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


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In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;


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with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house.


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And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to its place; and thou shalt put them in the house of God.


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Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, be ye far from thence:


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


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


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


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that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savor unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.


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Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this:


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and the God that hath caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples that shall put forth their hand to alter `the same', to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence.


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Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, because that Darius the king had sent, did accordingly with all diligence.


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


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


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


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


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


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For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and they killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.


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And the children of Israel that were come again out of the captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Jehovah, the God of Israel, did eat,


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


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


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


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


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


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For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.


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Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Jehovah, and of his statutes to Israel:


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Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect and so forth.


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I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, that are minded of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with thee.


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Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king and his seven counsellors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thy hand,


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


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and all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;


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therefore thou shalt with all diligence buy with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings and their drink-offerings, and shalt offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.


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And whatsoever shall seem good to thee and to thy brethren to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do ye after the will of your God.


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And the vessels that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.


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And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure-house.


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And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers that are beyond the River, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done with all diligence,


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


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


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


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And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God that is in thy hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people that are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye him that knoweth them not.


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And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon him with all diligence, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.


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Blessed be Jehovah, the God of our fathers, who hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem;


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and hath extended lovingkindness unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened according to the hand of Jehovah my God upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.


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Now these are the heads of their fathers' `houses', and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:


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Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males a hundred and fifty.


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And of the sons of Adonikam, `that were' the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them threescore males.


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


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


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And I sent them forth unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, `and' his brethren the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.


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And according to the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;


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and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were mentioned by name.


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


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


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Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,


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


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I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels a hundred talents; of gold a hundred talents;


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and twenty bowls of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.


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And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto Jehovah, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill-offering unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers.


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Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' `houses' of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Jehovah.


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


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Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth `day' of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the lier-in-wait by the way.


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


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The children of the captivity, that were come out of exile, offered burnt-offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burnt-offering unto Jehovah.


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And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's satraps, and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered the people and the house of God.


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


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


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


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Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the trespass of them of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening oblation.


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And at the evening oblation I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe rent; and I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto Jehovah my God;


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and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.


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Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.


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


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For we are bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended lovingkindness unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.


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which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness:


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now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.


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And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such a remnant,


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shall we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?


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O Jehovah, the God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our guiltiness; for none can stand before thee because of this.


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Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together unto him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore.


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And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.


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


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Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they sware.


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Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and `when' he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.


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


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and that whosoever came not within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.


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Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth `day' of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.


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And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.


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Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.


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Then all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said concerning us, so must we do.


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


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Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all them that are in our cities that have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter be despatched.


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Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this `matter': and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.


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And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, `with' certain heads of fathers' `houses', after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.


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And they made an end with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.


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And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women: `namely', of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.


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And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, `they offered' a ram of the flock for their guilt.


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


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And of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.


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And of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.


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The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,


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


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


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


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and said, I beseech thee, O Jehovah, the God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments:


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Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee. Yea, I and my father's house have sinned:


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we have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.


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Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples:


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but if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.


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Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.


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O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who delight to fear thy name; and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was cupbearer to the king.


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


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And the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.


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


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And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favor in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.


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


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Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through till I come unto Judah;


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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Then said I unto them, Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.


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


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


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


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Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananel.


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And the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.


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And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.


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


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And the old gate repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.


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And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, `that appertained' to the throne of the governor beyond the River.


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Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths. And next unto him repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they fortified Jerusalem even unto the broad wall.


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And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabneiah.


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Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.


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And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.


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


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And the dung gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.


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And the fountain gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.


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After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and unto the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty men.


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After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, for his district.


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After him repaired their brethren, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah.


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And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another portion, over against the ascent to the armory at the turning `of the wall'.


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After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning `of the wall' unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.


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After him repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.


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After them repaired Benjamin and Hasshub over against their house. After them repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah beside his own house.


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After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another portion, from the house of Azariah unto the turning `of the wall', and unto the corner.


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Palal the son of Uzai `repaired' over against the turning `of the wall', and the tower that standeth out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh `repaired'.


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(Now the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that standeth out.)


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After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, over against the great tower that standeth out, and unto the wall of Ophel.


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After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his own house. And after him repaired Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate.


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


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After him repaired Malchijah one of the goldsmiths unto the house of the Nethinim, and of the merchants, over against the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.


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


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


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


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Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;


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and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee; for they have provoked `thee' to anger before the builders.


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


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But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, `and' that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;


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and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.


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


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And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.


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And it came to pass that, when the Jews that dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times from all places, Ye must return unto us.


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Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set `there' the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.


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And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.


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And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.


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


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They all builded the wall and they that bare burdens laded themselves; every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other held his weapon;


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


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


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in what place soever ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us; our God will fight for us.


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


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


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So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our clothes, every one `went with' his weapon `to' the water.


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For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.


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Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.


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


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Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage `already': neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.


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Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.


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And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that were sold unto the nations; and would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.


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Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?


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And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.


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Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.


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


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


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


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But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.


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


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Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, a hundred and fifty men, besides those that came unto us from among the nations that were round about us.


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


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


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


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


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


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wherein was written, It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause thou art building the wall: and thou wouldest be their king, according to these words.


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


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Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.


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For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. But now, `O God', strengthen thou my hands.


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And I went unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.


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


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And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.


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


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Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.


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And it came to pass, when all our enemies heard `thereof', that all the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.


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


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For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah to wife.


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


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


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that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.


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


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


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


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who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:


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The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred `and' eighteen.


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


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


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the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Amon.


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And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:


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And of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.


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


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


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besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.


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And some from among the heads of fathers' `houses' gave unto the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.


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And some of the heads of fathers' `houses' gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.


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And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments.


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So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities. And when the seventh month was come, the children of Israel were in their cities.


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


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


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And he read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were `attentive' unto the book of the law.


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


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


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


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


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And they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.


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And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto Jehovah your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.


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Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye grieved; for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.


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


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


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And on the second day were gathered together the heads of fathers' `houses' of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words of the law.


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And they found written in the law, how that Jehovah had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;


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


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


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And all the assembly of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and dwelt in the booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.


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


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


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


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And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Jehovah their God a fourth part of the day; and `another' fourth part they confessed, and worshipped Jehovah their God.


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Then stood up upon the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, `and' Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto Jehovah their God.


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Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, `and' Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless Jehovah your God from everlasting to everlasting; and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.


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Thou art Jehovah, even thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.


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Thou art Jehovah the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham,


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and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it unto his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous.


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and showedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them, and didst get thee a name, as it is this day.


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And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.


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Moreover in a pillar of cloud thou leddest them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.


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Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,


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and madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses thy servant,


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and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commandedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.


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But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,


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and refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and forsookest them not.


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Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;


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yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go.


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Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.


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Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, `and' they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.


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Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, which thou didst allot after their portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.


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Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.


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So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.


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And they took fortified cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit-trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.


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Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets that testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.


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Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.


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But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee; therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies,


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and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them,) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.


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Yet many years didst thou bear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.


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Nevertheless in thy manifold mercies thou didst not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.


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Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and lovingkindness, let not all the travail seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.


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Howbeit thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;


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neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies wherewith thou didst testify against them.


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For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.


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Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it.


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And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.


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And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, `and' our priests, seal unto it.


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


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


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and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;


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and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.


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


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for the showbread, and for the continual meal-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, for the sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin-offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.


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And we cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law;


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and to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, unto the house of Jehovah;


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also the first-born of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God;


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and that we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.


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


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


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And the princes of the people dwelt in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the `other' cities.


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


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And in Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;


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and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.


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


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And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.


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


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and their brethren that did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty and two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,


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and his brethren, chiefs of fathers' `houses', two hundred forty and two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,


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and their brethren, mighty men of valor, a hundred twenty and eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.


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And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;


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and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;


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and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.


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Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred seventy and two.


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


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


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For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.


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


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And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt in Kiriath-arba and the towns thereof, and in Dibon and the towns thereof, and in Jekabzeel and the villages thereof,


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Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and the fields thereof, Azekah and the towns thereof. So they encamped from Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.


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The children of Benjamin also `dwelt' from Geba `onward', at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof,


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


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


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Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, `and' Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.


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And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' `houses': of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;


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As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers' `houses'; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.


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The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' `houses', were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.


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And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.


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Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch at the store-houses of the gates.


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


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


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


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also from Beth-gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.


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


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


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and certain of the priests' sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;


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and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.


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And by the fountain gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.


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And the other company of them that gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, upon the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even unto the broad wall,


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and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.


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


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


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


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


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And on that day were men appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the heave-offerings, for the first-fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.


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And they kept the charge of their God, and the charge of the purification, and `so did' the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.


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For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.


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And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, as every day required: and they set apart `that which was' for the Levites; and the Levites set apart `that which was' for the sons of Aaron.


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


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because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.


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


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Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, being allied unto Tobiah,


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had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the heave-offerings for the priests.


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But in all this `time' I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went unto the king: and after certain days asked I leave of the king,


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, who brought in fish, and all manner of wares, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.


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


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


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


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


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And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember unto me, O my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy lovingkindness.


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


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


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


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Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?


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


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


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Thus cleansed I them from all foreigners, and appointed charges for the priests and for the Levites, every one in his work;


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


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


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


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


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


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


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`There were hangings of' white `cloth', `of' green, and `of' blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the couches were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and white, and yellow, and black marble.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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and the next unto him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom),


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What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not done the bidding of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?


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


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


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And this day will the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the deed of the queen say `the like' unto all the king's princes. So `will there arise' much contempt and wrath.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives that had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.


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


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


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


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Esther had not made known her people nor her kindred; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.


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


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Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that it had been done to her according to the law for the women twelve months (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, `to wit', six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors and with the things for the purifying of the women),


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then in this wise came the maiden unto the king: whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.


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


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


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


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


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


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And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate.


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


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


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And the thing became known to Mordecai, who showed it unto Esther the queen; and Esther told the king `thereof' in Mordecai's name.


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


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


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


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Then the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?


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


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And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not down, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published unto all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.


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


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Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;


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and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.


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


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


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Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it was.


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So Hathach went forth to Mordecai unto the broad place of the city, which was before the king's gate.


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


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


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


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Then Mordecai bade them return answer unto Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.


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For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father's house will perish: and who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?


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


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


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


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Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be given thee even to the half of the kingdom.


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


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Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that it may be done as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.


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


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


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


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Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife.


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


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


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


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


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And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, of those that kept the threshold, who had sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.


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


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


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


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


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let royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and on the head of which a crown royal is set:


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


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


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Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor.


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


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And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.


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While they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.


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


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


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for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.


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


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And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.


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


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


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Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him thereon.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And he wrote the name of king Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by post on horseback, riding on swift steeds that were used in the king's service, bred of the stud:


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


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upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, `namely', upon the thirteenth `day' of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.


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A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published unto all the peoples, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.


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So the posts that rode upon swift steeds that were used in the king's service went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment; and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace.


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


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And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness and joy, a feast and a good day. And many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen upon them.


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


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


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And all the princes of the provinces, and the satraps, and the governors, and they that did the king's business, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai was fallen upon them.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of them that hated them seventy and five thousand; but on the spoil they laid not their hand.


