heaven one like a man, and he came to the one who was very old, and they took him near before him.


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And to him was given authority and glory and a kingdom; and all peoples, nations, and languages were his servants: his authority is an eternal authority which will not come to an end, and his kingdom is one which will not come to destruction.


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As for me, Daniel, my spirit was pained because of this, and the visions of my head were troubling me.


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I came near to one of those who were waiting there, questioning him about what all this was. And he said to me that he would make clear to me the sense of these things.


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But the saints of the Most High will take the kingdom, and it will be theirs for ever, even for ever and ever.


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Then it was my desire to have certain knowledge about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, a cause of great fear, whose teeth were of iron and his nails of brass; who took his food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping on the rest with his feet;


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And about the ten horns on his head and the other which came up, causing the fall of three; that horn which had eyes, and a mouth saying great things, which seemed to be greater than the other horns.


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Till he came, who was very old, and the decision was made and the authority was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came when the saints took the kingdom.


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This is what he said: The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom which will come on earth, different from all the kingdoms, and it will overcome all the earth, crushing it down and smashing it.


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And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will come to power; and after them another will come up: he will be different from the first ones and will put down three kings.


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And he will say words against the Most High, attempting to put an end to the saints of the Most High; and he will have the idea of changing times and law; and the saints will be given into his hands for a time and times and half a time.


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But the judge will be seated, and they will put an end to his authority, to overcome it and send complete destruction on it.


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And the kingdom and the authority and the power of the kingdoms under all the heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and all powers will be his servants and do his pleasure.


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Here is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, I was greatly troubled by my thoughts, and the colour went from my face: but I kept the thing in my heart.


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In the third year of the rule of Belshazzar the king, a vision was seen by me, Daniel, after the one I saw at first.


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And I saw in the vision; and when I saw it, I was in the strong town Shushan, which is in the country of Elam; and in the vision I was by the water-door of the Ulai.


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And lifting up my eyes, I saw, there before the stream, a male sheep with two horns: and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, the higher one coming up last.


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I saw the sheep pushing to the west and to the north and to the south; and no beasts were able to keep their place before him, and no one was able to get people out of his power; but he did whatever his pleasure was and made himself great.


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And while I was giving thought to this, I saw a he-goat coming from the west over the face of all the earth without touching the earth: and the he-goat had a great horn between his eyes.


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And he came to the two-horned sheep which I saw before the stream, rushing at him in the heat of his power.


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And I saw him come right up to the sheep, and he was moved with wrath against him, attacking the sheep so that his two horns were broken; and the sheep had not strength to keep his place before him, but was pushed down on the earth and crushed under his feet: and there was no one to get the sheep out of his power.


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And the he-goat became very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and in its place came up four other horns turned to the four winds of heaven.


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And out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which became very great, stretching to the south and to the east and to the beautiful land.


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And it became great, even as high as the army of heaven, pulling down some of the army, even of the stars, to the earth and crushing them under its feet.


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It made itself great, even as great as the lord of the army; and by it the regular burned offering was taken away, and the place overturned and the holy place made waste.


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... against the regular burned offering; and ... crushed down to the earth, and it did its pleasure and things went well for it.


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Then there came to my ears the voice of a holy one talking; and another holy one said to that certain one who was talking, How long will the vision be while the regular burned offering is taken away, and the unclean thing causing fear is put up, and the holy place crushed under foot?


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And he said to him, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be made clean.


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And it came about that when I, Daniel, had seen this vision, I had a desire for the sense of it to be unfolded; and I saw one before me in the form of a man.


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And the voice of a man came to my ears between the sides of the Ulai, crying out and saying, Gabriel, make the vision clear to this man.


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So he came and took his place near where I was; and when he came, I was full of fear and went down on my face: but he said to me, Let it be clear to you, O son of man; for the vision has to do with the time of the end.


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Now while he was talking to me, I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth: but touching me, he put me on my feet where I had been.


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And he said, See, I will make clear to you what is to come in the later time of the wrath: for it has to do with the fixed time of the end.


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And as for that which was broken, in place of which four came up, four kingdoms will come up from his nation, but not with his power.


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And in the later years of their kingdom, when their evil doings have become complete, there will come up a king full of pride and expert in dark sayings.


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And his power will be great, and he will be purposing strange things. And all will go well for him and he will do his pleasure; and he will send destruction on the strong ones.


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And his designs will be turned against the holy people, causing deceit to do well in his hand; in his heart he will make himself great, and send destruction on numbers who are living unconscious of their danger; and he will put himself up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken, though not by men's hands.


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And the vision of evenings and mornings which has been talked of is true: and keep the vision secret; for it has to do with the far-off future.


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And I, Daniel, was ill for some days; then I got up and did the king's business: and I was full of wonder at the vision, but no one was able to give the sense of it.


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In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldaeans;


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In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.


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And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.


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And I made prayer to the Lord my God, putting our sins before him, and said, O Lord, the great God, greatly to be feared. keeping your agreement and mercy with those who have love for you and do your orders;


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We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:


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We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land.


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O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.


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O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.


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And have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God to go in the way of his laws which he put before us by the mouth of his servants the prophets.


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And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.


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And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.


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As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.


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So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.


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And now, O Lord our God, who took your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and made a great name for yourself even to this day; we are sinners, we have done evil.


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O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.


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And now, give ear, O our God, to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, and let your face be shining on your holy place which is made waste, because of your servants, O Lord.


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O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.


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O Lord, give ear; O Lord, have forgiveness; O Lord, take note and do; let there be no more waiting; for the honour of your name, O my God, because your town and your people are named by your name.


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And while I was still saying these words in prayer, and putting my sins and the sins of my people Israel before the Lord, and requesting grace from the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;


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Even while I was still in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at first when my weariness was great, put his hand on me about the time of the evening offering.


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At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you.


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Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.


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Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork.


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And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.


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And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.


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In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a secret was unfolded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a hard work: and he had knowledge of it, and the vision was clear to him.


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I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.


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And lifting up my eyes I saw the form of a man clothed in a linen robe, and round him there was a band of gold, of the best gold:


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And his body was like the beryl, and his face had the look of a thunder-flame, and his eyes were like burning lights, and his arms and feet like the colour of polished brass, and the sound of his voice was like the sound of an army.


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And I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see it; but a great shaking came on them and they went in flight to take cover.


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So I was by myself, and I saw this great vision, and all my strength went from me; and the colour went from my face.


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But the sound of his words came to my ears, and on hearing his voice I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth.


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And he said to me, O Daniel, you man dearly loved, take in the sense of the words I say to you and get up on to your feet: for to you I am now sent; and when he had said this to me I got on to my feet, shaking with fear.


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Then he said to me, Have no fear, Daniel; for from the first day when you gave your heart to getting wisdom and making yourself poor in spirit before your God, your words have come to his ears: and I have come because of your words.


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But the angel of the kingdom of Persia put himself against me for twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief angels, came to my help; and when I came he was still there with the angel of the kings of Persia.


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Now I have come to give you knowledge of the fate of your people in the later days; for there is still a vision for the days.


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And after he had said these words to me, I kept my face turned to the earth and was unable to say anything.


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Then one whose form was like the sons of men put his finger on my lips; and opening my mouth, I said to him who was before me, O my lord, because of the vision my pains have come on me, and I have no more strength.


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For how may this servant of my lord have talk with my lord? for, as for me, straight away my strength went from me and there was no breath in my body.


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Then again one having the form of a man put his hand on me and gave me strength. And he said to me, O man greatly loved, have no fear: peace be with you, be strong and let your heart be lifted up. And at his words I became strong, and said, Let my lord say on, for you have given me strength.


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Then he said, It is clear to you why I have come to you. And now I will give you an account of what is recorded in the true writings:


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But I am going back to make war with the angel of Persia, and when I am gone, the angel of Greece will come. And there is no one on my side against these, but Michael, your angel.


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And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede I was on his side to make his position safe and make him strong.


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And now I will make clear to you what is true. There are still three kings to come in Persia, and the fourth will have much greater wealth than all of them: and when he has become strong through his wealth, he will put his forces in motion against all the kingdoms of Greece.


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And a strong king will come to power, ruling with great authority and doing whatever is his pleasure.


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And when he has become strong, his kingdom will be broken and parted to the four winds of heaven; but not to his offspring, for it will be uprooted; and his kingdom will be for the others and not for these: but not with the same authority as his.


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And the king of the south will be strong, but one of his captains will be stronger than he and will be ruler; and his rule will be a great rule.


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And at the end of years they will be joined together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she will not keep the strength of her arm; and his offspring will not keep their place; but she will be uprooted, with those who were the cause of her coming, and her son, and he who took her in those times.


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But out of a branch from her roots one will come up to take his place, who will come against the army, forcing his way into the strong place of the king of the north, and he will take them in hand and overcome them:


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And their gods and their metal images and their fair vessels of silver and gold he will take away into the south; and for some years he will keep away from the king of the north.


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And his son will make war, and will get together an army of great forces, and he will make an attack on him, overflowing and going past: and he will again take the war even to his strong place.


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And the king of the south will be moved with wrath, and will come out and make war on him, on this same king of the north: and he will get together a great army, but the army will be given into his hand.


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And the army will be taken away, and his heart will be uplifted: he will be the cause of the downfall of tens of thousands, but he will not be strong.


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And again the king of the north will get together an army greater than the first; and he will make an attack on him at the end of years, with a great army and much wealth.


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In those times, a number will take up arms against the king of the south: and the children of the violent among your people will be lifting themselves up to make the vision come true; but it will be their downfall.


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So the king of the north will come, and put up earthworks and take a well-armed town: and the forces of the king of the south will make an attempt to keep their position, even the best of his army, but they will not have strength to do so.


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And he who comes against him will do his pleasure, and no one will be able to keep his place before him: he will take up his position in the beautiful land and in his hand there will be destruction.


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And it will be his purpose to come with the strength of all his kingdom, but in place of this he will make an agreement with him; and he will give him the daughter of women to send destruction on it; but this will not take place or come about.


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After this, his face will be turned to the islands, and he will take a number of them: but a chief, by his destruction, will put an end to the shame offered by him; and more than this, he will make his shame come back on him.


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Then his face will be turned to the strong places of his land: but his way will be stopped, causing his downfall, and he will not be seen again.


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Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight.


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And his place will be taken by a low person, to whom the honour of the kingdom had not been given: but he will come in time of peace and will get the kingdom by fair words.


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And his forces will be completely taken away from before him and broken; and even the ruler of the agreement will have the same fate.


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And from the time when they make an agreement with him, he will be working falsely: for he will take up arms suddenly with a small force,


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Against fertile places, and will make waste a part of the country; and he will do what his fathers have not done, or his fathers' fathers; he will make distribution among them of goods taken in war and by force, and of property: he will even make designs against the strong places for a time.


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And he will put in motion his power and his strength against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will go to war with a very great and strong army: but he will be forced to give way, because of their designs against him;


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And his fears will overcome him and be the cause of his downfall, and his army will come to complete destruction, and a great number will be put to the sword.


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And as for these two kings, their hearts will be fixed on doing evil and they will say false words at one table; but it will come to nothing: for the end will be at the time fixed.


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And he will go back to his land with great wealth; and his heart will be against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure and go back to his land.


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At the time fixed he will come back and come into the south; but in the later time it will not be as it was before.


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For those who go out from the west will come against him, and he will be in fear and will go back, full of wrath against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure: and he will go back and be united with those who have given up the holy agreement.


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And armies sent by him will take up their position and they will make unclean the holy place, even the strong place, and take away the regular burned offering and put in its place an unclean thing causing fear.


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And those who do evil against the agreement will be turned to sin by his fair words: but the people who have knowledge of their God will be strong and do well.


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And those who are wise among the people will be the teachers of the mass of the people: but they will come to their downfall by the sword and by the flame, being made prisoners and undergoing loss for a long time.


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Now at the time of their downfall they will have a little help, but numbers will be joined to them in the town, and in their separate heritages.


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And some of those who are wise will have wisdom in testing themselves and making themselves clean, till the time of the end: for it is still for the fixed time.


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And the king will do his pleasure; he will put himself on high, lifting himself over every god, and saying things to be wondered at against the God of gods; and all will be well for him till the wrath is complete; for what has been purposed will be done.


