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<n>[with]</n> three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber; and let the expenses be given out of the king's house


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and also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that is at Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple that is at Jerusalem, in their place; and thou shalt put <n>[them]</n> in the house of God.


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Therefore Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, 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 give orders what ye shall do to these elders of the Jews, for the building of this house of God that of the king's goods, of the tribute beyond the river, expenses be diligently given to these men, that they be not hindered.


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


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that they may present sweet odours to the God of the heavens, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.


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Also I have given order that whosoever shall alter this rescript, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon, and let his house be made a dunghill for this.


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And the God that has caused his name to dwell there overthrow every king and people that shall put forth their hand to alter <n>[or]</n> to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have given <n>[this]</n> order; let it be done diligently.


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Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shethar-boznai, and their companions, because of that which king Darius had sent, did so diligently.


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And the elders of the Jews built; and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and completed <n>[it]</n> according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.


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


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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 presented 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 classes, and the Levites in their divisions, 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 as one <n>[man]</n> they were all 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 back out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Jehovah the God of Israel, did eat;


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


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And after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkijah,


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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 <n>[some]</n> of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the doorkeepers, and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.)


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For upon the first of the first month the project of going up from Babylon was determined on, and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.


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


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And this is the copy of the letter that king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a scribe of the words of the commandments of Jehovah, and of his statutes to Israel


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Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, an accomplished scribe of the law of the God of the heavens, and so forth.


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I have given orders that all they of the people of Israel, and of their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who are disposed to go to Jerusalem, go with thee.


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Because thou art sent by the king, and by 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 to the God of Israel, whose habitation is at Jerusalem,


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and all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, besides the voluntary offering of the people, and of the priests, who offer willingly for the house of their God which is at Jerusalem.


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Therefore thou shalt buy diligently with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their oblations and their drink-offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is at Jerusalem.


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


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


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And whatever 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, I Artaxerxes the king, do give orders to all the treasurers that are beyond the river, that whatever Ezra the priest and scribe of the law of the God of the heavens shall require of you, it be done diligently,


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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 <n>[how much]</n>.


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


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Also we inform you, as regards all the priests and Levites, singers, doorkeepers, Nethinim, and ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, tax, and toll upon them.


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And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, which is in thy hand, set 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 knows <n>[them]</n> 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 diligently upon him, whether 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 has put <n>[such a thing]</n> as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of Jehovah which is at Jerusalem;


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


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And these are the chief fathers, and their genealogy, who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.


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Of the children of Phinehas, Gershom; of the children of Ithamar, Daniel; of the children of David, Hattush;


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of the children of Shecaniah, of the children of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him were registered by genealogy of the males a hundred and fifty.


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And of the children of Adonikam, the last ones, whose names are these Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them sixty males.


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


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And I sent 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, and for Joiarib and for Elnathan, men of understanding.


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And I gave them a commission to Iddo the chief, at the place Casiphia, and I put words in their mouths to say to Iddo <n>[and]</n> his brethren the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.


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


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


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


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


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And I separated twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,


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and I weighed to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the heave-offering for the house of our God, which the king and his counsellors and his princes, and all Israel present, had offered.


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And I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver; and silver vessels a hundred talents, <n>[and]</n> of gold a hundred talents;


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and twenty basons of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of shining copper, precious as gold.


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And I said to them, Ye are holy unto Jehovah; the vessels also are holy; and the silver and the gold is a voluntary offering to Jehovah the God of your fathers.


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Watch and keep <n>[them]</n> until ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the chiefs of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Jehovah.


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


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


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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 Urijah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites


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The children of those that had been carried away, who had come out of the captivity, presented burnt-offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering all for a burnt-offering to Jehovah.


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


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Now when these things were completed, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, <n>[even]</n> 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, and have mingled the holy seed with the peoples of the lands; and the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this unfaithfulness.


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


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


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And at the evening oblation I arose up from my humiliation; and with my mantle and my garment rent, I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Jehovah my God,


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and said O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over <n>[our]</n> head, and our trespass is grown up to the heavens.


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


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And now for a little space there hath been favour 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 mercy unto us before 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 <n>[it]</n>, is an unclean land through the filthiness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations with which they have filled it from one end to another through their uncleanness.


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Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their 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 trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities <n>[deserve]</n>, and hast given us such deliverance as this,


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


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Jehovah, God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we are a remnant that is escaped, as <n>[it is]</n> this day. Behold, we are before thee in our trespasses; for there is no standing before thee because of this.


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And while Ezra prayed, and made confession, weeping and falling down before the house of God, there were gathered to him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children; for the people wept very much.


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And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have acted unfaithfully toward our God, and have taken foreign wives of the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.


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And now 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 <n>[my]</n> lord, and of those that tremble at the commandments of our God; and let it be done according to the law.


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Arise, for this matter is incumbent on thee, and we will be with thee be of good courage, and do <n>[it]</n>.


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


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And Ezra arose from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib; and when he came thither, he ate no bread and drank no water; for he mourned because of the unfaithfulness of them that had been carried away.


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


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


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Then were all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month; and all the people sat in the open space of the house of God, trembling because of the matter, and because of the pouring rain.


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And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, Ye have acted unfaithfully, and have taken foreign wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.


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And now make confession to Jehovah the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign wives.


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And the whole congregation answered and said with a loud voice, Yes, it is for us to do according to thy words.


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


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Let now our princes, while this matter is going on, stand for all the congregation, and let all those that have taken foreign wives in our cities come at the appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce anger of our God be turned from us.


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Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.


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And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest <n>[and]</n> certain of the chief fathers were separated according to their fathers' houses, and all of them <n>[expressed]</n> by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.


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And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken foreign wives, 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 to send away their wives; and they offered a ram of the flock, as trespass-offering for their guilt.


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


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And of Israel; of the children of Parosh Ramiah, and Jizzijah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.


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And of the children of Pahath-Moab Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.


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


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that Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and <n>[certain]</n> men of Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.


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And they said to me, Those who remain, that are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction and reproach; and the wall of Jerusalem is in ruins, and its gates are burned with fire.


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


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and said, I beseech thee, Jehovah, God of the heavens, the great and terrible щGod, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and keep his commandments.


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Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, confessing the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee both I and my father's house have sinned.


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We have acted very perversely against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances that thou commandedst thy servant Moses.


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Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the peoples;


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but if ye return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though there were of you cast out unto 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 set my name there.


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And they 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 the king's cupbearer.


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And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, <n>[that]</n> wine was before him, and I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now, I had never been sad in his presence.


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


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And I said to the king, Let the king live for ever! Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates are consumed with fire?


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


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


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


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and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which <n>[appertains]</n> 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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And I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of a force and horsemen with me.


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And when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobijah the servant, the Ammonite, heard <n>[of it]</n>, it grieved them exceedingly that there had 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 -- but I told no man what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem -- and there was no beast with me, except the beast that I rode upon.


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And I went out by night by the valley-gate, even toward the jackal-fountain, and to the dung-gate; and I viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were in ruins, and its gates were consumed with fire.


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And I went on to the fountain-gate, and to the king's pool; and there was no place for the beast under me to pass.


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And I went up in the night through the valley, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the valley-gate and returned.


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And the rulers did not know whither I went or what I did, for I had not 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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And I said to them, Ye see the distress that we are in, that Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates 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 had been good upon me; as also of the king's words which he had said unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. And they strengthened their hands for the good <n>[work]</n>.


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And Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobijah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it; and they mocked us and despised us, and said, What is this thing which ye do? will ye rebel against the king?


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And I answered them, and said to them, The God of the heavens, he will prosper us, and we his servants will arise and build; but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial in Jerusalem.


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And Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they built the sheep-gate. They hallowed it, and set up its doors; and they hallowed it even to the tower of Meah, to the tower of Hananeel.


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And the fish-gate did the sons of Senaah build they laid its beams, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars.


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


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


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And the gate of the old <n>[wall]</n> repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodiah; they laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its locks, and its bars.


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


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Next to them repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths; and next to him repaired Hananiah of the perfumers, and they left Jerusalem <n>[in its state]</n> as far as the broad wall.


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


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Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-Moab repaired a second piece, and the tower of the furnaces.


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


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The valley-gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the dung-gate.


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And the dung-gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the chief of the district of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars.


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And the fountain-gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the chief of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, and to the stairs that go down from the city of David.


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After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the chief of the half district of Beth-zur, even over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty <n>[men]</n>.


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


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


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And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, a second piece over against the going up to the armoury at the angle.


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After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another piece, from the angle to the entry of the house of Eliashib the high priest.


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After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz, another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib as far as 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, by his house.


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After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece, from the house of Azariah to the angle, as far as the corner.


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


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(Now the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel, even over against the water-gate toward the east, and the tower which lies out.)


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After him the Tekoites repaired a second piece, over against the great tower which lies out, as far as the wall of Ophel.


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


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


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After him repaired Malchijah of the goldsmiths to the place of the Nethinim and of the dealers, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.


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And it came to pass that when Sanballat heard that we built the wall, he was angry and very indignant, and mocked the Jews.


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And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? shall they be permitted to go on? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, when they are burned?


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And Tobijah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox went up, it would break down their stone wall. --


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Hear, our God, for we are despised, and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey 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 the builders.


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


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And it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobijah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being repaired, that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,


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And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens faileth, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build at 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 kill them, and put an end to the work.


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And it came to pass that when the Jews that dwelt by them came and told us so ten times, from all the places whence they returned to us,


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I set in the lower places behind the wall in exposed places, I even set the people, according to their families, with their swords, their spears and their bows.


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And I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not 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 that when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had defeated their counsel, we returned all of us to the wall, every one to his work.


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And from that time forth the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held the spears, and the shields, and the bows, and the corslets; and the captains were behind all the house of Judah.


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They that built on the wall, and they that bore burdens, with those that loaded, wrought in the work with one hand, and with the other they held a weapon.


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


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


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in what place ye hear the sound of the trumpet, thither shall ye assemble to us; our God will fight for us.


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And we laboured in the work; and half of them held the spears from the rising of the dawn till the stars appeared.


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Likewise at the same time I said to the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and <n>[be for]</n> labour in the day.


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And neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our garments every one had his weapon on his right side.


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And there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many, and we must procure corn that we may eat and live.


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And there were that said, We have had to pledge our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, that we might procure corn in the dearth.


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And there were that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and vineyards;


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yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and behold, we must bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage <n>[already]</n>; neither is it in the power of our hand <n>[to redeem them]</n>, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.


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And I consulted with myself; and I remonstrated with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother! And I set a great assembly against them.


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And I said to them, We, according to our ability, have redeemed our brethren the Jews, who were sold to the nations; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? And they were silent and found no answer.


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And I said, The thing that ye do is not good. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, so as not to be the reproach of the nations our enemies?


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I also, my brethren and my servants, we might exact usury of them, money and corn. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.


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Restore, I pray you, to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive-gardens, and their houses, also the hundredth <n>[part]</n> of the money, and of the corn, the wine and the oil, that ye have exacted of them.


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And they said, We will restore <n>[them]</n>, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, as thou hast said. And I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.


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Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house and from his earnings, that performeth not this promise even thus be he shaken out and emptied! And all the congregation said, Amen! And they 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 to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, 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 had been chargeable to the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.


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Yea, also I applied myself to this work of the wall, and we bought no fields; and all my servants were gathered thither for the work.


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


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And that which was prepared daily was one ox <n>[and]</n> six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days all sorts of wine in abundance. Yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor; for the service was heavy upon this people.


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


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


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


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


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in which was written It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says <n>[it, that]</n> thou and the Jews think to rebel, for which cause thou buildest the wall, and according to these words thou wilt become their king.


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


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And I sent to 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 slackened from the work, that it be not carried out. -- Now therefore strengthen my hands!


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And I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabeel, who had shut himself 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 are coming to kill thee; even in the night are they coming to kill thee.


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And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, could go into the temple, and live? I will not go in.


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And I perceived, and behold, God had not sent him; for he pronounced this prophecy against me; and Tobijah and Sanballat had hired him.


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


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My God, remember Tobijah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets who would have put me in fear.


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And it came to pass that when all our enemies heard <n>[of it]</n>, all the nations that were about us were afraid and were much cast down in their own eyes, and they perceived that this work was wrought by our God.


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


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


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Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. <n>[And]</n> Tobijah sent letters to put me in fear.


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And it came to pass when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, that the doorkeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed.


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


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And I said to them that the gates of Jerusalem should not be opened until the sun was hot, and that they should shut the doors and bar them while they stood by; and that there should be appointed watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one 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, for registration by genealogy. And I found a genealogical register of those that had come up at the first, and I found written in it


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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 who came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his city;


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those 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 eight hundred and eighteen.


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The Levites the children of Jeshua <n>[and]</n> of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodvah, seventy-four.


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The doorkeepers 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 and thirty-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 are they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub-Addon and Immer; but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.


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The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobijah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.


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And of the priests the children of Hobaiah, the children of Koz, 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 genealogical register, but it was not found; therefore were they, as polluted, removed from the priesthood.


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


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


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


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And <n>[some]</n> of the chief fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand 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 sixty-seven priests' coats.


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And the priests, and the Levites, and the doorkeepers, and the singers, and <n>[some]</n> of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities. And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in their cities,


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all the people gathered together as one man to the open place that was before the water-gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded Israel.


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


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And he read in it before the open place that was before the water-gate from the morning until midday, in presence of the men and the women, and those that could understand. And the ears of all the people were <n>[attentive]</n> to the book of the law.


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And Ezra the scribe stood upon a high stage of wood, which they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkijah, and Maaseiah on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddana, Zechariah, 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 lifting up of their hands; and they bowed their heads, and worshipped Jehovah with their faces to the ground.


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And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people <n>[stood]</n> in their place.


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And they read in the law of God distinctly out of the book, and gave the sense, and caused <n>[them]</n> to understand the reading.


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


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And he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared; for the day is holy to our Lord; and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.


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


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


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And they found written in the law which Jehovah had commanded through 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 through all their cities, and at Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mount, and fetch olive-branches, and wild olive-branches, and myrtle-branches, and palm-branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.


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And the people went forth and brought <n>[them]</n>, and made themselves booths, everyone upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the open space of the water-gate, and in the open space of the gate of Ephraim.


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And all the congregation of them that had come back from the captivity made booths, and dwelt in the booths. For since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun until that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.


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


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And on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, 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 a fourth part they confessed, and worshipped Jehovah their God.


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


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And the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, said, Stand up, bless Jehovah your God from eternity to eternity. And let <n>[men]</n> bless the name of thy glory, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.


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Thou art the Same, thou alone, Jehovah, who hast made the heaven of heavens, and all their host, the earth and all that is therein, the seas and all that is therein. And thou quickenest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.


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Thou art the Same, Jehovah Elohim, 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 the covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, -- to give it to his seed; and thou hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous.


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


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And thou didst divide the sea before them, and they went through the midst of the sea on dry <n>[ground]</n>; and their pursuers thou threwest into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.


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


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And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.


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And thou madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant.


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


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


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and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a +God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.


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yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them on the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew 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; they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not.


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And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan.


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And their children thou didst multiply as the stars of heaven, and thou 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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And 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, both their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.


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And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, wells digged, vineyards and olive-gardens, and fruit trees in abundance. And they did eat and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.


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But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.


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And thou gavest them into the hand of their oppressors, and they oppressed them; and in the time of their distress, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from the heavens, and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their oppressors.


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But when they had rest, they did evil again before thee; and thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they had dominion over them; and again they cried unto thee, and thou heardest <n>[them]</n> from the heavens, and many times didst thou deliver them, according to thy mercies.


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And thou testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law; but 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 they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.


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And many years didst thou forbear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; but they would not give ear and thou gavest them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.


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


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And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible щGod, who keepest covenant and loving-kindness, let not all the trouble 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 days of the kings of Assyria unto this day.


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But thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast acted according to truth, and we have done wickedly.


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And our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers, have not performed thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.


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


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


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


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And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, <n>[and]</n> our priests are at the sealing.


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And at the head of those that sealed were Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zedekiah.


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And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the doorkeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they that had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons and their daughters, every one having knowledge <n>[and]</n> having understanding,


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joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in the law of God, which had been given by Moses the servant of God, and to keep 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 to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons


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and that if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we would not take it of them on the sabbath, or on <n>[any]</n> holy day; and that we would leave <n>[the land uncultivated]</n> the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.


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And 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 bread to be set in rows, and for the continual oblation, and for the continual burnt-offering, <n>[for that]</n> of the sabbaths <n>[and]</n> of the new moons, for the set feasts and for the holy <n>[things]</n>, and for the sin-offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and <n>[for]</n> all the work of the house of our God.


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And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring <n>[it]</n> 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 land, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year to the house of Jehovah,


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


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and that we should bring the first-fruits of our coarse meal and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, new wine and oil, to the priests, into the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that they, the Levites, should 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 to the house of our God, into the chambers of the treasure-house.


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For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the corn, of the new wine and the oil, into the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the doorkeepers 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; and the rest of the people cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem, the holy city, and nine parts in the cities.


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And 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, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.


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And in Jerusalem dwelt some of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Pherez;


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and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.


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And these are the children 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 Isaiah;


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Seraiah the son of Hilkijah, 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 and twenty-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, chief fathers, two hundred and forty-two; and Amassai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer;


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and their brethren, mighty men of valour, a hundred and twenty-eight and their overseer was Zabdiel the son of Gedolim.


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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, <n>[who were]</n> over the outward work of the house of God;


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and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, <n>[who was]</n> the principal 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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And the doorkeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred and seventy-two.


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And the residue of Israel, the priests, <n>[and]</n> the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.


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And the overseer 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, for the work of the house of God.


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For it was the king's commandment concerning them, and there was a settled portion for the singers, due for each day.


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


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And as to the hamlets in their fields, <n>[some]</n> of the children of Judah dwelt in Kirjath-Arba and its dependent villages, and in Dibon and its dependent villages, and in Jekabzeel and its dependent villages,


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Zanoah, Adullam, and their hamlets, in Lachish and its fields, in Azekah and its dependent villages and they encamped from Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.


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And the children of Benjamin from Geba <n>[dwelt]</n> in Michmash and Aija and Bethel, and their dependent villages,


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And 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, Hilkijah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.


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And the Levites Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, Mattaniah, <n>[who was]</n> over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren;


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


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


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And the chief Levites Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise <n>[and]</n> to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.


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Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were doorkeepers keeping the ward at the storehouses 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 hold the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, <n>[with]</n> cymbals, lutes and harps.


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And the children of the singers were assembled, both from the plain <n>[of Jordan]</n> 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 built themselves hamlets 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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And I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great choirs and processions, on the right hand upon the wall towards the dung-gate.


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and <n>[certain]</n> 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 Azareel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe before them.


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


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And the second choir went in the opposite direction upon the wall, and I after them, and the half of the people, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even to the broad wall;


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and from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the gate of the old <n>[wall]</n>, and above the fish-gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even to the sheep-gate; and they stood still in the prison-gate.


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and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, 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; and Jizrahiah was their overseer.


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


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


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And, with the singers and the doorkeepers, they kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David <n>[and]</n> of Solomon his son.


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


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And all Israel, in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the doorkeepers, every day what was needed, and they consecrated things for the Levites; and the Levites consecrated for the children of Aaron.