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`This was done' on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.


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


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Therefore do the Jews of the villages, that dwell in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar `a day of' gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.


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


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to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,


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as the days wherein the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.


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


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but when `the matter' came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.


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


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Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan also came among them.


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And Jehovah said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.


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And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil.


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Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.


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And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.


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And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,


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that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;


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and the Sabeans fell `upon them', and took them away: yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.


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


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


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While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;


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


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Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped;


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


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Again it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.


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And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil: and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.


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And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.


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But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.


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


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


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


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


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


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Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.


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As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.


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Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:


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If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?


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The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.


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It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; A form was before mine eyes: `There was' silence, and I heard a voice, `saying',


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How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!


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His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:


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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.


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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.


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Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.


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At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.


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For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.


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And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.


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For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.


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And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.


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To him that is ready to faint kindness `should be showed' from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.


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When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.


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The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.


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Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.


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If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?


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And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.


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How long wilt thou speak these things? And `how long' shall the words of thy mouth be `like' a mighty wind?


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If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;


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If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.


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For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:


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He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.


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`He is' wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?-


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Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.


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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: If `it be' not `he', who then is it?


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My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.


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Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?


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Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?


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If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction.


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And if `my head' exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.


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Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.


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Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.


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The land dark as midnight, `The land' of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.


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Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?


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And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.


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Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; Yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:


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And `thy' life shall be clearer than the noonday; Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.


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And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; Yea, thou shalt search `about thee', and shalt take thy rest in safety.


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But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, And they shall have no way to flee; And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.


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But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?


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I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.


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In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.


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The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth `abundantly'.


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But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:


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Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.


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Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.


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He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive.


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He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.


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Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:


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Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;


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For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.


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So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.


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Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!


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If a man die, shall he live `again'? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.


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The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.


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Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.


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His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.


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The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.


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He wandereth abroad for bread, `saying', Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.


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Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;


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And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;


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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.


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He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of `God's' mouth shall he go away.


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I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.


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And thou hast laid fast hold on me, `which' is a witness `against me': And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.


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He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.


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They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.


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I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.


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His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.


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Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.


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Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.


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Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?


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He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.


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There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.


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Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.


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Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.


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Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath `bringeth' the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.


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I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.


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He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.


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He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.


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That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.


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For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.


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In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.


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When he is about to fill his belly, `God' will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating.


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He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.


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All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown `by man' shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.


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What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?


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How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That `God' distributeth sorrows in his anger?


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`Ye say', God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:


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The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.


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Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? Or is it gain `to him', that thou makest thy ways perfect?


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`Saying', Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off, And the remnant of them the fire hath consumed.


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If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.


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Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; And light shall shine upon thy ways.


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When they cast `thee' down, thou shalt say, `There is' lifting up; And the humble person he will save.


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He will deliver `even' him that is not innocent: Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.


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On the left hand, when he doth work, but I cannot behold him; He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.


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I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.


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Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.


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Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness `yieldeth' them bread for their children.


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From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.


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These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.


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The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.


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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.


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In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.


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For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.


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Swiftly they `pass away' upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.


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The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.


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They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.


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Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?


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My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach `me' so long as I live.


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This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:


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If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.


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He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered `to his fathers'; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.


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`Man' setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.


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He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.


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And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.


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For when the ear heard `me', then it blessed me; And when the eye saw `me', it gave witness unto me:


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The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.


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I chose out their way, and sat `as' chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.


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But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.


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They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.


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Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.


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Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.


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Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride `upon it'; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.


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If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:


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(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb);


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This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.


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If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;


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Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door-


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Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And `that I had' the indictment which mine adversary hath written!


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If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:


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Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.


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Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.


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And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; Wherefore I held back, and durst not show you mine opinion.


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Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your reasonings, Whilst ye searched out what to say.


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Yea, I attended unto you, And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you.


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Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person; Neither will I give flattering titles unto any man.


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My words `shall utter' the uprightness of my heart; And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.


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In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;


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If there be with him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show unto man what is right for him;


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Then `God' is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.


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He prayeth unto God, and he is favorable unto him, So that he seeth his face with joy: And he restoreth unto man his righteousness.


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He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:


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Notwithstanding my right I am `accounted' a liar; My wound is incurable, `though I am' without transgression.


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Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.


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Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous `and' mighty?-


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That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.


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In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.


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Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.


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When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether `it be done' unto a nation, or unto a man:


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Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.


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For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands among us, And multiplieth his words against God.


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That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? `And', What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?


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If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?


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By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.


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Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the birds of the heavens?


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How much less when thou sayest thou beholdest him not, The cause is before him, and thou waitest for him!


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He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.


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Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.


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If they hearken and serve `him', They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.


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Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.


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For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.


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After it a voice roareth; He thundereth with the voice of his majesty; And he restraineth not `the lightnings' when his voice is heard.


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For he saith to the snow, Fall thou on the earth; Likewise to the shower of rain, And to the showers of his mighty rain.


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And it is turned round about by his guidance, That they may do whatsoever he commandeth them Upon the face of the habitable world,


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Dost thou know how God layeth `his charge' upon them, And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?


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Teach us what we shall say unto him; `For' we cannot set `our speech' in order by reason of darkness.


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And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies; But the wind passeth, and cleareth them.


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`Touching' the Almighty, we cannot find him out He is excellent in power; And in justice and plenteous righteousness he will not afflict.


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Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days `began', `And' caused the dayspring to know its place;


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Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?


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That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, And that thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof?


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Who provideth for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry unto God, `And' wander for lack of food?


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Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? `Or' canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?


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Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They go forth, and return not again.


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Wilt thou confide in him, that he will bring home thy seed, And gather `the grain' of thy threshing-floor?


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She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be in vain, `she is' without fear;


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He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; Neither believeth he that it is the voice of the trumpet.


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As oft as the trumpet `soundeth' he saith, Aha! And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.


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Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.


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Who hath first given unto me, that I should repay him? `Whatsoever is' under the whole heaven is mine.


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When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid: By reason of consternation they are beside themselves.


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His underparts are `like' sharp potsherds: He spreadeth `as it were' a threshing-wain upon the mire.


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Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.


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And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.


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Now therefore, take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you; for him will I accept, that I deal not with you after your folly; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.


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So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as Jehovah commanded them: and Jehovah accepted Job.


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And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.


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Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold.


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So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.


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And he called the name of the first, Jemimah: and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.


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And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.


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And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, `even' four generations.


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Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers:


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And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That bringeth forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also doth not wither; And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.


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Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.


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The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, `saying',


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Ask of me, and I will give `thee' the nations for thine inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.


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Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all they that take refuge in him. Psalm 3 A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.


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I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people That have set themselves against me round about.


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Arise, O Jehovah; save me, O my God: For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; Thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.


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Salvation belongeth unto Jehovah: Thy blessing be upon thy people. Selah Psalm 4 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.


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Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness; Thou hast set me at large `when I was' in distress: Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.


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O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? `How long' will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah


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But know that Jehovah hath set apart for himself him that is godly: Jehovah will hear when I call unto him.


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Many there are that say, Who will show us `any' good? Jehovah, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.


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Thou hast put gladness in my heart, More than `they have' when their grain and their new wine are increased.


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In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety. Psalm 5 For the Chief Musician; with the Nehiloth. A Psalm of David.


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O Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In the morning will I order `my prayer' unto thee, and will keep watch.


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But as for me, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness will I come into thy house: In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.


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Lead me, O Jehovah, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; Make thy way straight before my face.


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For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.


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Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; For they have rebelled against thee.


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But let all those that take refuge in thee rejoice, Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: Let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.


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For thou wilt bless the righteous; O Jehovah, thou wilt compass him with favor as with a shield. Psalm 6 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David.


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Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.


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All mine enemies shall be put to shame and sore troubled: They shall turn back, they shall be put to shame suddenly. Psalm 7 Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto Jehova, concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite.


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If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)


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Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah


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Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.


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Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples: Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity that is in me.


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O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous: For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts.


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I will give thanks unto Jehovah according to his righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of Jehovah Most High. Psalm 8 For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David.


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O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth, Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens!


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Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.


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When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;


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Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:


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The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.


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O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth! Psalm 9 For the Chief Musician; set to Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.


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Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.


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The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished.


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And he will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.


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And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.


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Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction `which I suffer' of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;


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That I may show forth all thy praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion I will rejoice in thy salvation.


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The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.


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Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah


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In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.


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For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, `yea', contemneth Jehovah.


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The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, `saith', He will not require `it'. All his thoughts are, There is no God.


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His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.


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He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.


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He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.


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Thou hast seen `it'; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth `himself' unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.


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Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.


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Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;


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To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more. Psalm 11 For the Chief Musician. `A Psalm' of David.


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For, lo, the wicked bend the bow, They make ready their arrow upon the string, That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart;


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Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, his throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.


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Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.


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For Jehovah is righteous; he loveth righteousness: The upright shall behold his face. Psalm 12 For the Chief Musician; set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David.


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They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.


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Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; I will set him in the safety he panteth for.


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The words of Jehovah are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times.


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The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men. Psalm 13 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.


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How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?


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I will sing unto Jehovah, Because he hath dealt bountifully with me. Psalm 14 For the Chief Musician. `A Psalm' of David.


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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good.


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Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.


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They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.


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Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people `as' they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?


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Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When Jehovah bringeth back the captivity of his people, Then shall Jacob rejoice, `and' Israel shall be glad. Psalm 15 A Psalm of David.


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He that slandereth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to his friend, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor;


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In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah; He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;


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He that putteth not out his money to interest, Nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved. Psalm 16 Michtam of David.


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Their sorrows shall be multiplied that give gifts for another `god': Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, Nor take their names upon my lips.


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Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 17 A Prayer of David.


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Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry; Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.


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Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.


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I have called upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O God: Incline thine ear unto me, `and' hear my speech.


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Show thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them that take refuge `in thee 'From those that rise up `against them'.


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From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, whose portion is in `this' life, And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure: They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.


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As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with `beholding' thy form. Psalm 18 For the Chief Musician. `A Psalm' of David the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said,


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Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.


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In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears.


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Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.


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He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.


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Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.


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Then the channels of waters appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare, At thy rebuke, O Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.


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Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.


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Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.


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Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation; And thy right hand hath holden me up, And thy gentleness hath made me great.


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For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.


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Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.


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Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.


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He rescueth me from mine enemies; Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me; Thou deliverest me from the violent man.


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Great deliverance giveth he to his king, And showeth lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, for evermore. Psalm 19 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.


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Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,


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Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course.


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His going forth is from the end of the heavens, And his circuit unto the ends of it; And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.


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The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul: The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.


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The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart: The commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes.


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The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever: The ordinances of Jehovah are true, `and' righteous altogether.


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More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.


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Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous `sins'; Let them not have dominion over me: Then shall I be upright, And I shall be clear from great transgression.


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Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer. Psalm 20 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.


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We will triumph in thy salvation, And in the name of our God we will set up our banners: Jehovah fulfil all thy petitions.


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Now know I that Jehovah saveth his anointed; He will answer him from his holy heaven With the saving strength of his right hand.


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Some `trust' in chariots, and some in horses; But we will make mention of the name of Jehovah our God.