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He will have no respect for the gods of his fathers or for the god desired by women; he will have no respect for any god: for he will put himself on high over all.


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But in place of this he will give honour to the god of armed places, and to a god of whom his fathers had no knowledge he will give honour with gold and silver and jewels and things to be desired.


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And he will make use of the people of a strange god to keep his strongest places; to those whom he takes note of he will give high honour: and he will make them rulers over the mass of the people, and will make division of the land for a price.


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And at the time of the end, the king of the south will make an attack on him: and the king of the north will come against him like a storm-wind, with war-carriages and horsemen and numbers of ships; and he will go through many lands like overflowing waters.


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And he will come into the beautiful land, and tens of thousands will be overcome: but these will be kept from falling into his hands: Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon.


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And his hand will be stretched out on the countries: and the land of the south will not be safe from him.


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But he will have power over the stores of gold and silver, and over all the valued things of the south: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps.


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But he will be troubled by news from the east and from the north; and he will go out in great wrath, to send destruction on, and put an end to, great numbers.


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He will put the tents of his great house between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain: but he will come to his end with no helper.


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And at that time Michael will take up his place, the great angel, who is the supporter of the children of your people: and there will be a time of trouble, such as there never was from the time there was a nation even till that same time: and at that time your people will be kept safe, everyone who is recorded in the book.


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And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.


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And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.


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But as for you, O Daniel, let the words be kept secret and the book rolled up and kept shut till the time of the end: numbers will be going out of the way and troubles will be increased.


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Then I, Daniel, looking, saw two others, one at the edge of the river on this side and one at the edge of the river on that side.


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And I said to the man clothed in linen, who was over the waters of the river, How long will it be to the end of these wonders?


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Then in my hearing the man clothed in linen, who was over the river, lifting up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, took an oath by him who is living for ever that it would be a time, times, and a half; and when the power of the crusher of the holy people comes to an end, all these things will be ended.


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And the words came to my ears, but the sense of them was not clear to me: then I said, O my lord, what is the sense of these things?


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Till a number are tested and make themselves clean; and the evil-doers will do evil; for not one of the evil-doers will have knowledge; but all will be made clear to those who are wise.


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And from the time when the regular burned offering is taken away, and an unclean thing causing fear is put up, there will be a thousand, two hundred and ninety days.


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A blessing will be on the man who goes on waiting, and comes to the thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days.


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The word of the Lord which 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 start of the word of the Lord by Hosea: And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of loose ways, and children of the same, for the land has been untrue to the Lord.


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And the Lord said to him, Give him the name of Jezreel, for after a little time I will send punishment for the blood of Jezreel on the line of Jehu, and put an end to the kingdom of Israel.


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And after that she gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said, Give her the name Lo-ruhamah; for I will not again have mercy on Israel, to give them forgiveness.


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But I will have mercy on Judah and will give them salvation by the Lord their God, but not by the bow or the sword or by fighting or by horses or horsemen.


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And the Lord said, Give him the name Lo-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.


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But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God


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And the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together and take for themselves one head, and will go up from the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.


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Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;


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For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.


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For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.


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For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.


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And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.


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For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.


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So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.


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And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.


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And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.


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And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.


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And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.


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And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.


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And in that day, says the Lord, you will say to me, Ishi; and you will never again give me the name of Baali;


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For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.


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And in that day I will make an agreement for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven and the things which go low on the earth; I will put an end to the bow and the sword and war in all the land, and will make them take their rest in peace.


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And I will take you as my bride for ever; truly, I will take you as my bride in righteousness and in right judging, in love and in mercies.


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And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;


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And the earth will give its answer to the grain and the wine and the oil, and they will give an answer to Jezreel;


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And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.


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And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.


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And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.


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For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.


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And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.


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Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.


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There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.


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Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.


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You will not be able to keep on your feet by day, and by night the prophet will be falling down with you, and I will give your mother to destruction.


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Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.


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Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.


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And the priest will be like the people; I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts.


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They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.


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My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.


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They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.


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I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.


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Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.


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For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.


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Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.


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I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.


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Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.


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And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.


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They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.


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They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.


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Let the horn be sounded in Gibeah and in Ramah; give a loud cry in Beth-aven, They are after you, O Benjamin.


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Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment; I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.


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The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.


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When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king; but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.


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For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.


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I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.


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Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.


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After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.


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And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.


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O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.


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Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.


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And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.


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When my desire was for the fate of my people to be changed and to make Israel well, then the sin of Ephraim was made clear, and the evil-doing of Samaria; for their ways are false, and the thief comes into the house, while the band of outlaws takes property by force in the streets.


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And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.


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They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.


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On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.


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For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.


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They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.


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Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.


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And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.


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And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.


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When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.


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May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.


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And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.


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They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.


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Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.


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They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.


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I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?


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For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.


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Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.


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For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.


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But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.


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He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.


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For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.


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Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.


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The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.


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They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.


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They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.


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For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.


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The days of punishment, the days of reward are come; Israel will be put to shame; the prophet is foolish, the man who has the spirit is off his head, because of your great sin.


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There is great hate against the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God; as for the prophet, there is a net in all his ways, and hate in the house of his God.


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They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.


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I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.


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As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.


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Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.


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As I have seen a beast whose young have been taken from her, so Ephraim will give birth to children only for them to be put to death.


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O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.


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All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.


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The rod has come on Ephraim, their root is dry, let them have no fruit; even though they give birth, I will put to death the dearest fruit of their bodies.


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My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.


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Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.


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Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.


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Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?


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Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.


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The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.


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And they will take it to Assyria and give it to the great king; shame will come on Ephraim, and Israel will be shamed because of its image.


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And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us.


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O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.


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I will come and give them punishment; and the peoples will come together against them when I give them the reward of their two sins.


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And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.


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Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.


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You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.


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So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.


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So will Beth-el do to you because of your evil-doing; at dawn will the king of Israel be cut off completely.


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When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.


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But I was guiding Ephraim's footsteps; I took them up in my arms, but they were not conscious that I was ready to make them well.


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I made them come after me with the cords of a man, with the bands of love; I was to them as one who took the yoke from off their mouths, putting meat before them.


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He will go back to the land of Egypt and the Assyrian will be his king, because they would not come back to me.


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And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.


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My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.


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How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.


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I will not put into effect the heat of my wrath; I will not again send destruction on Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One among you; I will not put an end to you.


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They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;


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Shaking with fear like a bird, they will come out of Egypt, like a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will give them rest in their houses, says the Lord.


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Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.


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The Lord has a cause against Judah, and will give punishment to Jacob for his ways; he will give him the reward of his acts.


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In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;


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He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;


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And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.


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But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will give you tents for your living-places again as in the days of the holy meeting.


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My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.


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In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.


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And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.


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I have been bitterly moved to wrath by Ephraim; so that his blood will be on him, and the Lord will make his shame come back on him.


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When the words of my law came from Ephraim, he was lifted up in Israel; but when he did evil through the Baal, death overtook him.


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And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.


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So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.


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But I am the Lord your God, from the land of Egypt; you have knowledge of no other God and there is no saviour but me.


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When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.


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I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.


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Where is your king, that he may be your saviour? and all your rulers, that they may take up your cause? of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers.


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The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.


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I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.


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Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.


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Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.


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Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.


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Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.


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I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.


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I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.


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His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.


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They will come back and have rest in his shade; their life will be made new like the grain, and they will put out flowers like the vine; his name will be like the wine of Lebanon.


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As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.


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He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.


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Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?


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Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.


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What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.


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Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.


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For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.


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By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.


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The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.


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The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.


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The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.


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The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.


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Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.


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Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.


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Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.


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The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.


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What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.


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O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.


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The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.


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Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;


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For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.


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Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.


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Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.


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They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.


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No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.


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They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.


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The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:


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And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?


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But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:


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Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.


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May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?


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Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.


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Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?


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And the Lord made answer and said to his people, See, I will send you grain and wine and oil in full measure: and I will no longer let you be shamed among the nations:


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I will send the one from the north far away from you, driving him into a dry and waste land, with his front to the sea of the east and his back to the sea of the west, and the smell of him will go up, even his evil smell will go up.


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Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength.


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Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.


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I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.


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You will have food in full measure, and give praise to the name of the Lord your God, who has done wonders for you:


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And you will be certain that I am in Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other: and my people will never be shamed.


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And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:


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And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.


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The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.


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And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.


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I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the nations, and of my land which has been parted by them.


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And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.


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And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,


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For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.


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And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their land:


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See, I will have them moved from the place where you have sent them, and will let what you have done come back on your head;


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I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.


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Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.


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Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.


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Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.


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Let the nations be awake, and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will be seated as judge of all the nations round about.


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Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.


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Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.


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And the Lord will be thundering from Zion, and his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will be shaking: but the Lord will be a breastplate for his people and a strong place for the children of Israel.


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And you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, living in Zion, my holy mountain: and Jerusalem will be holy, and no strange person will ever again go through her.


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And it will come about in that day that the mountains will be dropping sweet wine, and the hills will be flowing with milk, and all the streams of Judah will be flowing with water; and a fountain will come out from the house of the Lord, watering the valley of acacia-trees.


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Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause.


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And I will send punishment for their blood, for which punishment has not been sent, for the Lord is living in Zion.


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The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa; what he saw about Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earth-shock.


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And he said, The Lord will give a lion's cry from Zion, his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the fields of the keepers of sheep will become dry, and the top of Carmel will be wasted away.


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These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have been crushing Gilead with iron grain-crushing instruments.


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And I will have the locks of the door of Damascus broken, and him who is seated in power cut off from the valley of Aven, and him in whose hand is the rod from the house of Eden; and the people of Aram will go away as prisoners into Kir, says the Lord.


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These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they took all the people away prisoners, to give them up to Edom.


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Him who is seated in power I will have cut off from Ashdod, and him in whose hand is the rod from Ashkelon; and my hand will be turned against Ekron, and the rest of the Philistines will come to destruction, says the Lord God.


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These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they gave up all the people prisoners to Edom, without giving a thought to the brothers' agreement between them.


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These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because his sword was turned against his brother, without pity, and his wrath was burning at all times, and he was angry for ever.


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These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because in Gilead they had women with child cut open, so that they might make wider the limits of their land.


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And I will make a fire in the wall of Rabbah, burning up its great houses, with loud cries in the days of war, with a storm in the day of the great wind:


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These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.


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And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries and the sound of the horn:


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And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.


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These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.


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These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;


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Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:


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By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.


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Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.


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And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.


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And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord.


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But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.


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And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:


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And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.


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And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.


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Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out of the land of Egypt, saying,


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You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.


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Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?


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Is it possible for a bird to be taken in a net on the earth where no net has been put for him? will the net come up from the earth if it has taken nothing at all?


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If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?


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The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?


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Give out the news in the great houses of Assyria and in the land of Egypt, and say, Come together on the mountains of Samaria, and see what great outcries are there, and what cruel acts are done in it.


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For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.


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For this reason, says the Lord, an attacker will come, shutting in the land on every side; and your strength will come down and your great houses will be made waste.


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These are the words of the Lord: As the keeper of sheep takes out of the mouth of the lion two legs or part of an ear; so will the children of Israel be made safe, who are resting in Samaria on seats of honour or on the silk cushions of a bed.


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For in the day when I give Israel punishment for his sins, I will send punishment on the altars of Beth-el, and the horns of the altar will be cut off and come down to the earth.


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And I will send destruction on the winter house with the summer house; the ivory houses will be falling down and the great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.


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Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.


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The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.


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And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.


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Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:


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Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.


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But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


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And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.


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So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


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I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


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I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


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And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


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So this is what I will do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, be ready for a meeting with your God, O Israel.


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For see, he who gave form to the mountains and made the wind, giving knowledge of his purpose to man, who makes the morning dark, and is walking on the high places of the earth: the Lord, the God of armies, is his name.


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The virgin of Israel has been made low, never again to be lifted up: she is stretched out by herself on her land; there is no one to put her on her feet again.


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For these are the words of the Lord God: The town which was able to send out a thousand, will have only a hundred; and that which sent out a hundred, will have only ten, in Israel.


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For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:


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Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.


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Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.


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Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;


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They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.


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So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.


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For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.


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Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.


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Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.


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So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.


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In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord.


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Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.


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As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.


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Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.


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Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.


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Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?


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Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.