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


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


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


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And before this, Eliashib the priest, who had the oversight of the chambers of the house of our God, a kinsman of Tobijah,


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had prepared for him a great chamber, where formerly they laid the oblations, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine and the oil, which was commanded for the Levites and the singers and the doorkeepers, and the heave-offerings of the priests.


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And during all that <n>[time]</n> I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two-and-thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I came to the king; and after some time I obtained leave of the king.


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


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And I commanded, and they purified the chambers; and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, the oblation and the frankincense.


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


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Then I contended 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 storekeepers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah; and subordinate to them, Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were esteemed faithful, and their office was to distribute to their brethren.


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Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds which I have done for the house of my God, and for the charges thereof!


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


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Men of Tyre also dwelt therein, who brought fish and all manner of ware, and sold it on the sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.


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And I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this which ye do, profaning 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? And ye will bring more wrath against Israel by profaning the sabbath.


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And it came to pass, that when it began to be dark in the gates of Jerusalem before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut; and I commanded that they should not be opened till after the sabbath. And I set <n>[some]</n> of my servants at the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the sabbath day.


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And I testified against them, and said to them, Why do ye pass the night before the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth they came not 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 hallow the sabbath day. Remember this also for me, my God, and spare me according to thy great loving-kindness!


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And their children spoke half in the language 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 adjured them by God <n>[saying]</n>, Ye shall not give your daughters to 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 the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.


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And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?


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And <n>[one]</n> of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; and I chased him from me.


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Remember them, my God, for they are polluters of the priesthood, and of the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites!


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And I purified them from all foreigners, and appointed the charges of the priests and the Levites, every one in his service;


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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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And it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (that is, the Ahasuerus that reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces),


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


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


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when he shewed the glorious wealth of his kingdom and the splendid magnificence of his grandeur many days, a hundred and eighty days.


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


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White, green, and blue <n>[hangings]</n> were fastened with cords of byssus and purple to silver rings and pillars of white marble; couches of gold and silver <n>[lay]</n> upon a pavement of red and white marble, and alabaster, and black marble.


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


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And the drinking was, according to commandment, without constraint; for so the king had appointed to all the magnates of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.


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


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


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to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown to shew the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was of beautiful countenance.


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But the queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king which was <n>[sent]</n> by the chamberlains; and the king was very wroth, and his fury burned in him.


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And the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for so was the king's business <n>[conducted]</n> before all that knew law and judgment;


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and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, <n>[and]</n> Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and who sat first in the kingdom),


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What shall be done to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not performed the word of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?


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Then said Memucan before the king and the princes, The queen Vashti has 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 the act of the queen will come abroad to all women, so as to render their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when they shall say, The king Ahasuerus commanded the queen Vashti to be brought in before him, and she came not!


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And the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's act, will say it this day to all the king's princes, and there will be contempt and anger enough.


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


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and when the king's edict which he shall make shall be heard throughout his realm -- for it is great -- all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, from the greatest to the least.


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And he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people according to 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 fury of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.


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Then said the king's servants that attended upon him, Let there be maidens, virgins of beautiful countenance, 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 young virgins of beautiful countenance to Shushan the fortress, 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.


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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 in Shushan the fortress a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjaminite,


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who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who 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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And it came to pass when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the fortress, unto the custody of Hegai, that Esther also was brought into the king's house, unto the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.


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And the maiden pleased him, and obtained favour before him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, and her portions, and the seven maidens selected to be given her, out of the king's house; and he removed her and her maids to the best <n>[place]</n> of the house of the women.


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Esther had not made known her people nor her birth; 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 should become of her.


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And when every maiden's turn came to go in to king Ahasuerus after that she had been treated for twelve months, according to the manner of the women (for so were the days of their purification accomplished -- six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with spices, and with things for the purifying of the women,


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and thus came the maiden in unto the king), whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women to the king's house.


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


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


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


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


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And the king made a great feast to all his princes and his servants, Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave presents according to the king's bounty.


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(Esther, as Mordecai had charged her, had not yet made known her birth nor her people; for Esther did what Mordecai told her, like as when she was brought up with him.)


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


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And the thing became known to Mordecai, and he related it to Esther the queen, and Esther told it to the king in Mordecai's name.


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And the matter was investigated and found out; and 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 king Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.


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And all the king's servants that were in the king's gate bowed and did Haman reverence, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did <n>[him]</n> reverence.


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


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And it came to pass as they spoke daily to him, and he hearkened not to them, that they informed Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.


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But he scorned to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus -- the people of Mordecai.


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In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman for each day and for each month, to the twelfth <n>[month]</n>, that is, the month Adar.


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And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from <n>[those of]</n> every people, and they keep not the king's laws; and it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.


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If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have charge of the affairs, to bring <n>[it]</n> into the king's treasuries.


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


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


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


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And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, upon the thirteenth of the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, and <n>[to take]</n> the spoil of them for a prey.


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That the decree might be given in every province, a copy of the writing was published to all peoples, that they should be ready against that day.


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


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


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


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


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And Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told <n>[it]</n> her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him; but he received <n>[it]</n> not.


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Then Esther called for Hatach, <n>[one]</n> of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to wait upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.


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And Hatach went forth to Mordecai, unto the public place of the city which was before the king's gate.


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


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And he gave him a copy of the writing of the decree that had been given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew <n>[it]</n> to Esther, and to declare <n>[it]</n> to her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.


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And Mordecai bade to answer Esther Imagine not in thy heart 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 shall there arise relief and deliverance to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall perish. And who knows whether thou art <n>[not]</n> come to the kingdom for such a time as this?


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


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And it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on 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 to the house.


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


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And the king said to 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 to the king, let the king and Haman come this day to the banquet that I have prepared for him.


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And the king said, Hasten Haman, that it may be done as Esther has said. And the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.


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


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If I have found grace 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 according to the king's word.


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And Haman went 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 full of fury against Mordecai.


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But Haman controlled himself, and came home; and he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.


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


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


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


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On that night sleep fled from the king. 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, keepers of the threshold, who had sought to lay hand on king Ahasuerus.


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And the king said, What honour and dignity has been done to Mordecai for this? And the king's servants that attended upon him said, Nothing has been done for him.


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


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


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


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let the royal apparel be brought with which the king arrays himself, and the horse that the king rides upon, and on the head of which the royal crown is set;


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and let the apparel and horse be delivered into the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, and let them array the man whom the king delights to honour, and cause him to ride on the horse through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honour!


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And the king said to Haman, Make haste, take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate let nothing fail of all that thou hast said.


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And Haman took 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 to the man whom the king delights to honour!


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


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


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And the king said again to Esther on the second day, at the banquet of wine, What is 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 done.


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And Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found grace 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 tongue, although the adversary could not compensate the king's damage.


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And king Ahasuerus spoke and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he that has filled his heart to do so?


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


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And the king in his wrath rose up from the banquet of wine, <n>[and went]</n> into the palace garden; but Haman stayed 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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And the king returned out of the palace garden into the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman was fallen upon the couch on which Esther was. And the king said, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? The word went forth out of the king's mouth, and they covered Haman's face.


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And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold, also, the gallows fifty cubits high, that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him on it!


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


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


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


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


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and said, If it please the king and if I have found grace before him, and the thing seem right to the king, and I be pleasing in his sight, 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 shall I endure to see the evil that shall befall my people? and how shall I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?


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


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Write ye then for the Jews as seems good to you, in the king's name, and seal <n>[it]</n> with the king's ring. For a writing that is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, cannot be reversed.


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


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And he wrote in the name of king Ahasuerus, and sealed <n>[it]</n> with the king's ring, and sent letters by couriers on horseback riding on coursers, horses of blood reared in the breeding studs


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<n>[stating]</n> that 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 might assault them, <n>[their]</n> little ones and women, and to <n>[take]</n> the spoil of them for a prey,


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upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, upon the thirteenth of the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.


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


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The couriers mounted on coursers <n>[and]</n> horses of blood went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the fortress.


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And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a mantle of byssus and purple; and the city of Shushan shouted and was glad.


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


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


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


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And all the princes of the provinces, and the satraps, and the governors and officers of the king, helped the Jews; for the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.


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


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


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the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the oppressor of the Jews, they slew; but they laid not their hands on the prey.


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On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the fortress was brought before the king.


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


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And Esther said, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-morrow also according to 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 the decree was given at 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 at Shushan; but they laid not their hand on the prey.


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


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


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But the Jews that were at Shushan gathered themselves together on the thirteenth <n>[day]</n> thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and joy.


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Therefore the Jews of the villages that dwell in the country towns make the fourteenth of the month Adar a day of joy and feasting, and a good day, and on which they send portions one to another.


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


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to establish <n>[this]</n> among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,


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


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


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and when <n>[Esther]</n> 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 they hanged him and his sons on the gallows.


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Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore, according to all the words of this letter, and for what they had seen concerning this matter and what had happened to them,


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


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


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And queen Esther 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 to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, words of peace and truth,


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


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And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, to which 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 second to king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the welfare 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 this man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and abstained from evil.


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And his substance was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; and this man was greater than all the children of the east.


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And his sons went and made a feast in the house of each one on his day; and they sent and invited their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.


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And it was so, when the days of the feasting were gone about, that Job sent and hallowed them; and he rose up early in the morning, and offered up burnt-offerings <n>[according to]</n> the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.


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And there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah; and Satan came also among them.


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And Jehovah said to Satan, 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 to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth 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 spread abroad in the land.


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But put forth thy hand now and touch all that he hath, <n>[and see]</n> if he will not curse thee to thy face!


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


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And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn.


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


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and <n>[they of]</n> Sheba fell <n>[upon them]</n> and took them, and the servants have they smitten 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 another and said, The fire of God fell from heaven and 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 another and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels and took them, and the servants have they smitten 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 another and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn;


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


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And Job rose up, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down on 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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And there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, and Satan also came among them to present himself before Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said to 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 to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil? and still he remaineth firm in his integrity, though thou movedst me against him, to swallow him up 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, <n>[and see]</n> if he will not curse thee to thy face!


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And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah; and he smote Job with a grievous botch from the sole of his foot unto his crown.


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But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. We have also received good from God, and should we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.


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And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him. And they came each one from his place Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to condole with him and to comfort him.


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


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And they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights; and none spoke a word to him; for they saw that <n>[his]</n> anguish was very great.


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That day -- let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it


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Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.


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That night -- let gloom 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 its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn


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The roar 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; I could not discern the appearance thereof a form was before mine eyes; I heard a slight murmur and a voice


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How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!


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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.


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Behold, happy is the man whom +God correcteth; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.


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Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue; and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it cometh.


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At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh, and of the beasts of the earth thou shalt not be afraid.


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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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For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit the terrors of +God are arrayed against me.


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Then should I yet have comfort; and in the pain which spareth not I would rejoice that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.


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For him that is fainting kindness <n>[is meet]</n> from his friend; or he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.


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At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place


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If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn.


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The eye of him that hath seen me shall behold me no <n>[more]</n> thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.


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


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Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden to myself?


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And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.


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If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.


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If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;


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Whilst it is yet in its greenness <n>[and]</n> not cut down, it withereth before any <n>[other]</n> grass.


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He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.


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Whom, though I were righteous, <n>[yet]</n> would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.


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Be it a question of strength, lo, <n>[he is]</n> strong; and be it of judgment, who will set me a time?


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The earth is given over into the hand of the wicked <n>[man]</n>; he covereth the faces of its judges. If not, who then is it?


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If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my <n>[sad]</n> countenance, and brighten up,


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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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Doth it please thee to oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?


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If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being <n>[so]</n> full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --


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And it increaseth thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.


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Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions <n>[of evil]</n> and a time of toil are with me.


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A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.


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Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make <n>[thee]</n> ashamed?


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And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that +God passeth by <n>[much]</n> of thine iniquity!


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<n>[It is as]</n> the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?


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And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning,


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And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about <n>[thee]</n>, thou shalt take rest in safety.


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But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and <n>[all]</n> refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope <n>[shall be]</n> the breathing out of life.


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I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these?


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I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer a derision is the just upright <n>[man]</n>.


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The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke щGod are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth.


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But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee;


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


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He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste.


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And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; --


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If his days are determined, if the number of his months is with thee, <n>[and]</n> thou hast appointed his bounds which he must not pass,


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For there is hope for a tree if it be cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease;


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So man lieth down, and riseth not again; till the heavens be no more, they do not awake, nor are raised out of their sleep.


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Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, --


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(If a man die, shall he live <n>[again]</n>?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come


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Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest have a desire after the work of thy hands.


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The waters wear the stones, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.


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


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He wandereth abroad for bread, -- where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.


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And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.


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He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.


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He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches; and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.


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


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<n>[But]</n> I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage <n>[your pain]</n>.


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Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.


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His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; <n>[as]</n> mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.


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They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.


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I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.


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His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.


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For years <n>[few]</n> in number shall pass, -- and I shall go the way <n>[whence]</n> I shall not return.


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Lay down now <n>[a pledge]</n>, be thou surety for me with thyself who is he that striketh hands with me?


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Upright men <n>[shall be]</n> astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly;


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


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They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before <n>[them]</n> were affrighted.


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Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not щGod.


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His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.


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And <n>[as for]</n> me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;


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Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another -- my reins are consumed within me.


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Be ye yourselves afraid of the sword! for the sword is fury against misdeeds, that ye may know there is a judgment.


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He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again щGod shall cast them out of his belly.


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That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice <n>[therein]</n>.


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For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.


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In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.


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It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.


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


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All darkness is laid up for his treasures a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.


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How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows <n>[to them]</n> in his anger?


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+God layeth up <n>[the punishment of]</n> his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know <n>[it]</n>


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The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.


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Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if thou art righteous? And is it gain <n>[to him]</n> that thou makest thy ways perfect?


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


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And put the precious ore with the dust, and <n>[the gold of]</n> Ophir among the stones of the torrents,


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


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When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.


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<n>[Even]</n> him that is not innocent shall he deliver; yea, he shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands.


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On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold <n>[him]</n> not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see <n>[him]</n> not.


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Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.


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Lo, <n>[as]</n> wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey the wilderness <n>[yieldeth]</n> them food for <n>[their]</n> children.


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Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and +God imputeth not the impiety.


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There are those 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, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.


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And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on <n>[his]</n> face.


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For the morning is to them all <n>[as]</n> the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.


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He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards.


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The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --


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They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all <n>[other]</n> are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.


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Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand?


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<n>[As]</n> щGod liveth, who hath taken away my right, and the Almighty, who hath embittered my soul,


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My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go my heart reproacheth <n>[me]</n> not one of my days.


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For what is the hope of the ungodly, when <n>[God]</n> cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?


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This is the portion of the wicked man with щGod, and the heritage of the violent, 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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<n>[Man]</n> putteth an end to the darkness, and exploreth to the utmost limit, the stones of darkness and of the shadow of death.


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He openeth a shaft far from the inhabitants <n>[of the earth]</n> forgotten of the foot, they hang suspended; away below men they hover.


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The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be compared to it, neither shall it be set in the balance with pure gold.


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


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When the ear heard <n>[me]</n>, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw <n>[me]</n>, it gave witness to me;


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The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.


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<n>[If]</n> I laughed on them, they believed <n>[it]</n> not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.


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


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


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Yea, whereto <n>[should]</n> the strength of their hands <n>[profit]</n> me, <n>[men]</n> in whom vigour hath perished?


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At <n>[my]</n> right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;


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Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.


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The night pierceth through my bones <n>[and detacheth them]</n> from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest


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Indeed, no prayer <n>[availeth]</n> when he stretcheth out <n>[his]</n> hand though they cry when he destroyeth.


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For what would have been <n>[my]</n> portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?


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If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;


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(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the <n>[widow]</n> from my mother's womb;)


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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! Behold my signature let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!


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If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners


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


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and against his three friends was his anger kindled, because they found no answer, and <n>[yet]</n> condemned Job.


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And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are aged; wherefore I was timid, and feared to shew you what I know.


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Yea, I gave you mine attention, and behold, there was none of you that confuted Job, that answered his words;


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Now he hath not directed <n>[his]</n> words against me; and I will not answer him with your speeches. ...


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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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Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit I have found a ransom.


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He shall pray unto +God, and he will receive him with favour; and he shall see his face with shoutings, and he will render unto man his righteousness.


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He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me;


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Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding Far be wickedness from щGod, and wrong from the Almighty!


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<n>[How then to him]</n> that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the poor? for they are all the work of his hands.


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In a moment they die, even at midnight the people are convulsed and pass away; and the strong are taken away without hand.


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Since he knoweth their actions; and he overthroweth <n>[them]</n> in the night, and they are crushed.


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When he giveth quietness, who then will disturb? and when he hideth <n>[his]</n> face, who shall behold him? and this towards a nation, or towards a man alike;


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Shall he recompense according to thy mind? for thou hast refused <n>[his judgment]</n>; for thou so choosest, and not I; speak then what thou knowest.


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Would that Job may be tried unto the end, because of <n>[his]</n> answers after the manner of evil men!


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For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth <n>[his hands]</n> among us, and multiplieth his words against щGod.


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If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?


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Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?


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But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not <n>[Job]</n> know <n>[his]</n> great arrogancy?


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He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted.


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If they hearken and serve <n>[him]</n>, they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.


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But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in <n>[their]</n> oppression.


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Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table <n>[would be]</n> full of fatness.


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Because there is wrath, <n>[beware]</n> lest it take thee away through chastisement then a great ransom could not avail thee.


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Lo, щGod is great, and we comprehend <n>[him]</n> not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.


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After it a voice roareth he thundereth with the voice of his excellency, and holdeth not back the flashes when his voice is heard.


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For he saith to the snow, Fall on the earth! and to the pouring rain, even the pouring rains of his might.


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And they are turned every way by his guidance, that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the circuit of the earth,


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Dost thou know about the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him that is perfect in knowledge?


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And now <n>[men]</n> see not the light as it gleameth, it is <n>[hidden]</n> in the skies. But the wind passeth by and cleareth them.


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The Almighty, we cannot find him out excellent in power, and in judgment, and in abundance of justice, he doth not afflict.


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Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? and hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?


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


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To satisfy the desolate and waste <n>[ground]</n>, and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?


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Dost thou bring forth the constellations each in its season? or dost thou guide the Bear with her sons?


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Who provideth for the raven his food, when his young ones cry unto щGod, <n>[and]</n> they wander for lack of meat?


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Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?


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Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them.


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Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him?


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She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.


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He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in <n>[his]</n> strength; he goeth forth to meet the armed host.


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He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, and cannot contain himself at the sound of the trumpet


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At the noise of the trumpets he saith, Aha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.


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Shall he that will contend with the Almighty instruct <n>[him]</n>? he that reproveth +God, let him answer it.


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Lo, the river overfloweth -- he startleth not he is confident though a Jordan break forth against his mouth.


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Who hath first given to me, that I should repay <n>[him]</n>? <n>[Whatsoever is]</n> under the whole heaven is mine.


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Who is he that obscureth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered what I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.


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And it came to pass after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, that Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken rightly of me, like my servant Job.


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And now, take for yourselves seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for him will I accept lest I deal with you <n>[after your]</n> folly, for ye have not spoken of me rightly, like my servant Job.


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Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did according as Jehovah had said unto them; and Jehovah accepted Job.


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


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And all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house, and they condoled with him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him; and every one gave him a piece of money, and every one a golden ring.


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And 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 <n>[so]</n> fair as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.


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


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Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;


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And he <n>[is]</n> as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth.