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Save, Jehovah: Let the King answer us when we call. Psalm 21 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.


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For the king trusteth in Jehovah; And through the lovingkindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.


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Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.


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For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.


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Be thou exalted, O Jehovah, in thy strength: So will we sing and praise thy power. Psalm 22 For the Chief Musician; set to Aijaleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David.


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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? `Why art thou so' far from helping me, `and from' the words of my groaning?


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Commit `thyself' unto Jehovah; Let him deliver him: Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.


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But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust `when I was' upon my mother's breasts.


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I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.


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My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.


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For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.


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Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; And stand in awe of him, all ye the seed of Israel.


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For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Neither hath he hid his face from him; But when he cried unto him, he heard.


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The meek shall eat and be satisfied; They shall praise Jehovah that seek after him: Let your heart live for ever.


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All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah; And all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.


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All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship: All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, Even he that cannot keep his soul alive.


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They shall come and shall declare his righteousness Unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it. Psalm 23 A Psalm of David.


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Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.


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Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou hast anointed my head with oil; My cup runneth over.


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Surely goodness and lovingkindness shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of Jehovah for ever. Psalm 24 A Psalm of David.


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He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully.


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Lift up your heads, O ye gates; And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in.


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Lift up your heads, O ye gates; Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in.


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Who is this King of glory? Jehovah of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah Psalm 25 `A Psalm' of David.


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Yea, none that wait for thee shall be put to shame: They shall be put to shame that deal treacherously without cause.


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Guide me in thy truth, and teach me; For thou art the God of my salvation; For thee do I wait all the day.


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Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: According to thy lovingkindness remember thou me, For thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.


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All the paths of Jehovah are lovingkindness and truth Unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.


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Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering.


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My foot standeth in an even place: In the congregations will I bless Jehovah. Psalm 27 `A Psalm' of David.


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Jehovah is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?


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When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, `Even' mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.


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Though a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear: Though war should rise against me, Even then will I be confident.


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One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in his temple.


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For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion: In the covert of his tabernacle will he hide me; He will lift me up upon a rock.


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And now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto Jehovah.


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Hide not thy face from me; Put not thy servant away in anger: Thou hast been my help; Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.


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Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.


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Wait for Jehovah: Be strong, and let thy heart take courage; Yea, wait thou for Jehovah. Psalm 28 `A Psalm' of David.


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Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.


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Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.


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Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.


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Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings: Give them after the operation of their hands; Render to them their desert.


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Because they regard not the works of Jehovah, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.


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Jehovah is my strength and my shield; My heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: Therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; And with my song will I praise him.


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Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: Be their shepherd also, and bear them up for ever. Psalm 29 A Psalm of David.


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The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters: The God of glory thundereth, Even Jehovah upon many waters.


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The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve, And strippeth the forests bare: And in his temple everything saith, Glory.


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Jehovah will give strength unto his people; Jehovah will bless his people with peace. Psalm 30 A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House. `A Psalm' of David.


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I will extol thee, O Jehovah; for thou hast raised me up, And hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.


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O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.


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For his anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a life-time: Weeping may tarry for the night, But joy `cometh' in the morning.


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Thou, Jehovah, of thy favor hadst made my mountain to stand strong: Thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled.


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What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?


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Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;


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To the end that `my' glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O Jehovah my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. Psalm 31 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.


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In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge; Let me never be put to shame: Deliver me in thy righteousness.


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Bow down thine ear unto me; deliver me speedily: Be thou to me a strong rock, A house of defence to save me.


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I will be glad and rejoice in thy lovingkindness; For thou hast seen my affliction: Thou hast known my soul in adversities;


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Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, `yea', my soul and my body.


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For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.


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Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.


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For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.


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My times are in thy hand: Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.


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Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; for I have called upon thee: Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.


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Oh how great is thy goodness, Which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, Which thou hast wrought for them that take refuge in thee, Before the sons of men!


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In the covert of thy presence wilt thou hide them from the plottings of man: Thou wilt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.


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As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.


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Oh love Jehovah, all ye his saints: Jehovah preserveth the faithful, And plentifully rewardeth him that dealeth proudly.


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Be strong, and let your heart take courage, All ye that hope in Jehovah. Psalm 32 `A Psalm' of David. Maschil.


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For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed `as' with the drought of summer. Selah


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I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah


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For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him.


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Thou art my hiding-place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble; Thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah


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I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.


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Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, `Else' they will not come near unto thee.


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Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; But he that trusteth in Jehovah, lovingkindness shall compass him about.


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Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.


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Let thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, According as we have hoped in thee. Psalm 34 A Psalm of David; when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.


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The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.


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The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.


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Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants; And none of them that take refuge in him shall be condemned. Psalm 35 `A Psalm' of David.


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Strive thou, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me: Fight thou against them that fight against me.


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Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that pursue me: Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.


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Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.


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For without cause have they hid for me their net `in' a pit; Without cause have they digged `a pit' for my soul.


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Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.


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All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee, Who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, Yea, the poor and the needy from him that robbeth him?


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But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.


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I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.


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But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew `it' not; They did tear me, and ceased not:


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Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, My darling from the lions.


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Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.


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Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.


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Let them be put to shame and confounded together that rejoice at my hurt: Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.


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Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: Yea, let them say continually, Jehovah be magnified, Who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.


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And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness `And' of thy praise all the day long. Psalm 36 For the Chief Musician. `A Psalm' of David the servant of Jehovah.


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He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; He setteth himself in a way that is not good; He abhorreth not evil.


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Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are a great deep: O Jehovah, thou preservest man and beast.


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How precious is thy lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.


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They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; And thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.


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Oh continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee, And thy righteousness to the upright in heart.


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There are the workers of iniquity fallen: They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise. Psalm 37 `A Psalm' of David.


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Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, Neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.


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Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.


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For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.


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The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.


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They shall not be put to shame in the time of evil; And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.


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But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; In smoke shall they consume away.


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For such as are blessed of him shall inherit the land; And they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.


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I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.


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For Jehovah loveth justice, And forsaketh not his saints; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.


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Wait for Jehovah, and keep his way, And he will exalt thee to inherit the land: When the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.


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And Jehovah helpeth them, and rescueth them; He rescueth them from the wicked, and saveth them, Because they have taken refuge in him. Psalm 38 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.


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There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.


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They also that seek after my life lay snares `for me'; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.


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They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.


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Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation. Psalm 39 For the Chief Musician, Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.


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I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.


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Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.


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Behold, thou hast made my days `as' handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah


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Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up `riches', and knoweth not who shall gather them.


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When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah


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Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.


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Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more. Psalm 40 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.


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He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.


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And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in Jehovah.


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Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust, And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.


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Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done, And thy thoughts which are to us-ward; They cannot be set in order unto thee; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.


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Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.


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I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou knowest.


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I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great assembly.


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Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Jehovah; Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.


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For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.


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Let them be put to shame and confounded together That seek after my soul to destroy it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.


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Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: Let such as love thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be magnified.


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But I am poor and needy; `Yet' the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God. Psalm 41 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.


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Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive, And he shall be blessed upon the earth; And deliver not thou him unto the will of his enemies.


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And if he come to see `me', he speaketh falsehood; His heart gathereth iniquity to itself: When he goeth abroad, he telleth it.


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An evil disease, `say they', cleaveth fast unto him; And now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.


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Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me.


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Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, From everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. Psalm 42 For the Chief Musician. Maschil of the sons of Korah.


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These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.


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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And `why' art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him `For' the help of his countenance.


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O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.


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Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.


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`Yet' Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the day-time; And in the night his song shall be with me, `Even' a prayer unto the God of my life.


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I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


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As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?


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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, `Who is' the help of my countenance, and my God.


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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.


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For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


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Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me: Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, And to thy tabernacles.


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Then will I go unto the altar of God, Unto God my exceeding joy; And upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.


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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, `Who is' the help of my countenance, and my God. Psalm 44 For the Chief Musician. `A Psalm' of the sons of Korah. Maschil.


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We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.


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Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad.


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For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, Because thou wast favorable unto them.


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Through thee will we push down our adversaries: Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.


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In God have we made our boast all the day long, And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever. Selah


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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.


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All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.


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Rise up for our help, And redeem us for thy lovingkindness' sake. Psalm 45 For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. `A Psalm' of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves.


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My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I speak the things which I have made touching the king: My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.


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Thou art fairer than the children of men; Grace is poured into thy lips: Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.


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And in thy majesty ride on prosperously, Because of truth and meekness `and' righteousness: And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.


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Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.


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All thy garments `smell of' myrrh, and aloes, `and' cassia; Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.


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Kings' daughters are among thy honorable women: At thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.


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Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house:


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And the daughter of Tyre `shall be there' with a gift; The rich among the people shall entreat thy favor.


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She shall be led unto the king in broidered work: The virgins her companions that follow her Shall be brought unto thee.


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I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: Therefore shall the peoples give thee thanks for ever and ever. Psalm 46 For the Chief Musician. `A Psalm' of the sons of Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song.


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Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, And though the mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas;


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Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. Selah


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There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.


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He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariots in the fire.


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Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.


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Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah Psalm 47 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.


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The princes of the peoples are gathered together `To be' the people of the God of Abraham: For the shields of the earth belong unto God; He is greatly exalted. Psalm 48 A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.


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Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is mount Zion, `on' the sides of the north, The city of the great King.


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As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah


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As is thy name, O God, So is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: Thy right hand is full of righteousness.


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For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide `even' unto death. Psalm 49 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.


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For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others.


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Their inward thought is, `that' their houses `shall continue' for ever, `And' their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.


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They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.


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Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish. Psalm 50 A Psalm of Asaph.


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The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.


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Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.


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Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, `even' thy God.


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But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,


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These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: `But' I will reprove thee, and set `them' in order before thine eyes.


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Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to him that ordereth his way `aright' Will I show the salvation of God. Psalm 51 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.


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Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.


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Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.


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Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.


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Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; `And' my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.


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For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.


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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.


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Then will thou delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, In burnt-offering and in whole burnt-offering: Then will they offer bullocks upon thine altar. Psalm 52 For the Chief Musician. Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Abimelech.


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Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of God `endureth' continually.


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God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. Selah


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Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.


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But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I trust in the lovingkindness of God for ever and ever.


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I will give thee thanks for ever, because thou hast done it; And I will hope in thy name, for it is good, in the presence of thy saints. Psalm 53 For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath. Maschil of David.


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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none that doeth good.


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God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.


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Every one of them is gone back; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.


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Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people `as' they eat bread, And call not upon God?


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There were they in great fear, where no fear was; For God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: Thou hast put them to shame, because of God hath rejected them.


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Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Then shall Jacob rejoice, `and' Israel shall be glad. Psalm 54 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David; when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?


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For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. Selah


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With a freewill-offering will I sacrifice unto thee: I will give thanks unto thy name, O Jehovah, for it is good.


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For he hath delivered me out of all trouble; And mine eye hath seen `my desire' upon mine enemies. Psalm 55 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David.


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Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.


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Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.


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For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him:


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Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.


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He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me; For they were many `that strove' with me.