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And I will send you away as prisoners farther than Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.


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Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!


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Go on to Calneh and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are you better than these kingdoms? or is your land wider than theirs?


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Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;


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Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;


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Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.


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So now they will go away prisoners with the first of those who are made prisoners, and the loud cry of those who were stretched out will come to an end.


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The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it.


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And when a man's relation, even the one who is responsible for burning his body, lifting him up to take his bones out of the house, says to him who is in the inmost part of the house, Is there still anyone with you? and he says, No; then he will say, Keep quiet, for the name of the Lord may not be named.


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For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.


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Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?


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You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours?


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For see, I will send against you a nation, O Israel, says the Lord, the God of armies, ruling you cruelly from the way into Hamath as far as the stream of the Arabah.


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This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king's cutting was done.


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And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.


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This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.


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Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.


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This is what he let me see: and I saw the Lord stationed by a wall made straight by a weighted line, and he had a weighted line in his hand.


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And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin:


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And the high places of Isaac will be unpeopled, and the holy places of Israel will be made waste; and I will come up against the family of Jeroboam with the sword.


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Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words.


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For Amos has said, Jeroboam will be put to the sword, and Israel will certainly be taken away as a prisoner out of his land.


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And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go in flight into the land of Judah, and there get your living by working as a prophet:


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Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees:


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Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of Isaac.


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So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.


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And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin.


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And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.


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Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,


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Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;


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Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.


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Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt.


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And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:


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Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.


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See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.


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And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.


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Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.


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I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe.


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Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:


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Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:


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And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.


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For the Lord, the God of armies, is he at whose touch the land is turned to water, and everyone in it will be given up to sorrow; all of it will be overflowing like the River, and will go down again like the River of Egypt;


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It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.


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Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? says the Lord. Have I not taken Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Aramaeans from Kir?


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See, the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom, and I will put an end to it in all the earth; but I will not send complete destruction on Jacob, says the Lord.


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For see, I will give orders, and I will have Israel moved about among all the nations, as grain is moved about by the shaking of the tray, but not the smallest seed will be dropped on the earth.


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All those sinners among my people will be put to the sword who say, Evil will not overtake us or come face to face with us.


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In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;


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So that the rest of Edom may be their heritage, and all the nations who have been named by my name, says the Lord, who is doing this.


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See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.


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And I will let the fate of my people Israel be changed, and they will be building up again the waste towns and living in them; they will again be planting vine-gardens and taking the wine for their drink; and they will make gardens and get the fruit of them.


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And I will have them planted in their land, and never again will they be uprooted from their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.


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The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her.


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You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?


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Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.


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If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?


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All the men who were united with you have been false to you, driving you out to the edge of the land: the men who were at peace with you have overcome you; they have taken their heritage in your place.


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Will I not, in that day, says the Lord, take away the wise men out of Edom, and wisdom out of the mountain of Esau?


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And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau.


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Because you were the cause of violent death and because of your cruel behaviour to your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and will be cut off for ever.


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Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them.


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Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.


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Do not go into the doors of my people on the day of their downfall; do not be looking on their trouble with pleasure on the day of their downfall, or put your hands on their goods on the day of their downfall.


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And do not take your place at the cross-roads, cutting off those of his people who get away; and do not give up to their haters those who are still there in the day of trouble.


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For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head.


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For as you have been drinking on my holy mountain, so will all the nations go on drinking without end; they will go on drinking and the wine will go down their throats, and they will be as if they had never been.


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But in Mount Zion some will be kept safe, and it will be holy; and the children of Jacob will take their heritage.


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And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.


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And they will take the South, and the lowland, and the country of Ephraim, and Gilead, as their heritage.


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And those of the children of Israel who were the first to be taken away as prisoners, will have their heritage among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and those who were taken away from Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will have the towns of the South.


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And those who have been kept safe will come up from Mount Zion to be judges of the mountain of Esau; and the kingdom will be the Lord's.


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Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.


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And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.


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And the Lord sent out a great wind on to the sea and there was a violent storm in the sea, so that the ship seemed in danger of being broken.


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Then the sailors were full of fear, every man crying to his god; and the goods in the ship were dropped out into the sea to make the weight less. But Jonah had gone down into the inmost part of the ship where he was stretched out in a deep sleep.


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And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.


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And they said to one another, Come, let us put this to the decision of chance and see on whose account this evil has come on us. So they did so, and Jonah was seen to be the man.


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Then they said to him, Now make clear to us what is your work, and where you come from? what is your country, and who are your people?


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And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.


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And the men were in great fear, and they said to him, What is this you have done? For the men had knowledge of his flight from the Lord because he had not kept it from them.


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And they said to him, What are we to do to you so that the sea may become calm for us? For the sea was getting rougher and rougher.


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And he said to them, Take me up and put me into the sea, and the sea will become calm for you: for I am certain that because of me this great storm has come on you.


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And the men were working hard to get back to the land, but they were not able to do so: for the sea got rougher and rougher against them.


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So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you.


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Then great was the men's fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.


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And the Lord made ready a great fish to take Jonah into its mouth; and Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.


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In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.


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For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.


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The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.


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I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.


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When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.


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But I will make an offering to you with the voice of praise; I will give effect to my oaths. Salvation is the Lord's.


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So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.


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And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.


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And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.


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And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.


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And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:


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And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.


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Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?


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And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.


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And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.


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So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.


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Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.


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And the Lord God made a vine come up over Jonah to give him shade over his head. And Jonah was very glad because of the vine.


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But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead.


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Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.


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And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.


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And the Lord said, You had pity on the vine, for which you did no work and for the growth of which you were not responsible; which came up in a night and came to an end in a night;


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And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?


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The word of the Lord which came to Micah the Morashtite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah: his vision about Samaria and Jerusalem.


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Give ear, you peoples, all of you; give attention, O earth and everything in it: let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy Temple.


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For see, the Lord is coming out from his place, and will come down, stepping on the high places of the earth.


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And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.


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All this is because of the wrongdoing of Jacob and the sins of the children of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?


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So I will make Samaria into a field and the plantings of a vine-garden: I will send its stones falling down into the valley, uncovering its bases.


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And all her pictured images will be hammered into bits, and all the payments for her loose ways will be burned with fire, and all the images of her gods I will make waste: for with the price of a loose woman she got them together, and as the price of a loose woman will they be given back.


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For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.


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For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.


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Give no word of it in Gath, let there be no weeping at all: at Beth-le-aphrah be rolling in the dust.


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Be uncovered and go away, you who are living in Shaphir: the one living in Zaanan has not come out of her town; Beth-ezel is taken away from its base, even from its resting-place.


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For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.


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Let the war-carriage be yoked to the quick-running horse, you who are living in Lachish: she was the first cause of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the wrongdoings of Israel were seen in you.


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For this cause give a parting offering to Moresheth-gath: the daughter of Achzib will be a deceit to the king of Israel.


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Even now will the taker of your heritage come to you, you who are living in Mareshah: the glory of Israel will come to destruction for ever.


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Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle's; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners.


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A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.


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They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.


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For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.


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In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.


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For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.


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Let not words like these be dropped, they say: Shame and the curse will not come to the family of Jacob!


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Is the Lord quickly made angry? are these his doings? do not his words do good to his people Israel?


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As for you, you have become haters of those who were at peace with you: you take the clothing of those who go by without fear, and make them prisoners of war.


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The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.


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Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.


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If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.


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I will certainly make all of you, O Jacob, come together; I will get together the rest of Israel; I will put them together like the sheep in their circle: like a flock in their green field; they will be full of the noise of men.


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The opener of the way will go up before them: forcing their way out they will go on to the doorway and out through it: their king will go on before them, and the Lord at their head.


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And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?


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You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;


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Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.


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Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.


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This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.


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For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.


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And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.


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But I truly am full of the spirit of the Lord, with power of judging and with strength to make clear to Jacob his wrongdoing and to Israel his sin.


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Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.


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Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.


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For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.


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But in the last days it will come about that the mountain of the Lord's house will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and peoples will be flowing to it.


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And a number of nations will go 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 give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.


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And he will be judge between great peoples, and strong nations far away will be ruled by his decisions; their swords will be hammered into plough-blades and their spears into vine-knives: nations will no longer be lifting up their swords against one another, and knowledge of war will have gone for ever.


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But every man will be seated under his vine and under his fig-tree, and no one will be a cause of fear to them: for the mouth of the Lord of armies has said it.


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For all the peoples will be walking, every one in the name of his god, and we will be walking in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.


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In that day, says the Lord, I will get together her who goes with uncertain steps, I will get together her who has been sent away, and her on whom I have sent evil;


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And I will make her whose steps were uncertain a small band, and her who was feeble a strong nation: and the Lord will be their King in Mount Zion from now and for ever.


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And you, O tower of the flock, Ophel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, even the earlier authority, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.


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Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:


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Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.


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And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.


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But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.


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Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.


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Now you will give yourselves deep wounds for grief; they will put up a wall round us: they will give the judge of Israel a blow on the face with a rod.


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And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.


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For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.


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And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.


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And this will be our peace: when the Assyrian comes into our country and his feet are in our land, then we will put up against him seven keepers of the flocks and eight chiefs among men.


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And they will make waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the edge of the sword: he will give us salvation from the Assyrian when he comes into our country, when his feet come inside the limit of our land.


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And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.


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And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.


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And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that I will take away your horses from you, and will give your war-carriages to destruction:


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And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.


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And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.


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Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.


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Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.


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For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.


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O my people, keep in mind now what was designed by Balak, king of Moab, and the answer which Balaam, son of Beor, gave him; the events, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may be certain of the upright acts of the Lord.


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With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?


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Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?


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He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.


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Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?


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For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.


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You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.


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You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.


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For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.


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Sorrow is mine! for I am as when they have got in the summer fruits, like the last of the grapes: there is nothing for food, not even an early fig for my desire.


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The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.


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Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.


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The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.


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Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.


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For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.


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But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.


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Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.


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I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;


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And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.


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In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the towns of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.


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Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.


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The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.


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They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.


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Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.


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He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.


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You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.


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The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.


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The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.


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He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.


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The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.


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Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.


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The Lord is good, a strong place in the day of trouble; and he has knowledge of those who take him for their safe cover.


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But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.


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What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.


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For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.


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This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.


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The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil.


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See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.


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A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.


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For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.


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The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.


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The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.


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He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.


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And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.


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But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.


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Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.


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Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.


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Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?


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Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.


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See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopped for ever.


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A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.


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The noise of the whip, and the noise of thundering wheels; horses rushing and war-carriages jumping,


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Horsemen driving forward, and the shining sword and the bright spear: and a great number of wounded, and masses of dead bodies; they are falling over the bodies of the dead:


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Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.


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See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your skirts pulled over your face, and let the nations see you unclothed, and the kingdoms your shame.


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I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.


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And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?


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Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?


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But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.


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And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.


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All your walled places will be like fig-trees and your people like the first figs, falling at a shake into the mouth which is open for them.


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See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.


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Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.


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There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.


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Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.


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Sorrow! how are the keepers of your flock sleeping, O king of Assyria! your strong men are at rest; your people are wandering on the mountains, and there is no one to get them together.


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Your pain may not be made better; you are wounded to death: all those hearing the news about you will be waving their hands in joy over you: for who has not undergone the weight of your evil-doing again and again?


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How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.


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Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.


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For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.


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See among the nations, and take note, and be full of wonder: for in your days I am doing a work in which you will have no belief, even if news of it is given to you.


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For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.


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And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.


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They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.


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He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.


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Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.


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Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?


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He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.


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For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.


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I will take my position and be on watch, placing myself on my tower, looking out to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my protest.


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And the Lord gave me an answer, and said, Put the vision in writing and make it clear on stones, so that the reader may go quickly.


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For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.


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As for the man of pride, my soul has no pleasure in him; but the upright man will have life through his good faith.


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A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.


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Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!


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Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?


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Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.


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A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!


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You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.


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For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.


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See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?


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For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.


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A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!


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You are full of shame in place of glory: take your part in the drinking, and let your shame be uncovered: the cup of the Lord's right hand will come round to you and your glory will be covered with shame.


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For the violent acts against Lebanon will come on you, and the destruction of the cattle will be a cause of fear to you, because of men's blood and the violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.


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What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?


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A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.


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O Lord, word of you has come to my ears; I have seen your work, O Lord; when the years come near make it clear; in wrath keep mercy in mind.