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The kings of the earth set themselves, and the princes plot together, against Jehovah and against his anointed


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I will declare the decree Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; *I* this day have begotten thee.


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Ask of me, and I will give thee nations for an inheritance, and for thy possession the ends of the earth


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Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, though his anger burn but a little. Blessed are all who have their trust in him.


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(A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.) Jehovah, how many are they that trouble me, many they that rise up against me!


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Arise, Jehovah; save me, my God! For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheekbone, thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.


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(To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.) When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness in pressure thou hast enlarged me; be gracious unto me, and hear my prayer.


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Ye sons of men, till when is my glory <n>[to be put]</n> to shame? <n>[How long]</n> will ye love vanity, will ye seek after a lie? Selah.


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But know that Jehovah hath set apart the pious <n>[man]</n> for himself Jehovah will hear when I call unto him.


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Thou hast put joy in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their new wine was in abundance.


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(To the chief Musician. Upon Nehiloth. A Psalm of David.) Give ear to my words, O Jehovah; consider my meditation.


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Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; in the morning will I address myself to thee, and will look up.


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But as for me, in the greatness of thy loving-kindness will I enter thy house; I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness in thy fear.


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For there is no certainty in their mouth; their inward part is perversion, their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.


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Bring guilt upon them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels drive them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against thee.


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And all that trust in thee shall rejoice for ever shall they shout joyously, and thou wilt protect them; and they that love thy name shall exult in thee.


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For thou, Jehovah, wilt bless the righteous <n>[man]</n>; with favour wilt thou surround him as <n>[with]</n> a shield.


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(To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments, upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.) Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger, and chasten me not in thy hot displeasure.


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I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.


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All mine enemies shall be ashamed and tremble exceedingly; they will turn, they will be ashamed suddenly.


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(Shiggaion of David, which he sang to Jehovah, concerning the words of Cush the Benjaminite.) Jehovah my God, in thee have I trusted save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me;


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If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (indeed I have freed him that without cause oppressed me;)


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Let the enemy pursue after my soul, and take <n>[it]</n>, and let him tread down my life to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.


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Arise, Jehovah, in thine anger; lift thyself up against the raging of mine oppressors, and awake for me thou hast commanded judgment.


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Jehovah shall minister judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity which is in me.


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Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous <n>[man]</n>; even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God.


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I will praise Jehovah according to his righteousness, and will sing forth the name of Jehovah the Most High.


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(To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.) Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.


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Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.


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The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, <n>[whatever]</n> passeth through the paths of the seas.


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(To the chief Musician. Upon Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.) I will praise Jehovah with my whole heart; I will recount all thy marvellous works.


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


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O enemy! destructions are ended for ever. -- Thou hast also destroyed cities, even the remembrance of them hath perished.


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And it is he that will judge the world with righteousness; he shall execute judgment upon the peoples with equity.


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And they that know thy name will confide in thee; for thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.


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For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them; the cry of the afflicted ones hath he not forgotten.


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Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death


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That I may declare all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will be joyful in thy salvation.


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The nations are sunk down in the pit <n>[that]</n> they made; in the net that they hid is their own foot taken.


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Jehovah is known <n>[by]</n> the judgment he hath executed the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.


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The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.


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The wicked <n>[saith]</n>, in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out all his thoughts are, There is no God!


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His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; <n>[as for]</n> all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.


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He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation I shall be in no adversity.


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His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.


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He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent his eyes watch for the wretched.


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He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he lieth in wait to catch the afflicted he doth catch the afflicted, drawing him into his net.


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Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require <n>[it]</n>.


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Thou hast seen <n>[it]</n>, for thou thyself beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite by thy hand. The wretched 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 <n>[till]</n> thou find none.


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Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek, thou hast established their heart thou causest thine ear to hear,


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To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed one, that the man of the earth may terrify no more.


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(To the chief Musician. <n>[A Psalm]</n> of David.) In Jehovah have I put my trust how say ye to my soul, Flee <n>[as]</n> a bird to your mountain?


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For behold, the wicked bend the bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may in darkness shoot at the upright in heart.


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Jehovah <n>[is]</n> in the temple of his holiness; Jehovah, -- his throne is in the heavens his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.


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Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.


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(To the chief Musician. Upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.) Save, Jehovah, for the godly man is gone; for the faithful have failed from among the children of men.


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They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour <n>[with]</n> flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.


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Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set <n>[him]</n> in safety, at whom they puff.


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(To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.) How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?


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How long shall I take counsel in my soul, with sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?


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Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him! <n>[lest]</n> mine adversaries be joyful when I am moved.


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(To the chief Musician. <n>[A Psalm]</n> of David.) The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, they have done abominable works there is none that doeth good.


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Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.


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They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt there is none that doeth good, not even one.


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Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people <n>[as]</n> they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.


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Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When Jehovah turneth again the captivity of his people, Jacob shall be glad, Israel shall rejoice.


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(A Psalm of David.) Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tent? who shall dwell in the hill of thy holiness?


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<n>[He that]</n> slandereth not with his tongue, doeth not evil to his companion, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour;


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In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his own hurt, changeth it not;


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<n>[He that]</n> putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these <n>[things]</n> shall never be moved.


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Thou <n>[my soul]</n> hast said to Jehovah, Thou art the Lord my goodness <n>[extendeth]</n> not to thee; --


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To the saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent <n>[thou hast said]</n>, In them is all my delight.


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Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, and I will not take up their names into my lips.


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I have set Jehovah continually before me; because <n>[he is]</n> at my right hand, I shall not be moved.


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Thou wilt make known to me the path of life thy countenance is fulness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.


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(A Prayer of David.) Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer, which is not out of feigned lips.


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Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing my thought goeth not beyond my word.


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Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the paths of the violent <n>[man]</n>.


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Shew wondrously thy loving-kindnesses, O thou that savest by thy right hand them that trust <n>[in thee]</n> from those that rise up <n>[against them]</n>.


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From men <n>[who are]</n> thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age their portion is in <n>[this]</n> life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid <n>[treasure]</n>; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their <n>[substance]</n> to their children.


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As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.


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(To the chief Musician. <n>[A Psalm]</n> of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,) I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.


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Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my щGod, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.


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In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears.


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Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook, because he was wroth.


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There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured coals burned forth from it.


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He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about him darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.


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And he sent his arrows, and scattered <n>[mine enemies]</n>; and he shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them.


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And the beds of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, 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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And Jehovah hath recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.


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With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; with the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;


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As for щGod, his way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is tried he is a shield to all that trust in him.


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And thou didst give me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand held me up; and thy condescending gentleness hath made me great.


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And thou girdedst me with strength to battle; thou didst subdue under me those that rose up against me.


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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 I knew not doth serve me.


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Who hath delivered me from mine enemies yea, thou hast lifted me up above them that rose up against me; from the man of violence hast thou delivered me.


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<n>[It is he]</n> who giveth great deliverances to his king, and sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.


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(To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.) The heavens declare the glory of щGod; and the expanse sheweth the work of his hands.


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Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their language to the extremity of the world. In them hath he set a tent for the sun,


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And he is as a bridegroom going forth from his chamber; he rejoiceth as a strong man to run the race.


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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 judgments of Jehovah are truth, they are righteous altogether


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They are more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb.


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Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous <n>[sins]</n>; let them not have dominion over me then shall I be perfect, and I shall be innocent 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.


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(To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.) Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob protect thee;


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We will triumph in thy salvation, and in the name of our God will we set up our banners. Jehovah fulfil all thy petitions!


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Now know I that Jehovah saveth his anointed; he answereth him from the heavens of his holiness, with the saving strength of his right hand.


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(To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.) The king shall joy in thy strength, Jehovah; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice.


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For thou hast met him with the blessings of goodness; thou hast set a crown of pure gold on his head.


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For the king confideth in Jehovah and through the loving-kindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.


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Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thy presence; Jehovah shall swallow them up in his anger, and the fire shall devour them


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For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.


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(To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David.) My щGod, my щGod, why hast thou forsaken me? <n>[why art thou]</n> far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?


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All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, <n>[saying]</n>


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I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.


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My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.


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For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded 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 revere 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 him your heart shall live for ever.


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All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah, and all the families 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, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul.


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They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done <n>[it]</n>.


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Yea, though 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 loving-kindness shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of Jehovah for the length of the days.


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(Of David. A Psalm.) The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.


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He that hath blameless hands and a pure heart; who lifteth not up his soul unto vanity, nor sweareth deceitfully


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Lift up your heads, ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.


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Lift up your heads, ye gates; yea, lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.


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Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed they shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause.


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Make me to walk in thy truth, and teach me for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.


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Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, Jehovah.


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All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness and truth for such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.


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What man is he that feareth Jehovah? him will he instruct in the way <n>[that]</n> he should choose.


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(<n>[A Psalm]</n> of David.) Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity, and I have confided in Jehovah I shall not slip.


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(<n>[A Psalm]</n> of David.) 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, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.


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If a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; if war rise against me, in this will I be confident.


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One <n>[thing]</n> 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 <n>[of him]</n> in his temple.


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For in the day of evil he will hide me in his pavilion; in the secret of his tent will he keep me concealed he will set me high 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 tent sacrifices of shouts of joy I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms 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 to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.


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(<n>[A Psalm]</n> of David.) Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, <n>[if]</n> thou keep silence toward 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 the oracle of thy holiness.


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Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbours, and mischief is in their heart.


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Give them according to their doing, and according to the wickedness of their deeds; give them after the work of their hands, render to them their desert.


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For they regard not the deeds of Jehovah, nor the work of his hands he will destroy them, and not build them up.


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Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart confided in him, and I was helped therefore my heart exulteth, and with my song will I praise him.


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(A Psalm of David.) Give unto Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty ones, give unto Jehovah glory and strength;


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The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve, and layeth bare the forests; and in his temple doth every one say, Glory!


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(A Psalm of David dedication-song of the house.) I will extol thee, Jehovah; for thou hast delivered me, and hast not made mine enemies to rejoice over me.


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Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, thou hast quickened me from among those that go down to the pit.


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For a moment <n>[is passed]</n> in his anger, a life in his favour; at even weeping cometh for the night, and at morn there is rejoicing.


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Jehovah, by thy favour thou 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, in my going 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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That <n>[my]</n> glory may sing psalms of thee, and not be silent. Jehovah my God, I will praise thee for ever.


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(To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.) In thee, Jehovah, do I trust; let me never be ashamed deliver me in thy righteousness.


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Incline thine ear to me, deliver me speedily; be a strong rock to me, a house of defence to save me.


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I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving-kindness, for thou hast seen mine affliction; thou hast known the troubles of my soul,


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Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.


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For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.


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More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance they that see me without flee from me.


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For I have heard the slander of many -- terror on every side -- when they take counsel together against me they plot to take away my life.


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Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon thee let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol.


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<n>[Oh]</n> how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, <n>[which]</n> thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men!


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Thou keepest them concealed in the secret of thy presence from the conspiracies of man; thou hidest them 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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Love Jehovah, all ye his saints. Jehovah preserveth the faithful, and plentifully requiteth the proud doer.


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(Of David. Instruction.) Blessed is he <n>[whose]</n> transgression is forgiven, <n>[whose]</n> sin is covered!


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For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.


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I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity I covered not; I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah, and *thou* forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.


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For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found surely in the floods of great waters they will not reach him.


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Thou art a hiding-place for me; thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with songs of deliverance. Selah.


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I will instruct thee and teach thee the way in which thou shalt go; I will counsel <n>[thee]</n> with mine eye upon thee.


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Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee.


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Many sorrows hath the wicked; but he that confideth in Jehovah, loving-kindness shall encompass him.


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Jehovah frustrateth the counsel of the nations; he maketh the thoughts of the peoples of none effect.


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The king is not saved by the multitude of <n>[his]</n> forces; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.


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(<n>[A Psalm]</n> of David; when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.) I will bless Jehovah at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.


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(<n>[A Psalm]</n> of David.) Strive, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me


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And draw out the spear, and stop <n>[the way]</n> against my pursuers say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.


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Let them be put to shame and confounded that seek after my life; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that devise my hurt


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For without cause have they hidden for me their net <n>[in]</n> a pit; without cause they have digged <n>[it]</n> for my soul.


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Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net which he hath hidden catch himself for destruction let him fall therein.


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All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the afflicted from one stronger than he, yea, the afflicted and the needy from him that spoileth him!


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But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom


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I behaved myself as though <n>[he had been]</n> a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth <n>[for]</n> a mother.


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But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew <n>[it]</n> not; they did tear <n>[me]</n>, and ceased not


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Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my only one from the young lions.


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Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me; let them not wink with the eye that hate me without 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 ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine adversity; let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.


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Let them exult and rejoice that delight in my righteousness; and let them say continually, Jehovah be magnified, who delighteth in the prosperity of his servant.


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(To the chief Musician. <n>[A Psalm]</n> of the servant of Jehovah; of David.) The transgression of the wicked uttereth within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.


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He deviseth wickedness up on his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good he abhorreth not evil.


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Jehovah, thy loving-kindness is in the heavens, and thy faithfulness <n>[reacheth]</n> unto the clouds.


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Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.


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How precious is thy loving-kindness, O God! So the sons 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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Continue thy loving-kindness unto them that know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart;


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(<n>[A Psalm]</n> of David.) Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, and be not envious of them that work unrighteousness;


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Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him fret not thyself because of him that prospereth in his way, because of the man that bringeth mischievous devices to pass.


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The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the afflicted and needy, to slay those that are upright in <n>[the]</n> way


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For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs they shall consume, like smoke shall they consume away.


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I have been young, and now am old, and I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread


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for Jehovah loveth judgment, and will not forsake 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 possess the land when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see <n>[it]</n>.


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And Jehovah will help them and deliver them he will deliver them from the wicked, and save them; for they trust in him.


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(A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.) Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.


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There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin.


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My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.


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And they that seek after my life lay snares <n>[for me]</n>; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.


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For I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot slipped, they magnified <n>[themselves]</n> against me.


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(To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.) I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue I will keep my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me.


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Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is I shall know how frail I am.


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Behold, thou hast made my days <n>[as]</n> hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, <n>[even]</n> the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.


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Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up <n>[riches]</n>, and knoweth not who shall gather them.


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When thou with rebukes dost correct a 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, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.


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(To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm.) I waited patiently for Jehovah; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.


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And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings


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And he hath put a new song in my mouth, praise unto our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall confide in Jehovah.


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Blessed is the man that hath made Jehovah his confidence, and turneth not to the proud, and to such as turn aside to lies.


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Thou, O Jehovah my God, hast multiplied thy marvellous works, and thy thoughts toward us they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; would I declare and speak <n>[them]</n>, they are more than can be numbered.


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Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire ears hast thou prepared me. Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not demanded;


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I have published righteousness in the great congregation behold, I have not withheld my lips, Jehovah, *thou* knowest.


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I have not hidden thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation.


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Withhold not thou, Jehovah, thy tender mercies from me; let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me.


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For innumerable evils have compassed me about mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head and my heart hath failed me.


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Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be turned backward and confounded that take pleasure in mine adversity;


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Let all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee; let such as love thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be magnified!


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But I am afflicted and needy the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my deliverer my God, make no delay.


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(To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.) Blessed is he that understandeth the poor Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.


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Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive; he shall be made happy in the land; and thou wilt not deliver him to the will of his enemies.


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And if one come to see <n>[me]</n>, he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth wickedness to itself he goeth abroad, he telleth <n>[it]</n>.


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Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I confided, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up <n>[his]</n> heel against me.


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(To the chief Musician. An instruction; of the sons of Korah.) As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.


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These things I remember and have poured out my soul within me how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a festive multitude.


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Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, <n>[for]</n> the health of his countenance.


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My God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from mount Mizar.


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Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.


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In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the щGod of my life.


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I will say unto щGod 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 crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?


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Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, <n>[who is]</n> the health of my countenance, and my God.


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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; deliver me from the deceitful and unrighteous man.


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For thou art the God of my strength why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


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Send out thy light and thy truth *they* shall lead me, *they* shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations.


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Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto the щGod of the gladness of my joy yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.


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(To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.) O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old


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Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out.


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For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in 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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Thou hast given us over like sheep <n>[appointed]</n> for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;


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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;


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Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.


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All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant


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(To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; -- a song of the Beloved.) My heart is welling forth <n>[with]</n> a good matter I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.


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Thou art fairer than the sons of men; grace is poured into thy lips therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.


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And <n>[in]</n> thy splendour ride prosperously, because of truth and meekness <n>[and]</n> 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 companions.


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Myrrh and aloes, cassia, are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.


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Kings' daughters are among thine honourable women; upon thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.


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Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house


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She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of embroidery; the virgins behind her, her companions, shall be brought in unto thee


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I will make thy name to be remembered throughout all generations; therefore shall the peoples praise thee for ever and ever.


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(To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. On Alamoth. A song.) God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found.


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Therefore will we not fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the heart of the seas;


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Though the waters thereof roar <n>[and]</n> foam, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.


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There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the habitations of the Most High.


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He hath made 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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(To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.) All ye peoples, clap your hands; shout unto God with the voice of triumph!


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The willing-hearted of the peoples have gathered together, <n>[with]</n> the people of the God of Abraham. For unto God <n>[belong]</n> the shields of the earth he is greatly exalted.


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(A Song; a Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.) Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the hill of his holiness.


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Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, <n>[on]</n> 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 doth establish it for ever. Selah.


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According to 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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(To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.) Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all inhabitants of the world


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Wherefore should I fear in the days of adversity, <n>[when]</n> the iniquity of my supplanters encompasseth me? --


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For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.


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Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever, their dwelling-places from generation to generation they call the lands after their own names.


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Like sheep are they laid in Sheol Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.


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Though he blessed his soul in his lifetime, -- and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself, --


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(A Psalm. Of Asaph.) щGod, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.


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Our God will come, and will not keep silence fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.


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But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,


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These <n>[things]</n> hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself <n>[but]</n> I will reprove thee, and set <n>[them]</n> in order before thine eyes.


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Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth <n>[his]</n> way will I shew the salvation of God.


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(To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.) Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.


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Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in thy sight; that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, be clear when thou judgest.


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Behold, thou wilt have truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden <n>[part]</n> thou wilt make me to know wisdom.


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Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.


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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.


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Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar.


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(To the chief Musician an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.) Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of щGod <n>[abideth]</n> continually.


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щGod shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of <n>[thy]</n> tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.


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Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put confidence in the abundance of his riches, <n>[and]</n> strengthened himself in his avarice.


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But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God I will confide in the loving-kindness of God for ever and ever.


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I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done <n>[it]</n>; and I will wait on thy name, before thy godly ones, for it is good.


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(To the chief Musician. On Mahalath an instruction. Of David.) The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have corrupted themselves, and have done abominable iniquity there is none that doeth good.


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God looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.


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Every one of them is gone back, they are together become corrupt there is none that doeth good, not even one.


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Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people <n>[as]</n> they eat bread? they call not upon God.


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There were they in great fear, where no fear was; for God scattereth the bones of him that encampeth against thee. Thou hast put <n>[them]</n> to shame, for God hath despised them.


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Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God turneth again the captivity of his people, Jacob shall be glad, Israel shall rejoice.


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(To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments an instruction. Of David; when the Ziphites came, and said to Saul, Is not David hiding himself with us?) O God, by thy name save me, and by thy strength do me justice.


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For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life they have not set God before them. Selah.


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For he hath delivered me out of all trouble; and mine eye hath seen <n>[its desire]</n> upon mine enemies.