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God will hear, and answer them, Even he that abideth of old, Selah `The men' who have no changes, And who fear not God.


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His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.


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Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee: He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.


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But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee. Psalm 56 For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. `A Psalm' of David. Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath.


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Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.


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In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me?


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They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.


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For thou hast delivered my soul from death: `Hast thou' not `delivered' my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living? Psalm 57 For the Chief Musician; `set to' Al-tash-heth. `A Psalm' of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave.


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Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me; For my soul taketh refuge in thee: Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I take refuge, Until `these' calamities be overpast.


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He will send from heaven, and save me, `When' he that would swallow me up reproacheth; Selah God will send forth his lovingkindness and his truth.


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My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.


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They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. Selah


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I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the peoples: I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.


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Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; `Let' thy glory `be' above all the earth. Psalm 58 For the Chief Musician; `set to' Al-tashheth. `A Psalm' of David Michtam.


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Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.


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`Let them be' as a snail which melteth and passeth away, `Like' the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.


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Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.


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The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;


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So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth. Psalm 59 For the Chief Musician; `set to' Al-tashheth. `A Psalm' of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.


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For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.


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Even thou, O Jehovah God of hosts, the God of Israel, Arise to visit all the nations: Be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah


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Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.


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`For' the sin of their mouth, `and' the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.


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Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they shall be no more: And let them know that God ruleth in Jacob, Unto the ends of the earth. Selah


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But I will sing of thy strength; Yea, I will sing aloud of thy lovingkindness in the morning: For thou hast been my high tower, And a refuge in the day of my distress.


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Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing praises: For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy. Psalm 60 For the Chief Musician; `set to' Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach; and when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.


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


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God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult; I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.


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Through God we shall do valiantly; For he it is that will tread down our adversaries. Psalm 61 For the Chief Musician; on a stringed instrument. `A Psalm' of David.


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From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.


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He shall abide before God for ever: Oh prepare lovingkindness and truth, that they may preserve him.


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So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, That I may daily perform my vows. Psalm 62 For the Chief Musician; after the manner of Jeduthan. A Psalm of David.


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How long will ye set upon a man, That ye may slay `him', all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?


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They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah


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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.


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Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart `thereon'.


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Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth lovingkindness; For thou renderest to every man according to his work. Psalm 63 A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah.


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O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.


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My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips;


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But the king shall rejoice in God: Every one that sweareth by him shall glory; For the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. Psalm 64 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.


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They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?


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They search out iniquities; We have accomplished, `say they', a diligent search: And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.


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So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.


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And all men shall fear; And they shall declare the work of God, And shall wisely consider of his doing.


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The righteous shall be glad in Jehovah, and shall take refuge in him; And all the upright in heart shall glory. Psalm 65 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm. A song of David.


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Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach `unto thee', That he may dwell in thy courts: We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, Thy holy temple.


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By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness, Oh God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And of them that are afar off upon the sea:


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


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Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it, Thou greatly enrichest it; The river of God is full of water: Thou providest them grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth.


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Thou waterest its furrows abundantly; Thou settlest the ridges thereof: Thou makest it soft with showers; Thou blessest the springing thereof.


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The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered over with grain; They shout for joy, they also sing. Psalm 66 For the Chief Musician. A song, a Psalm.


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Say unto God, How terrible are thy works! Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.


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He ruleth by his might for ever; His eyes observe the nations: Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah


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Thou didst cause men to ride over our heads; We went through fire and through water; But thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.


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I will offer unto thee burnt-offerings of fatlings, With the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah


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Blessed be God, Who hath not turned away my prayer, Nor his lovingkindness from me. Psalm 67 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm, a song.


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Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy; For thou wilt judge the peoples with equity, And govern the nations upon earth. Selah


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God will bless us; And all the ends of the earth shall fear him. Psalm 68 For the Chief Musician; A Psalm of David, a song.


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


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Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: Cast up a highway for him that rideth through the deserts; His name is Jehovah; and exult ye before him.


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God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.


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O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, When thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah


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The earth trembled, The heavens also dropped `rain' at the presence of God: Yon Sinai `trembled' at the presence of God, the God of Israel.


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When ye lie among the sheepfolds, `It is as' the wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.


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Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, At the mountain which God hath desired for his abode? Yea, Jehovah will dwell `in it' for ever.


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The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them, `as in' Sinai, in the sanctuary.


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Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led away captives; Thou hast received gifts among men, Yea, `among' the rebellious also, that Jehovah God might dwell `with them'.


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But God will smite through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his guiltiness.


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The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring `them' again from the depths of the sea;


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That thou mayest crush `them', `dipping' thy foot in blood, That the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from `thine' enemies.


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The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, In the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels.


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There is little Benjamin their ruler, The princes of Judah `and' their council, The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.


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Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds, The multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples, Trampling under foot the pieces of silver: He hath scattered the peoples that delight in war.


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To him that rideth upon the heaven of heavens, which are of old; Lo, he uttereth his voice, a mighty voice.


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O God, `thou art' terrible out of thy holy places: The God of Israel, he giveth strength and power unto `his' people. Blessed be God. Psalm 69 For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshanim. `A Psalm' of David.


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I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.


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They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore.


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Let not them that wait for thee be put to shame through me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts: Let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.


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For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.


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But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness, Answer me in the truth of thy salvation.


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Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.


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Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep shallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.


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Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.


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Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.


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For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.


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For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; And they shall abide there, and have it in possession.


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The seed also of his servants shall inherit it; And they that love his name shall dwell therein. Psalm 70 For the Chief Musician. `A Psalm' of David; to bring to remembrance.


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Let them be put to shame and confounded That seek after my soul: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.


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Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; And let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.


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But I am poor and needy; Make haste unto me, O God: Thou art my help and my deliverer; O Jehovah, make no tarrying.


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Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: Thou hast given commandment to save me; For thou art my rock and my fortress.


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Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.


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By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee.


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Let them be put to shame `and' consumed that are adversaries to my soul; Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.


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My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, `And' of thy salvation all the day; For I know not the numbers `thereof'.


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I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.


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Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto `the next' generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.


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Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee?


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Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.


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I will also praise thee with the psaltery, `Even' thy truth, O my God: Unto thee will I sing praises with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.


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My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long; For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, that seek my hurt. Psalm 72 `A Psalm' of Solomon.


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He will judge the poor of the people, He will save the children of the needy, And will break in pieces the oppressor.


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The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render tribute: The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.


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He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence; And precious will their blood be in his sight:


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And they shall live; and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: And men shall pray for him continually; They shall bless him all the day long.


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There shall be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains; The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.


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His name shall endure for ever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun: And men shall be blessed in him; All nations shall call him happy.


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And blessed be his glorious name for ever; And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen, and Amen.


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If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.


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For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: Thou hast destroyed all them that play the harlot, `departing' from thee.


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But it is good for me to draw near unto God: I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge, That I may tell of all thy works. Psalm 74 Maschil of Asaph.


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O God, why hast thou cast `us' off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?


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Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; `And' mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.


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Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs.


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They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name `by casting it' to the ground.


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They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.


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We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.


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Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? `Pluck it' out of thy bosom `and' consume `them'.


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Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.


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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.


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Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.


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Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever.


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Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.


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Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually. Psalm 75 For the Chief Musician; `set to' Al-tash-heth. A Psalm of Asaph; a song.


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We give thanks unto thee, O God; We give thanks, for thy name is near: Men tell of thy wondrous works.


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For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and the wine foameth; It is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: Surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them.


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All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; But the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up. Psalm 76 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph, a song.


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The stouthearted are made a spoil, They have slept their sleep; And none of the men of might have found their hands.


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Vow, and pay unto Jehovah your God: Let all that are round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.


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He will cut off the spirit of princes: He is terrible to the kings of the earth. Psalm 77 For the Chief Musician; after the manner of Jeduthan. A Psalm of Asaph.


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In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.


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I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search.


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And I said, This is my infirmity; `But I will remember' the years of the right hand of the Most High.


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The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.


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We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.


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For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;


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That the generation to come might know `them', even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell `them' to their children,


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And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.


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Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?


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Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;


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When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.


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But he, being merciful, forgave `their' iniquity, and destroyed `them' not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath.


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He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.


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He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,


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And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.


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He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.


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But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.


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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.


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From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.


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So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. Psalm 79 A Psalm of Asaph.


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O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.


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The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.


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Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.


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Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers: Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are brought very low.


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Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; And deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake.


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Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed Be known among the nations in our sight.


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Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee: According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to death;


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And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.


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So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture Will give thee thanks for ever: We will show forth thy praise to all generations. Psalm 80 For the Chief Musician, set to Shoshanim Eduth.. A Psalm of Asaph.


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Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest `above' the cherubim, shine forth.


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Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,


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Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.


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Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. Psalm 81 For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. `A Psalm' of Asaph.


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He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, `Where' I heard a language that I knew not.


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


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I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.


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He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee. Psalm 82 A Psalm of Asaph.


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They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken.


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Arise, O God, judge the earth; For thou shalt inherit all the nations. Psalm 83 A song. A Psalm of Asaph.


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They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.


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That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth. Psalm 84 For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.


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My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.


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Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, My King, and my God.


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Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.


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For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.


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For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.


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O Jehovah of hosts, Blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. Psalm 85 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.


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I will hear what God Jehovah will speak; For he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: But let them not turn again to folly.


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For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call upon thee.


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There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord; Neither `are there any works' like unto thy works.


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


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O God, the proud are risen up against me, And a company of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set thee before them.


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But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.


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Oh turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; Give thy strength unto thy servant, And save the son of thy handmaid.


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Show me a token for good, That they who hate me may see it, and be put to shame, Because thou, Jehovah, hast helped me, and comforted me. Psalm 87 A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song.


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I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know me: Behold, Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: This one was born there.


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Yea, of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; And the Most High himself will establish her.


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They that sing as well as they that dance `shall say', All my fountains are in thee. Psalm 88 A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.


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Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.


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Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.


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Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.


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Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness. Psalm 89 Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.


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I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever: With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.


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For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.


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And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah; Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.


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For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah,


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A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be feared above all them that are round about him?


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O Jehovah God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.


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Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.


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The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.


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Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne: Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face.


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Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.


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Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints, And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.


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But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him; And in my name shall his horn be exalted.


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Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown `by casting it' to the ground.


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What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah


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Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom `the reproach of' all the mighty peoples,


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Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.


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Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.


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For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.


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


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The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.


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Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil.


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And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.


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He will cover thee with his pinions, And under his wings shalt thou take refuge: His truth is a shield and a buckler.


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A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; `But' it shall not come nigh thee.


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Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under foot.


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Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.


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


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With long life will I satisfy him, And show him my salvation. Psalm 92 A Psalm, a Song for the sabbath day.


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When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.


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For, lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah, For, lo, thine enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.


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Mine eye also hath seen `my desire' on mine enemies, Mine ears have heard `my desire' of the evil-doers that rise up against me.


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Jehovah reigneth; he is clothed with majesty; Jehovah is clothed with strength; he hath girded himself therewith: The world also is established, that it cannot be moved.


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The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves.


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


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And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off.