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God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. The heavens were covered with his glory, and the earth was full of his praise.


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He was shining like the light; he had rays coming out from his hand: there his power was kept secret.


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From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal.


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Was your wrath burning against the rivers? were you angry with the sea, that you went on your horses, on your war-carriages of salvation?


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The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.


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You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of the one on whom your holy oil was put; wounding the head of the family of the evil-doer, uncovering the base even to the neck. Selah.


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You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.


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Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.


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For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:


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The Lord God is my strength, and he makes my feet like roes' feet, guiding me on my high places. For the chief music-maker on corded 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 Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.


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I will take away man and beast; I will take away the birds of the heaven and the fishes of the sea; causing the downfall of the evil-doers, and cutting man off from the face of the earth, says the Lord.


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And my hand will be stretched out on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem, cutting off the name of the Baal from this place, and the name of the false priests,


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And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,


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And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.


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Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.


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And it will come about in the day of the Lord's offering, that I will send punishment on the rulers and the king's sons and all who are clothed in robes from strange lands.


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And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.


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And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;


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Because of the downfall of all the people of Canaan: all those who were weighted down with silver have been cut off.


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And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.


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And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.


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The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.


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That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.


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And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.


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Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.


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Before the Lord sends you violently away in flight like the waste from the grain; before the burning wrath of the Lord comes on you, before the day of the Lord's wrath comes on you.


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Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.


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For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.


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Sorrow to the people living by the sea, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will send destruction on you till there is no one living in you.


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And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks.


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The land by the sea will be for the rest of the children of Judah; by the sea they will give their flocks food: in the houses of Ashkelon they will take their rest in the evening; for the Lord their God will take them in hand and their fate will be changed.


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My ears have been open to the bitter words of Moab and the words of shame of the children of Ammon, which they have said against my people, lifting themselves up against the limit of their land.


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For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.


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This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.


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The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.


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And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.


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And herds will take their rest in the middle of her, all the beasts of the valley: the pelican and the porcupine will make their living-places on the tops of its pillars; the owl will be crying in the window; the raven will be seen on the doorstep.


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This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.


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She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.


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Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.


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Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.


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The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.


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I have had the nations cut off, their towers are broken down; I have made their streets a waste so that no one goes through them: destruction has overtaken their towns, so that there is no man living in them.


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I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.


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For this reason, go on waiting for me, says the Lord, till the day when I come up as a witness: for my purpose is to send for the nations and to get the kingdoms together, so that I may let loose on them my passion, even all my burning wrath: for all the earth will be burned up in the fire of my bitter passion.


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For then I will give the people a clean language, so that they may all make prayer to the Lord and be his servants with one mind.


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From over the rivers of Ethiopia, and from the sides of the north, they will come to me with an offering.


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In that day you will have no shame on account of all the things in which you did evil against me: for then I will take away from among you those who were lifted up in pride, and you will no longer be lifted up with pride in my holy mountain.


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But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.


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The rest of Israel will do no evil and say no false words; the tongue of deceit will not be seen in their mouth: for they will take their food and their rest, and no one will be a cause of fear to them.


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Make melody, O daughter of Zion; give a loud cry, O Israel; be glad and let your heart be full of joy, O daughter of Jerusalem.


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The Lord has taken away those who were judging you, he has sent your haters far away: the King of Israel, even the Lord, is among you: you will have no more fear of evil.


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The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.


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See, at that time I will put an end to all who have been troubling you: I will give salvation to her whose steps are uncertain, and get together her who has been sent in flight; and I will make them a cause of praise and an honoured name in all the earth, when I let their fate be changed.


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At that time I will make you come in, at that time I will get you together: for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth when I let your fate be changed before your eyes, says the Lord.


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In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,


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These are the words of the Lord of armies: These people say, The time has not come for building the Lord's house.


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Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.


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Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.


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You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.


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And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.


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Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the rest of the people, gave ear to the voice of the Lord their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, because the Lord their God had sent him, and the people were in fear before the Lord.


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Then Haggai, whom the Lord had sent to give his words to the people, said, I am with you, says the Lord.


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And the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, was moved by the Lord, as was the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of armies, their God.


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In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,


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Say now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the rest of the people,


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Who is there still among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?


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But now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says the Lord; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, says the Lord, and get to work: for I am with you, says the Lord of armies:


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The agreement which I made with you when you came out of Egypt, and my spirit, are with you still; have no fear.


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For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In a short time I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;


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And I will make a shaking of all the nations, and the desired things of all nations will come: and I will make this house full of my glory, says the Lord of armies.


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The second glory of this house will be greater than the first, says the Lord of armies: and in this place I will give peace, says the Lord of armies.


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On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,


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If anyone has some holy flesh folded in the skirt of his robe, will bread or soup or wine or oil or any other food be made holy if touched by his skirt? And the priests answering said, No.


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Then Haggai said, Will any of these be made unclean by the touch of one who is unclean through touching a dead body? And the priests answering said, It will be made unclean.


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Then Haggai said, So is this people and so is this nation before me, says the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and the offering they give there is unclean.


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And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:


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How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.


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And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.


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And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it.


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Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.


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And the word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai, on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,


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Overturning the power of kingdoms; and I will send destruction on the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; by me war-carriages will be overturned with those who are in them; and the horses and the horsemen will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.


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In that day, says the Lord of armies, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, says the Lord, and will make you as a jewelled ring: for I have taken you to be mine, says the Lord of armies.


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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.


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Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.


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But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.


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On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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I saw in the night a man on a red horse, between the mountains in the valley, and at his back were horses, red, black, white, and of mixed colours.


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Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel who was talking to me said to me, I will make clear to you what they are.


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And the man who was between the mountains, answering me, said, These are those whom the Lord has sent to go up and down through the earth.


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And the man who was between the mountains, answering, said to the angel of the Lord, We have gone up and down through the earth, and all the earth is quiet and at rest.


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Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?


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And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.


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And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.


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So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.


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And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.


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And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight.


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Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.


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And I said to him, Where are you going? And he said to me, To take the measure of Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.


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Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her.


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Ho, ho! go in flight from the land of the north, says the Lord: for I have sent you far and wide to the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.


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For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.


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For at the shaking of my hand over them, their goods will be taken by those who were their servants: and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me.


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Give songs of joy, O daughter of Zion: for I come, and I will make my resting-place among you, says the Lord.


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And a number of nations will be joined to the Lord in that day, and will become my people; and I will be living among you, and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.


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Let all flesh be quiet and make no sound before the Lord: for he is awake and has come from his holy resting-place.


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And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him.


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And the Lord said to the Satan, May the Lord's word be sharp against you, O Satan, the word of the Lord who has taken Jerusalem for himself: is this not a burning branch pulled out of the fire?


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And he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes;


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And let them put a clean head-dress on his head. So they put a clean head-dress on his head, clothing him with clean robes: and to him he said, See, I have taken your sin away from you.


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These are the words of the Lord of armies: If you will go in my ways and keep what I have put in your care, then you will be judge over my Temple and have the care of my house, and I will give you the right to come in among those who are there.


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Give ear now, O Joshua, the high priest, you and your friends who are seated before you; for these are men who are a sign: for see, I will let my servant the Branch be seen.


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For see, the stone which I have put before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: see, the design cut on it will be my work, says the Lord of armies, and I will take away the sin of that land in one day.


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In that day, says the Lord of armies, you will be one another's guests under the vine and under the fig-tree.


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And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a light-support, made all of gold, with its cup on the top of it and seven lights on it; and there are seven pipes to every one of the lights which are on the top of it;


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Then the angel who was talking to me, answering me, said, Have you no knowledge of what these are? And I said, No, my lord.


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This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies.


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Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will become level: and he will let all see the headstone, with cries of Grace, grace, to it.


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The hands of Zerubbabel have put the base of this house in place, and his hands will make it complete; and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.


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For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.


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And I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the left?


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And answering a second time, I said to him, What are these two olive branches, through whose gold pipes the oil is drained out?


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And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, A roll going through the air; it is twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.


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Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.


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And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.


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And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out.


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And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which is going out. And he said further, This is their evil-doing in all the land.


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And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.


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And lifting up my eyes I saw two women coming out, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they took the ephah, lifting it up between earth and heaven.


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And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.


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And again lifting up my eyes I saw four war-carriages coming out from between the two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.


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And the angel, answering, said to me, These go out to the four winds of heaven from their place before the Lord of all the earth.


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The carriage in which are the black horses goes in the direction of the north country; the white go to the west; and those of mixed colour go in the direction of the south country.


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And the red ones go to the east; and they made request that they might go up and down through the earth: and he said, Go up and down through the earth. So they went up and down through the earth.


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Then crying out to me, he said, See, those who are going to the north country have given rest to the spirit of the Lord in the north country.


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Take the offerings of those who went away as prisoners, from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, and from the family of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah, who have come from Babylon;


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And say to him, These are the words of the Lord of armies: See, the man whose name is the Branch, under whom there will be fertile growth.


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And he will be the builder of the Temple of the Lord; and the glory will be his, and he will take his place as ruler on the seat of power; and Joshua will be a priest at his right hand, and between them there will be a design of peace.


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And the crown will be for grace to Heldai and Tobijah and Jedaiah and the son of Zephaniah, to keep their memory living in the house of the Lord.


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And those who are far away will come and be builders in the Temple of the Lord, and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.


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And it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month Chislev.


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And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?


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Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?


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Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled?


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This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:


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Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.


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And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.


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And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:


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But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.


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These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am angry about the fate of Zion, I am angry about her with great wrath.


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This is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Zion, and will make my living-place in Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will be named The town of good faith; and the mountain of the Lord of armies The holy mountain.


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This is what the Lord of armies has said: There will again be old men and old women seated in the open spaces of Jerusalem, every man with his stick in his hand because he is so old.


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This is what the Lord of armies has said: If this is a wonder to the rest of this people, is it a wonder to me? says the Lord of armies.


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This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will be the saviour of my people from the east country, and from the west country;


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And I will make them come and be living in Jerusalem and they will be to me a people and I will be to them a God, in good faith and in righteousness.


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This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be strong, you who are now hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets, that is to say, in the days when the base of the house of the Lord of armies has been put in place for the building of the house, that is the Temple.


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For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.


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For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.


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And it will come about that, as you were a curse among the nations, O children of Judah and children of Israel, so I will give you salvation and you will be a blessing: have no fear and let your hands be strong.


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For this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my purpose to do evil to you when your fathers made me angry, says the Lord of armies, and my purpose was not changed:


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So in these days it is again my purpose to do good to Jerusalem and to the children of Judah: have no fear.


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These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.


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Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.


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This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace.


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This is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again come about that when peoples and those living in great towns come,


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And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you.


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And great peoples and strong nations will come to give worship to the Lord of armies in Jerusalem and to make requests for grace from the Lord.


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This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.


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A word of the Lord: The Lord has come to the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is his resting-place: for the towns of Aram are the Lord's,


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And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.


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See, the Lord will take away her heritage, overturning her power in the sea; and she will be burned up with fire.


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Ashkelon will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain; and Ekron, for her hope will be shamed: and the king will be cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be unpeopled.


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And I will take away his blood from his mouth, and his disgusting things from between his teeth; and some of his people will be kept for our God: and he will be as a family in Judah, and Ekron as one living in Jerusalem.


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And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.


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Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.


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And he will have the war-carriage cut off from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be cut off: and he will say words of peace to the nations: and his rule will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.


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And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.


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And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much;


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For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war.


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And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South.


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The Lord of armies will be a cover for them; and they will overcome, crushing under foot the armed men; they will take their blood for drink like wine: they will be full like the sides of the altar.


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And the Lord their God will be their saviour in that day, giving them food like the flock of his people: for they will be like the jewels of a crown shining over his land.


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For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.


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Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.


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For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.


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My wrath is burning against the keepers of the flock, and I will send punishment on the he-goats: for the Lord of armies takes care of his flock, the people of Judah, and will make them like the horse of his pride in the fight.


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From him will come the keystone, from him the nail, from him the bow of war, from him will come every ruler;


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Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.


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And I will make the children of Judah strong, and I will be the saviour of the children of Joseph, and I will make them come back again, for I have had mercy on them: they will be as if I had not given them up: for I am the Lord their God and I will give them an answer.


