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To be known to the king that we went to the Judah province, to the house of the great God; and it was building with stone of rolling, and wood being set up in the walls; and this work being diligently done, and prospering in their hands.


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Then we asked these old men, thus we said to them, Who set to you a decree to build this house and to complete this wall?


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And also we asked their names for them to make known to thee that we shall write the name of the men that were among their heads.


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And thus they returned us word, saying, We are the servants of the God of the heavens and the earth, and build the house that was built of old these many years, and a great king to Israel built and completed.


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Therefore after our fathers provoked to the God of the heavens to be angry, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, the Chaldean, and he destroyed this house, and the people he carried away in exile to Babel.


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But in one year to Cyrus the king of Babel, Cyrus the king set up a decree to build this house of God.


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And also the vessels of the house of God of gold and of silver, that Nebuchadnezzar brought forth from the temple that is in Jerusalem, and brought them to the temple of Babel, Cyrus the king brought them forth from the temple of Babel, and they were given to Sheshbazzar his name that he set up prefect;


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And he said to him, Lift up these vessels, go bring them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and the house of God shall be built upon its place.


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Then this Sheshbazzar came, he set the foundations of the house of God that is in Jerusalem: and from that time even till now, being built and not finished.


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And now if good to the king he shall seek in the house of the king's treasure there that is in Babel, if it be that from Cyrus the king a decree was set up to build this house of God in Jerusalem, and the king will send the will to us concerning this.


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At that time Darius the king set up a decree, and they searched in the house of books, the treasures being deposited there in Babel.


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And there was found in Achmetha in the fortress that in the Median province, one roll, and thus a record was written in its midst.


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In one year to Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king set a decree of the house of God in Jerusalem, The house shall be built, the place that they sacrificed sacrifices, and its foundations being erected; its height sixty cubits, and its breadth sixty cubits;


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And three layers of stone of magnitude: and a layer of new wood: and the outgoing shall be given from the king's house:


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And also the vessels of the house of God of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar brought forth from the temple that is in Jerusalem, and brought to Babel, shall be restored, and shall go to the temple that is in Jerusalem, to its place, and be taken into the house of God.


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Now Tatnai prefect beyond the river, Shethar-Bozni, and their colleagues the Apharsachites that are beyond the river, be ye far off from thence:


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Leave to the works of this house of God: the prefect of the Jews and the old men of the Jews, they shall build this house of God upon its place.


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And from me a decree was set up for that which ye shall do with the old men of these Jews for building this house of God: and the king's riches, that of the tribute beyond the river, expenses shall be speedily given to these men, not to be made to cease.


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And whatever being necessary, and the young of cattle and rams and lambs, for burnt-offerings to the God of the heavens, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the saying of the priests that are in Jerusalem, to be given to them day by day, not resting:


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That therefore bringing near sweet odors to the God of the heavens, praying for the life of the king and his sons.


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And from me a decree was set up that every man that shall change this word, wood shall be pulled down from his house, and being raised up he shall be fastened upon it; and his house shall be made a dung-hill for this.


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And God who shall cause his name to dwell there shall cast down every king and people that shall send forth his hand to change, to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius set up a decree; it shall be done speedily.


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Then Tatnai, prefect beyond the river Shethar-Boznai, and three colleagues, because of that Darius the king sent, thus they did speedily.


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And the old men of the Jews built and prospered in the prophesy of Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah son of Iddo. And built and completed according to the decree of the God of Israel, and from the decree of Cyrus and Darius, and Arthasatha king of Persia.


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And this house was finished even to the third day to the month Adar, which was the sixth year to the kingdom of Darius the king.


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And the sons of Israel, the priests and the Levites and the rest of the sons of the exile, made the consecration of this house of God in gladness.


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And they brought near to the consecration of this house of God a hundred oxen, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and he goats of the goats for sin, for all Israel twelve, for the number of the tribes of Israel.


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And they set up the priests in their division, and the Levites in their classes, for the work of God which is in Jerusalem; according to the writing of the book of Moses.


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For the priests and Levites were purified as one, all of them being purified; and they will slaughter the pass over for all the sons of the exile, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.