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(To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments an instruction. Of David.) Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.


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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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Swallow <n>[them]</n> up, Lord; divide their tongue for I have seen violence and strife in the city.


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Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; and iniquity and mischief are in the midst of it.


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For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me -- then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified <n>[himself]</n> against me -- then would I have hidden myself from him;


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Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.


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щGod will hear, and afflict them he that is seated of old, (Selah) ... because there is no change in them, and they fear not God.


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Smooth were the milky <n>[words]</n> of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are 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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And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.


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(To the chief Musician. On Jonathelem-rechokim. Of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath.) Be gracious unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up all the day long fighting he oppresseth me.


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Mine enemies would swallow <n>[me]</n> up all the day long; for they are many that fight against me haughtily.


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In God will I praise his word, in God I put my confidence I will not fear; what can flesh do unto me?


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They gather themselves together, they hide themselves; they mark my steps, because they wait for my soul.


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For thou hast delivered my soul from death; <n>[wilt thou]</n> not <n>[keep]</n> my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?


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(To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul in the cave.) Be gracious unto me, O God, be gracious unto me; for my soul taketh refuge in thee yea, in the shadow of thy wings do I take refuge, until the calamities be overpast.


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He will send from the heavens and save me; he hath covered with reproach him that would swallow me up. Selah. God hath sent forth his loving-kindness and his truth.


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My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down <n>[among]</n> them that breathe out flames, 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 was bowed down they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah.


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(To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam.) Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?


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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent <n>[they are]</n> like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;


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Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; <n>[like]</n> the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.


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The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked


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And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.


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(To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.) Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God; secure me on high from them that rise up against me.


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For behold, they lie in wait for my soul; strong ones are gathered against me not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.


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Yea, do thou, Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, arise to visit all the nations be not gracious to any plotters of iniquity. Selah.


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Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips for who <n>[say they]</n> doth hear?


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God, whose loving-kindness will come to meet me, -- God shall let me see <n>[my desire]</n> upon mine enemies.


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Slay them not, lest my people forget; by thy power make them wander, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.


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<n>[Because of]</n> the sin of their mouth, the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and because of cursing and lying which they speak.


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Make an end in wrath, make an end, that they may be no more; that they may know that God ruleth in Jacob, unto the ends of the earth. Selah.


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But as for me, I will sing of thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud of thy loving-kindness in the morning; for thou hast been to me a high fortress, and a refuge in the day of my trouble.


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(To the chief Musician. On Shushan. Testimony. Michtam of David; to teach when he strove with the Syrians of Mesopotamia, and the Syrians of Zobah, and Joab returned, and smote the Edomites in the valley of salt, twelve thousand.) O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased restore us again.


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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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Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;


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<n>[Wilt]</n> not thou, O God, who didst cast us off? and didst not go forth, O God, with our armies?


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(To the chief Musician. On a stringed instrument. <n>[A Psalm]</n> of David.) Hear, O God, my cry; attend unto my prayer.


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From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed thou wilt lead me on to a rock which is too high for me.


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For thou, O God, hast heard my vows; thou hast given <n>[me]</n> the inheritance of those that fear thy name.


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(To the chief Musician. On Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.) Upon God alone doth my soul rest peacefully; from him is my salvation.


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How long will ye assail a man; will ye <n>[seek]</n>, all of you, to break him down as a bowing wall or a tottering fence?


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They only consult to thrust <n>[him]</n> down from his excellency; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but in their inward part they curse. Selah.


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Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie laid in the balance, they go up together <n>[lighter]</n> than vanity.


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Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.


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And unto thee, O Lord, <n>[belongeth]</n> loving-kindness; for *thou* renderest to every man according to his work.


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(A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.) O God, thou art my щGod; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water


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My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise <n>[thee]</n> 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.


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(To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.) Hear, O God, my voice in my plaint; preserve my life from fear of the enemy


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Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the tumultuous crowd of the workers of iniquity,


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They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?


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They devise iniquities We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward <n>[thought]</n> and heart is deep.


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(To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David a Song.) Praise waiteth for thee in silence, O God, in Zion; and unto thee shall the vow be performed.


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Blessed is he whom thou choosest and causest to approach he shall dwell in thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, of thy holy temple.


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By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation, thou confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of the distant regions of the sea. ...


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And they 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 hast visited the earth, thou hast watered it; thou greatly enrichest it the river of God is full of water; thou providest their corn, when thou hast so prepared it


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Thou dost satiate its furrows, thou smoothest its clods, thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof.


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The meadows are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, yea, they sing.


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Say unto God, How terrible are thy works! because of the greatness of thy strength, thine enemies come cringing unto thee.


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He turned the sea into dry <n>[land]</n>; they went through the river on foot there did we rejoice in him.


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He ruleth by his power 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 head; we went through fire and through water but thou hast brought us out into abundance.


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I will offer up unto thee burnt-offerings of fatted beasts, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.


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(To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm a Song.) God be gracious unto us, and bless us, <n>[and]</n> cause his face to shine upon us; Selah,


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Let the nations rejoice and sing for joy for thou wilt judge the peoples equitably; and the nations upon earth, thou wilt guide them. Selah.


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(To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm a Song.) Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered, and let them that hate him flee before him.


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As smoke is driven, thou wilt drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, the wicked shall perish at the presence of God.


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Sing unto God, sing forth his name; cast up a way for him that rideth in the deserts his name is Jah; and rejoice before him.


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God maketh the solitary into families; those that were bound he bringeth out into prosperity but the rebellious dwell in a parched <n>[land]</n>.


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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 at the presence of God, yon Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel.


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Thou, O God, didst pour a plentiful rain upon thine inheritance, and when it was weary thou strengthenedst it.


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Though ye have lain among the sheepfolds, <n>[ye shall be as]</n> wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with green gold.


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Why do ye look with envy, ye many-peaked mountains, upon the mount that God hath desired for his abode? yea, Jehovah will dwell <n>[there]</n> for ever.


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The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them it is a Sinai in holiness.


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Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive thou hast received gifts in Man, and even <n>[for]</n> the rebellious, for the dwelling <n>[there]</n> of Jah Elohim.


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Blessed be the Lord day by day doth he load us <n>[with good]</n>, the щGod who is our salvation. Selah.


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Our щGod is the щGod of salvation; and with Jehovah, the Lord, are the goings forth <n>[even]</n> from death.


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Verily God will smite the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of him that goeth on still in his trespasses.


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The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring <n>[them]</n> again from the depth of the sea;


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The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets.


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There is little Benjamin, their ruler; the princes of Judah, their company; the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.


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Rebuke the beast of the reeds, the assembly of the strong, with the calves of the peoples <n>[every one]</n> submitteth himself with pieces of silver. Scatter the peoples that delight in war.


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Of him that rideth upon the heavens, the heavens which are of old lo, he uttereth his voice, a mighty voice.


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Terrible art thou, O God, out of thy sanctuaries, -- the щGod of Israel! He it is that giveth strength and might unto the people. Blessed be God!


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(To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. <n>[A Psalm]</n> of David.) Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto <n>[my]</n> soul.


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I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.


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They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty then I restored that which I took not away.


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Let not them that wait on thee, Lord, Jehovah of hosts, be ashamed through me; let not those that seek thee be confounded through me, O God of Israel.


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For the zeal of thy house hath devoured me, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.


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But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, Jehovah, in an acceptable time O God, in the abundance of thy loving-kindness answer me, according to the truth of thy salvation


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Deliver me out of the mire, let me not sink; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the depths of waters.


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Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.


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Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy loving-kindness is good according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, turn toward me;


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Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed and I looked for sympathy, 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 talk for the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.


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For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah; and they shall dwell there, and possess it


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(To the chief Musician. <n>[A Psalm]</n> of David to bring to remembrance.) Make haste, O God, to deliver me; Jehovah, <n>[hasten]</n> to my help.


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Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul; let them be turned backward and confounded that take pleasure in mine adversity;


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Let all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee, and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified!


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But I am afflicted and needy make haste unto me, O God. Thou art my help and my deliverer O Jehovah, make no delay.


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Be 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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On thee have I been stayed from the womb; from the bowels of my mother thou didst draw me forth my praise shall be continually of thee.


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Let them be ashamed, let them be consumed, that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.


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My mouth shall declare thy righteousness, <n>[and]</n> thy salvation all the day for I know not the numbers <n>[thereof]</n>.


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Now also, when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not, until I have proclaimed thine arm unto <n>[this]</n> generation, thy might to every one that is to come.


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And thy righteousness, O God, reacheth on high, thou who hast done great things O God, who is like unto thee?


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Thou, who hast shewn us many and sore troubles, wilt revive 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, my God; unto thee will I sing psalms with the harp, thou holy One of Israel.


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My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day; for they shall be ashamed, for they shall be brought to confusion, that seek my hurt.


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He will do justice to the afflicted 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 presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer tribute


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He will redeem their souls from oppression and violence, and precious shall their blood be in his sight.


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And he shall live; and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba; and prayer shall be made for him continually all the day shall he be blessed.


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There shall be abundance of corn in the earth, upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon; and they of the city shall bloom like the herb of the earth.


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His name shall endure for ever; his name shall be continued as long as the sun and <n>[men]</n> shall bless themselves in him; all nations shall call him blessed.


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And blessed be his glorious name for ever! and let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen, and Amen.


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For behold, they that are far from thee shall perish; thou destroyest every one that goeth a whoring from thee.


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But as for me, it is good for me to draw near to God I have put my trust in the Lord Jehovah, that I may declare all thy works.


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(An instruction of Asaph.) Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? <n>[why]</n> doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?


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Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed <n>[to be]</n> the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.


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Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.


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Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs <n>[for]</n> signs.


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They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together they have burned up all щGod's places of assembly 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 withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? <n>[pluck it]</n> out of thy bosom consume <n>[them]</n>.


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*Thou* didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters


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*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.


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Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.


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Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.


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Forget not the voice of thine adversaries the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.


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(To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' A Psalm of Asaph a Song.) Unto thee we give thanks, O God, we give thanks; and thy name is near thy marvellous works declare it.


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For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and it foameth with wine, it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same; yea, the dregs thereof shall all the wicked of the earth drain off, <n>[and]</n> drink.


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And all the horns of the wicked will I cut off; <n>[but]</n> the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.


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(To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph a Song.) In Judah is God known, his name is great in Israel;


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The stout-hearted 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 is to be feared.


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(To the chief Musician. On Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm.) My voice is unto God, and I will cry; my voice is unto God, and he will give ear unto me.


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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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Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath <n>[his]</n> word come to an end from generation to generation?


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The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind, lightnings lit up the world; the earth was troubled and it quaked.


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(An instruction. Of Asaph.) Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.


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We will not hide <n>[them]</n> from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which 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 <n>[them]</n>, the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell <n>[them]</n> to their children,


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And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of щGod, but observe his commandments;


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And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with щGod.


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Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?


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Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and 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 he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.


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But he was merciful he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed <n>[them]</n> not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury


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He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, -- a mission of angels of woes.


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He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;


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And he drove out the nations 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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And 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 suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.


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And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.


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(A Psalm of Asaph.) 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 meat unto the fowl of the heavens, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth


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Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury <n>[them]</n>.


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We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us.


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Pour out thy fury upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name


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Remember not against us the iniquities of <n>[our]</n> forefathers; let thy tender mercies speedily come to meet us for we are brought very low.


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Help us, O God of our salvation, because of 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 that is shed be known among the nations in our sight.


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Let the groaning of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm, preserve those that are appointed to die;


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And render unto our neighbours, sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.


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And we, thy people and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks unto thee for ever; we will shew forth thy praise from generation to generation.


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(To the chief Musician. On Shoshannim-Eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.) Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest <n>[between]</n> the cherubim, shine forth.


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The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were <n>[like]</n> cedars of щGod;


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O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;


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Even the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the young plant thou madest strong for thyself.


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Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.


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(To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. <n>[A Psalm]</n> of Asaph.) Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob;


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He ordained it in Joseph <n>[for]</n> a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, <n>[where]</n> 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, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.


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And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.


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They know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in darkness all the foundations of the earth are moved.


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They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.


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(To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.) How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!


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My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living щGod.


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Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she layeth her young, thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, my King and my God.


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Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a well-spring; 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 stand at the threshold of the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.


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For Jehovah Elohim is a sun and shield Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.


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(To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.) Thou hast been favourable, Jehovah, unto thy land; thou hast turned the captivity of Jacob


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I will hear what щGod, Jehovah, will speak; for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his godly ones but let them not turn again to folly.


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For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.


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


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O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assembly of the violent seek after my soul, and they have not set thee before them.


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But thou, Lord, art a щGod merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth.


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Turn toward me, and be gracious unto me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.


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Shew me a token for good, that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed; for thou, Jehovah, hast helped me and comforted me.


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I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon among them that know me; behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia this <n>[man]</n> was born there.


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And of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; and the Most High himself shall establish her.


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(A Song, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the chief Musician. Upon Mahalath Leannoth. An instruction. Of Heman the Ezrahite.) Jehovah, God of my salvation, I have cried by day <n>[and]</n> in the night before thee.


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Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand.


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Thou hast put my familiar friends 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 consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee.


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(An instruction. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.) I will sing of the loving-kindness of Jehovah for ever; with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness from generation to generation.


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For I said, Loving-kindness shall be built up for ever; in the very heavens wilt thou establish thy faithfulness.


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And the heavens shall celebrate thy wonders, O Jehovah, and thy faithfulness in the congregation of the saints.


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For who in the heaven can be compared to Jehovah? <n>[who]</n> among the sons of the mighty shall be likened to Jehovah?


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щGod is greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and terrible for all that are round about him.


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Jehovah, God of hosts, who is like unto thee, the strong Jah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.


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Thou hast crushed Rahab as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.


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Thine are the heavens, the earth also is thine; the world and its fulness, *thou* hast founded them.


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Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of thy throne; loving-kindness and truth go before thy face.


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Blessed is the people that know the shout of joy they walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.


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Then thou spakest in vision of thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.


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And my faithfulness and my loving-kindness shall be with him, and by my name shall his horn be exalted.


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Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?


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Where, Lord, are thy former loving-kindnesses, <n>[which]</n> thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?


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Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants -- that I bear in my bosom <n>[that of]</n> all the mighty peoples --


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Wherewith thine enemies, O Jehovah, have reproached, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.


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Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art щGod.


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For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and <n>[as]</n> a watch in the night.


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Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are <n>[as]</n> a sleep in the morning they are like grass <n>[that]</n> groweth up


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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.


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Make us glad according to the days <n>[wherein]</n> thou hast afflicted us, according to the years <n>[wherein]</n> we have seen evil.


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And let the beauty of Jehovah 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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Surely *he* shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, <n>[and]</n> from the destructive pestilence.


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He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou find refuge his truth is a shield and buckler.


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A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; <n>[but]</n> it shall not come nigh thee.


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Thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder; the young lion and the dragon 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 honour him.


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(A Psalm, a Song, for the Sabbath day.) It is good to give thanks unto Jehovah, and to sing psalms unto thy name, O Most High;


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When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may 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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And mine eye shall see <n>[its desire]</n> on mine enemies; mine ears shall hear <n>[it]</n> of the evil-doers that rise up against me.


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Jehovah reigneth, he hath clothed himself with majesty Jehovah hath clothed himself, he hath girded himself with strength; yea, the world is established, it shall not be moved.


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The floods lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their voice; the floods lifted up their roaring waves.


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<n>[How long]</n> shall they utter <n>[and]</n> speak insolence -- all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?


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


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And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil 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 if ye hear his voice,


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Forty years was I grieved with the 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! yea, the world is established, it shall not be moved; he will execute judgment upon 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 in his faithfulness.


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Clouds and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment 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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Ashamed be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols. Worship him, all ye gods.


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Zion heard, and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judah were glad, because of thy judgments, O Jehovah.


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For thou, Jehovah, art the Most High above all the earth; thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods.


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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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(A Psalm.) Sing ye unto Jehovah a new song for he hath done wondrous 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 shewed in the sight of the nations.


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He hath remembered his loving-kindness 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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Jehovah reigneth let the peoples tremble. He sitteth <n>[between the]</n> cherubim let the earth be moved.


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And the strength of the king that loveth justice. *Thou* hast established equity it is thou that executest judgment 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 unto Jehovah, and *he* answered them.


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He spoke unto them in the pillar of cloud they kept his testimonies, and the statute that he gave them.


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Jehovah, our God, *thou* answeredst them a forgiving щGod wast thou unto them, though thou tookest vengeance of their doings.


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Know that Jehovah is God it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; <n>[we are]</n> his people, and the sheep of his pasture.


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Enter into his gates with thanksgiving <n>[and]</n> into his courts with praise; give thanks unto him, bless his name


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For Jehovah is good; his loving-kindness <n>[endureth]</n> for ever; and his faithfulness from generation to generation.


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(A Psalm of David.) I will sing of loving-kindness and judgment unto thee, Jehovah, will I sing psalms.


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I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. When wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.


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I will set no thing of Belial before mine eyes I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.


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Whoso secretly slandereth his neighbour, 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 serve me.


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He that practiseth deceit shall not dwell within my house; he that speaketh falsehoods shall not subsist in my sight.


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Every morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land to cut off all workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah.


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(A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before Jehovah.) Jehovah, hear my prayer, and let my cry come unto thee.


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Hide not thy face from me in the day of my trouble, incline thine ear unto me; in the day I call, answer me speedily.


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*Thou* wilt rise up, thou wilt have mercy upon Zion for it is the time to be gracious to her, for the set time is come.


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This shall be written for the generation to come; and a people that shall be created shall praise Jah


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For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from the heavens hath Jehovah beheld the earth,


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I said, My щGod, take me not away in the midst of my days! ... Thy years are from generation to generation.


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*They* shall perish, but *thou* continuest; and all of them shall grow old as a garment as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.


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(<n>[A Psalm]</n> of David.) Bless Jehovah, O my soul; and all that is within me, <n>[bless]</n> his holy name!


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For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving-kindness toward them that fear him.


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But the loving-kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting and to everlasting, upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children,


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Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, mighty in strength, that execute his word, hearkening unto the voice of his word.


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Bless Jehovah, O my soul! Jehovah my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with majesty and splendour;


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Who layeth the beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who maketh clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind;


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He watereth the mountains from his upper-chambers the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.


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He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth,


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And wine which gladdeneth the heart of man; making <n>[his]</n> face shine with oil; and with bread he strengtheneth man's heart.


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How manifold are thy works, O Jehovah! in wisdom hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches.


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Yonder is the great and wide sea therein are moving things innumerable, living creatures small and great.


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Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath, they expire and return to their dust.


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Sinners shall be consumed out of the earth, and the wicked shall be no more. Bless Jehovah, O my soul. Hallelujah!


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Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness <n>[endureth]</n> for ever.


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That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.


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Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.


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And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.


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And he saved them from the hand of him that hated <n>[them]</n>, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.


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And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy <n>[them]</n>.


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And shed innocent blood, 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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Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked <n>[him]</n> by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.


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And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;


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Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, <n>[and]</n> to triumph in thy praise.


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Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!


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And gathered out of the countries, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the sea.


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Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, <n>[and]</n> he delivered them out of their distresses,


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Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;


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Because they had rebelled against the words of щGod, and had despised the counsel of the Most High; ...


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Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men,


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Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the session of the elders.