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And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.


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With the sound of the pipe I will get them together; for I have given the price to make them free: and they will be increased as they were increased.


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Though I had them planted among the peoples, they will keep me in mind in far countries: and they will take care of their children and will come back.


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And I will make them come back out of the land of Egypt, and will get them together out of Assyria; and I will take them into the land of Gilead, and it will not be wide enough for them.


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And they will go through the sea of Egypt, and all the deep waters of the Nile will become dry: and the pride of Assyria will be made low, and the power of Egypt will be taken away.


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Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.


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The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.


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Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.


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For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.


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So I took care of the flock of death, for those who made profit out of the flock; and I took for myself two rods, naming one Beautiful, and the other Bands; and I took care of the flock.


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And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.


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And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.


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And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.


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And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord.


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And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.


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And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.


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Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken.


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For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.


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A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.


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The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:


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See, I will make Jerusalem a cup of shaking fear to all the peoples round about, when Jerusalem is shut in.


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And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of great weight for all the peoples; all those who take it up will be badly wounded; and all the nations of the earth will come together against it.


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In that day, says the Lord, I will put fear into every horse and make every horseman go off his head: and my eyes will be open on the people of Judah, and I will make every horse of the peoples blind.


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And the families of Judah will say in their hearts, The people of Jerusalem have their strength in the Lord of armies, their God.


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In that day I will make the families of Judah like a pot with fire in it among trees, and like a flaming stick among cut grain; they will send destruction on all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem will be living again in the place which is hers, that is, in Jerusalem.


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And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the family of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.


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In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.


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And it will come about on that day that I will take in hand the destruction of all the nations who come against Jerusalem.


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And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.


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In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.


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And the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves;


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The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves;


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In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.


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And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.


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And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so.


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And it will come about in that day that the prophets will be shamed, every man on account of his vision, when he is talking as a prophet; and they will not put on a robe of hair for purposes of deceit:


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But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young.


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And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.


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Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.


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And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there.


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And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.


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See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.


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For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.


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And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the middle to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south.


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And the valley will be stopped ... and you will go in flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him.


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And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.


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And on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them flowing to the sea on the east and half to the sea on the west: in summer and in winter it will be so.


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And all the land will become like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and be living in her place; from the doorway of Benjamin to the place of the first doorway, to the doorway of the angle, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-crushing places, men will be living in her.


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And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in their mouths.


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And it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent among them from the Lord; and everyone will take his neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will be lifted against his neighbour's.


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And even Judah will be fighting against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about will be massed together, a great store of gold and silver and clothing.


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And the horses and the transport beasts, the camels and the asses and all the beasts in those tents will be attacked by the same disease.


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And it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents.


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And it will be that if any one of all the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, on them there will be no rain.


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And if the family of Egypt does not go up or come there, they will be attacked by the disease which the Lord will send on the nations:


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This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to keep the feast of tents.


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On that day all the bells of the horses will be holy to the Lord, and the pots in the Lord's house will be like the basins before the altar.


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And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of armies: and all those who make offerings will come and take them for boiling their offerings: in that day there will be no more traders in the house of the Lord of armies.


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You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,


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And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.


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Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.


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A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?


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You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.


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And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.


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And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies.


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If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.


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For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.


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And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.


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A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.


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If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.


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See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.


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And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.


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My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name.


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True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing.


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For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.


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But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.


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And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.


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Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?


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Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.


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The Lord will have the man who does this cut off root and branch out of the tents of Jacob, and him who makes an offering to the Lord of armies.


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And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.


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But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.


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For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts.


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You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?


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See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.


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But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.


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He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.


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Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in days gone by, and as in past years.


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And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.


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From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back?


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Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.


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Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.


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And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies


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And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.


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Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?


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You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?


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And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.


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Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name.


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And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.


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Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.


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For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.


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But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.


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And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.


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Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions.


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See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.


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And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.


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The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers;


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And the sons of Judah were Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and the son of Perez was Hezron; and the son of Hezron was Ram;


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And the son of Ram was Amminadab; and the son of Amminadab was Nahshon; and the son of Nahshon was Salmon;


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And the son of Salmon by Rahab was Boaz; and the son of Boaz by Ruth was Obed; and the son of Obed was Jesse;


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And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah;


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And the son of Solomon was Rehoboam; and the son of Rehoboam was Abijah; and the son of Abijah was Asa;


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And the son of Asa was Jehoshaphat; and the son of Jehoshaphat was Joram; and the son of Joram was Uzziah;


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And the son of Hezekiah was Manasseh; and the son of Manasseh was Amon; and the son of Amon was Josiah;


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So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the taking away to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the taking away to Babylon to the coming of Christ, fourteen generations.


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Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way: when his mother Mary was going to be married to Joseph, before they came together the discovery was made that she was with child by the Holy Spirit.


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And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately.


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But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the Holy Spirit.


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And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.


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See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.


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And he had no connection with her till she had given birth to a son; and he gave him the name Jesus.


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Now when the birth of Jesus took place in Beth-lehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,


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Saying, Where is the King of the Jews whose birth has now taken place? We have seen his star in the east and have come to give him worship.


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And he got together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, questioning them as to where the birth-place of the Christ would be.


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You Beth-lehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the chiefs of Judah: out of you will come a ruler, who will be the keeper of my people Israel.


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Then Herod sent for the wise men privately, and put questions to them about what time the star had been seen.


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And he sent them to Beth-lehem and said, Go and make certain where the young child is; and when you have seen him, let me have news of it, so that I may come and give him worship.


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And after hearing the king, they went on their way; and the star which they saw in the east went before them, till it came to rest over the place where the young child was.


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And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices.


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And it was made clear to them by God in a dream that they were not to go back to Herod; so they went into their country by another way.


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And when they had gone, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream, saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into Egypt, and do not go from there till I give you word; for Herod will be searching for the young child to put him to death.


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And was there till the death of Herod; so that the word of the Lord through the prophet might come true, Out of Egypt have I sent for my son.


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Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men.


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In Ramah there was a sound of weeping and great sorrow, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted for their loss.


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Saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: because they who were attempting to take the young child's life are dead.


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But when it came to his ears that Archelaus was ruling over Judaea in the place of his father Herod, he was in fear of going there; and God having given him news of the danger in a dream, he went out of the way into the country parts of Galilee.


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And he came and was living in a town named Nazareth: so that the word of the prophets might come true, He will be named a Nazarene.


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For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.


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Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.


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But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?


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And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.


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And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.


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Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:


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In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.


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But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me?


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But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.


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And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove;


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And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread.


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But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God.


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Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,


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If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.


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Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;


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And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship.


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Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.


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And going away from Nazareth, he came and made his living-place in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the country of Zebulun and Naphtali:


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The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,


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The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.


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From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near.


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And when he was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, whose other name was Peter, and Andrew, his brother, who were putting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.


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And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, in the boat with their father, stitching up their nets; and he said, Come.


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And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and making well those who were ill with any disease among the people.


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And news of him went out through all Syria; and they took to him all who were ill with different diseases and pains, those having evil spirits and those who were off their heads, and those who had no power of moving. And he made them well.


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And there went after him great numbers from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from the other side of Jordan.


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And seeing great masses of people he went up into the mountain; and when he was seated his disciples came to him.


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Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.


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Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.


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Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.


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You are the salt of the earth; but if its taste goes from the salt, how will you make it salt again? it is then good for nothing but to be put out and crushed under foot by men.


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And a burning light is not put under a vessel, but on its table; so that its rays may be shining on all who are in the house.


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Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.


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Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.


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Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.


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Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.


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For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.


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You have knowledge that it was said in old times, You may not put to death; and, Whoever puts to death will be in danger of being judged:


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But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.


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If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you,


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While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.


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Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison.


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Truly I say to you, You will not come out from there till you have made payment of the very last farthing.


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But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.


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And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.


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And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.


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Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose:


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But I say to you that everyone who puts away his wife for any other cause but the loss of her virtue, makes her false to her husband; and whoever takes her as his wife after she is put away, is no true husband to her.


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Again, you have knowledge that it was said in old times, Do not take false oaths, but give effect to your oaths to the Lord:


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Or by the earth, because it is the resting-place for his foot; or by Jerusalem, because it is the town of the great King.


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But I say to you, Do not make use of force against an evil man; but to him who gives you a blow on the right side of your face let the left be turned.


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Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.


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You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you:


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But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;


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So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.


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For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?


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And if you say, Good day, to your brothers only, what do you do more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?


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Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.


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When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the Synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward.


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So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.


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And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.


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But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.


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And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.


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So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.


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For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven.


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But if you do not let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will not have forgiveness from your Father for your sins.


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And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.


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So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.


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Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.


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But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:


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But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!


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No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.


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So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?


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See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?


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And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread:


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But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith?


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Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed?


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Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things:


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But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.


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Then have no care for tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Take the trouble of the day as it comes.


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For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.


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And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?


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Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye?


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You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.


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Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you.


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Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:


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Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.


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If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?


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All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.


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Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.


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Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.


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By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?


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Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.


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A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power?


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Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;


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And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock.


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And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;


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And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.


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And it came about, when Jesus had come to the end of these words, that the people were surprised at his teaching,


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And a leper came and gave him worship, saying, Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have power to make me clean.


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And he put his hand on him, saying, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away he was made clean.


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And Jesus said to him, See that you say nothing about this to anyone; but go and let the priest see you and make the offering which was ordered by Moses, for a witness to them.


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And the captain in answer said, Lord, I am not good enough for you to come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be made well.


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Because I myself am a man under authority, having under me fighting men; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.


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And when these words came to the ears of Jesus he was surprised, and said to those who came after him, Truly I say to you, I have not seen such great faith, no, not in Israel.


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And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:


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But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.


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And Jesus said to the captain, Go in peace; as your faith is, so let it be done to you. And the servant was made well in that hour.


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And he put his hand on hers and the disease went from her, and she got up and took care of his needs.


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And in the evening, they took to him a number of people who had evil spirits; and he sent the spirits out of them with a word, and made well all who were ill;


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And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.


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And another of the disciples said to him, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.


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And there came up a great storm in the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was sleeping.


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And he said to them, Why are you full of fear, O you of little faith? Then he got up and gave orders to the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.


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And the men were full of wonder, saying, What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea do his orders?


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And when he had come to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, there came out to him from the place of the dead, two who had evil spirits, so violent that no man was able to go that way.


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And they gave a loud cry, saying, What have we to do with you, you Son of God? Have you come here to give us punishment before the time?


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And the evil spirits made strong prayers to him, saying, If you send us out, let us go into the herd of pigs.


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And he said to them, Go. And they came out, and went into the pigs; and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the sea and came to their end in the water.


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And their keepers went in flight to the town and gave an account of everything, and of the men who had the evil spirits.


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And all the town came out to Jesus; and seeing him they made request that he would go away from their part of the country.


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And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins.


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But so that you may see that on earth the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins, (then said he to the man who was ill,) Get up, and take up your bed, and go to your house.


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But when the people saw it they were full of fear, and gave glory to God who had given such authority to men.


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And when Jesus was going from there, he saw a man whose name was Matthew, seated at the place where taxes were taken; and he said to him, Come after me. And he got up and went after him.


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And it came about, when he was in the house taking food, that a number of tax-farmers and sinners came and took their places with Jesus and his disciples.


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And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?


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But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.


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But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.


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Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not?


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And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.


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And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.


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And men do not put new wine into old wine-skins; or the skins will be burst and the wine will come out, and the skins are of no more use: but they put new wine into new wine-skins, and so the two will be safe.


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While he was saying these things to them, there came a ruler and gave him worship, saying, My daughter is even now dead; but come and put your hand on her, and she will come back to life.


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And a woman, who for twelve years had had a flow of blood, came after him, and put her hand on the edge of his robe:


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But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Daughter, take heart; your faith has made you well. And the woman was made well from that hour.


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And when Jesus came into the ruler's house and saw the players with their instruments and the people making a noise,


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And when Jesus went on from there, two blind men came after him, crying out, Have mercy on us, you Son of David.


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And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, Have you faith that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord.


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And while they were going away, there came to him a man without the power of talking, and with an evil spirit.


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And when the evil spirit had been sent out, the man had the power of talking: and they were all surprised, saying, Such a thing has never been seen in Israel.