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And the sons of Israel will eat; those turning back from exile and every one being separated from the uncleanness of the nations of the earth to them, to seek for Jehovah the God of Israel;


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And they will do the festival of the unleavened seven days in gladness: for Jehovah gladdened them, and turned the heart of the king of Assur 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 words in the kingdom of Arthasatha king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,


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This Ezra went up from Babel; and he a scribe skilled in the law of Moses which Jehovah God of Israel gave: and the king will give to him according to the hand of Jehovah upon him all his seeking.


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And there will go up from the sons of Israel, and from the priests and the Levites, and those singing, and they watching the gates, and the Nethinims, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year to Arthasatha the king.


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For in one to the first month he laid the foundation of going up from Babel, and in one to the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.


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For Ezra prepared his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do, and to teach in Israel the law and judgment.


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And this the copy of the epistle which king Arthasatha gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, the scribe of the words of the commands of Jehovah and of his laws upon Israel.


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Arthasatha, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of the heavens, being perfected, and thus.


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A decree was set from me that all being willing in my kingdom, from the people of Israel and his priests and Levites, to go to Jerusalem, shall go with thee.


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For the cause that being sent from before the king and the seven counselors to seek concerning Judah and for Jerusalem, by the law of thy God that is in thy hand;


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And to bring the silver and the gold that the king and his counselors gave willingly to the God of Israel, whom his dwelling in Jerusalem.


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And all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babel, with the voluntary gifts of the people and the priests giving willingly to the house of their God that is in Jerusalem:


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For this cause speedily shalt thou buy with this silver, oxen, rams, lambs, with their gifts and their libations, and thou shalt bring them near upon the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem.


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And whatever to thee and to thy brethren shall be good to do with the rest of the silver and gold; according to the will of your God ye shall do.


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


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And the rest being necessary for the house of thy God, that shall fall to thee to give thou shalt give from the house of the king's treasure.


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And from me, I Arthasatha the king, a decree was set up to all the treasurers that are beyond the river, that all which Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of the heavens, shall ask of you, shall be done speedily,


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Even to a hundred talents of silver, and even to a hundred cors of wheat, and even to a hundred baths of wine, and even to a hundred baths of oil, and salt that was not written.


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All that from the decree of the God of the heavens shall be done diligently for the house of the God of the heavens: for why to be wrath upon the kingdom of the king and his sons?


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And making known to you that all the priests and Levites, the players, the porters, the Nethinims, and those serving this house of God, tribute, excise and toll, not being permitted to be lifted up upon them.


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And thou Ezra, according to the wisdom of thy God that is in thy hand, appoint judges and tribunals to be judging for all the people that are beyond the river, to all knowing the laws of thy God; and those not knowing ye shall cause to know.


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And all not to be doing the laws of thy God, and the laws of the king, judgment to be done speedily upon him, if whether to death or to rooting him out, or to impose fines and for bonds.


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Praised be Jehovah the God of our fathers who gave according to this in the king's heart, to adorn the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem:


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And extended mercy upon me before the king and his counselors, and to all the kings mighty chiefs. And I was strengthened according to the hand of Jehovah my God upon me, and I shall gather together from Israel the heads to go up with me.


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And these the heads of their fathers, and the register of them going up with me in the kingdom of Arthasatha from Babel.


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From the sons of Phinehas, Gershom: from the sons of Ithamar, Daniel: from the sons of David, Hattush.


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From the sons of Shecaniah, from the sons of Parosh, Zechariah: and with him were enrolled to the males a hundred and fifty.


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And from the last sons of Adonikam, and these their names, Eliphalet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them sixty males.


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And I shall gather them together to the river going to Ahava, and there we shall encamp three days: and I shall look upon the people and upon the priests, and from the sons of Levi I found not these.


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And I shall send for Eleazar, for Ariel, for Shemaiah and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, the heads; and for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, they understanding.


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And I shall bring them forth to Iddo the head, with the silver of the place, and I shall set words in their mouth to speak to Iddo, his brethren the Nethinims, with the silver of the place, to bring to us those serving to the house of our God.


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And they will bring to us according to the good hand of our God upon us a man of understanding from the sons of Mahli, son of Levi, son of Israel; and Sherebiah, and his sons and his brethren, eighteen.