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And he blesseth them, so that they are multiplied greatly; and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.


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But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh <n>[him]</n> families like flocks.


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Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them understand the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah.


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(A Song, a Psalm of David.) My heart is fixed, O God I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms, even <n>[with]</n> my glory.


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<n>[Wilt]</n> not <n>[thou]</n>, O God, who didst cast us off? and didst not go forth, O God, with our armies?


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For the mouth of the wicked <n>[man]</n> and the mouth of deceit are opened against me they have spoken against me with a lying tongue,


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Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek <n>[their bread]</n> far from their desolate places;


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Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour 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 shew kindness, but persecuted the afflicted and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay him.


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And he loved cursing; so let it come unto him. And he delighted not in blessing; and let it be far from him.


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And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones;


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Let it be unto him as a garment with which he covereth himself, and for a girdle wherewith he is constantly girded.


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Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, and of them that speak evil against my soul.


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But do *thou* for me, Jehovah, Lord, for thy name's sake; because thy loving-kindness is good, deliver me


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Let *them* curse, but bless *thou*; when they rise up, let them be ashamed, and let thy servant rejoice.


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Let mine adversaries be clothed with confusion, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle.


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(Psalm of David.) Jehovah said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put thine enemies <n>[as]</n> footstool of thy feet.


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Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in holy splendour from the womb of the morning <n>[shall come]</n> to thee the dew of thy youth.


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He shall judge among the nations; he shall fill <n>[all places]</n> with dead bodies; he shall smite through the head over a great country.


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Hallelujah! I will celebrate Jehovah with <n>[my]</n> whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the assembly.


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He sent deliverance unto his people; he hath commanded his covenant for ever holy and terrible is his name.


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The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do <n>[his precepts]</n> his praise abideth for ever.


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He scattereth abroad, he giveth to the needy; his righteousness abideth for ever his horn shall be exalted with honour.


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The wicked <n>[man]</n> shall see <n>[it]</n> and be vexed; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away the desire of the wicked shall perish.


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Not unto us, O Jehovah, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth's sake.


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They have hands, and they handle not; feet have they, and they walk not; they give no sound through their throat.


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Jehovah hath been mindful of us he will bless, he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;


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The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow


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Yea, Jehovah! for I am thy servant; I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid thou hast loosed my bonds.


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For his loving-kindness is great toward us, and the truth of Jehovah <n>[endureth]</n> for ever. Hallelujah!


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Jehovah is for me among them that help me; and I shall see <n>[my desire]</n> upon them that hate me.


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They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns for in the name of Jehovah have I destroyed them.


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The voice of triumph and salvation is in the tents of the righteous the right hand of Jehovah doeth valiantly;


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Jehovah is щGod, and he hath given us light bind the sacrifice with cords, -- up to the horns of the altar.


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I will give thee thanks with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.


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Princes also did sit <n>[and]</n> talk together against me thy servant doth meditate in thy statutes.


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And I will lift up my hands unto thy commandments, which I have loved, and I will meditate in thy statutes.


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The proud have forged falsehood against me I will observe thy precepts with <n>[my]</n> whole heart.


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YOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.


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I know, Jehovah, that thy Judgments are righteousness, and that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.


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Let the proud be ashamed; for they have acted perversely towards me with falsehood as for me, I meditate in thy precepts.


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How many shall be the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?


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Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth <n>[like]</n> dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.


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Therefore I regard all <n>[thy]</n> precepts concerning all things to be right I hate every false path.


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(A Song of degrees. Of David.) I rejoiced when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of Jehovah.


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Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of Jah, a testimony to Israel, to give thanks unto the name of Jehovah.


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Behold, as the eyes of servants <n>[look]</n> unto the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, so our eyes <n>[are directed]</n> to Jehovah our God, until he be gracious unto us.


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Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.


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


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(A Song of degrees.) They that confide in Jehovah are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved; it abideth for ever.


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Jerusalem! -- mountains are round about her, and Jehovah is round about his people, from henceforth and for evermore.


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For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put 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!


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Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath done great things for them.


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He goeth forth and weepeth, bearing seed for scattering; he cometh again with rejoicing, bearing his sheaves.


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(A Song of degrees. Of Solomon.) Unless Jehovah build the house, in vain do its builders labour in it; unless Jehovah keep the city, the keeper watcheth in vain


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


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Happy is the man that hath filled his quiver with them. They shall not be ashamed when they speak with enemies in the gate.


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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.


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Jehovah will bless thee out of Zion; and mayest thou see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life,


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Neither do the passers-by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; we bless you in the name of Jehovah!


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My soul <n>[waiteth]</n> for the Lord more than the watchers <n>[wait]</n> for the morning, <n>[more than]</n> the watchers for the morning.


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Let Israel hope in Jehovah, because with Jehovah there is loving-kindness, and with him is plenteous redemption;


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(A Song of degrees. Of David.) Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in great matters, and in things too wonderful for me.


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Surely I have restrained and composed my soul, like a weaned child with its mother my soul within me is as a weaned child.


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Jehovah hath sworn <n>[in]</n> truth unto David; he will not turn from it Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne;


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If thy children keep my covenant, and my testimonies which I will teach them, their children also for evermore shall sit upon thy throne.


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


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Like the precious oil upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, upon Aaron's beard, that ran down to the hem of his garments;


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As the dew of Hermon that descendeth on the mountains of Zion; for there hath Jehovah commanded the blessing, life for evermore.


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


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Whatsoever Jehovah pleased, he hath done in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all deeps;


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Who causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; who maketh lightnings for the rain; who bringeth the wind out of his treasuries


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Who sent signs and miracles into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants;


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To him that stretched out the earth above the waters, for his loving-kindness <n>[endureth]</n> for ever;


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With a powerful hand and with a stretched-out arm, for his loving-kindness <n>[endureth]</n> for ever;


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And made Israel to pass through the midst of it, for his loving-kindness <n>[endureth]</n> for ever,


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And overturned Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea, for his loving-kindness <n>[endureth]</n> for ever;


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To him that led his people through the wilderness, for his loving-kindness <n>[endureth]</n> for ever;


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For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail <n>[required]</n> mirth, <n>[saying,]</n> Sing us <n>[one]</n> of the songs of Zion.


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If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my palate if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.


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Remember, O Jehovah, against the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, Lay <n>[it]</n> bare, Lay <n>[it]</n> bare, down to its foundation!


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Daughter of Babylon, who art to be laid waste, happy he that rendereth unto thee that which thou hast meted out to us.


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(<n>[A Psalm]</n> of David.) I will give thee thanks with my whole heart; before the gods will I sing psalms of thee.


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I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness, and celebrate thy name for thy loving-kindness 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 celebrate thee, Jehovah, when they have heard the words of thy mouth;


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Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the anger of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.


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Jehovah will perfect what concerneth me thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, <n>[endureth]</n> for ever; forsake not the works of thine own hands.


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If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou <n>[art there]</n>;


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I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and <n>[that]</n> my soul knoweth right well.


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My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.


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Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all <n>[my members]</n> were written; <n>[during many]</n> days were they fashioned, when <n>[as yet]</n> there was none of them.


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<n>[If]</n> I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.


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(To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.) Free me, O Jehovah, from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man


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Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked <n>[man]</n>, preserve me from the violent man, who devise to overthrow my steps.


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The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way-side; they have set traps for me. Selah.


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Grant not, O Jehovah, the desire of the wicked; further not his device they would exalt themselves. Selah.


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Let burning coals fall on them; let them be cast into the fire; into deep waters, that they rise not up again.


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Let not the man of <n>[evil]</n> tongue be established in the earth evil shall hunt the man of violence to <n>[his]</n> ruin.


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(A Psalm of David.) 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 before thee as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation.


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Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men that are workers of iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties.


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Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse for yet my prayer also is <n>[for them]</n> in their calamities.


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Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth <n>[wood]</n> upon the earth.


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(An instruction of David; when he was in the cave a prayer.) I cry unto Jehovah with my voice with my voice unto Jehovah do I make supplication.


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When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then *thou* knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they hidden a snare for me.


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Look on the right hand and see; 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 celebrate thy name. The righteous shall surround me, because thou dealest bountifully with me.


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(A Psalm of David.) Jehovah, hear my prayer; give ear to my supplications in thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness.


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For the enemy persecuteth my soul he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.


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I stretch forth my hands unto thee my soul, as a parched land, <n>[thirsteth]</n> after thee. Selah.


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Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth hide not thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down into the pit.


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Cause me to hear thy loving-kindness in the morning, for in thee do I confide; make me to know the way wherein I should walk, for unto thee do I lift up my soul.


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And in thy loving-kindness cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that oppress my soul for I am thy servant.


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(<n>[A Psalm]</n> of David.) Blessed be Jehovah my rock, who teacheth my hands to war, my fingers to fight;


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My mercy and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I trust, who subdueth my people under me!


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Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him, the son of man, that thou takest thought of him?


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Stretch out thy hands from above; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of aliens,


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Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.


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That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion of a palace


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Our granaries full, affording all manner of store; our sheep bringing forth thousands, ten thousands in our pastures;


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Our kine laden <n>[with young]</n>; no breaking in and no going forth, and no outcry in our streets.


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(A Psalm of praise. Of David.) I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.


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They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.


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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 judgment for the oppressed, who giveth bread to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;


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Jehovah openeth <n>[the eyes of]</n> the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;


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Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.


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Jehovah will reign for ever, <n>[even]</n> thy God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Hallelujah!


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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 thus with any nation; and as for <n>[his]</n> judgments, they have not known them. Hallelujah!


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And he established them for ever and ever; he made <n>[for them]</n> a statute which shall not pass.


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Let them praise the name of Jehovah for his name alone is exalted; his majesty 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, <n>[even]</n> of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Hallelujah!


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Hallelujah! Sing unto Jehovah a new song; <n>[sing]</n> his praise in the congregation of the godly.


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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;


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she calleth in the chief <n>[place]</n> of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words


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How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?


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Turn you at my reproof behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.


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when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh 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 early, and shall not find me.


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For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish.


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Let not loving-kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart


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


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Say not unto thy neighbour, 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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For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused <n>[some]</n> to fall.


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But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, going on and brightening until the day be fully come.


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lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil <n>[come]</n> into the house of a stranger;


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and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;


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As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times be thou ravished continually with her love.


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And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?


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Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, since thou hast come into the hand of thy friend go, humble thyself, and be urgent with thy friend.


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deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand <n>[of the hunter]</n>, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.


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when thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and <n>[when]</n> thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.


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For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life


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for by means of a whorish woman <n>[a man is brought]</n> to a loaf of bread, and another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.


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Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.


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he will not regard any ransom, neither will he rest content though thou multipliest <n>[thy]</n> gifts.


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He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks <n>[serve]</n> for 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 its life.


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The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.


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when he imposed on the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth


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He that instructeth a scorner getteth to himself shame; and he that reproveth a wicked <n>[man]</n> <n>[getteth]</n> to himself a blot.


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Impart to a wise <n>[man]</n>, and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous <n>[man]</n>, and he will increase learning.


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The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.


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Jehovah suffereth not the soul of the righteous <n>[man]</n> to famish; but he repelleth the craving of the wicked.


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Blessings are upon the head of a righteous <n>[man]</n>; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.


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The mouth of a righteous <n>[man]</n> is a fountain of life; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.


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In the lips of an intelligent <n>[man]</n> wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.


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The labour of a righteous <n>[man]</n> <n>[tendeth]</n> to life; the revenue of a wicked <n>[man]</n>, to sin.


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In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; but he that restraineth his lips doeth wisely.


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The tongue of the righteous <n>[man]</n> is <n>[as]</n> choice silver; the heart of the wicked is little worth.


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The fear of a wicked <n>[man]</n>, it shall come upon him; but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.


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As a whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no <n>[more]</n>; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.


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The way of Jehovah is strength to the perfect <n>[man]</n>, but destruction to the workers of iniquity.


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The mouth of a righteous <n>[man]</n> putteth forth wisdom; but the froward tongue shall be cut out.


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The lips of a righteous <n>[man]</n> know what is acceptable; but the mouth of the wicked is frowardness.


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The righteousness of the perfect maketh plain his way; but the wicked falleth by his own wickedness.


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The righteousness of the upright delivereth them; but the treacherous are taken in their own craving.


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When a wicked man dieth, <n>[his]</n> expectation shall perish; and the hope of evil <n>[men]</n> perisheth.


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With his mouth a hypocrite destroyeth his neighbour; but through knowledge are the righteous 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 talebearing revealeth secrets; but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.


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As righteousness <n>[tendeth]</n> to life, so he that pursueth evil <n>[doeth it]</n> to his own death.


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The perverse in heart are abomination to Jehovah; but they that are perfect in <n>[their]</n> way are his delight.


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Hand for hand! an evil <n>[man]</n> shall not be held innocent; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.


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There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is right, but <n>[it tendeth]</n> only to want.


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He that withholdeth corn, the people curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.


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He that is earnest after good seeketh favour; but he that searcheth for mischief, it shall come upon him.


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He that troubleth his own house shall inherit wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.


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A woman of worth is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.


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The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.


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Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a servant, than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.


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A righteous man is concerned for the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.


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He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless is void of understanding.


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The wicked desireth the net of evil <n>[men]</n>; but the root of the righteous yieldeth <n>[fruit]</n>.


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In the transgression of the lips is an evil snare; but a righteous <n>[man]</n> shall go forth out of trouble.


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A man is satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth; and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.


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There shall no evil happen to a righteous <n>[man]</n>; but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.


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He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his soul; destruction shall be to him that openeth wide his lips.


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There is that feigneth himself rich, and hath nothing; there is that maketh himself poor, and hath great wealth.


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Wealth <n>[gotten]</n> by vanity diminisheth; but he that gathereth by manual-labour shall increase <n>[it]</n>.


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Whoso despiseth the word shall be held by it; but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.


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Poverty and shame shall be <n>[to]</n> him that refuseth instruction; but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.


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The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; but it is abomination to the foolish to depart from evil.


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He that walketh with wise <n>[men]</n> becometh wise; but a companion of the foolish will be depraved.


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A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous <n>[man]</n>.


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He that walketh in his uprightness feareth Jehovah; but he that is perverted in his ways despiseth him.


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A scorner seeketh wisdom, and there is none <n>[for him]</n>; but knowledge is easy unto the intelligent.


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The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man from what is in himself.


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He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; but he that honoureth Him is gracious to the needy.


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The wicked is driven away by his evil-doing; but the righteous trusteth, <n>[even]</n> in his death.


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Wisdom resteth in the heart of the intelligent <n>[man]</n>; but that which is in the foolish maketh itself known.


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The king's favour is toward a wise servant; but his wrath is <n>[against]</n> him that causeth shame.


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In the house of a righteous <n>[man]</n> is much treasure; but in the revenue of a wicked <n>[man]</n> is disturbance.


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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 a wicked <n>[man]</n> is an abomination to Jehovah; but him that pursueth righteousness he loveth.


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The heart of an intelligent <n>[man]</n> seeketh knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish feedeth on folly.


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Without counsel purposes are disappointed; but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.


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The heart of a righteous <n>[man]</n> studieth to answer; but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.


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By loving-kindness and truth iniquity is atoned for; and by the fear of Jehovah <n>[men]</n> depart from evil.


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How much better is it to get wisdom than fine gold, and the getting of intelligence to be preferred to silver!


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He that shutteth his eyes, <n>[it is]</n> to devise froward things; biting his lips, he 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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Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting <n>[with]</n> strife.


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A wise servant shall rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part in the inheritance among the brethren.


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Whoso mocketh a poor <n>[man]</n> reproacheth his Maker; he that is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent.


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He that covereth transgression seeketh love; but he that bringeth a matter up again separateth very friends.


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The beginning of contention is <n>[as]</n> when one letteth out water; therefore leave off strife before it become vehement.


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He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the righteous, even they both are abomination to Jehovah.


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To what purpose is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing <n>[he]</n> hath no sense?


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He that hath a perverse heart findeth no good; and he that shifteth about with his tongue falleth into evil.


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He that begetteth a fool <n>[doeth it]</n> to his sorrow, and the father of a vile <n>[man]</n> hath no joy.


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To punish a righteous <n>[man]</n> is not good, nor to strike nobles because of <n>[their]</n> uprightness.


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Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is reckoned wise, <n>[and]</n> he that shutteth his lips, intelligent.


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The words of a talebearer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.


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The heart of an intelligent <n>[man]</n> getteth knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.


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He that is first in his own cause <n>[seemeth]</n> just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.


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A brother offended is <n>[harder to be won]</n> than a strong city; and contentions are as the bars of a palace.


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A man's belly is satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; with the increase of his lips is he satisfied.


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A man of <n>[many]</n> friends will come to ruin but there is a friend <n>[that]</n> sticketh closer than a brother.


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Better is a poor <n>[man]</n> that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.


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Also that a person be without knowledge is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet maketh false steps.


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All the brethren of a poor <n>[man]</n> hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him he pursueth <n>[them]</n> with words, -- they are not <n>[to be found]</n>.


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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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He that is gracious to the poor lendeth unto Jehovah; and what he hath bestowed will he repay unto him.


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A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment; for if thou deliver <n>[him]</n>, yet thou must do it again.


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The fear of Jehovah <n>[tendeth]</n> to life, and he <n>[that hath it]</n> shall rest satisfied without being visited with evil.


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Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware; reprove the intelligent, and he will understand knowledge.


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He that ruineth <n>[his]</n> father and chaseth away <n>[his]</n> 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 soul.


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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, <n>[and]</n> thou shalt be satisfied with bread.


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He that goeth about talebearing revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that openeth his lips.


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The king's heart in the hand of Jehovah is <n>[as]</n> brooks of water he turneth it whithersoever he will.


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The thoughts of the diligent <n>[tend]</n> only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty, only to want.


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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman, and a house in common.


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When the scorner is punished, the simple becometh wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.


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One that is righteous wisely considereth the house of the wicked he overthroweth the wicked to <n>[their]</n> ruin.


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It is joy to a righteous <n>[man]</n> to do what is right; but it is ruin for the workers of iniquity.


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The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and a treacherous <n>[man]</n> in the stead of the upright.


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There is costly store and oil in the dwelling of a wise <n>[man]</n>; but a foolish man swalloweth it up.


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A wise <n>[man]</n> scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.


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A <n>[good]</n> name is rather to be chosen than great riches; loving favour rather than silver and gold.


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A prudent <n>[man]</n> seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.


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Thorns <n>[and]</n> snares are in the way of the perverse he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.


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Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.


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He that oppresseth the poor, it is to enrich him; he that giveth to the rich, <n>[bringeth]</n> only to want.


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That thy confidence may be in Jehovah, I have made <n>[them]</n> known to thee this day, even to thee.


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


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Hast thou seen a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before the mean.


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wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens.


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For as he thinketh in his soul, so is he. Eat and drink! will he say unto thee; but his heart is not with thee.


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Withhold not correction from the child; for <n>[if]</n> thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die


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The father of a righteous <n>[man]</n> shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise <n>[son]</n> shall have joy of him


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Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?


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


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-- ''They have smitten me, <n>[and]</n> I am not sore; they have beaten me, <n>[and]</n> I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.''


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If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not, will not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that preserveth thy soul, he knoweth it; and he rendereth to man according to his work.


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so consider wisdom for thy soul; if thou hast found it, there shall be a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.