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For he is our God, And we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To-day, oh that ye would hear his voice!


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Forty years long was I grieved with `that' generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:


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Say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth: The world also is established that it cannot be moved: He will judge the peoples with equity.


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Before Jehovah; for he cometh, For he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with his truth.


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Clouds and darkness are round about him: Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.


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The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.


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Let all them be put to shame that serve graven images, That boast themselves of idols: Worship him, all ye gods.


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O ye that love Jehovah, hate evil: He preserveth the souls of his saints; He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.


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Oh sing unto Jehovah a new song; For he hath done marvellous things: His right hand, and his holy arm, hath wrought salvation for him.


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Jehovah hath made known his salvation: His righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the nations.


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He hath remembered his lovingkindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.


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Before Jehovah; for he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with equity.


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The king's strength also loveth justice; Thou dost establish equity; Thou executest justice and righteousness in Jacob.


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Moses and Aaron among his priests, And Samuel among them that call upon his name; They called upon Jehovah, and he answered them.


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He spake unto them in the pillar of cloud: They kept his testimonies, And the statute that he gave them.


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Thou answeredst them, O Jehovah our God: Thou wast a God that forgavest them, Though thou tookest vengeance of their doings.


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Exalt ye Jehovah our God, And worship at his holy hill; For Jehovah our God is holy. Psalm 100 A Psalm of thanksgiving.


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Know ye that Jehovah, he is God: It is he that hath made us, and we are his; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.


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Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, And into his courts with praise: Give thanks unto him, and bless his name.


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For Jehovah is good; his lovingkindness `endureth' for ever, And his faithfulness unto all generations. Psalm 101 A Psalm of David.


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I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way: Oh when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.


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I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me.


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Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.


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Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall minister unto me.


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He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes.


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Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land; To cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah. Psalm 102 A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before Jehovah.


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Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress: Incline thine ear unto me; In the day when I call answer me speedily.


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Thou wilt arise, and have mercy upon Zion; For it is time to have pity upon her, Yea, the set time is come.


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This shall be written for the generation to come; And a people which shall be created shall praise Jehovah.


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


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They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:


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The children of thy servants shall continue, And their seed shall be established before thee. Psalm 103 `A Psalm' of David.


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For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is his lovingkindness toward them that fear him.


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But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, And his righteousness unto children's children;


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Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, That are mighty in strength, that fulfil his word, Hearkening unto the voice of his word.


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Bless Jehovah, O my soul. O Jehovah my God, thou art very great; Thou art clothed with honor and majesty:


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Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; Who maketh the clouds his chariot; Who walketh upon the wings of the wind;


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He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth,


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And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, `And' oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengtheneth man's heart.


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O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.


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Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.


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Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.


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


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And he brought them forth with silver and gold; And there was not one feeble person among his tribes.


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Praise ye Jehovah. Oh give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; For his lovingkindness `endureth' forever.


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Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor that thou bearest unto thy people; Oh visit me with thy salvation,


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


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Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.


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He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: So he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.


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And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.


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Therefore he said that he would destroy them, Had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy `them'.


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And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.


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Many times did he deliver them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And were brought low in their iniquity.


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And he remembered for them his covenant, And repented according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.


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Save us, O Jehovah our God, And gather us from among the nations, To give thanks unto thy holy name, And to triumph in thy praise.


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Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye Jehovah.


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Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!


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They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths: Their soul melteth away because of trouble.


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He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; And he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.


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Whoso is wise will give heed to these things; And they will consider the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah. Psalm 108 A Song, A Psalm of David.


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I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among the peoples; And I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.


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Through God we shall do valiantly: For he it is that will tread down our adversaries. Psalm 109 For the Chief Musicion. A Psalm of David.


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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.


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Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek `their bread' out of their desolate places.


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Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.


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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.


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Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay `them'.


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Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.


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He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.


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Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.


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But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name's sake: Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;


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Let them curse, but bless thou: When they arise, they shall be put to shame, But thy servant shall rejoice.


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Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.


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For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge his soul. Psalm 110 A Psalm of David.


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Jehovah will send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion: Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.


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Thy people offer themselves willingly In the day of thy power, in holy array: Out of the womb of the morning Thou hast the dew of thy youth.


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He will judge among the nations, He will fill `the places' with dead bodies; He will strike through the head in many countries.


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Praise ye Jehovah. I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart, In the council of the upright, and in the congregation.


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He hath sent redemption unto his people; He hath commanded his covenant for ever: Holy and reverend is his name.


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The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all they that do `his commandments': His praise endureth for ever.


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Praise ye Jehovah. Blessed is the man that feareth Jehovah, That delighteth greatly in his commandments.


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Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: `He is' gracious, and merciful, and righteous.


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Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth; He shall maintain his cause in judgment.


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


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The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: The desire of the wicked shall perish.


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He maketh the barren woman to keep house, `And to be' a joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah.


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Not unto us, O Jehovah, not unto us, But unto thy name give glory, For thy lovingkindness, and for thy truth's sake.


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They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat.


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Jehovah hath been mindful of us; he will bless `us': He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron.


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The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.


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


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For his lovingkindness is great toward us; And the truth of Jehovah `endureth' for ever. Praise ye Jehovah. Psalm 118


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Jehovah is on my side among them that help me: Therefore shall I see `my desire' upon them that hate me.


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They compassed me about like bees; They are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.


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The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous: The right hand of Jehovah doeth valiantly.


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Jehovah is God, and he hath given us light: Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.


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VAV. Let thy lovingkindnesses also come unto me, O Jehovah, Even thy salvation, according to thy word.


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I will lift up my hands also unto thy commandments, which I have loved; And I will meditate on thy statutes.


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


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I know, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are righteous, And that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.


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Let the proud be put to shame; For they have overthrown me wrongfully: `But' I will meditate on thy precepts.


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Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, O Jehovah, And teach me thine ordinances.


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Therefore I esteem all `thy' precepts concerning all `things' to be right; `And' I hate every false way.


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Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thine ordinances.


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I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments. Psalm 120 A Song of Ascents.


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Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in From this time forth and for evermore. Psalm 122 A Song of Ascents; of David.


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Whither the tribes go up, even the tribes of Jehovah, `For' an ordinance for Israel, To give thanks unto the name of Jehovah.


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Behold, as the eyes of servants `look' unto the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maid unto the hand of her mistress; So our eyes `look' unto Jehovah our God, Until he have mercy upon us.


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Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud. Psalm 124 A Song of Ascents; of David.


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


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As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, So Jehovah is round about his people From this time forth and for evermore.


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For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; That the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity.


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But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel. Psalm 126 A Song of Ascents.


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Then was our mouth filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing: Then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath done great things for them.


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He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing seed for sowing, Shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves `with him'. Psalm 127 A Song of Ascents; of Solomon.


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Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.


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It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; `For' so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.


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Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: They shall not be put to shame, When they speak with their enemies in the gate. Psalm 128 A Song of Ascents.


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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of thy house; Thy children like olive plants, Round about thy table.


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Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; We bless you in the name of Jehovah. Psalm 130 A Song of Ascents.


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My soul `waiteth' for the Lord More than watchmen `wait' for the morning; `Yea, more than' watchmen for the morning.


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O Israel, hope in Jehovah; For with Jehovah there is lovingkindness, And with him is plenteous redemption.


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Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too wonderful for me.


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Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.


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Jehovah hath sworn unto David in truth; He will not turn from it: Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.


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If thy children will keep my covenant And my testimony that I shall teach them, Their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore.


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His enemies will I clothe with shame; But upon himself shall his crown flourish. Psalm 133 A Song of Ascents; of David.


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It is like the precious oil upon the head, That ran down upon the beard, Even Aaron's beard; That came down upon the skirt of his garments;


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Like the dew of Hermon, That cometh down upon the mountains of Zion: For there Jehovah commanded the blessing, Even life for evermore. Psalm 134 A Song of Ascents.


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Whatsoever Jehovah pleased, that hath he done, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;


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Who causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; Who maketh lightnings for the rain; Who bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries;


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Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, Upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants;


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Thy name, O Jehovah, `endureth' for ever; Thy memorial `name', O Jehovah, throughout all generations.


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For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us `required of us' mirth, `saying', Sing us one of the songs of Zion.


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Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy.


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Remember, O Jehovah, against the children of Edom The day of Jerusalem; Who said, Rase it, rase it, Even to the foundation thereof.


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O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us.


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Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock. Psalm 138 A `Psalm' of David.


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I will worship toward thy holy temple, And give thanks unto thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.


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All the kings of the earth shall give thee thanks, O Jehovah, For they have heard the words of thy mouth.


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For though Jehovah is high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly; But the haughty he knoweth from afar.


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Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me; Thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of mine enemies, And thy right hand will save me.


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Jehovah will perfect that which concerneth me: Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, `endureth' for ever; Forsake not the works of thine own hands. Psalm 139 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.


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Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike `to thee'.


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I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.


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My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, `And' curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.


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Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, `Even' the days that were ordained `for me', When as yet there was none of them.


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Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?


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And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 140 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.


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Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked; Preserve me from the violent man: Who have purposed to thrust aside my steps.


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The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah


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Grant not, O Jehovah, the desires of the wicked; Further not his evil device, `lest' they exalt themselves. Selah


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Let burning coals fall upon them: Let them be cast into the fire, Into deep pits, whence they shall not rise.


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An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth: Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.


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Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: The upright shall dwell in thy presence. Psalm 141 A Psalm of David.


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Jehovah, I have called upon thee; make haste unto me: Give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.


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Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.


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Incline not my heart to any evil thing, To practise deeds of wickedness With men that work iniquity: And let me not eat of their dainties.


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Let the righteous smite me, `it shall be' a kindness; And let him reprove me, `it shall be as' oil upon the head; Let not my head refuse it: For even in their wickedness shall my prayer continue.


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Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock; And they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.


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For mine eyes are unto thee, O Jehovah the Lord: In thee do I take refuge; leave not my soul destitute.


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Let the wicked fall into their own nets, Whilst that I withal escape. Psalm 142 Maschil of David, when he was in the cave; a Prayer.


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When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.


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Look on `my' right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.


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Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.


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Bring my soul out of prison, That I may give thanks unto thy name: The righteous shall compass me about; For thou wilt deal bountifully with me. Psalm 143 A Psalm of David.


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Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; give ear to my supplications: In thy faithfulness answer me, `and' in thy righteousness.


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For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.


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Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.


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Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; For in thee do I trust: Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; For I lift up my soul unto thee.


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Teach me to do thy will; For thou art my God: Thy Spirit is good; Lead me in the land of uprightness.


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And in thy lovingkindness cut off mine enemies, And destroy all them that afflict my soul; For I am thy servant. Psalm 144 `A Psalm' of David.


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My lovingkindness, and my fortress, My high tower, and my deliverer; My shield, and he in whom I take refuge; Who subdueth my people under me.


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Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?


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Stretch forth thy hand from above; Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hand of aliens;


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I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: Upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.


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Thou art he that giveth salvation unto kings; Who rescueth David his servant from the hurtful sword.


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Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.