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And Jesus went about all the towns and small places, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom and making well all sorts of disease and pain.


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But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper.


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Make prayer, then, to the Lord of the grain-fields, that he may send out workers to get in his grain.


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And he got together his twelve disciples and gave them the power of driving out unclean spirits, and of making well all sorts of disease and pain.


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Now the names of the twelve are these: The first, Simon, who is named Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother;


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Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew, the tax-farmer; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;


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These twelve Jesus sent out and gave them orders, saying, Do not go among the Gentiles, or into any town of Samaria,


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Make well those who are ill, give life to the dead, make lepers clean, send evil spirits out of men; freely it has been given to you, freely give.


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Take no bag for your journey and do not take two coats or shoes or a stick: for the workman has a right to his food.


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And into whatever town or small place you go, make search there for someone who is respected, and make his house your resting-place till you go away.


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And if the house is good enough, let your peace come on it: but if not, let your peace come back to you.


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And whoever will not take you in, or give ear to your words, when you go out from that house or that town, put off its dust from your feet.


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Truly I say to you, It will be better for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of God's judging than for that town.


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But be on the watch against men: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins, and in their Synagogues they will give you blows;


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But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you;


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And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.


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And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.


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But when they are cruel to you in one town, go in flight to another: for truly, I say to you, You will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes.


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It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house!


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Have, then, no fear of them: because nothing is covered which will not come to light, or secret which will not be made clear.


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What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops.


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And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.


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To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven.


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But if anyone says before men that he has no knowledge of me, I will say that I have no knowledge of him before my Father in heaven.


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Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.


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For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law:


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He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.


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He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.


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He who gives honour to you gives honour to me; and he who gives honour to me gives honour to him who sent me.


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He who gives honour to a prophet, in the name of a prophet, will be given a prophet's reward; and he who gives honour to an upright man, in the name of an upright man, will be given an upright man's reward.


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And whoever gives to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he will not go without his reward.


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And it came about that when Jesus had come to the end of giving these orders to his twelve disciples, he went away from there, teaching and preaching in their towns.


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And Jesus, answering, said to them, Go and give news to John of the things which you are seeing and hearing:


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The blind see; those who were not able to, are walking; lepers are made clean; those who were without hearing, now have their ears open; the dead come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.


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And when they were going away, Jesus, talking of John, said to all the people, What went you out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?


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But what went you out to see? a man delicately clothed? Those who have fair robes are in kings' houses.


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This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.


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Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.


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And from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven is forcing its way in, and men of force take it.


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But what comparison may I make of this generation? It is like children seated in the market-places, crying out to one another,


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We made music for you and you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief.


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The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.


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Then he went on to say hard things to the towns where most of his works of power were done, because they had not been turned from their sins.


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Unhappy are you, Chorazin! Unhappy are you, Beth-saida! For if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have been turned from their sins in days gone by, clothing themselves in haircloth and putting dust on their heads.


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And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.


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At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.


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All things have been given to me by my Father; and no one has knowledge of the Son, but the Father; and no one has knowledge of the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.


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Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;


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At that time Jesus went through the fields on the Sabbath day; and his disciples, being in need of food, were taking the heads of grain.


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But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, See, your disciples do that which it is not right to do on the Sabbath.


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But he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did when he had need of food, and those who were with him?


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How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?


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Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?


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But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.


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And there was a man with a dead hand. And they put a question to him, saying, Is it right to make a man well on the Sabbath day? so that they might have something against him.


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And he said to them, Which of you, having a sheep, if it gets into a hole on the Sabbath day, will not put out a helping hand and get it back?


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Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! For this reason it is right to do good on the Sabbath day.


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Then said he to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and it was made as well as the other.


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And Jesus, having knowledge of this, went away from there, and a great number went after him; and he made them all well,


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See my servant, the man of my selection, my loved one in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him, and he will make my decision clear to the Gentiles.


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His coming will not be with fighting or loud cries; and his voice will not be lifted up in the streets.


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The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all.


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Then they took to him one with an evil spirit, who was blind and had no power of talking: and he made him well so that he had the power of talking and seeing.


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But the Pharisees, hearing of it, said, This man only sends evil spirits out of men by Beelzebub, the ruler of evil spirits.


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And having knowledge of their thoughts he said to them, Every kingdom having division in itself is made waste, and every town or house having division in itself will come to destruction.


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And if I by Beelzebub send evil spirits out of men, by whom do your sons send them out? So let them be your judges.


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Or how may one go into a strong man's house and take his goods, if he does not first put cords round the strong man? and then he may take his goods.


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Whoever is not with me is against me; and he who does not take part with me in getting people together, is driving them away.


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So I say to you, Every sin and every evil word against God will have forgiveness; but for evil words against the Spirit there will be no forgiveness.


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And whoever says a word against the Son of man, will have forgiveness; but whoever says a word against the Holy Spirit, will not have forgiveness in this life or in that which is to come.


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Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree.


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You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.


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The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.


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And I say to you that in the day when they are judged, men will have to give an account of every foolish word they have said.


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Then some of the scribes and Pharisees, hearing this, said to him, Master, we are looking for a sign from you.


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But he, answering, said to them, An evil and false generation is looking for a sign; and no sign will 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 stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


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The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: because they were turned from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; and now a greater than Jonah is here.


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The queen of the South will come up in the day of judging and give her decision against this generation: for she came from the ends of the earth to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon; and now a greater than Solomon is here.


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But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of a man, goes through dry places looking for rest, and getting it not.


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Then he says, I will go back into my house from which I came out; and when he comes, he sees that there is no one in it, but that it has been made fair and clean.


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Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits worse than himself, and they go in and make it their living-place: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first. Even so will it be with this evil generation.


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While he was still talking to the people, his mother and his brothers came, desiring to have talk with him.


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And one said to him, See, your mother and your brothers are outside, desiring to have talk with you.


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And great numbers of people came together to him, so that he got into a boat; and the people took up their position by the sea.


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And while he did so, some seeds were dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took them for food:


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And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep:


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And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.


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Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.


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For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.


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And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:


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For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.


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For truly, I say to you that prophets and upright men had a desire to see the things which you see, and saw them not; and to have knowledge of the words which have come to your ears, and they had it not.


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When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.


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And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy;


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But having no root in himself, he goes on for a time; and when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, he quickly becomes full of doubts.


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And that which was dropped among the thorns, this is he who has the word; and the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, put a stop to the growth of the word and it gives no fruit.


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And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.


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And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:


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But while men were sleeping, one who had hate for him came and put evil seeds among the grain, and went away.


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And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants?


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And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up?


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But he says, No, for fear that by chance while you take up the evil plants, you may be rooting up the grain with them.


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Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.


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He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field:


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Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.


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Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.


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All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:


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That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.


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Then he went away from the people, and went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Make clear to us the story of the evil plants in the field.


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And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;


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And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels.


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As then the evil plants are got together and burned with fire, so will it be in the end of the world.


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The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,


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Then will the upright be shining as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him give ear.


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The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.


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Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net, which was put into the sea and took in every sort of fish:


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When it was full, they took it up on the sands; and seated there they put the good into vessels, but the bad they put away.


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And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.


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And coming into his country, he gave them teaching in their Synagogue, so that they were greatly surprised and said, Where did this man get this wisdom and these works of power?


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Is not this the woodworker's son? is not his mother named Mary? and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?


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And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family.


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And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he has come back from the dead, and so these powers are working in him.


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And he would have put him to death, but for his fear of the people, because in their eyes John was a prophet.


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But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias was dancing before them, and Herod was pleased with her.


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And the king was sad; but because of his oaths and because of his guests, he gave the order for it to be given to her;


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And his disciples came, and took up his body and put it in the earth; and they went and gave Jesus news of what had taken place.


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Now when it came to the ears of Jesus, he went away from there in a boat, to a waste place by himself: and the people hearing of it, went after him on foot from the towns.


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And he came out and saw a great number of people and he had pity on them, and made well those of them who were ill.


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And when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying, This place is waste land, and the time is now past; send the people away so that they may go into the towns and get themselves food.


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And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.


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And they all took of the food and had enough: and they took up twelve baskets full of broken bits which were not used.


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And straight away he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, till he had sent the people away.


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And after he had sent the people away, he went up into the mountain by himself for prayer: and when evening was come, he was there by himself.


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But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, and was troubled by the waves: for the wind was against them.


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And when they saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they gave cries of fear.


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And Peter, answering, said to him, Lord, if it is you, give me the order to come to you on the water.


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But when he saw the wind he was in fear and, starting to go down, he gave a cry, saying, Help, Lord.


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And straight away Jesus put out his hand and took a grip of him, and said to him, O man of little faith, why were you in doubt?


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And when the men of that place had news of him, they sent into all the country round about, and took to him all who were ill,


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With the request that they might only put their hands on the edge of his robe: and all those who did so were made well.


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Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.


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And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?


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For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.


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But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;


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There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.


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Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?


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But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.


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Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.


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Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?


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For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:


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These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.


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And a woman of Canaan came out from those parts, crying and saying, Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.


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But he gave her no answer. And his disciples came and said to him, Send her away, for she is crying after us.


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Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.


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And Jesus went from there and came to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and took his seat there.


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And there came to him great numbers of people having with them those who were broken in body, or blind, or without voice, or wounded, or ill in any way, and a number of others; they put them down at his feet and he made them well:


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So that the people were full of wonder when they saw that those who had no voice were talking, the feeble were made strong, those whose bodies were broken had the power of walking, and the blind were able to see: and they gave glory to the God of Israel.


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And Jesus got his disciples together and said, I have pity for the people, because they have now been with me three days and have no food: and I will not send them away without food, or they will have no strength for the journey.


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And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?


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And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.


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And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven.


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And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times.


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An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. And he went away from them.


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And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


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And Jesus, seeing it, said, O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you have no bread?


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Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?


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How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?


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Then they saw that it was not the leaven of bread which he had in mind, but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


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Now when Jesus had come into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he said, questioning his disciples, Who do men say that the Son of man is?


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And they said, Some say, John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.


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And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.


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And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.


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I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever is fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.


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From that time Jesus went on to make clear to his disciples how he would have to go up to Jerusalem, and undergo much at the hands of those in authority and the chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and the third day come again from the dead.


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And Peter, protesting, said to him, Be it far from you, Lord; it is impossible that this will come about.


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But he, turning to Peter, said, Get out of my way, Satan: you are a danger to me because your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.


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Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.


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Because whoever has a desire to keep his life safe will have it taken from him; but whoever gives up his life because of me, will have it given back to him.


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For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?


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For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he will give to every man the reward of his works.


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Truly I say to you, There are some of those here who will not have a taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.


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And after six days Jesus takes with him Peter, and James, and John, his brother, and makes them go up with him into a high mountain by themselves.


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And he was changed in form before them; and his face was shining like the sun, and his clothing became white as light.


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And Peter made answer and said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if you will let me, I will make here three tents, one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.


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While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.


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And when they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus gave them orders, saying, Let no man have word of what you have seen, till the Son of man has come again from the dead.


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And his disciples, questioning him, said, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?


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But I say to you that Elijah has come, and they had no knowledge of him, but did to him whatever they were pleased to do; the same will the Son of man undergo at their hands.


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Lord have mercy on my son: for he is off his head, and is in great pain; and frequently he goes falling into the fire, and frequently into the water.


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And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.


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And Jesus gave orders to the unclean spirit, and it went out of him: and the boy was made well from that hour.


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And he says to them, Because of your little faith: for truly I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Be moved from this place to that; and it will be moved; and nothing will be impossible to you.


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And while they were going about in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man will be given up into the hands of men;


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And they will put him to death, and the third day he will come again from the dead. And they were very sad.


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And when they had come to Capernaum, those who took the Temple tax came to Peter and said, Does not your master make payment of the Temple tax?


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He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus said to him, What is your opinion, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth get payment or tax? from their sons or from other people?


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But, so that we may not be a cause of trouble to them, go to the sea, and let down a hook, and take the first fish which comes up; and in his mouth you will see a bit of money: take that, and give it to them for me and you.


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And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.


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Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.


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But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea.


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A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.


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And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire.


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And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire.


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Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.


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What would you say now? if a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone wandering away, will he not let the ninety-nine be, and go to the mountains in search of the wandering one?