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Lay not wait, O wicked <n>[man]</n>, against the dwelling of the righteous; lay not waste his resting-place.


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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 thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.


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for better it is 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 see.


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Go not forth hastily to strive, lest <n>[thou know not]</n> what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.


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As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, <n>[so]</n> 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 surfeited therewith, and vomit it.


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A broken tooth, and a tottering foot, is confidence in an unfaithful <n>[man]</n> in the day of trouble.


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<n>[As]</n> he that taketh off a garment in cold weather, <n>[and as]</n> vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a sad heart.


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A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous <n>[man]</n> that giveth way before the wicked.


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He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off <n>[his own]</n> feet, <n>[and]</n> drinketh damage.


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He that passing by vexeth himself with strife belonging not to him, is <n>[like]</n> one that taketh a dog by the ears.


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Though <n>[his]</n> hatred is covered by dissimulation, his wickedness shall be made manifest in the congregation.


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Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; and the sweetness of one's friend is <n>[the fruit]</n> of hearty counsel.


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Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.


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Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me.


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A prudent <n>[man]</n> seeth the evil, <n>[and]</n> hideth himself; the simple pass on, <n>[and]</n> are punished.


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Take his garment that is become surety <n>[for]</n> another, and hold him in pledge for a strange woman.


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He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be reckoned a curse to him.


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Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that guardeth his master shall be honoured.


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The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; so let a man be to the mouth that praiseth him.


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If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.


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The hay is removed, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered in.


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and there is goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and sustenance for thy maidens.


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By the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; but by a man of understanding <n>[and]</n> of knowledge, <n>[its]</n> stability is prolonged.


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


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Whoso observeth the law is a son that hath understanding; but he that is a companion of profligates bringeth shame to his father.


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He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance gathereth it for him that is gracious to the poor.


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Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, shall himself fall 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 <n>[them]</n> shall obtain mercy.


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The prince void of intelligence is also a great oppressor he that hateth covetousness shall prolong <n>[his]</n> days.


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Whoso walketh in integrity shall be saved; but he that is perverted in <n>[his]</n> double ways, shall fall in one <n>[of them]</n>.


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He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless shall have poverty enough.


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Whoso robbeth his father and his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.


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He that is puffed up in soul exciteth contention; but he that relieth upon Jehovah shall be made fat.


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He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack; but he that withdraweth his eyes shall have many a curse.


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When the righteous increase, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.


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Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; but he that is a companion of harlots destroyeth <n>[his]</n> substance.


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An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; and he that is of upright way is an abomination to the wicked <n>[man]</n>.


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The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; the prophecy uttered by the man unto Ithiel, <n>[even]</n> unto Ithiel and Ucal


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Who hath ascended up into the heavens, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in a mantle? 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 vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need


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lest I be full and deny <n>[thee]</n>, and say, Who is Jehovah? or lest I be poor and steal, and outrage the name of my God.


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-- a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from <n>[among]</n> men.


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The leech hath two daughters Give, give. There are three <n>[things]</n> never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough


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-- Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.


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The eye that mocketh at a father, and despiseth to obey a 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 heavens, 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 maid.


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Such is the way of an adulterous woman she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.


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under an odious <n>[woman]</n> when she is married, and a handmaid when she is heir to her mistress.


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If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, <n>[lay]</n> the hand upon thy mouth.


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For the pressing of milk bringeth forth butter, and the pressing of the nose bringeth forth blood; and the pressing of anger bringeth forth strife.


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It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers <n>[to say]</n>, Where is the strong drink?


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-- lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the children of affliction.


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And she riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and the day's work to her maidens.


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Gracefulness is deceitful and beauty is vain; a woman <n>[that]</n> feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.


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<n>[One]</n> generation passeth away, and <n>[another]</n> generation cometh, but the earth standeth for ever.


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The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about towards the north it turneth about continually, 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 toil; none can express 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 will be done and there is nothing new under the sun.


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Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already in the ages which were before us.


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There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be remembrance of things that are to come with those who shall live afterwards.


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And I applied my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens this grievous occupation hath God given to the children of men to weary themselves therewith.


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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.


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I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have become great and have acquired wisdom more than all they that have been before me over Jerusalem; and my heart hath seen much of wisdom and knowledge.


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And I applied my heart to the knowledge of wisdom, and to the knowledge of madness and folly I perceived that this also is a striving after the wind.


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I said in my heart, Come now, I will try thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. But behold, this also is vanity.


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I searched in my heart how to cherish my flesh with wine, while practising my heart with wisdom; and how to lay hold on folly, till I should see what was that good for the children of men which they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.


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I acquired servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that had been in Jerusalem before me.


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I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the children of men, a wife and concubines.


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And I became great, and increased more than all that had been 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 in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour.


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Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do <n>[them]</n>; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the 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 shall the man <n>[do]</n> that cometh after the king? -- that which hath already been done.


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The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.


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And I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool so will it happen even to me; and why was I then so wise? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.


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For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?


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And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.


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And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.


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And who knoweth whether he will be a wise <n>[man]</n> or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity.


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Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.


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For there is a man whose labour hath been with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skill, and who leaveth it to a man that hath not laboured therein, to be his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.


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For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun?


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For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.


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There is nothing good for man, but that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.


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For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight 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 is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the 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 the world in their heart, so that man findeth not out from the beginning to the end the work that God doeth.


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yea also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, it is the gift of God.


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I know that whatever God doeth, it shall be for ever; there is nothing to be added to it, nor anything to be taken from it; and God doeth <n>[it]</n>, that <n>[men]</n> should fear before him.


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That which is was long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and God bringeth back again that which is past.


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And moreover I saw under the sun, that in the place of judgment, wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, 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 thus with the children of men, that God may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts.


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For what befalleth the children of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them as the one dieth, so dieth the other, and they have all one breath; and man hath no pre-eminence above the beast for all is vanity.


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Who knoweth the spirit of the children of men? Doth it go upwards? and the spirit of the beasts, doth it go downwards to the earth?


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And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?


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And I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, and they had no comforter.


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and more fortunate than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.


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And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.


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There is one <n>[alone]</n> and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and <n>[he saith not]</n>, For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation.


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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 who hath not another to lift him up!


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And if a <n>[man]</n> overpower the one, the two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.


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Better is a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth no more how to be admonished.


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I saw all the living that walk under the sun, with the child, the second, that should stand up in his stead.


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<n>[There is]</n> no end of all the people, of all that stood before them; those however that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after the wind.


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Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather 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 the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.


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For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.


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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 hast vowed.


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Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?


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If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, 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 profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding <n>[of them]</n> with his eyes?


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The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.


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There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;


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or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have 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 away again as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, 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 doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?


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Behold what I have seen good and comely <n>[it is]</n> to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith <n>[man]</n> laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him for that is his portion.


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Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour that is a gift of God.


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For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth <n>[him]</n> with the joy of his heart.


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one to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it this is vanity, and a sore evil.


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If a man beget a hundred <n>[sons]</n>, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.


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For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?


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Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire this also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.


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That which is hath already been named; and what man is, is known, and that he cannot contend with him that is mightier than he.


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For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun?


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A <n>[good]</n> name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth.


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It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting in that that is the end of all men, and the living taketh it to heart.


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Say not, How is it 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 <n>[as]</n> money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, <n>[that]</n> wisdom maketh them that possess it to live.


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In the day of prosperity enjoy good, and in the day of adversity consider God hath also set the one beside the other, to the end that man should find out nothing <n>[of what shall be]</n> after him.


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All <n>[this]</n> have I seen in the days of my vanity there is a righteous <n>[man]</n> that perisheth by his righteousness, and there is a wicked <n>[man]</n> that prolongeth <n>[his days]</n> by his wickedness.


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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 cometh forth from them all.


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I turned, I and my heart, to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and reason, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;


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and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, <n>[and]</n> whose hands are bands whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.


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See this which I have found, saith the Preacher, <n>[searching]</n> one by one to find out the reason;


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which my soul yet seeketh, and 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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Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the explanation of things? A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face is changed.


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


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Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man's heart knoweth time and manner.


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There is no man who hath control over the spirit to retain the spirit; and no one hath control over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war, neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.


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All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun there is a time when man ruleth man to his hurt.


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And I have also seen the wicked buried and going away; and such as had acted rightly went from <n>[the]</n> 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 children 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 <n>[days]</n>, yet I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, because they fear before him;


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but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong <n>[his]</n> days 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 <n>[men]</n> unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; and there are wicked <n>[men]</n> to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.


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And I commended mirth, because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry; for that shall abide with him of his labour 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 saw that all <n>[is]</n> the work of God, <n>[and]</n> that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun because however man may labour to seek <n>[it]</n> out, yet doth he not find <n>[it]</n>; and even, if a wise <n>[man]</n> think to know <n>[it]</n>, he shall not be able to find <n>[it]</n> out.


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For all this I laid to my heart and <n>[indeed]</n> to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred all is before them.


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All things <n>[come]</n> alike to all 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; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.


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This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, <n>[they have to go]</n> to the dead.


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For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.


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For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.


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Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.


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Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.


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Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun.


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Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do 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 the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; 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 taken with the snare, like them are the children 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 encompassed it, and built great bulwarks against it


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and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.


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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.


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Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to stink <n>[and]</n> ferment; <n>[so]</n> a little folly is weightier than wisdom <n>[and]</n> honour.


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Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his sense faileth <n>[him]</n>, and he saith to every one <n>[that]</n> he is a fool.


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If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for quietness pacifieth great offences.


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There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as an error <n>[that]</n> proceedeth from the ruler


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If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he apply more strength; but wisdom is profitable to give success.


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And the fool multiplieth words <n>[yet]</n> man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him?


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Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a son of nobles, and thy princes eat in <n>[due]</n> season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!


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By much sloth fulness the framework falleth in; and through idleness of the hands the house drippeth.


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


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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 it shall be.


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As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, how the bones <n>[grow]</n> in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all.


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


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but if a man live many years, <n>[and]</n> rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many all that cometh is vanity.


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Rejoice, 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 that for all these <n>[things]</n> God will bring thee into judgment.


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Then remove discontent from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.


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And remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, of which 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, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;


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in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows are darkened,


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and the doors are shut toward the street; when the sound of the grinding is subdued, and they rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;


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they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;)


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-- before the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be shattered at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern;


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And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; and he pondered, and sought out, <n>[and]</n> set in order many proverbs.


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The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words; and that which was written is upright, words of truth.


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The words of the wise are as goads, and the collections <n>[of them]</n> as nails fastened in they are given from one shepherd.


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And besides, my son, be warned by them of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.


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Let us hear the end of the whole matter Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.


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For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.


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Thine ointments savour sweetly; Thy name is an ointment poured forth Therefore do the virgins love thee.


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Draw me, we will run after thee! -- The king hath brought me into his chambers -- We will be glad and rejoice in thee, We will remember thy love more than wine. They love thee uprightly.


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Look not upon me, because I am black; Because the sun hath looked upon me. My mother's children were angry with me They made me keeper of the vineyards; Mine own vineyard have I not kept.


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Tell me, thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest <n>[thy flock]</n>, Where thou makest it to rest at noon; For why should I be as one veiled Beside the flocks of thy companions?


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If thou know not, thou fairest among women, Go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, And feed thy kids beside the shepherds' booths.


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As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons In his shadow have I rapture and sit down; And his fruit is sweet to my taste.


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I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake <n>[my]</n> love, till he please.


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My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart. Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh in through the windows, Glancing through the lattice.


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The flowers appear on the earth; The time of singing is come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land;


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The fig-tree melloweth her winter figs, And the vines in bloom give forth <n>[their]</n> fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away!


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My dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the precipice, 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 dawn, and the shadows flee away. Turn, my beloved be thou like a gazelle or a young hart, Upon the mountains of Bether.


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I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broadways Will I seek him whom my soul loveth I sought him, but I found him not.


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-- Scarcely had 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, <n>[she]</n> 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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They all hold the sword, Experts in war; Each hath his sword upon his thigh Because of alarm in the nights.


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Its pillars he made of silver, Its support of gold, Its seat of purple; The midst thereof was paved <n>[with]</n> love By the daughters of Jerusalem.


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Go forth, daughters of Zion, And behold king Solomon With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his heart.


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Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; Thine eyes are doves behind thy veil; Thy hair is as a flock of goats, On the slopes of mount Gilead.


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Thy teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep, Which go up from the washing; Which have all borne twins, And none is barren among them.


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Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, And thy speech is comely; As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples Behind thy veil.


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Thy neck is like the tower of David, Built for an armoury A thousand bucklers hang thereon, All shields of mighty men.


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Until the day dawn, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill of frankincense.


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<n>[Come]</n> with me, from Lebanon, <n>[my]</n> spouse, With me from Lebanon, -- Come, look from the top of Amanah, 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, <n>[my]</n> spouse; 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, <n>[my]</n> spouse! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine ointments than all spices!


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Thy lips, <n>[my]</n> spouse, drop <n>[as]</n> 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, north wind, and come, <n>[thou]</n> south; Blow upon my garden, <n>[that]</n> the spices thereof may flow forth. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat its precious fruits.


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I am come into my garden, my sister, <n>[my]</n> spouse; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, beloved ones!


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I slept, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved! he knocketh Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, mine undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.


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-- I have put off my tunic, how should I put it on? I have washed my feet, how should I pollute them? --


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I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the lock.


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I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself; he was gone My soul went forth when he spoke. I sought him, but I found him not; I called him, but he gave me no answer.


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The watchmen that went about the city found me; They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.


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I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, ... What will ye tell him? -- That I am sick of love.


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What is thy beloved more than <n>[another]</n> beloved, Thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than <n>[another]</n> beloved, That thou dost so charge us?


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His cheeks are as a bed of spices, raised beds of sweet plants; His lips lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.


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His hands gold rings, set with the chrysolite; His belly is bright ivory, overlaid <n>[with]</n> sapphires;


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His legs, pillars of marble, set upon bases of fine gold His bearing as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars;


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His mouth is most sweet Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, yea, this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.


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Whither is thy beloved gone, Thou fairest among women? Whither is thy beloved turned aside? And we will seek him with thee.


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My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens and to gather lilies.


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Turn away thine eyes from me, For they overcome me. Thy hair is as a flock of goats On the slopes of Gilead.


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Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep Which go up from the washing; Which have all borne twins, And none is barren among them.


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My dove, mine undefiled, is but one; She is the only one of her mother, She is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and they called her blessed; The queens and the concubines, and they praised her.


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Who is she that looketh forth as the dawn, Fair as the moon, clear as the sun, Terrible as troops with banners?


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I went down into the garden of nuts, To see the verdure of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, Whether the pomegranates blossomed.


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Return, return, O Shulamite; Return, return, that we may look upon thee. -- What would ye look upon in the Shulamite? -- As it were the dance of two camps.


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How beautiful are thy footsteps in sandals, O prince's daughter! The roundings of thy thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.


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Thy navel is a round goblet, <n>[which]</n> wanteth not mixed wine; Thy belly a heap of wheat, set about with lilies;


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Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; Thine eyes, <n>[like]</n> the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose like the tower of Lebanon, Which looketh toward Damascus;


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Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the locks of thy head like purple; The king is fettered by <n>[thy]</n> ringlets!


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I said, I will go up to the palm-tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; And thy breasts shall indeed be like clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy nose like apples,


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And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, ... That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, And stealeth over the lips of them that are asleep.


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We will go up early to the vineyards, We will see if the vine hath budded, <n>[If]</n> the blossom is opening, And the pomegranates are in bloom There will I give thee my loves.


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The mandrakes yield fragrance; And at our gates are all choice fruits, new and old I have laid them up for thee, my beloved.


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Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! Should I find thee without, I would kiss thee; And they would not despise me.


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I would lead thee, bring thee into my mother's house; Thou wouldest instruct me I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.


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I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, ... Why should ye stir up, why awake <n>[my]</n> love, till he please?


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Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? I awoke thee under the apple-tree There thy mother brought thee forth; There she brought thee forth <n>[that]</n> bore thee.


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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, Flames of Jah.


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Many waters cannot quench love, Neither do the floods drown it Even if a man gave all the substance of his house for love, It 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 enclose her with boards of cedar.


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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 silver-pieces.


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My vineyard, which is mine, is before me The thousand <n>[silver-pieces]</n> be to thee, Solomon; And to the keepers of its fruit, two hundred.


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The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.


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Hear, <n>[ye]</n> heavens, and give ear, <n>[thou]</n> 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; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.


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Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that corrupt themselves! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are turned away backward.


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Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.


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From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; wounds, and weals, and open sores they have not been dressed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.


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Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up 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 night-lodge in a cucumber-garden, as a besieged city.


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Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small residue, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.


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To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Jehovah. I am sated with burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats I take no pleasure.


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Bring no more vain oblations! Incense is an abomination unto me, -- new moon and sabbath, the calling of convocations -- wickedness and the solemn meeting I cannot bear.


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Your new moons and your set feasts my soul hateth they are a burden to me; I am wearied of bearing <n>[them]</n>.


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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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Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; -- cease to do evil,


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learn to do well seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.


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Come now, 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.


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How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers.


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thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not 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 will thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thine alloy;


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and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning. Afterwards thou shalt be called, Town of righteousness, Faithful city.


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But the ruin of the transgressors and of the sinners <n>[shall be]</n> together; and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.


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For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths that ye have desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens that ye have chosen.


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And the strong shall be for tow, and his work a spark; and they shall both burn together, and there shall be none to quench <n>[them]</n>.


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And it shall come to pass in the end of days, <n>[that]</n> the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow unto it.


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And many peoples shall go and say, Come, 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 Jehovah's word from Jerusalem.


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And he shall judge among the nations, and shall reprove many peoples; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.


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For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled <n>[with what comes]</n> from the east, and use auguries like the Philistines, and ally themselves with the children of foreigners.


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And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end of their treasures their land also is full of horses, and there is no end of their chariots.


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And their land is full of idols; they bow themselves down to the work of their own hands, to that which their fingers have made.


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And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man shall be brought low and do not thou forgive them!


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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 eyes 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 everything proud and lofty, and upon everything 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 they 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 shall arise to terrify the earth.


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In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made <n>[each]</n> for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;


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to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the cliffs, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth.


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For behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will 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 honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments.


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And the people shall be oppressed one by the other, and each by his neighbour; the child will be insolent against the elder, and the base against the honourable.


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When a man shall take hold of his brother, in his father's house, <n>[and shall say]</n> Thou hast clothing; be our chief, and let this ruin be under thy hand;


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he will lift up <n>[his hand]</n> in that day, saying, I cannot be a healer, and in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a chief of the people.


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For Jerusalem stumbleth and Judah falleth, because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.


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The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves.


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Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well <n>[with him]</n>, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.


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Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill <n>[with him]</n>, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him.


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<n>[As for]</n> my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead <n>[thee]</n>, and destroy the way of thy paths.


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Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their princes, <n>[saying]</n> 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 faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.


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And Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out neck and wanton eyes, and go along mincing, and making a tinkling with their feet;


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therefore the Lord will make bald 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, instead of perfume there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe of display, a girding of sackcloth; brand instead of beauty.


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And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, Our own bread will we eat, and with our own garments will we be clothed; only let us be called by thy name; -- take away our reproach!


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In that day there shall be a sprout of Jehovah for beauty and glory, and the fruit of the earth for excellency and for ornament for those that are escaped of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass that he who remaineth in Zion, and he that is left in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, -- 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 scoured out the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.