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When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;


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`When' our garners are full, affording all manner of store, `And' our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;


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`When' our oxen are well laden; `When there is' no breaking in, and no going forth, And no outcry in our streets:


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Happy is the people that is in such a case; `Yea', happy is the people whose God is Jehovah. Psalm 145 `A' `Psalm' `of' praise; of David.


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My mouth shall speak the praise of Jehovah; And let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.


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Who executeth justice for the oppressed; Who giveth food to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;


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Jehovah openeth `the eyes of' the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;


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Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.


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Praise ye Jehovah; For it is good to sing praises unto our God; For it is pleasant, `and' praise is comely.


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Who covereth the heavens with clouds, Who prepareth rain for the earth, Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.


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He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.


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Let them praise the name of Jehovah; For his name alone is exalted; His glory is above the earth and the heavens.


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And he hath lifted up the horn of his people, The praise of all his saints; Even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye Jehovah.


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That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:


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The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; `But' the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.


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If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;


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She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:


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How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?


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Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.


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When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.


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Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:


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For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.


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Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:


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She is more precious than rubies: And none of the things thou canst desire are to be compared unto her.


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


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Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give; When thou hast it by thee.


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The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked; But he blesseth the habitation of the righteous.


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Wisdom `is' the principal thing; `therefore' get wisdom; Yea, with all thy getting get understanding.


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For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.


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But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.


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`As' a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.


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For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?


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Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbor: Go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor;


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Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.


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When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; When thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee; And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.


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For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:


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For on account of a harlot `a man is brought' to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.


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He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.


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And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,


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With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.


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He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as `one in' fetters to the correction of the fool;


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Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.


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For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.


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The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.


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When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;


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Then I was by him, `as' a master workman; And I was daily `his' delight, Rejoicing always before him,


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Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,


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He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man `getteth' himself a blot.


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Give `instruction' to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.


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Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; And as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,


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The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.


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Jehovah will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; But he thrusteth away the desire of the wicked.


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He that gathereth in summer is a wise son; `But' he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.


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In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found; But a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.


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In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; But he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.


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The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.


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The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable; But the mouth of the wicked `speaketh' perverseness.


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The integrity of the upright shall guide them; But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.


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The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.


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The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them; But the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity.


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With his mouth the godless man destroyeth his neighbor; But through knowledge shall the righteous be delivered.


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When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth; And when the wicked perish, there is shouting.


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By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted; But it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.


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He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets; But he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth a matter.


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He that is stedfast in righteousness `shall attain' unto life; And he that pursueth evil `doeth it' to his own death.


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They that are perverse in heart are an abomination to Jehovah; But such as are perfect in `their' way are his delight.


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`Though' hand `join' in hand, the evil man shall not be unpunished; But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.


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There is that scattereth, and increaseth yet more; And there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but `it tendeth' only to want.


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He that withholdeth grain, the people shall curse him; But blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.


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He that diligently seeketh good seeketh favor; But he that searcheth after evil, it shall come unto him.


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He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind; And the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.


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A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.


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The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.


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A man shall be commended according to his wisdom; But he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.


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Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a servant, Than he that honoreth himself, and lacketh bread.


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He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain `persons' is void of understanding.


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In the transgression of the lips is a snare to the evil man; But the righteous shall come out of trouble.


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A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth; And the doings of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.


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The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting; But the precious substance of men `is to' the diligent.


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A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; But the soul of the treacherous `shall eat' violence.


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He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life; `But' he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.


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The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.


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There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth.


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Whoso despiseth the word bringeth destruction on himself; But he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.


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Poverty and shame `shall be to' him that refuseth correction; But he that regardeth reproof shall be honored.


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The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; But it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.


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A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.


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He that walketh in his uprightness feareth Jehovah; But he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.


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A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and `findeth it' not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.


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The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man `shall be satisfied' from himself.


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A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; But the fool beareth himself insolently, and is confident.


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In the multitude of people is the king's glory; But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.


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He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; But he that hath mercy on the needy honoreth him.


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Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding; But `that which is' in the inward part of fools is made known.


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The king's favor is toward a servant that dealeth wisely; But his wrath will be `against' him that causeth shame.


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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; But the prayer of the upright is his delight.


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


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There is grievous correction for him that forsaketh the way; `And' he that hateth reproof shall die.


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The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge; But the mouth of fools feedeth on folly.


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All the days of the afflicted are evil; But he that is of a cheerful heart `hath' a continual feast.


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Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed; But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.


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He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul; But he that hearkeneth to reproof getteth understanding.


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Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to Jehovah: `Though' hand `join' in hand, he shall not be unpunished.


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How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.


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Understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it; But the correction of fools is `their' folly.


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He that shutteth his eyes, `it is' to devise perverse things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass.


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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; And he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.


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A servant that dealeth wisely shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, And shall have part in the inheritance among the brethren.


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Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; `And' he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.


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A bribe is `as' a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it; Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.


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He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; But he that harpeth on a matter separateth chief friends.


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The beginning of strife is `as' when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.


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He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.


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He that hath a wayward heart findeth no good; And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.


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Wisdom is before the face of him that hath understanding; But the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.


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He that spareth his words hath knowledge; And he that is of a cool spirit is a man of understanding.


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Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; When he shutteth his lips, he is `esteemed as' prudent.


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A brother offended `is harder to be won' than a strong city; And `such' contentions are like the bars of a castle.


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A man's belly shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; With the increase of his lips shall he be satisfied.


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He that maketh many friends `doeth it' to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.


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Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.


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All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much more do his friends go far from him! He pursueth `them with' words, `but' they are gone.


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A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.


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The fear of Jehovah `tendeth' to life; And he `that hath it' shall abide satisfied; He shall not be visited with evil.


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Smite a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; And reprove one that hath understanding, `and' he will understand knowledge.


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He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.


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The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth `against' his own life.


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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.


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Love not sleep, let thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, `and' thou shalt be satisfied with bread.


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Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge `that is surety' for foreigners.


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He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets; Therefore company not with him that openeth wide his lips.


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The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever he will.


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The thoughts of the diligent `tend' only to plenteousness; But every one that is hasty `hasteth' only to want.


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The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.


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When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise; And when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.


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The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked, `How' the wicked are overthrown to `their' ruin.


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A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, And bringeth down the strength of the confidence thereof.


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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind!


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A `good' name is rather to be chosen than great riches, `And' loving favor rather than silver and gold.


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Thorns `and' snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.


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The eyes of Jehovah preserve `him that hath' knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.


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Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; `But' the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.


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He that oppresseth the poor to increase his `gain', `And' he that giveth to the rich, `shall come' only to want.


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For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.


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To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?


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Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men.


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Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For `riches' certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.


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For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.


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For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe `a man' with rags.


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The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.


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Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?


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Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:


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


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They have stricken me, `shalt thou say', and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.


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Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back.


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If thou sayest, Behold, we knew not this; Doth not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?


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My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste:


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So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul; If thou hast found it, then shall there be a reward, And thy hope shall not be cut off.


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For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.


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


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And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.


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For better is it that it be said unto thee, Come up hither, Than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince, Whom thine eyes have seen.


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Go not forth hastily to strive, Lest `thou know not' what to do in the end thereof, When thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.


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`As' an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, `So is' a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.


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As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, `So is' a faithful messenger to them that send him; For he refresheth the soul of his masters.


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


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Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Is `like' a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.


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`As' one that taketh off a garment in cold weather, `and as' vinegar upon soda, So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart.


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`As' a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, `So is' a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.


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As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, So the curse that is causeless alighteth not.


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He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool Cutteth off `his own' feet, `and' drinketh in damage.


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He that passeth by, `and' vexeth himself with strife belonging not to him, Is `like' one that taketh a dog by the ears.


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Though `his' hatred cover itself with guile, His wickedness shall be openly showed before the assembly.


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Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; So doth the sweetness of a man's friend `that cometh' of hearty counsel.


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Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.


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Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge `that is surety' for a foreign woman.


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He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, It shall be counted a curse to him.


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Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; And he that regardeth his master shall be honored.


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Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.


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The hay is carried, and the tender grass showeth itself, And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in.


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And `there will be' goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, And maintenance for thy maidens.


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For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; But by men of understanding `and' knowledge the state `thereof' shall be prolonged.


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Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, Than he that is perverse in `his' ways, though he be rich.


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He that augmenteth his substance by interest and increase, Gathereth it for him that hath pity on the poor.


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Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, He shall fall himself into his own pit; But the perfect shall inherit good.


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He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper: But whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.


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The prince that lacketh understanding is also a great oppressor; `But' he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.


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Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in `his' ways shall fall at once.


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He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain `persons' shall have poverty enough.


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A faithful man shall abound with blessings; But he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.


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Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, The same is the companion of a destroyer.


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He that is of a greedy spirit stirreth up strife; But he that putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be made fat.


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He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck Shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.


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When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man beareth rule, the people sigh.


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Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; But he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth `his' substance.


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The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know `it'.


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If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.


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When the wicked are increased, transgression increaseth; But the righteous shall look upon their fall.


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An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; And he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.


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Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in his garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest?


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Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:


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Lest I be full, and deny `thee', and say, Who is Jehovah? Or lest I be poor, and steal, And use profanely the name of my God.


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There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, And `yet' are not washed from their filthiness.


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There is a generation whose teeth are `as' swords, and their jaw teeth `as' knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.


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The horseleach hath two daughters, `crying', Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, `Yea', four that say not, Enough:


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Sheol; and the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough.


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The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.


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The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent upon a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maiden.


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So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.


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If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if thou hast thought evil, `Lay' thy hand upon thy mouth.


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For the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood; So the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.


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It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; Nor for princes `to say', Where is strong drink?


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She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth food to her household, And their task to her maidens.


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The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it turneth about continually in its course, and the wind returneth again to its circuits.


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All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.


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All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter `it': the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.


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That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.


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Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us.


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There is no remembrance of the former `generations'; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter `generations' that are to come, among those that shall come after.


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And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.


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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.


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I communed with mine own hear, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.


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And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.


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I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.


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I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding `me' with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.


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I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;


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I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical instruments, and that of all sorts.


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So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.


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And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.


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Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.


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And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what `can' the man `do' that cometh after the king? `even' that which hath been done long ago.


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The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.


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Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity.


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For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!


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So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.


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And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.


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And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.


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Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.


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For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.


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For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?


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For all his days are `but' sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.


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There is nothing better for a man `than' that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.


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For to the man that pleaseth him `God' giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.


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a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;


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a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;


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He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.


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I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God hath done it, that men should fear before him.


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That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away.


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And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.


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I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.


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I said in my heart, `It is' because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are `but as' beasts.


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For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.


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Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?


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Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him `back' to see what shall be after him?


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Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.


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yea, better than them both `did I esteem' him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.


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Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.


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There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, `saith he', do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.


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


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And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.


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Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.


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I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead.


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There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.


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Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.


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Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.


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


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


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If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they.


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


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When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding `of them' with his eyes?


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The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.


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There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, `namely', riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:


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and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.


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As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.


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And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?


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Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, wherein he laboreth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for this is his portion.


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Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor-this is the gift of God.


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For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth `him' in the joy of his heart.