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And from the Nethinims David gave, and the chiefs, for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were specified by names.


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And I shall call a fast there, upon the river Ahava, to humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us and for our little ones, and for all our substance.


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For I was ashamed to ask from the king strength and horsemen to help us from the enemy in the way: for we said to the king, saying, The hand of our God upon all seeking him for good; and his strength and his anger against all forsaking him.


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And I shall separate from the chiefs of the priests twelve to Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and with them ten from their brethren.


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And I shall weigh to them the silver and the gold, and the vessels of the oblation of the house of God, that the king and his counselors and his chiefs and all Israel being found had lifted up.


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And I shall weigh to their hand the silver, six hundred and fifty talents, and vessels of silver to a hundred talents; gold, a hundred talents;


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And twenty goblets of gold to a thousand darics: and different vessels of good shining brass, desirable as gold.


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And saying to them, Ye are holy to Jehovah, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold a voluntary gift to Jehovah the God of your fathers.


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Watch and guard till ye shall weigh before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the chiefs of the fathers to Israel in Jerusalem in the cells of the house of Jehovah.


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


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And we removed from the river Ahava in the twelfth to the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the band of our God was upon us and he will deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and of him lying in wait upon the way.


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And in the fourth day we shall weigh the silver and the gold and the vessels in the house of our God, by the hand of Meremoth son of Uriah the priest; and with him Eleazar son of Phinehas; and with them Jozabad son of Joshua, and Noadiah son of Levites;


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They coming from the captivity, the sons of the exile, brought near burnt-offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven he lambs, the he goats of the sin, twelve: all the burnt-offering to Jehovah.


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And they will give the king's laws to the king's satraps and prefects beyond the river: and they lifted up the people and the house of God.


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And in these things being finished, the chiefs came near to me, saying, The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites were not separated from the people of the lands according to their abominations, to the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian and the Amorite.


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For they took from their daughters to themselves and to their sons: and the holy seed mingled themselves with the people of the lands: and the hand of the chiefs and the prophets was the first in this transgression.


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And in my hearing this word I rent my garment and my robe, and I shall pluck off from the hair of my head and my beard, and I shall sit down, being astonished.


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And to me all will assemble, trembling at the word of the God of Israel for the transgression of the exile; and I sat astonished till the sacrifice of the evening.


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And at the sacrifice of the evening I rose up from my humbling; and in my rending my garment and my robe and I shall bend upon my knees and spread forth my hands to Jehovah my God.


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And saying, My God, I was ashamed and disgraced to lift up my face, O my God, to thee: for our iniquities were multiplied over the head, and our guilt was magnified even to the heavens.


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From the days of our fathers we are in a great trespass even to this day; and in our iniquities we were given, we, our kings, our priests, into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity and to plunder, and to shame of face as this day.


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And now for a little moment grace was from Jehovah our God to leave to us an escaping, and to give to us a nail in his holy place, for our God to enlighten our eyes and to give us a little preservation of our life in our servitude.


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For we are servants; and in our servitude God forsook us not, and he extended to us mercy before the kings of Persia, to give to us the preservation of life to set up the house of our God, and to cause its desolations to stand, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.


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Which thou didst command by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying, The land which ye are coming in to inherit it being a land of uncleanness in the uncleanness of the people of the lands in their abominations which filled it from mouth to mouth in their pollution.


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And now ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, and ye shall not take their daughters to your sons, and ye shall not seek their peace and their good even forever, so that ye shall be strong and eat the good of the land, and cause to your sons to inherit even forever.


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And after all coming upon us for our evil deeds, and in our great guilt, for thou our God didst withhold below our iniquities, and didst give to us an escaping according to this.


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Shall we turn back to break thy commands and to contract marriage with the people of these abominations? Wilt thou not be angry with us even to finishing, for not a remaining and escaping.


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O Jehovah God of Israel, thou art just: for we remained an escaping as this day: behold us before thee in our guilts; for not to stand before thee for.


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And as Ezra prayed, and as he confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there were gathered to him from Israel a very great convocation of men and women and children: for the people wept a great weeping.