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And Jehovah will create over every dwelling-place of mount Zion, and over its convocations, a cloud by day and a smoke, and the brightness of a flame of fire by night for over all the glory shall be a covering.


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And there shall be a tabernacle for shade by day from the heat, and for a shelter and for a covert from storm and from rain.


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I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill.


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And he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.


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What was there yet to do 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, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot;


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and I will make it a waste -- it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will 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 the plant of his delight and he looked for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and behold, a cry.


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Woe unto them that add house to house, that join field to field, until there is no more room, and that ye dwell yourselves alone in the midst of the land!


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In mine ears Jehovah of hosts <n>[hath said]</n>, Many houses shall assuredly become a desolation, great and excellent ones, without inhabitant.


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Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after strong drink; that linger till twilight, <n>[till]</n> wine inflameth them!


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And harp and lyre, tambour and flute, and wine are in their banquets; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, nor do they see the operation of his hands.


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Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their multitude are parched with thirst.


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Therefore doth Sheol enlarge its desire, and open its mouth without measure; and her splendour shall descend <n>[into it]</n>, and her multitude, and her tumult, and <n>[all]</n> that is joyful within her.


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And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man brought low, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low;


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And the lambs shall feed as on their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.


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who say, Let him hasten, let him speed his work, that we may see <n>[it]</n>; 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 who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!


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Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for 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 out his hand against them and hath smitten them; and the mountains trembled, and their carcases are become as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.


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And he will lift up a banner to the nations afar off, and will hiss for one from the end of the earth; and behold, it will come rapidly <n>[and]</n> lightly.


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None among them is weary, none stumbleth; they slumber not, nor sleep; none hath the girdle of his loins loosed, nor the thong of his sandals broken;


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their arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are reckoned as the flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind.


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Their roaring is like a lioness, they roar as the young lions; yea, they growl, and snatch the prey, and carry it away safe, and there is 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 upon the earth, behold darkness <n>[and]</n> distress, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.


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In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.


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Seraphim were standing above him each had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he flew.


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And one called to the other 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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And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for 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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And one of the seraphim flew unto me, and he had in his hand a glowing coal, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;


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and he made it touch my mouth, and said, Behold, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.


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And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.


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And he said, Go; and thou shalt say unto this people, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive.


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Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and healed.


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And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,


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But a tenth part shall still be therein, and it shall return and be eaten; as the terebinth and as the oak whose trunk <n>[remaineth]</n> after the felling the holy seed shall be the trunk 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, <n>[that]</n> Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but they were not able to fight against it.


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And it was told the house of David saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim. Then his heart and the heart of his people shook, as the trees of the forest are shaken with the wind.


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And Jehovah said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, thou and thy son Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field;


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and thou shalt say unto him, Take heed and be quiet; fear not, and let not thy heart faint before these two ends of smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.


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Inasmuch as Syria hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim <n>[also]</n> and the son of Remaliah, saying,


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Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach therein for us, and set up a king therein -- the son of Tabeal;


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for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no <n>[more a]</n> people;


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and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye believe not, surely ye shall not be established.


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And he said, Hear then, house of David Is it a small matter for you to weary men, that ye weary also my God?


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Therefore will the Lord himself give you a sign Behold, the virgin shall conceive and shall bring forth a son, and call his name Immanuel.


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For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be forsaken.


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Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days which have not come since the day when Ephraim turned away from Judah -- <n>[even]</n> the king of Assyria.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will hiss for the fly which is at the extremity of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria;


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and they shall come and settle all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorn-bushes, and on all the pastures.


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In that day will the Lord, with a razor which is hired beyond the river, with the king of Assyria, shave the head and the hair of the feet, yea, the beard also will it take away.


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and it shall come to pass, from the abundance of milk they shall give, <n>[that]</n> he shall eat butter; for every one that remaineth in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, <n>[that]</n> every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver pieces, shall become briars and thorns


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with arrows and with the bow shall they come thither, for the whole land shall become briars and thorns.


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And all mountains that have been dug up with the hoe -- thither will they not come, from fear of briars and thorns; and they shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of small cattle.


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And Jehovah said to me, Take thee a great tablet, and write thereon with a man's style, concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.


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And I took unto me to witness, sure witnesses, Urijah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.


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And I came near to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son; and Jehovah said unto me, Call his name, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.


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For before the lad knoweth to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.


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Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah which flow softly, and rejoiceth in Rezin and in the son of Remaliah,


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therefore behold, the Lord will bring up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall mount up over all his channels, and go over all his banks


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and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow it and go further, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!


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Rage, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!


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Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand for щGod is with us.


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For Jehovah spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and he instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,


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Ye shall not say, Conspiracy, of everything of which this people saith, Conspiracy; and fear ye not their fear, and be not in dread.


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And he will be for a sanctuary; and 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 that 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 the necromancers and unto the soothsayers, who chirp and who mutter, <n>[say,]</n> Shall not a people seek unto their God? <n>[Will they go]</n> for the living unto the dead?


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To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.


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And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass when they are hungry, they will fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and will gaze upward


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and they will look to the earth; and behold, trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into thick darkness.


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Nevertheless the darkness shall not be as when the distress was in the <n>[land]</n>, at the time he at first lightly, and afterwards heavily, visited the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, -- 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 light hath shone.


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Thou hast multiplied the nation, hast increased its joy they joy before thee like to the joy in harvest; as <n>[men]</n> rejoice when they divide the spoil.


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For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.


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For every boot of him that is shod for the tumult, and the garment rolled in blood, shall be for burning, fuel for 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 is called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty щGod, Father of Eternity, 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 over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with judgment 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 <n>[it]</n>, Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and stoutness of heart,


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The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamore trees are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.


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the Syrians on the east, and the Philistines on the west; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.


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For the guides of this people mislead <n>[them]</n>; and they that are guided by them are swallowed up.


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Therefore the Lord will not rejoice in their young men, neither will he have mercy on their fatherless and on their widows; for every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.


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For wickedness burneth as a fire it devoureth briars and thorns, and kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they go rolling up like a pillar of smoke.


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Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burned up, and the people is as fuel for fire a man spareth not his brother;


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and he snatcheth on the right hand, and is hungry, and eateth on the left hand; and they are not satisfied. They eat every man the flesh of his own arm


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Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; <n>[and]</n> they together are against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.


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to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!


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And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the sudden destruction <n>[which]</n> shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help, and where will ye leave your glory?


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They can but crouch under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.


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I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.


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But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few.


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As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, -- and their graven images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,


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And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.


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For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done <n>[it]</n>, and by my wisdom, for I am intelligent; 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 <n>[on thrones]</n>;


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and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples, and as one gathereth forsaken eggs, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or 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 the rod should wield them that lift it up; as if the staff should lift up <n>[him who is]</n> not wood!


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Therefore shall the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness, and under his glory he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire


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and the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briars in one day,


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and it shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a sick man fainteth.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, <n>[that]</n> the remnant of Israel and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob shall no more again rely upon him that smote them; but they shall rely 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, <n>[only]</n> a remnant of them shall return the consumption determined shall overflow in righteousness.


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For a consumption, and <n>[one]</n> determined, will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, accomplish in the midst of all the land.


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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; he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt


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for yet a very little while, and the indignation shall be accomplished, and mine anger, in their destruction.


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And Jehovah of hosts will stir up a scourge against him, according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and his rod <n>[shall be]</n> upon 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, <n>[that]</n> his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck; and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. ...


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They are gone through the pass; they make their lodging at Geba Ramah trembleth, Gibeah of Saul is fled.


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Still a day of halting at Nob; he shaketh his hand <n>[against]</n> the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. ...


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Behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, shall lop the boughs with violence; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be brought low;


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and he shall make clearings in the thickets of the forest with iron; and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.


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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 be fruitful;


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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 will be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears;


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but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity the meek of the earth and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.


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The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted beast together, and a little child shall lead them.


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And the cow and the she-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 adder, and the weaned child shall put forth its hand to the viper'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 in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, standing as a banner of the peoples the nations shall seek it; and his resting-place shall be glory.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, <n>[that]</n> the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to acquire the remnant of his people which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.


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And he shall lift up a banner to the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.


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And the envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the troublers of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim will not envy Judah, and Judah will not trouble Ephraim


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but they shall fly upon the shoulder of the Philistines towards the west; together shall they spoil the sons of the east; they shall lay 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 mighty wind will he shake his hand over the river, and will smite it into seven streams, and make <n>[men]</n> go over dryshod.


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


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And in that day thou shalt say, Jehovah, I will praise thee; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.


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Behold, щGod is my salvation I will trust, and not be afraid; for Jah, Jehovah, is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation.


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And in that day shall ye say, Give ye thanks to Jehovah, call upon his name, declare his deeds among the peoples, make mention that his name is exalted.


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Cry out and shout, thou inhabitress of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.


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Lift up a banner upon a bare mountain, raise the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.


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I have commanded my hallowed ones, I have also called my mighty men for mine anger, them that rejoice in my highness.


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The noise of a multitude on the mountains, as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations assembled together Jehovah of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.


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They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens -- Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation -- to destroy the whole land.


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and they shall be terrified pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them, they shall writhe as a woman that travaileth; they shall be amazed one at another, their faces shall be as flames.


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Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the earth desolate; and he will destroy the sinners thereof out of it.


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For the stars of the heavens and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.


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And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will make the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the violent.


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Therefore I will make the heavens to shake, and the earth shall be removed out of her place, at the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.


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And it shall be as with a chased roe, and as with a flock that no man gathereth together; every one shall turn to his own people, and every one flee into his own land.


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All that are found shall be thrust through; and every one that is in league <n>[with them]</n> shall fall by the sword.


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And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished.


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Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.


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And <n>[their]</n> bows shall dash the young men to pieces, and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb their eye shall not spare children.


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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the 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, even to generation and generation; nor shall Arabian pitch tent there, nor shepherds make fold there.


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But beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.


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And jackals shall cry to one another in their palaces, and wild dogs in the pleasant castles. And her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.


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For Jehovah will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in rest in their own land; and the stranger shall be united to them, and they shall be joined 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 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 bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,


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that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, -- the exactress of gold ceased!


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He that smote the peoples in wrath with a relentless stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted unsparingly.


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Even the cypresses rejoice at thee, the cedars of Lebanon, <n>[saying,]</n> Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.


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Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet <n>[thee]</n> at thy coming, stirring up the dead for thee, all the he-goats of the earth; making to rise from their thrones all the kings of the nations.


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All of them shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become powerless as we; art thou become like unto us!


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-- Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres the maggot is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.


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How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations!


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And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of щGod, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north;


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They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee; they shall consider thee, <n>[saying,]</n> Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms;


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<n>[that]</n> made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; <n>[that]</n> dismissed not his prisoners homewards?


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but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, covered with the slain -- those thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit like a carcase trodden under foot.


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Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made for ever.


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


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For I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and scion and descendant, saith Jehovah.


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And I will make it a possession for the bittern, 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, Assuredly as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, it shall stand


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to break the Assyrian in my land; and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot; and his yoke shall depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.


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This is the counsel which is purposed concerning the whole earth; and this is the hand which is stretched out upon all the nations.


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For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall frustrate <n>[it]</n>? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?


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


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And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; but I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.


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Howl, O gate! cry, O city! thou, Philistia, art wholly dissolved; for there cometh from the north a smoke, and none remaineth apart in his gatherings <n>[of troops]</n>.


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And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and the afflicted of his people find refuge in it.


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The burden of Moab For in the night of being laid waste, Ar of Moab is destroyed; for in the night of being laid waste, Kir of Moab is destroyed!


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He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; Moab howleth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.


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In their streets they are girded with sackcloth; on their roofs, and in their broadways, every one howleth, melted into tears.


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And Heshbon crieth, and Elealeh their voice is heard unto Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out his soul trembleth in him.


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My heart crieth out for Moab; their fugitives <n>[have fled]</n> unto Zoar, unto Eglath-Sheli-shijah for by the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up by it; 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 herbage is withered away, the grass hath failed, there is no green thing.


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Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, do they carry away to the torrent of the willows.


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For the cry goeth round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.


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For the waters of Dimon are full of blood, for I will lay yet more upon Dimon a lion upon them that are escaped of Moab, and upon that which remaineth of the land.


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Send the lamb of the ruler of the land from the rock to the wilderness, -- unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.


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And it shall be <n>[that]</n> as a wandering bird, <n>[as]</n> a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.


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Bring in counsel, execute justice; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of noonday; hide the outcasts, discover not the fugitive.


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Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the waster. For the extortioner is at an end, the wasting hath ceased, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.


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And a throne shall be established in mercy and in the tent of David there shall sit upon it, in truth, one judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.


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We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, -- <n>[he is]</n> very proud, -- of his pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath his pratings are vain.


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Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab; every one of them shall howl. For the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn, verily afflicted.


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For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants they reached unto Jaazer, they wandered <n>[through]</n> the wilderness; its shoots stretched out, they went beyond the sea.


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Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jaazer for the vine of Sibmah; with my tears will I water thee, Heshbon, and Elealeh, for a cry is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest.


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And joy and gladness is taken away out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there is no singing, neither is there shouting the treaders tread out no wine in the presses, I have made the cry <n>[of the winepress]</n> to cease.


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And it shall come to pass, when Moab shall appear, shall weary himself on the high place, and enter into his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.


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And now Jehovah speaketh saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired servant, and the glory of Moab shall be brought to nothing, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be small, few, of no account.


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The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from <n>[being]</n> a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.


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The cities of Aroer are forsaken they shall be for flocks; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid.


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The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.


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And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.


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And a gleaning shall be left in it, as at the shaking of an olive-tree two, three berries above, in the tree-top; four, five in its fruitful boughs, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.


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And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor have regard to what his fingers have made, neither the Asherahs nor the sun-images.


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In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken tract in the woodland, and the mountain-top which they forsook before the children of Israel; and there shall be 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 shalt thou plant pleasant plantations, and shalt set them with foreign slips


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in the day of thy planting wilt thou make <n>[them]</n> to grow, and on the morrow wilt thou make thy seed to flourish; <n>[but]</n> the harvest will flee in the day of taking possession, and the sorrow will be incurable.


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Ha! a tumult of many peoples! they make a noise as the noise of the seas; -- and the rushing of nations! they rush as the rushing of mighty waters.


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The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling <n>[of dust]</n> before the whirlwind


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behold, at eventide, trouble; before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.


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that sendest ambassadors over the sea, and in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, <n>[saying,]</n> Go, swift messengers, to a nation scattered and ravaged, to a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth; to a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!


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All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, see ye, and when a trumpet is blown, hear ye!


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For thus hath Jehovah said unto me I will take my rest, and I will observe from my dwelling-place like clear heat upon herbs, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.


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For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-knives, and take away <n>[and]</n> cut down the branches.


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They shall be left together unto the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the earth; and the birds of prey 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 of a people scattered and ravaged, -- and from a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth, a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled, ... 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 to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt are moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt melteth in the midst of it.


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And I will incite the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, 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 unto the conjurers, and unto the necromancers, and unto the soothsayers.


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And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.


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and the rivers shall stink, and the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and drain away the reeds and sedges shall wither.


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The meadows by the Nile, on the banks of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile, shall be dried up, be driven away, and be no <n>[more]</n>.


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And the fishers shall mourn, and all they that cast fish-hook into the Nile shall lament, and they that spread net upon the waters shall languish.


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They are but fools, the princes of Zoan, the wise counsellors of Pharaoh <n>[their]</n> counsel is become senseless. How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?


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Where are they then, thy wise <n>[men]</n>? Let them now tell thee, and let them make known what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.


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The princes of Zoan are become foolish, the princes of Noph are deceived; and the corner-stones of its tribes have caused Egypt to err.


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Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst thereof; and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunkard staggereth in his vomit.


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In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over it.


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And the land of Judah shall be a dismay unto Egypt every one that thinketh of it shall be afraid for himself, because of the counsel of Jehovah of hosts, which he hath purposed against it.


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In that day shall there be five cities in the land of Egypt speaking the language of Canaan, and swearing by Jehovah of hosts one shall be called, The city of Heres.


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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 to Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah because of the oppressors, and he will send them a saviour and defender, who shall deliver them.


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And Jehovah shall be known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day, and shall serve with sacrifice and oblation; and they shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and perform it.


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And Jehovah will smite Egypt; he will smite and heal and they shall return to 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 Egypt shall serve with Assyria.


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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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whom Jehovah of hosts will bless, 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 to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, (and he fought against Ashdod and took it,)


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at that time spoke Jehovah by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy sandal from 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, 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, <n>[to]</n> the shame of Egypt.


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And the inhabitants of this coast shall say in that day, Behold, such is our confidence, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?


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The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through, so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.


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A grievous vision is declared unto me the treacherous dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, Elam! besiege, Media! All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.


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Therefore are my loins filled with pain; anguish hath taken hold upon me, as the anguish of a woman in travail I am bowed down so as not to hear, I am dismayed so as not to see.


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My heart panteth, horror affrighteth me the night of my pleasure hath he turned into trembling unto me.


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And he saw chariots, horsemen by pairs, a chariot with asses, a chariot with camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed.


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And he cried <n>[as]</n> a lion, Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights.


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-- And behold, there cometh a chariot of men; horsemen by pairs. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.


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O my threshing, and the corn of my floor! What I have heard of Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.


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The burden of Dumah. He calleth to 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; return, come.


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The burden against Arabia. In the forest of Arabia shall ye lodge, <n>[ye]</n> caravans of Dedanites.


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Bring ye water to meet the thirsty! The inhabitants of the land of Tema come forth with their bread for him that fleeth.


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For they flee 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 hired servant, and 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 sons of Kedar, shall be diminished for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken.


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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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Thou that wast full of stir, a town of tumult, a joyous city thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.


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All thy rulers have fled together, they are taken prisoners without the bow all that are found of thee are made prisoners together; they were fleeing far off.


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Therefore said I, Look away from me; let me weep bitterly labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.


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For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; <n>[a day of]</n> breaking down the wall, and of crying to the mountain


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-- Elam beareth the quiver with chariots of men <n>[and]</n> horsemen; and Kir uncovereth the shield.


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And it shall come to pass <n>[that]</n> thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.


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And he uncovereth the covering of Judah and thou didst look in that day to the armour in the house of the forest;


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and ye have seen the breaches of the city of David, that they are many; and ye have gathered together the waters of the lower pool;


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and ye have made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool but ye have not had regard unto the maker thereof, neither have ye looked unto him that fashioned 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 rejoicing, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine -- Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.


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And it was revealed in mine ears by Jehovah of hosts Assuredly this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.


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Thus saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts Go, get thee in unto this steward, unto Shebna, who is over the house, <n>[and say,]</n>


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What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewn thee out a sepulchre here, <n>[as]</n> he that heweth out his sepulchre on high, cutting out in the rock a habitation for himself?


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Rolling thee up completely, he will roll thee as a ball into a wide country there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, O shame of thy lord's house!


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and I will clothe 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 <n>[as]</n> 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, all the small vessels, as well the vessels of cups as all the vessels of flagons.


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In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in a sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off for Jehovah hath spoken.


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The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish! for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, none entering in. From the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.


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Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle! The merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished thee.


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And on great waters, the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the market of the nations.


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Be thou ashamed, Sidon, for the sea hath spoken, the strength of the sea, saying, I have not travailed nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men <n>[nor]</n> brought up virgins.