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a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.


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If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:


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For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? `or' what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?


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Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.


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Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given long ago; and it is know what man is; neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.


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For who knoweth what is good for man in `his' life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?


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It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.


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Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; `and' the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.


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Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.


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For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.


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In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yea, God hath made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything `that shall be' after him.


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All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth `his life' in his evil-doing.


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It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth from them all.


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I turned about, and my heart `was set' to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason `of things', and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.


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And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, `and' whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.


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Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, `laying' one thing to another, to find out the account;


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which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.


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Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.


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Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.


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Be not hasty to go out of his presence; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.


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Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man's heart discerneth time and judgment:


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There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.


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All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: `there is' a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.


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So I saw the wicked buried, and they came `to the grave'; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.


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Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.


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Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his `days', yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before him:


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


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There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.


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Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor `all' the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.


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When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),


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then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.


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For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.


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All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner; `and' he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.


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This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that `they go' to the dead.


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For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.


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For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.


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As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.


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Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.


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


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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do `it' with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.


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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.


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For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.


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There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.


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Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.


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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.


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Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; `so' doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.


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Yea also, when the fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one `that' he is a fool.


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If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for gentleness allayeth great offences.


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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceedeth from the ruler:


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He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.


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If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.


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The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.


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A fool also multiplieth words: `yet' man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?


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Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!


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Revile not the king, no, not in thy thought; and revile not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.


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Give a portion to seven, yea, even unto eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.


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If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.


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As thou knowest not what is the way of the wind, `nor' how the bones `do grow' in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all.


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


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


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


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Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.


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Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;


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before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;


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in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened,


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and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;


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yea, they shall be afraid of `that which is' high, and terrors `shall be' in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:


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before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,


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And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, `and' set in order many proverbs.


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The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, `even' words of truth.


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The words of the wise are as goads; and as nails well fastened are `the words of' the masters of assemblies, `which' are given from one shepherd.


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And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.


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`This is' the end of the matter; all hath been heard: fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole `duty' of man.


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For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.


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Thine oils have a goodly fragrance; Thy name is `as' oil poured forth; Therefore do the virgins love thee.


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Draw me; we will run after thee: The king hath brought me into his chambers; We will be glad and rejoice in thee; We will make mention of thy love more than of wine: Rightly do they love thee.


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I am black, but comely, Oh ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon.


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Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, Because the sun hath scorched me. My mother's sons were incensed against me; They made me keeper of the vineyards; `But' mine own vineyard have I not kept.


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Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest `thy flock', Where thou makest `it' to rest at noon: For why should I be as one that is veiled Beside the flocks of thy companions?


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If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, And feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.


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As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.


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I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake `my' love, Until he please.


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My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: Behold, he standeth behind our wall; He looketh in at the windows; He glanceth through the lattice.


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The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing `of birds' is come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land;


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The fig-tree ripeneth her green figs, And the vines are in blossom; They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.


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O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the steep place, Let me see thy countenance, Let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.


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Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart Upon the mountains of Bether.


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`I said', I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.


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It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.


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Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant?


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Behold, it is the litter of Solomon; Threescore mighty men are about it, Of the mighty men of Israel.


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They all handle the sword, `and' are expert in war: Every man hath his sword upon his thigh, Because of fear in the night.


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He made the pillars thereof of silver, The bottom thereof of gold, the seat of it of purple, The midst thereof being paved with love, From the daughters of Jerusalem.


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Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon, With the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his heart.


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Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; Thine eyes are `as' doves behind thy veil. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, That lie along the side of mount Gilead.


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Thy teeth are like a flock `of ewes' that are `newly' shorn, Which are come up from the washing, Whereof every one hath twins, And none is bereaved among them.


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Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, And thy mouth is comely. Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind thy veil.


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Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armory, Whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, All the shields of the mighty men.


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Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill of frankincense.


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Come with me from Lebanon, `my' bride, With me from Lebanon: Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions' dens, From the mountains of the leopards.


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Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, `my' bride; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.


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How fair is thy love, my sister, `my' bride! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine oils than all manner of spices!


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Thy lips, O `my' bride, drop `as' the honeycomb: Honey and milk are under thy tongue; And the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.


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Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.


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Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his precious fruits.


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I am come into my garden, my sister, `my' bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.


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I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, `saying', Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.


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I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands droppeth with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the bolt.


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I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, `and' was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.


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The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.


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I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.


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What is thy beloved more than `another' beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than `another' beloved, That thou dost so adjure us?


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His cheeks are as a bed of spices, `As' banks of sweet herbs: His lips are `as' lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.


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His hands are `as' rings of gold set with beryl: His body is `as' ivory work overlaid `with' sapphires.


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His legs are `as' pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.


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His mouth is most sweet; Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.


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Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned him, That we may seek him with thee?


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My beloved is gone down to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.


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Turn away thine eyes from me, For they have overcome me. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, That lie along the side of Gilead.


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Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which are come up from the washing; Whereof every one hath twins, And none is bereaved among them.


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My dove, my undefiled, is `but' one; She is the only one of her mother; She is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; `Yea', the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.


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Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, Fair as the moon, Clear as the sun, Terrible as an army with banners?


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I went down into the garden of nuts, To see the green plants of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, `And' the pomegranates were in flower.


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Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return, that we may look upon thee. Why will ye look upon the Shulammite, As upon the dance of Mahanaim?


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How beautiful are thy feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! Thy rounded thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skilful workman.


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Thy body is `like' a round goblet, `Wherein' no mingled wine is wanting: Thy waist is `like' a heap of wheat Set about with lilies.


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Thy neck is like the tower of ivory; Thine eyes `as' the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon Which looketh toward Damascus.


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Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the hair of thy head like purple; The king is held captive in the tresses `thereof'.


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I said, I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof: Let thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, And the smell of thy breath like apples,


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And thy mouth like the best wine, That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those that are asleep.


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Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see whether the vine hath budded, `And' its blossom is open, `And' the pomegranates are in flower: There will I give thee my love.


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The mandrakes give forth fragrance; And at our doors are all manner of precious fruits, new and old, Which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.


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Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! `When' I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; Yea, and none would despise me.


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I would lead thee, `and' bring thee into my mother's house, Who would instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.


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Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple-tree I awakened thee: There thy mother was in travail with thee, There was she in travail that brought thee forth.


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Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah.


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Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be contemned.


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We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the day when she shall be spoken for?


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If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver: And if she be a door, We will inclose her with boards of cedar.


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I am a wall, and my breasts like the towers `thereof' Then was I in his eyes as one that found peace.


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Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand `pieces' of silver.


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My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.


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The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.


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Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.


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The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; `but' Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.


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Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged `and gone' backward.


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Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.


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From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; `but' wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.


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Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.


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And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.


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Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.


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


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What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.


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Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,- I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting.


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Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.


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


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


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but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.


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How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.


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


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Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies;


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and I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin;


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and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town.


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But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.


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For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.


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And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.


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And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.


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And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.


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And he will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.


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For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled `with customs' from the east, and `are' soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.


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And their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.


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Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.


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Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.


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The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.


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For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;


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And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.


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And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.


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In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats;


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to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.


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For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;


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the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter.


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And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.


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When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, `saying', Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand;


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in that day shall he lift up `his voice', saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not make me ruler of the people.


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For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.


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The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.


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Say ye of the righteous, that `it shall be' well `with him'; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.


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Woe unto the wicked! `it shall be' ill `with him'; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.


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


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Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:


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what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.


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Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;


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therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.


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And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty.


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And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.


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In that day shall the branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem;


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when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.


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And Jehovah will create over the whole habitation of mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory `shall be spread' a covering.


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And there shall be a pavilion for a shade in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.


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Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:


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and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.


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And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.


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What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?


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


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and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.


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For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.


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Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!


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In mine ears `saith' Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.


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Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!


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And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are `in' their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.


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Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.


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Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend `into it'.


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And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled:


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Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.


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that say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!


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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!


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Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.


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Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.


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None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:


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whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind:


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their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.


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And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness `and' distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.


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


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Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.


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And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.


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And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.


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


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Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:


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and he touched my mouth with it, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin forgiven.


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And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me.


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And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.


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Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they sea with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.


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Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,


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And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.


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And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.


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And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.


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Then said Jehovah unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field;


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and say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thy heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.


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Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel;


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For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken in pieces, so that is shall not be a people:


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and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.


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


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Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.


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For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.


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Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah-`even' the king of Assyria.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.


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And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorn-hedges, and upon all pastures.


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In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, `even' with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.


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and it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall be for briers and thorns.


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And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.


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And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz;


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and I will take unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.


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And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said Jehovah unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.


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For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.


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Forasmuch as this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;


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now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, `even' the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks;


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and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.


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Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces.


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Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.


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For Jehovah spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,


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Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread `thereof'.


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And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.


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And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living `should they seek' unto the dead?


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To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.


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And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:


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and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness `they shall be' driven away.


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But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.


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The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.


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Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.


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For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.


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For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.


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For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.


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Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.


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And all the people shall know, `even' Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and in stoutness of heart,


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The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.


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Therefore Jehovah will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,


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the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.


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Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.


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Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burnt up; and the people are as the fuel of fire: no man spareth his brother.


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And one shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:


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Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!


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And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?


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They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.


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Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.


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As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;


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Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.


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For he hath said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down them that sit `on thrones':


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and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.


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Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, `or' as if a staff should lift up `him that is' not wood.


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Therefore will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.


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And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.


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And he will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them, but shall lean upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.


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For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, `only' a remnant of them shall return: a destruction `is' determined, overflowing with righteousness.


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For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, make in the midst of all the earth.


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Therefore thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian, though he smite thee with the rod, and lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.


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For yet a very little while, and the indignation `against thee' shall be accomplished, and mine anger `shall be directed' to his destruction.


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And Jehovah of hosts will stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.


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they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeah of Saul is fled.


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This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shaketh his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.


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Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low.


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And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.


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And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah.


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And his delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears;


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but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.


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And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.


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And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.


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And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.


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They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, that shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.


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And he will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.


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The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.


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And they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall they despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.


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And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dryshod.


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


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And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away and thou comfortest me.


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Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Jehovah, `even' Jehovah, is my strength and song; and he is become my salvation.


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And in that day shall ye say, Give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name, declare his doings among the peoples, make mention that his name is exalted.


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


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Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.


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I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones.


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The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is mustering the host for the battle.


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They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.


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and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold `of them'; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces `shall be' faces of flame.


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Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.


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For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.


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And I will punish the world for `their' evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.


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Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.


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And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.


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Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.


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Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.


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Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.


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And `their' bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.


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


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It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.


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But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.


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And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.


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For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.


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And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.


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And it shall come to pass in the day that Jehovah shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service wherein thou wast made to serve,


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that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!


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that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.


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Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, `and' the cedars of Lebanon, `saying', Since thou art laid low, no hewer is come up against us.


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Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.


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All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?


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Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, `and' the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.


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How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!


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And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;


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They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, `saying', Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;


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that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?


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But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.


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Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.


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Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.


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And I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, saith Jehovah.


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I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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Jehovah of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:


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that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder.


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This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.


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For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?


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Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.


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


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Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou art melted away, O Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.