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And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.


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Even so it is not the pleasure of your Father in heaven for one of these little ones to come to destruction.


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And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again.


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But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.


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And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.


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Truly I say to you, Whatever things are fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.


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Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.


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Then Peter came and said to him, Lord, what number of times may my brother do wrong against me, and I give him forgiveness? till seven times?


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And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.


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So the servant went down on his face and gave him worship, saying, Lord, give me time to make payment and I will give you all.


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But that servant went out, and meeting one of the other servants, who was in debt to him for one hundred pence, he took him by the throat, saying, Make payment of your debt.


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So that servant went down on his face, requesting him and saying, Give me time and I will make payment to you.


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So when the other servants saw what was done they were very sad, and came and gave word to their lord of what had been done.


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Then his lord sent for him and said, You evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me:


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And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt.


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So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.


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And it came about that after saying these words, Jesus went away from Galilee, and came into the parts of Judaea on the other side of Jordan.


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And certain Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, Is it right for a man to put away his wife for every cause?


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And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,


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For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?


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So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.


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They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?


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He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.


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And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.


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The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.


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But he said to them, Not all men are able to take in this saying, but only those to whom it is given.


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For there are men who, from birth, were without sex: and there are some who were made so by men: and there are others who have made themselves so for the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to take it, let him take it.


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Then some people took little children to him, so that he might put his hands on them in blessing: and the disciples said sharp words to them.


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But Jesus said, Let the little ones come to me, and do not keep them away: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.


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And one came to him and said, Master, what good thing have I to do, so that I may have eternal life?


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And he said to him, Why are you questioning me about what is good? One there is who is good: but if you have a desire to go into life, keep the rules of the law.


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He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Do not put anyone to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness,


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Jesus said to him, If you have a desire to be complete, go, get money for your property, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come after me.


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And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, It is hard for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of heaven.


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And again I say to you, It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.


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And Jesus, looking at them, said, With men this is not possible; but with God all things are possible.


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Then Peter said to him, See, we have given up everything and have come after you; what then will we have?


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And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that in the time when all things are made new, and the Son of man is seated in his glory, you who have come after me will be seated on twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.


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For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden.


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And when he had made an agreement with the workmen for a penny a day, he sent them into his vine-garden.


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And he said to them, Go into the vine-garden with the others, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went to work.


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And about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others doing nothing; and he says to them, Why are you here all the day doing nothing?


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They say to him, Because no man has given us work. He says to them, Go in with the rest, into the vine-garden.


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And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first.


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And when those men came who had gone to work at the eleventh hour, they were given every man a penny.


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Then those who came first had the idea that they would get more; and they, like the rest, were given a penny.


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Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.


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But he in answer said to one of them, Friend, I do you no wrong: did you not make an agreement with me for a penny?


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And when Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples on one side, and said to them,


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See, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be given into the hands of the chief priests and scribes; and they will give orders for him to be put to death,


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And will give him up to the Gentiles to be made sport of and to be whipped and to be put to death on the cross: and the third day he will come back again from the dead.


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Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, giving him worship and making a request of him.


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And he said to her, What is your desire? She says to him, Let my two sons be seated, the one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom.


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But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?


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They say to him, We are able. He says to them, Truly, you will take of my cup: but to be seated at my right hand and at my left is not for me to give, but it is for those for whom my Father has made it ready.


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But Jesus said to them, You see that the rulers of the Gentiles are lords over them, and their great ones have authority over them.


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Let it not be so among you: but if anyone has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant;


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Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.


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And two blind men seated by the wayside, when they had the news that Jesus was going by, gave a loud cry, saying, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.


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And the people gave them orders to be quiet; but they went on crying even louder, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.


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And Jesus, being moved with pity, put his fingers on their eyes: and straight away they were able to see, and went after him.


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And when they were near Jerusalem, and had come to Beth-phage, to the Mountain of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,


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Saying to them, Go into the little town in front of you, and straight away you will see an ass with a cord round her neck, and a young one with her; let them loose and come with them to me.


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And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, The Lord has need of them; and straight away he will send them.


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Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your King comes to you, gentle and seated on an ass, and on a young ass.


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And all the people put their clothing down in the way; and others got branches from the trees, and put them down in the way.


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And those who went before him, and those who came after, gave loud cries, saying, Glory to the Son of David: A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord: Glory in the highest.


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And Jesus went into the Temple and sent out all who were trading there, overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those trading in doves.


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And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves.


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But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the works of power which he did, and the children crying out in the Temple, Glory to the son of David, they were angry and said to him,


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Have you any idea what these are saying? And Jesus said to them, Yes: have you not seen in the Writings, From the lips of children and babies at the breast you have made your praise complete?


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And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.


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And when the disciples saw it they were surprised, saying, How did the fig-tree become dry in so short a time?


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And Jesus in answer said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have faith, without doubting, not only may you do what has been done to the fig-tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and put into the sea, it will be done.


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And when he had come into the Temple, the chief priests and those in authority over the people came to him while he was teaching, and said, By what authority do you do these things? and who gave you this authority?


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And Jesus said to them in answer, I will put one question to you, and if you give me the answer, I will say by what authority I do these things.


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The baptism of John, where did it come from? from heaven or from men? And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven; he will say to us, Why then did you not have faith in him?


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And they made answer and said, We have no idea. Then he said to them, And I will not say to you by what authority I do these things.


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But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.


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Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.


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For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.


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Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.


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And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.


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But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.


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They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.


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Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?


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For this reason I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.


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And when his stories came to the ears of the chief priests and the Pharisees, they saw that he was talking of them.


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And though they had a desire to take him, they were in fear of the people, because in their eyes he was a prophet.


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Again he sent out other servants, with orders to say to the guests, See, I have made ready my feast: my oxen and my fat beasts have been put to death, and all things are ready: come to the feast.


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But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.


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And those servants went out into the streets, and got together all those whom they came across, bad and good: and the feast was full of guests.


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And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.


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Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.


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And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.


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They say to him, Caesar's. Then he said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.


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On the same day there came to him the Sadducees, who say that there is no coming back from the dead: and they put a question to him, saying,


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Master, Moses said, If a man, at the time of his death, has no children, let his brother take his wife, and get a family for his brother;


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Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;


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When they come back from the dead, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? because they all had her.


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But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.


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For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.


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But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings:


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I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.


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And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.


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The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put under your feet all those who are against you?


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And no one was able to give him an answer, and so great was their fear of him, that from that day no one put any more questions to him.


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All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.


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They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.


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But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,


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And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues,


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But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.


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A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you go about land and sea to get one disciple and, having him, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.


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A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.


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And, Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the offering which is on it, he is responsible.


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A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.


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A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.


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You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.


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A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.


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Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.


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A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,


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If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.


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So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.


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For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;


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So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.


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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!


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For I say to you, You will not see me from this time till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.


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And Jesus went out of the Temple, and on the way his disciples came to him, pointing out the buildings of the Temple.


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But he, answering, said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say to you that here there will not be one stone resting on another, which will not be pulled down.


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And while he was seated on the Mountain of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Make clear to us, when will these things be? and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the world?


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For people will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and a number will be turned from the true way through them.


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And news will come to you of wars and talk of wars: do not be troubled, for these things have to be; but it is still not the end.


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For nation will be moved against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and men will be without food, and the earth will be shaking in different places;


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Then they will be cruel to you, and will put you to death: and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.


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And numbers of people will be turned from the right way, and will give one another up and have hate for one another.


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And this good news of the kingdom will be given through all the world for a witness to all nations; and then the end will come.


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When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet (let this be clear to the reader),


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But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.


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Because in those days there will be great sorrow, such as there has not been from the start of the world till now, or ever will be.


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And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.


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For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.


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If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.


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Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.


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But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:


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And then the sign of the Son of man will be seen in heaven: and then all the nations of the earth will have sorrow, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.


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And he will send out his angels with a great sound of a horn, and they will get his saints together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.


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Now take an example from the fig-tree: when her branch has become soft and puts out its leaves, you are certain that the summer is near;


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But of that day and hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father only.


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Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,


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And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.


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But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.


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Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time?


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The lord of that servant will come in a day when he is not looking for him, and in an hour of which he has no knowledge,


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And will have him cut in two, and will give him a part in the fate of the false ones: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.


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Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, the friends of the bride, who took their lights, and went out with the purpose of meeting the husband.


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But the wise made answer, saying, There may not be enough for us and you; it would be better for you to go to the traders and get oil for yourselves.


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And while they went to get oil, the master came; and those who were ready went in with him to the feast: and the door was shut.


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For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property.


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And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to everyone as he was able; and he went on his journey.


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Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more.


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But he who was given the one went away and put it in a hole in the earth, and kept his lord's money in a secret place.


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And he who had the five talents came with his other five talents, saying, Lord, you gave into my care five talents: see, I have got five more.


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His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.


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And he who had the two talents came and said, Lord, you gave into my care two talents: see, I have got two more.


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And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work:


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But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,


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Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest?


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For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have more: but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.


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And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.


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But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he be seated in his glory:


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And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper.


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Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:


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For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in;


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Then will the upright make answer to him, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food, and give it to you? or in need of drink, and give it to you?


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And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.


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Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:


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For I was in need of food, and you gave it not to me; I was in need of drink, and you gave it not to me:


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I was wandering, and you took me not in; without clothing, and you gave me no clothing; ill, and in prison, and you came not to me.


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Then will they make answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food or drink, or wandering, or without clothing, or ill, or in prison, and did not take care of you?


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Then will he make answer to them, saying, Truly I say to you, Because you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.


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Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.


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There came to him a woman having a bottle of perfume of great price, and she put the perfume on his head when he was seated at table.


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Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news goes out in all the world, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.


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Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal?


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And he said to them, Go into the town to such a man, and say to him, The Master says, My time is near: I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.


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And he made answer and said, He who puts his hand into the plate with me, the same will be false to me.


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The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but a curse is on that man through whom the Son of man is given up; it would have been well for that man if he had never come into the world.


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And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.


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Take of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the testament, which is given for men for the forgiveness of sins.


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But I say to you that from now I will not take of this fruit of the vine, till that day when I take it new with you in my Father's kingdom.


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Then said Jesus to them, All of you will be turned away from me this night: for it is said in the Writings, I will put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep of the flock will be put to flight.


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But Peter made answer and said to him, Though all may be turned away from you, I will never be turned away.


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Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you that this night, before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me.


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Peter says to him, Even if I am put to death with you, I will not be false to you. So said all the disciples.


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Then comes Jesus with them to a place named Gethsemane, and says to his disciples, Be seated here, while I go over there for prayer.


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And he went forward a little, and falling down on his face in prayer, he said, O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup go from me; but let not my pleasure, but yours be done.


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And he comes to the disciples, and sees that they are sleeping, and says to Peter, What, were you not able to keep watch with me one hour?


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Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.


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Again, a second time he went away, and said in prayer, O my Father, if this may not go from me without my taking it, let your pleasure be done.


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Then he comes to the disciples; and says to them, Go on sleeping now, and take your rest: for the hour is come, and the Son of man is given into the hands of evil men.


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And while he was still talking, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a band armed with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and those in authority over the people.


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Now the false one had given them a sign saying, The one to whom I give a kiss, that is he: take him.


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And Jesus said to him, Friend, do that for which you have come. Then they came and put hands on Jesus, and took him.


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And one of those who were with Jesus put out his hand, and took out his sword and gave the servant of the high priest a blow, cutting off his ear.


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Then says Jesus to him, Put up your sword again into its place: for all those who take the sword will come to death by the sword.


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Does it not seem possible to you that if I make request to my Father he will even now send me an army of angels?


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In that hour Jesus said to the people, Have you come out as against a thief with swords and sticks to take me? I was teaching every day in the Temple and you took me not.


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But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.


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And those who had made Jesus prisoner took him away to the house of Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and those in authority over the people had come together.


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But Peter went after him at a distance, to the house of the high priest, and went in and took his seat with the servants, to see the end.


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Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;


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But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.


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And the high priest got up and said to him, Have you no answer? what is it which these say against you?


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But Jesus said not a word. And the high priest said to him, I put you on oath, by the living God, that you will say to us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.


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Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you, From now you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.