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Is this your joyous <n>[city]</n>, whose antiquity is of ancient days? Her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.


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Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the distributor of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose dealers were the honourable of the earth?


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Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to profane the pride of all glory, to bring to nought all the honourable of the earth.


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He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he shaketh the kingdoms. Jehovah hath given a commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof,


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and hath said, Thou shalt no more exult, <n>[thou]</n> oppressed virgin, daughter of Sidon get thee up, pass over to Chittim; even there shalt thou have no rest.


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Behold the land of the Chaldeans this people did not exist; the Assyrian founded it for the dwellers in the desert they set up their towers, they destroyed the palaces thereof; he brought it to ruin.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it shall be for Tyre as the harlot's song.


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Take a harp, go about the city, thou forgotten harlot! Make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.


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And it shall come to pass at the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre; and she will return to her hire, and will commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the earth upon the face of the ground.


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And her merchandise and her hire shall be holy to Jehovah it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat and be sufficed, and for excellent clothing.


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


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And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.


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The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away the haughty people of the land do languish.


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And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.


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Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men are left.


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For so will it be in the midst of the land among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the grape-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 shall cry aloud from the sea.


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Therefore glorify Jehovah in the east, the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the west.


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From the end of the earth have we heard songs Glory to the righteous! And I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! The treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.


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And it shall come to pass, <n>[that]</n> he who fleeth from the sound 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 open, and the foundations of the earth shake.


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The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and is shaken like a night hut; and its transgression is heavy upon it; and it falleth and shall not rise again.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, <n>[that]</n> 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 brought together, <n>[as]</n> an assemblage of prisoners for the pit, and shall be shut up in prison, and after many days shall they be visited.


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And the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts shall reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients in glory.


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Jehovah, thou art my God I will exalt thee; I will celebrate thy name, for thou hast done wonderful things; counsels of old <n>[which are]</n> faithfulness <n>[and]</n> truth.


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


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For thou hast been a fortress to the poor, a fortress for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat for the blast of the terrible ones <n>[has been]</n> as the storm <n>[against]</n> a wall.


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Thou hast subdued the tumult of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; <n>[as]</n> the heat, by the shadow of a cloud, <n>[so]</n> the song of the terrible ones is 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 veil which veileth all the peoples, and the covering that is spread over all the nations.


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He will swallow up death in victory. 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.


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And it shall be said in that day, Behold, 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 shall the hand of Jehovah rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is trodden down in the dunghill;


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and he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth them forth to swim; and he shall bring down their pride together with the plots of their hands.


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And the fortress of the high defences of thy walls will he bring down, lay low, bring to the ground, into 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 doth he appoint for walls and bulwarks.


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For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low, he layeth it low 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; the desire of <n>[our]</n> soul is to thy name, and to thy memorial.


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


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If favour be shewn to the wicked, he doth not learn righteousness in the land of uprightness he dealeth unjustly, and beholdeth not the majesty of Jehovah.


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Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, but they do not see <n>[yet]</n> they shall see <n>[thy]</n> jealousy <n>[for]</n> the people, and be ashamed; yea, the fire which is for thine adversaries shall devour them.


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Jehovah our God, other lords than thee have had dominion over us; by thee only will we make mention of thy name.


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<n>[They are]</n> dead, they shall not live; deceased, they shall not rise for thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.


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Thou hast increased the nation, Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation thou art glorified. Thou hadst removed <n>[it]</n> far <n>[unto]</n> all the ends of the earth.


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Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out <n>[their]</n> whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them.


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As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is in travail, <n>[and]</n> crieth out in her pangs; so have we been before thee, Jehovah.


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We have been with child, we have been in travail, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought the deliverance of the land, neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.


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Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing in triumph, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is the dew of the morning, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.


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Come, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself just for a little moment, until the indignation be past.


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For behold, Jehovah cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth upon them; and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.


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In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.


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Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars <n>[and]</n> thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together.


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Or let him take hold of my strength; let him make peace with me <n>[yea,]</n> let him make peace with me.


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In the future Jacob shall 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 him according to the smiting of those that smote him? Is he slain according to the slaughter of those slain by him?


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In measure, when sending her away, didst thou contend with her he hath taken <n>[her]</n> away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.


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By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit of the taking away of his sin when he shall make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are crumbled in pieces, -- the Asherahs and the sun-images shall not stand.


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For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs.


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When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come <n>[and]</n> set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah shall beat out from the flood of the river unto the torrent of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, <n>[ye]</n> children of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, <n>[that]</n> the great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were perishing in the land of Assyria, and the 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 adornment, 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 storm of hail <n>[and]</n> a destroying tempest; as a storm of mighty waters overflowing, shall he cast down to the earth with might.


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and the fading flower of his glorious adornment which is on the head of the fat valley shall be like an early fig before the summer as soon as he that seeth it perceiveth it, scarcely is it in his hand, he swalloweth it down.


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In that day will Jehovah of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the remnant of his people;


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and for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.


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But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are they gone astray. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are overpowered by wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they have erred in vision, they have stumbled <n>[in]</n> judgment.


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Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the report? Them that are weaned from the milk, withdrawn from the breasts?


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For <n>[it is]</n> 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 cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing. But they would not hear.


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And the word of Jehovah was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.


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For ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol have we made an 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 for foundation in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation he that trusteth shall not make haste.


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And I will appoint judgment for a line, and righteousness for a 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, ye shall be trodden down by it.


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As it passeth through it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night; and it shall be terror only to understand the report.


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For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it.


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For Jehovah will rise up as on mount Perazim, he will be moved with anger as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and perform his act, his unwonted act.


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Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a consumption, and <n>[one]</n> determined, upon the whole land.


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Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he <n>[all day]</n> opening and breaking the clods of his land?


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Doth he not, when he hath levelled the face thereof, cast abroad dill, and scatter cummin, and set the wheat in rows, and the barley in an appointed place, and the rye in its border?


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For the dill is not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but dill is beaten out with a staff, and cummin with a rod.


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Bread <n>[corn]</n> is crushed, because he will not ever be threshing it; and if he drove the wheels of his cart and his horses <n>[over it]</n>, he would not crush it.


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Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city of David's encampment! Add ye year to year; let the feasts come round.


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But I will distress Ariel, and there shall be sorrow and sadness; and it shall be unto me as an Ariel.


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And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with watch-posts, and I will raise forts against thee.


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And thou shalt be brought low, thou shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall come 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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And the multitude of thine enemies shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away; and it shall be in an instant, suddenly.


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Thou shalt be visited by Jehovah of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.


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And the multitude of all the nations that war against Ariel, even all that war against her and her fortifications, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.


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It shall even be as when the hungry dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; and he awaketh, and his soul is empty; or as when the thirsty dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; and he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul craveth so shall the multitude of all the nations be that war against mount Zion.


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Be astounded and astonished, blind yourselves 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 a spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes; the prophets and your chiefs, the seers, hath he covered.


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And the whole vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to one that can read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.


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And they give the book to him that cannot read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot read.


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And the Lord saith, Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their heart is removed far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught of men;


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therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvellously with this people, to do marvellously, even with wonder, and the wisdom of their wise <n>[men]</n> shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hid.


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Woe unto them that hide deep, far from Jehovah, their counsel! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?


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<n>[Oh]</n> your perverseness! -- Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay, so that the work 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, out of obscurity and out of darkness, the eyes of the blind shall see;


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and the meek shall increase their joy in Jehovah, and the needy among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.


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For the terrible one shall come to nought, and the scorner shall be no more, and all that watch for iniquity shall be cut off,


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that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and pervert <n>[the judgment of]</n> the righteous by futility.


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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 be pale;


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for when he seeth his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall hallow my name, and hallow the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.


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And they that are of erring spirit shall know understanding, and the disobedient shall learn doctrine.


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Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of me, and who make leagues, but not by my Spirit, that they may heap sin upon sin;


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who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked of my mouth, -- to take refuge under the protection of Pharaoh, and trust in the shadow of Egypt!


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For to you the protection of Pharaoh shall be a shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt a confusion.


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They were all ashamed of a people <n>[that]</n> did not profit them, nor were a help or profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.


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-- The burden of the beasts of the south Through a land of trouble and anguish, whence come the lioness and lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to the people that shall not profit <n>[them]</n>.


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For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I named her, Arrogance, that doeth nothing.


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Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and record it in a book, that it may be for the time to come, as a witness for ever,


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who 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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Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel Because ye reject this word, and confide in oppression and wilfulness, and depend thereon,


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therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a towering wall, whose breaking shall come suddenly in an instant.


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And he shall break it as the breaking of a potter's vessel, that is broken in pieces unsparingly; and in the pieces of it there shall not be found a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to scoop water out of the cistern.


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For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength; but ye would not.


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And ye said, No, but 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 <n>[shall flee]</n> at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as a banner on a hill.


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And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he lift himself up, that he may have mercy upon you; for Jehovah is a God of judgment blessed are all they that wait for him.


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For the people shall dwell in Zion, at Jerusalem. Thou shalt weep no more; he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; as he heareth it, he will answer thee.


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And the Lord will give you the bread of adversity, and the water of oppression; yet thy teachers shall not be hidden any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers.


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


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And ye shall defile the silver covering of your graven images, and the gold overlaying of your molten images; thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth Out! shalt thou say unto it.


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And he will give the rain of thy seed with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread, the produce of the ground, and it shall be fat and rich. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures;


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and the oxen and the asses that till the ground shall eat salted provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.


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And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every hill that is lifted up, brooks <n>[and]</n> water-courses, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.


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And 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 breach of his people, and healeth the wound of their stroke.


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Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning <n>[with]</n> his anger -- a grievous conflagration; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a consuming fire;


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and his breath as an overflowing torrent, which reacheth even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and <n>[to put]</n> a bridle into the jaws of the peoples, that causeth them to go astray.


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Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a feast is sanctified; and joy of heart, as of one who goeth with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.


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And Jehovah will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and will shew the lighting down of his arm with indignation of anger, and a flame of consuming fire, with waterflood and storm and hailstones.


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For through the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be broken down he will smite <n>[him]</n> with the rod.


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And wherever shall pass the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, it shall be with tambours and harps; and with tumultuous battles will he fight with it.


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For Topheth is prepared of old; for the king also it is prepared he hath made it deep and large; its pile 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 depend on horses, and confide in chariots because <n>[they are]</n> many, and in horsemen because they are very strong; and who look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!


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But he also is wise, and he bringeth evil, and recalleth not his words; and he will arise against the house of evildoers, and against the help of workers of iniquity.


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And the Egyptians are men, and not щGod, and their horses flesh, and not spirit; and Jehovah shall stretch forth his hand, and he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall perish together.


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For thus hath Jehovah said unto me Like as the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, is not afraid of their voice, nor giveth way before the multitude of them; so will Jehovah of hosts come down to war upon mount Zion, and on the hill thereof.


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As birds with outstretched wings, so will Jehovah of hosts cover Jerusalem; covering, he will also deliver, passing over, he will rescue <n>[it]</n>.


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for in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your sinful hands have made unto you.


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And Asshur shall fall by the sword, not of a great man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become tributary;


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and for fear, he shall pass over to his rock, and his princes shall be afraid of the banner, 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 storm; as brooks of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty 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 vile man will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, 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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The instruments also 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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In a year and <n>[some]</n> days 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 <n>[sackcloth]</n> on your loins!


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They shall smite on the breasts <n>[in lamentation]</n> for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards.


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Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles <n>[and]</n> briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.


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For the palace shall be deserted, the multitude of the city shall be forsaken; hill and watchtower shall be caves 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 counted for a forest.


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And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.


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


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Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and that dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; when thou shalt make an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.


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Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee be their arm every morning, yea, our salvation in the time of trouble.


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At the noise of the tumult the peoples fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.


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And your spoil shall be gathered <n>[like]</n> the gathering of the caterpillar as the running of locusts shall they run upon it.


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and he shall be the stability of thy times, the riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge the fear of Jehovah shall be your treasure.


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The highways are desolate, the wayfaring man ceaseth. He hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.


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The land mourneth, it languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, is withered; the Sharon is become as a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped.


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Ye shall conceive dry grass, ye shall bring forth stubble your breath shall devour you <n>[as]</n> fire.


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And the peoples shall be <n>[as]</n> burnings of lime, <n>[as]</n> thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.


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The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath surprised the hypocrites Who among us shall dwell with the consuming fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting flames?


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-- He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking hold of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil


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he shall dwell on high, the fortresses of the rocks shall be his high retreat; bread shall be given him, his water shall be sure.


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


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Thou shalt no more see the fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst comprehend, of a stammering tongue that cannot be understood.


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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 pulled up, neither shall any of its cords be broken;


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but there Jehovah is unto us glorious, -- a place of rivers, of broad streams no galley with oars shall go there, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.


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Thy tacklings are loosed; they strengthen not the socket of their mast, they cannot spread the sail then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.


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And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven <n>[their]</n> iniquity.


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Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples let the earth hear, and all its fulness; the world, and all that cometh forth of it.


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For the wrath of Jehovah is against all the nations, and <n>[his]</n> fury against all their armies he hath devoted them to destruction, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.


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And their slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.


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And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as a leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as the withered <n>[fruit]</n> from the fig-tree.


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For my sword is bathed in the heavens; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, 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 buffaloes shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.


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And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, 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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And the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the great owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he shall stretch out upon it the line of waste, and the plummets of emptiness.


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And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in her fortresses; and it shall be a dwelling-place of wild dogs, a court for ostriches.


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And there shall the beasts of the desert meet with the jackals, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; the lilith also shall settle there, and find for herself a place of rest.


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There shall the arrow-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow; there also shall the vultures be gathered one with another.


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Search ye in the book of Jehovah and read not one of these shall fail, one shall not have to seek for the other; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.


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For he himself hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them with the 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 gladdened; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.


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It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and shouting 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 timid heart, Be strong, fear not; behold your God vengeance cometh, the recompense of God! He will come himself, and save you.


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then shall the lame <n>[man]</n> leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and torrents in the desert.


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And the mirage shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water in the habitation of wild dogs, where they lay down, 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 through it; but it shall be for these. Those that go <n>[this]</n> way -- even fools, -- shall not err <n>[therein]</n>.


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No lion shall be there, nor shall ravenous beast go up thereon, nor be found there; but the redeemed shall walk <n>[there]</n>.


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And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come to Zion with singing; 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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And 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 Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, with a strong force. And he stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.


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Then came forth to him Eliakim the son of Hilkijah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the chronicler.


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And Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria What confidence is this in which thou trustest?


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Thou sayest, but it is a word of the lips, <n>[There is]</n> counsel and strength for war. Now on whom dost thou rely, that thou hast revolted against me?


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Behold, thou reliest upon the staff of that broken reed, upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it goes into his hand, and pierces it so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that rely upon him.


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And if thou say to me, We rely upon Jehovah our God is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?


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And now engage, I pray thee, with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.


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


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And Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rab-shakeh, Speak, we pray thee, to thy servants in Syriac, for we understand it; and speak not to us in the Jewish <n>[language]</n> in the ears of the people that are upon the wall.


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And Rab-shakeh said, Is it to thy master and to thee that my master sent me to speak these words? Is it not to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own urine with you?


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And Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish <n>[language]</n>, and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!


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Neither let Hezekiah make you rely upon Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will certainly deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.


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Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria Make peace with me and come out to me; and eat every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink every one the waters of his own cistern;


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until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.


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Let not Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Has 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 of 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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And they were silent, and answered him not a word; for the king's command was, saying, Answer him not.


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And Eliakim the son of Hilkijah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the chronicler, came to Hezekiah, with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.


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


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It may be Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.


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


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Behold, I will put a spirit into him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return to 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 of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He has come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard <n>[it]</n>, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,


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


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


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Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, who sittest <n>[between]</n> the cherubim, thou, the Same, thou alone art the God of all the kingdoms of the earth thou hast made the heavens and the earth.


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Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open, Jehovah, thine eyes, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to reproach 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; and they have destroyed them.


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And now, Jehovah our God, save us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art Jehovah, thou only.


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And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,


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this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken against him The virgin-daughter of Zion despiseth thee, laugheth thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem shaketh her head at thee.


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Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy One of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.


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By thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the recesses of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, the choice of its cypresses; and I will enter into its furthest height, <n>[into]</n> the forest of its fruitful field.


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I have digged and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.


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Hast thou not heard that long ago I did it, and that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities <n>[into]</n> ruinous heaps.


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And their inhabitants were powerless, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were <n>[as]</n> the grass of the field and the green herb, <n>[as]</n> the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up.


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Because thy raging against me and thine arrogance is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will make thee go back by the way by which thou camest.


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And this <n>[shall be]</n> the sign unto thee there shall be eaten this year such as groweth of itself; and in the second year that which springeth of the same; but in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof.


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


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for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that escape the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall do this.


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


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By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith Jehovah.


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And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead 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 Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.


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In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.


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and said, Ah, Jehovah, remember, 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 much.


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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 to 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 <n>[shall be]</n> the sign to thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken


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


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I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol I am deprived of the rest of my years.


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I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I shall behold man no more.


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Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum -- from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.


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I kept still until the morning; ... as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me.


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Like a swallow <n>[or]</n> a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed <n>[with looking]</n> upward Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.


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What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done <n>[it]</n>. I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.


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Lord, by these things <n>[men]</n> live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit; and thou hast recovered me, and made me to live.


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Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.


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For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.


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The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day the father to the children shall make known thy truth.


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Jehovah was <n>[purposed]</n> to save me. -- And we will play upon my 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 a letter and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that he had been sick and had recovered.


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And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver and the gold, and the spices and the fine oil, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found amongst his treasures there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah did not shew them.


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


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


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And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.


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And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou hast spoken. And he said, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.


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Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her time of suffering is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.


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The voice of one crying in the wilderness Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God!


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Every valley shall be raised up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places a plain.


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And the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see <n>[it]</n> together for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.


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A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry? -- All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.


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The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it surely the people is grass.


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O Zion, that bringest glad tidings, get thee up into a high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest glad tidings, 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 with might, and his arm shall rule for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.


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


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Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with <n>[his]</n> span, and grasped the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?


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With whom took he counsel, and <n>[who]</n> gave him intelligence, and instructed him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?


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Behold, the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket, and as the fine dust on the scales; behold, he taketh up the isles as an atom.


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The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains <n>[for it]</n>.


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He that is impoverished, so that he hath no offering, chooseth a tree that doth not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilled workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.


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-- Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood the foundation of the earth?


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<n>[It is]</n> he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;


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Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also 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 things, bringing out their host by number? He calleth them all by name; through the greatness of his might and strength of power, not one faileth.


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Why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and my right is passed away from my God?


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Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding.


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but they that wait upon Jehovah shall renew <n>[their]</n> strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not tire; they shall walk, and not faint.


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Keep silence before me, islands; and let the peoples renew <n>[their]</n> strength let them come near; then let them speak let us draw near together to judgment.


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Who raised up from the east him whom righteousness calleth to its foot? He gave the nations before him, and caused him to have dominion over kings; he gave them as dust to his sword, as driven stubble to his bow.


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Who hath wrought and done <n>[it]</n>, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first; and with the last, I <n>[am]</n> HE.


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And the artizan encouraged the founder, he that smootheth <n>[with]</n> the hammer him that smiteth on the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fasteneth it with nails, that it be not moved.