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What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.


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The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, `and' brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, `and' brought to nought.


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They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.


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In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly.


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And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembleth within him.


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My heart crieth out for Moab; her nobles `flee' unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.


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


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


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For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof unto Beer-elim.


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For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon them of Moab that escape, and upon the remnant of the land.


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Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.


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For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.


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Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.


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Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nought, destruction ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.


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And a throne shall be established in lovingkindness; and one shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.


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We have heard of the pride of Moab, `that' he is very proud; even of his arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought.


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Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, utterly stricken.


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For the fields of Heshbon languish, `and' the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.


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Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the `battle' shout is fallen.


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And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the `vintage' shout to cease.


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And it shall come to pass, when Moab presenteth himself, when he wearieth himself upon the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.


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But now Jehovah hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no account.


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The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.


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The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.


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And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.


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And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing grain, and his arm reapeth the ears; yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim.


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Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.


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In that day shall men look unto their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.


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And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.


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In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.


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For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips.


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In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.


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Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!


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The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.


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At eventide, behold, terror; `and' before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.


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that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, `saying', Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!


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All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye.


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For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.


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For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away `and' cut down.


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They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.


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In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts `from' a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.


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The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.


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And I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, `and' kingdom against kingdom.


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And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.


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And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.


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And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.


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The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.


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And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.


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And the pillars `of Egypt' shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire `shall be' grieved in soul.


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The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?


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Where then are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt.


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The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes.


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Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.


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In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over them.


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And the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt; every one to whom mention is made thereof shall be afraid, because of the purpose of Jehovah of hosts, which he purposeth against it.


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In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Jehovah of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction.


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In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah.


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And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah because of oppressors, and he will send them a saviour, and a defender, and he will deliver them.


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And Jehovah shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day; yea, they shall worship with sacrifice and oblation, and shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and shall perform it.


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And Jehovah will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return unto Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them, and will heal them.


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In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians.


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In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;


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for that Jehovah of hosts hath blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.


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In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;


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at that time Jehovah spake by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.


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And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;


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so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.


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And they shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.


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And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?


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The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.


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A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.


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Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.


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My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.


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They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.


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and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.


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And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;


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and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.


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O thou my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.


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The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?


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


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Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.


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For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.


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


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and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.


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The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?


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O thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; thy slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.


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All thy rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all that were found of thee were bound together; they fled afar off.


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Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.


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For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.


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And it came to pass, that thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.


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And he took away the covering of Judah; and thou didst look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.


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And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool;


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ye made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But ye looked not unto him that had done this, neither had ye respect unto him that purposed it long ago.


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And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:


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and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.


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And Jehovah of hosts revealed himself in mine ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.


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Thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, who is over the house, `and say',


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What doest thou here? and whom has thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock!


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Behold, Jehovah, like a `strong' man, will hurl thee away violently; yea, he will wrap thee up closely.


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He will surely wind thee round and round, `and toss thee' like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of thy lord's house.


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and I will cloth him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.


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And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.


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And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father's house.


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And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the flagons.


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In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off; for Jehovah hath spoken it.


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The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.


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Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.


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And on great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of nations.


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Be thou ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea hath spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.


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Is this your joyous `city', whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?


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Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?


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Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.


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He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof.


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And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shalt thou have no rest.


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Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces thereof; they made it a ruin.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it shall be unto Tyre as in the song of the harlot.


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Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.


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And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.


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And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.


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


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And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.


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The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.


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The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.


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Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.


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There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.


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For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.


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These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Jehovah they cry aloud from the sea.


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Wherefore glorify ye Jehovah in the east, even the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.


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From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.


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And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.


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The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.


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And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.


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Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts will reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.


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O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, `even' counsels of old, in faithfulness `and' truth.


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


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


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As the heat in a dry place wilt thou bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low.


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And in this mountain will Jehovah of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.


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And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.


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He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken it.


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And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Jehovah; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.


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For in this mountain will the hand of Jehovah rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill.


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And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth `his hands' to swim; but `Jehovah' will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.


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And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.


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In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.


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Thou wilt keep `him' in perfect peace, `whose' mind `is' stayed `on thee'; because he trusteth in thee.


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For he hath brought down them that dwell on high, the lofty city: he layeth it low, he layeth it low even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.


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Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; to thy name, even to thy memorial `name', is the desire of our soul.


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


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Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.


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Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but they shall see `thy' zeal for the people, and be put to shame; yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries.


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


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`They are' dead, they shall not live; `they are' deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.


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Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.


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Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer `when' thy chastening was upon them.


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Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, O Jehovah.


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We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.


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Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is `as' the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.


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


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For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.


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In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.


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I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.


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Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.


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Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; `yea', let him make peace with me.


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In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.


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Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?


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In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost content with them; he hath removed `them' with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.


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Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, `so that' the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.


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For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.


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When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will beat off `his fruit' from the flood of the River unto the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.


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Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine!


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Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.


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and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.


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In that day will Jehovah of hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people;


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and a spirit of justice to him that sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.


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And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.


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Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?


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For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.


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to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.


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Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.


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Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:


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therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -`stone' of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste.


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And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.


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And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.


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As often as it passeth though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the message.


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For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.


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For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.


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Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.


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When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof?


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For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp `threshing' instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.


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Bread `grain' is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he doth not grind it.


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then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel.


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And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against thee.


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And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.


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But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be in an instant suddenly.


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She shall be visited of Jehovah of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.


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And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.


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


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Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.


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For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.


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And all vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed:


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and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned.


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And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh `unto me', and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught `them';


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therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.


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Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel from Jehovah, and whose works are in the dark, and that say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?


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Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?


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Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?


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And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.


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The meek also shall increase their joy in Jehovah, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.


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For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;


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that make a man an offender in `his' cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.


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


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But when he seeth his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name; yea, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel.


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They also that err in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmur shall receive instruction.


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Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,


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that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!


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Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.


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They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.


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The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit `them'.


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Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.


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that say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits,


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get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.


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Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon;


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therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant.


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And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.


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For thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. And ye would not:


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but ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.


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One thousand `shall flee' at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.


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And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they that wait for him.


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For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thou shalt weep no more; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear, he will answer thee.


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And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers;


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


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And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.


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And he will give the rain for thy seed, wherewith thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures;


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the oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.


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And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill, brooks `and' streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.


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Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Jehovah bindeth up the hurt of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.


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Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire;


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and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causeth to err `shall be' in the jaws of the peoples.


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Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.


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And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of `his' anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.


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And every stroke of the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, shall be with `the sound of' tabrets and harps; and in battles with the brandishing `of his arm' will he fight with them.


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For a Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.


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


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


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Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.


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For thus saith Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.


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As birds hovering, so will Jehovah of hosts protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver `it', he will pass over and preserve `it'.


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


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And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to taskwork.


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And his rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, saith Jehovah, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.


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


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And the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.


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For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.


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And the instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.


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Rise up, ye women that are at ease, `and' hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech.


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For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.


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


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


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For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;


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until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.


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And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence for ever.


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And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.


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Woe to thee that destroyest, and thou wast not destroyed; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When thou hast ceased to destroy, thou shalt be destroyed; and when thou hast made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.


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


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At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered.


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And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth: as locusts leap shall men leap upon it.


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And there shall be stability in thy times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Jehovah is thy treasure.


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The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: `the enemy' hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man.


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The land mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is confounded and withereth away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off `their leaves'.


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The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?


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He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil:


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He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given `him'; his waters shall be sure.


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Thy heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed `the tribute'? where is he that counted the towers?


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Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou canst not understand.


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Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.


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But there Jehovah will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.


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Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.


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


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Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that come forth from it.


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For Jehovah hath indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.


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Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.


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And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading `leaf' from the fig-tree.


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For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.


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


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And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.


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And the streams of `Edom' shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.


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


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But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.


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


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And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.


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And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.


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There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.


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Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.


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


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The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.


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It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of Jehovah, the excellency of our God.


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


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


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And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.


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And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but is shall be for `the redeemed': the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err `therein'.


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No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk `there':


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and the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.


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Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.


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


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Then came forth unto him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.


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I say, `thy' counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?


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Behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him.


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


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


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


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But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? `hath he' not `sent me' to the men that sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?


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


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neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.


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until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.


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


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Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?


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Who are they among all the gods of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?


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But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.


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Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.


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It may be Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.


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Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return unto his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.


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And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come out to fight against thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,


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O Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, that sittest `above' the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.


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Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open thine eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to defy the living God.


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and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.


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Now therefore, O Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art Jehovah, even thou only.


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


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this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.


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By thy servants hast thou defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;


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Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field `of grain' before it is grown up.


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And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.


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For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that shall escape. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.


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And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.


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


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In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.


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


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


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And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.


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And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:


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behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.


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I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.


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I said, I shall not see Jehovah, `even' Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.


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My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.


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I quieted `myself' until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.


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Like a swallow `or' a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail `with looking' upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.


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


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O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.


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Behold, `it was' for `my' peace `that' I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.


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For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.


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The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.


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Jehovah is `ready' to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.


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Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.


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


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


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


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Then said he, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.


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


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Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.


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Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.


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The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God.


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Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:


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and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.


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


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The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.


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O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!


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Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.


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He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, `and' will gently lead those that have their young.


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


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


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Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.


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All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.


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The image, a workman hath cast `it', and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth `for it' silver chains.


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He that is too impoverished for `such' an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.


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Have ye not known? have yet not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?


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`It is' he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;


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Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.


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


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Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice `due' to me is passed away from my God?


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Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.


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but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.


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


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Who hath raised up one from the east, whom he calleth in righteousness to his foot? he giveth nations before him, and maketh him rule over kings; he giveth them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.


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Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last, I am he.


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So the carpenter encourageth the goldsmith, `and' he that smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fasteneth it with nails, that is should not be moved.


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thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from the corners thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee and not cast thee away;


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


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Behold, all they that are incensed against thee shall be put to shame and confounded: they that strive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish.


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


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


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Behold, I have made thee `to be' a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.


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Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.


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The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.


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I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.


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


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that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.


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


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


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I have raised up one from the north, and he is come; from the rising of the sun one that calleth upon my name: and he shall come upon rulers as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.


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Who hath declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, `He is' right? yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that showeth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.


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`I am the' first `that saith' unto Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.


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And when I look, there is no man: even among them there is no counsellor, that, when I ask of them, can answer a word.


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Behold, all of them, their works are vanity `and' nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.


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Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.


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A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth.


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He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.


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Thus saith God Jehovah, he that created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he that spread abroad the earth and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:


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


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


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I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images.


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


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Sing unto Jehovah a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.


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Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up `their voice', the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.


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Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up `his' zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yea, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies.


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I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: `now' will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.


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


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


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They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images, Ye are our gods.


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Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as he that is at peace `with me', and blind as Jehovah's servant?


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


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


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Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.


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But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine.


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When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.


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For I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead.


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Since thou hast been precious in my sight, `and' honorable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men in thy stead, and peoples instead of thy life.


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I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;


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every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yea, whom I have made.


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


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


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I have declared, and I have saved, and I have showed; and there was no strange `god' among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and I am God.