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And Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the sons of Elam, will answer and say to Ezra, We transgressed against our God, and we were dwelling with strange wives from the people of the land: and now there is hope to Israel concerning this.


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And now we will cut out a covenant to our God to bring forth all the wives, and those being born of them upon the counsel of my lord, and of those trembling at the command of our God; and according to the law it shall be done.


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And Ezra will rise and cause the chiefs to swear, the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to do according to this word. And they will swear.


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And Ezra will rise up from before the house of God, and will go the chamber of Johanan son of Eliashib: and he will go there, he ate not bread and drank not water: for he was mourning for the transgression of the exiles.


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And they caused a voice to pass through Judah and Jerusalem to all the sons of the exile to gather, together at Jerusalem;


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And every one who shall not come in three days according to the counsel of the chiefs and the old men, all his substance shall be devoted, and he shall be separated from the convocation of the exile.


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And all the men of Judah and Benjamin will gather together at Jerusalem in three days. It was the ninth month, in the twentieth in the month, and all the people will sit in the broad place of the house of God, trembling for the word, and from the heavy showers.


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And Ezra the priest will rise up and say to them, Ye transgressed, and ye will dwell with strange wives to add upon the guilt of Israel.


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And now ye shall give praise to Jehovah the God of your fathers, and do acceptance: and separate from the people of the land and from the strange wives.


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And all the convocation will answer and say, with a great voice, So to do according to thy words to us.


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But the people many, and a time of heavy showers, and no power to stand without, and the work not for one day, and not for two: for we many transgressing in this word.


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And our chiefs to all the convocation shall stand now, and all who in our cities dwelt with strange wives, shall come at the appointed times, and with them the old men of city and city, and its judges, until the turning back the burning of the anger of our God from us even for this word.


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But Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahaziah, son of Tikvah, stood upon this: and Meshullam and Sabbethai the Levite helped them.


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And thus the sons of the exile will do. And they will be separated, Ezra the priest, men, heads of the fathers, for the house of their fathers, and all of them by names, and they will it down in one day to the tenth month to seek out the word.


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And they will finish with all the men dwelling with strange wives, even to one day to the first month.


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And there will be found from the sons of the priest who dwelt with strange wives: from the sons of Joshua son of Josedek and his brethren: Maaseiah and Eleazar, and Jarib and Gedaliah.


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And they will give their hand to bring forth their wives; and being guilty, a ram of the flock for their guilt.


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And from the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (this is Kelita) Pethahiah, Judah and Eleazar.


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And from Israel: from the sons of Parosh: Ramiah and Jeziah, and Malchiah and Miamin and Eleazar and Malchiah and Benaiah.


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


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The words of Nehemiah son of Hachaliah. And it will be in the month Chisleu, the twentieth year, and I was in Shushan the fortress;


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And Hanani one of my brethren will come, he and men from Judah; and I shall ask them concerning the Jews of the escaping which were left from the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.


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And they will say to me, They being left which were left of the captivity there in the province, in great evil and in reproach: and the walls of Jerusalem being broken down, and its gates were burnt with fire.


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And it will be in my hearing these words, I sat down, and I shall weep and mourn days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of the heavens,


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And saying, Now O Jehovah, God of the heavens, the great and terrible God watching the covenant and mercy to those loving him, and to those watching his commands:


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Will now thine ear be attentive and thine eye opened to hear to the prayer of thy servant which I pray before thee this day, day and night, for the sons of Israel thy servants, and confess for the sins of the sons of Israel which we sinned against thee? and and the house of my father sinned.


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Being perverse, we were perverse against thee, and we watched not the commands and the laws and the judgments which thou didst command Moses thy servant.


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Remember now the word that thou didst command Moses thy servant, saying, Ye will transgress; I will scatter you among the nations:


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And did ye turn back to me and watch my commands and do them; if there shall be a thrusting forth of you into the extremity of the heavens, from thence will I gather them and bring them to the place which I chose for my name to dwell there.


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And these thy servants and thy people whom thou didst redeem in thy great power and by thy strong hand.


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Now, O Lord, now will thine ear be attending to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, desiring to fear thy name? and prosper now to thy servant this day: and wilt thou give him for compassion before this man? And I was giving drink to the king.