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Then the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, He has said evil against God: what more need have we of witnesses? for now his words against God have come to your ears:


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Now Peter was seated in the open square outside the house: and a servant-girl came to him, saying, You were with Jesus the Galilaean.


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And when he had gone out into the doorway, another saw him and says to those who were there, This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.


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And after a little time those who were near came and said to Peter, Truly you are one of them; because your talk is witness against you.


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Then with curses and oaths he said, I have no knowledge of the man. And straight away there came the cry of a cock.


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And the word of Jesus came back to Peter, when he said, Before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And he went out, weeping bitterly.


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Now when it was morning, all the chief priests and those in authority took thought together with the purpose of putting Jesus to death.


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Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority,


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Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.


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And the chief priests took the silver and said, It is not right to put it in the Temple store for it is the price of blood.


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And they made a decision to get with the silver the potter's field, as a place for the dead of other countries.


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Then came true that which was said by Jeremiah the prophet, And they took the thirty bits of silver, the price of him who was valued by the children of Israel;


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And Jesus was before the ruler, who put a question to him, Are you the King of the Jews? And Jesus said to him, You say so.


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Now at the feast it was the way for the ruler to let free to the people one prisoner, at their selection.


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So when they came together, Pilate said to them, Whom will you have? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is named Christ?


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And while he was on the judge's seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that upright man, for I have had much trouble this day in a dream because of him.


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Now the chief priests and those in authority got the people to make request for Barabbas, and for Jesus to be put to death.


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But the ruler made answer and said to them, Which of the two is it your pleasure that I let go free? And they said, Barabbas.


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Pilate says to them, What, then, am I to do with Jesus, who is named Christ? They all say, Let him be put to death on the cross.


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So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible.


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Then he let Barabbas go free: but after having Jesus whipped, he gave him up to be put to death on the cross.


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And they made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a rod in his right hand, and they went down on their knees before him, and made sport of him, saying, Long life to the King of the Jews.


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And when they had made sport of him, they took the robe off him, and put his clothing on him, and took him away to put him on the cross.


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And while they were coming out, they saw a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they made him go with them, so that he might take up his cross.


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And when they had put him on the cross, they made division of his clothing among them by the decision of chance.


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And they put up over his head the statement of his crime in writing, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.


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You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.


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In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said,


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A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him.


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He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.


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And about the ninth hour Jesus gave a loud cry, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why are you turned away from me?


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And straight away one of them went quickly, and took a sponge, and made it full of bitter wine, and put it on a rod and gave him drink.


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And the curtain of the Temple was parted in two from end to end; and there was an earth-shock; and the rocks were broken;


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And the resting-places of the dead came open; and the bodies of a number of sleeping saints came to life;


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And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people.


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Now the captain and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earth-shock and the things which were done, were in great fear and said, Truly this was a son of God.


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And a number of women were there, watching from a distance, who had come with Jesus from Galilee, waiting on his needs.


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Among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.


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And in the evening, there came a man of wealth from Arimathaea, Joseph by name, who was a disciple of Jesus:


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This man went in to Pilate, and made a request for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate gave orders for it to be given to him.


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And put it in the resting-place which had been cut out of the rock for himself; and after rolling a great stone to the door of it he went away.


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Now on the day after the getting ready of the Passover, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate,


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Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead.


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Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.


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So they went, and made safe the place where his body was, putting a stamp on the stone, and the watchmen were with them.


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Now late on the Sabbath, when the dawn of the first day of the week was near, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the place where his body was.


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And there was a great earth-shock; for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, rolling back the stone, took his seat on it.


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And the angel said to the women, Have no fear: for I see that you are searching for Jesus, who was put to death on the cross.


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And go quickly and give his disciples the news that he has come back from the dead, and is going before you into Galilee; there you will see him, as I have said to you.


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And on the way, Jesus came to them, saying, Be glad. And they came and put their hands on his feet, and gave him worship.


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Then said Jesus to them, Have no fear: go and give word to my brothers to go into Galilee, and there they will see me.


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Now, while they were going, some of the watchmen came into the town and gave news to the chief priests of all the things which had taken place.


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And when they had come together with those in authority, and had made their decision, they gave much money to the watchmen, saying,


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So they took the money, and did as they had been ordered: and this account has been current among the Jews till the present time.


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But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had given them orders to go.


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Go then, and make disciples of all the nations, giving them baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:


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Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.


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Even as it is said in the book of Isaiah the prophet, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way;


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John came, and gave baptism in the waste land, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.


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And there went out to him all the people of Judaea, and all those of Jerusalem, and they were given baptism by him in the river Jordan, saying that they were sinners.


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And John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.


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And he said to them all, There is one coming after me who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo.


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And it came about in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was given baptism by John in the Jordan.


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And straight away, coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens broken open and the Spirit coming down on him as a dove:


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And he was in the waste land for forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the beasts; and the angels took care of him.


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And saying, The time has come, and the kingdom of God is near: let your hearts be turned from sin and have faith in the good news.


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And going by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, the brother of Simon, putting a net into the sea: for they were fishermen.


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And going on a little farther, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were in their boat stitching up their nets.


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And he said, Come after me: and they went away from their father Zebedee, who was in the boat with the servants, and came after him.


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And they were full of wonder at his teaching, because he gave it as one having authority, and not like the scribes.


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Saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I see well who you are, the Holy One of God.


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And they were all greatly surprised, so that they put questions to one another, saying, What is this? a new teaching! with authority he gives orders even to the unclean spirits, and they do what he says.


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And when they came out of the Synagogue, they went into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.


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And he came and took her by the hand, lifting her up; and she became well, and took care of their needs.


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And in the evening, at sundown, they took to him all who were diseased, and those who had evil spirits.


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And a number, who were ill with different diseases, he made well, and sent out evil spirits; but he did not let the evil spirits say anything, because they had knowledge of him.


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And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.


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And he said to them, Let us go to other parts into the nearest towns, so that I may give teaching there, because for this purpose I came.


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And a leper came to him and, going down on his knees before him, made a request, saying, If it is your pleasure, you have the power to make me clean.


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And being moved with pity, he put out his hand, and touching him said to him, It is my pleasure; be made clean.


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See that you say nothing to any man: but go and let the priest see you, and make yourself clean by an offering of the things ordered by Moses, for a witness to them.


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But he went out, and made it public, giving an account of it everywhere, so that Jesus was no longer able to go openly into a town, but was outside in the waste land; and they came to him from every part.


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And when he came into Capernaum again after some days, the news went about that he was in the house.


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And a great number had come together, so that there was no longer room for them, no, not even about the door: and he gave them teaching.


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And when they were unable to get near him because of all the people, they got the roof uncovered where he was: and when it was broken up, they let down the bed on which the man was.


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Why does this man say such things? he has no respect for God: from whom does forgiveness come but from God only?


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And Jesus, having knowledge in his spirit of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?


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Which is the simpler, to say to a man who is ill, You have forgiveness for your sins, or, Get up, take up your bed, and go?


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But so that you may see that the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins on earth, (he said to the man,)


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And he got up, and straight away took up the bed and went out before them all, so that they were all full of wonder, and gave glory to God, saying, We have never seen anything like this.


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And when he went by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and he said to him, Come with me. And he got up, and went with him.


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And it came about that he was seated at meat in his house, and a number of tax-farmers and sinners were at table with Jesus and his disciples: for there were a great number of them, and they came after him.


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And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was taking food with the tax-farmers and sinners, said to his disciples, Why does he take food and drink with such men?


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And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill: I have come not to get the upright but sinners.


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And John's disciples and the Pharisees were taking no food: and they came and said to him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees go without food, but your disciples do not?


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And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.


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But the days will come when the husband will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.


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No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.


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And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.


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And it came about that on the Sabbath day he was going through the grain-fields; and while they were walking, his disciples took the heads of grain.


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And he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did, when he had need and was without food, he, and those who were with him?


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How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?


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And they were watching him to see if he would make him well on the Sabbath day, so that they might have something against him.


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And he said to them, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? to give life or to put to death? But they said nothing.


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And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.


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And the Pharisees went out, and straight away made designs with the Herodians about how they might put him to death.


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And Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great number from Galilee came after him: and from Judaea,


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And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and the other side of Jordan, and the country about Tyre and Sidon, a great number, hearing what great things he did, came to him.


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And he made a request to his disciples to have a little boat ready for him, so that he might not be crushed by the people;


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For he had made such a great number well that all those who were diseased were falling down before him for the purpose of touching him.


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And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, went down before him, crying out, and saying, You are the Son of God.


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And he went up into the mountain, and sent for those whom it was his pleasure to have with him: and they went to him.


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And to James, the son of Zebedee, and John, the brother of James, he gave the second name of 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 Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot;


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And he went into a house. And the people came together again, so that they were not even able to take bread.


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And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem, said, He has Beelzebub, and, By the ruler of evil spirits he sends evil spirits out of men.


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And turning to them, he said to them in the form of a story, How is it possible for Satan to put out Satan?


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And if Satan is at war with himself, and there is division in him, he will not keep his place but will come to an end.


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But no one is able to go into the house of the strong man and take his goods, without first putting cords round the strong man, and then he will take his goods.


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Truly, I say to you, The sons of men will have forgiveness for all their sins and for all the evil words they say:


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But whoever says evil things against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but the evil he has done will be with him for ever:


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And a great number were seated round him; and they said to him, See, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.


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And again he was teaching by the seaside. And a very great number of people had come to him, so that he got into a boat on the sea and took his seat; and all the people were on the land by the seaside.


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And he gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear:


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And while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took it for food.


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And some went on the stones, where it had not much earth; and it came up straight away, because the earth was not deep:


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And some went among the thorns, and the thorns came up, and it had no room for growth and gave no fruit.


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And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, coming up and increasing, and giving thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.


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And when he was by himself, those who were round him with the twelve put questions to him about the purpose of the stories.


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And he said to them, To you is given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are given in the form of stories;


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So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.


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And these are they by the wayside, where the word is planted; and when they have given ear, the Evil One comes straight away and takes away the word which has been planted in them.


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And in the same way, these are they who are planted on the stones, who, when the word has come to their ears, straight away take it with joy;


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And they have no root in themselves, but go on for a time; then, when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, they quickly become full of doubts.


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And the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, and the desire for other things coming in, put a stop to the growth of the word, and it gives no fruit.


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And these are they who were planted on the good earth; such as give ear to the word, and take it into their hearts, and give fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundred times as much.


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And he said to them, When the light comes in, do people put it under a vessel, or under the bed, and not on its table?


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There is nothing covered which will not be seen openly, and nothing has been made secret which will not come to light.


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And he said to them, Take care what you give ear to: in the same measure as you give you will get, and more will be given to you.


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He who has, to him will be given: and he who has not, from him will be taken even that which he has.


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And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.


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But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.


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And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?


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It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth,


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But when it is planted, it comes up, and becomes taller than all the plants, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to take rest in its shade.


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And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear.


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And going away from the people, they took him with them, as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him.


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And a great storm of wind came up, and the waves came into the boat, so that the boat was now becoming full.


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And he himself was in the back of the boat, sleeping on the cushion: and they, awaking him, said, Master, is it nothing to you that we are in danger of destruction?


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And he came out of his sleep, and gave strong orders to the wind, and said to the sea, Peace, be at rest. And the wind went down, and there was a great calm.


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And their fear was great, and they said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea do his orders?


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And when he had got out of the boat, straight away there came to him from the place of the dead a man with an unclean spirit.


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Because he had frequently been prisoned in chains and iron bands, and the chains had been parted and the bands broken by him: and no man was strong enough to make him quiet.


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And all the time, by day and by night, in the place of the dead, and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.


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And crying out with a loud voice he said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name, do not be cruel to me.


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And Jesus said, What is your name? And he made answer, My name is Legion, because there are a great number of us.


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And he let them do it. And the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs; and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the sea, about two thousand of them; and they came to their death in the sea.


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And their keepers went running and gave an account of it in the town and in the country. And people came to see what had taken place.


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And they came to Jesus, and saw the man in whom had been the evil spirits seated, clothed and with full use of his senses, and they were full of fear.


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And those who had seen it gave them an account of what had been done to him who had the evil spirits, and of the fate of the pigs.


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And when he was getting into the boat, the man in whom had been the evil spirits had a great desire to come with him.