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And it will be in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year to Arthasatha the king, wine before him: and I shall lift up the wine and give to the king. And I was not sad before him.


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And the king will say to me, Wherefore thy face sad, and thou not being, sick? This nothing but sadness of heart. And I shall be very greatly afraid.


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And saying to the king, O king, thou wilt live forever: wherefore shall not my face be sad when the city of the house of my father's sepulchres was laid waste, and its gates consumed with fire?


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And the king will say to me, For what this thou seekest? And I shall pray to the God of the heavens.


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And saying to the king, If good to the king, and if thy servant shall be good before thee, that thou wilt send me to Judah to the city of my fathers' sepulchres, and I will build it,


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And the king will say to me (the consort will sit near him) How long shall be thy journey? and when wilt thou turn back? And it will be good before the king, and he will send me; and I shall give to him a time.


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And saying to the king, If good to the king letters shall be given to me to the prefects beyond the river, that they shall cause me to pass over till I shall come to Judah.


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And a letter to Asaph watching the pleasure-grounds to the king, who shall give to me woods to frame the gates of the fortress that is to the house, and for the walls of the city, and for the house which I shall come into it And the king will give to me according to the good hand of my God upon me.


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And I shall come to the prefects beyond the river, and I shall give to them the letter of the king. And the king will send with me chiefs of strength and horsemen.


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And Sanballat the Horonite will hear, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it will be evil to them a great evil that a man came to seek good for the sons of Israel.


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And I shall rise in the night, I and a few men with me; and I announced not to man what my God gave into my heart to do at Jerusalem: and no beast with me but the beast that I rode upon it.


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And I shall go forth by the gate of the valley by night, and before the second fountain, and to the gate of the dung-hill, and I shall be watching the walls of Jerusalem that they being broken, and its gates were consumed with fire.


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And I shall pass over to the gate of the fountain and pool of the king: and not a place for the beast under me to pass.


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And I shall be going up by the torrent in the night, and I shall be watching the walls, and I shall turn back and come into the gate of the valley; and I shall turn back.


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And the prefects knew not whither I went and what I was doing: and to the Jews and to the priests and to the nobles and to the prefects, and to the rest doing the work, even thus I announced not.


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And saying to them, Ye seeing the evil which we are in it, how Jerusalem lay waste, and her gates were burnt with fire: come ye, and we will build the walls of Jerusalem, and we shall be no more a reproach.


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And I shall announce to them the hand of my God that it was good upon me; and also the king's words who said to me. And they will say, We will rise up and build. And they will strengthen their hands for good.


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And Sanballat the Horonite will hear, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they will mock to us and despise us, and say, What this word that ye do? are ye bearing rule against the king?


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And I shall turn back word to them, and say to them, The God of the heavens, he will prosper for us; and we his servants will rise up and build: and to you no portion and right and remembrance in Jerusalem.


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And Eliashib the great priest will rise up and his brethren the priests, and they will build the sheep gate; they consecrated it, and they will set up its doors, and even to the tower of Meah they consecrated, and even to the tower of Hananeel.


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And the gate of fishes the sons of Hassenaah built; they framed and they will set up its doors, its bolts and its bars.


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And at their hand held fast Meremoth, son of Urijah, son of Koz. And upon their hand Meshullam son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabeel. And upon their hand held fast Zadok son of Baana.


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And upon their hand held fast the Tekoites; and their nobles brought not their neck into the work of their Lord.


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And the old gate held fast Jehoida son of Paseah, and Meshullam son of Besodeiah; they framed and set up its doors, its bolts and its bars.


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And upon their band held fast Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and Mizpeh to the throne of the prefect beyond the river.


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Upon his hand held fast Uzziel son of Harhaiah of the goldsmiths. And upon his hand held fast Hananiah son of the perfumers; and they will leave Jerusalem even to the broad wall.


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And upon their hand held fast Jedaiah son of Harumaph, and before his house, and upon his hand, held fast Hattush son of Hashabniah.


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The second measure held fast Malchiah, son of Harim, and Hashub, son of Pahath-Moab, and the tower of the furnaces.


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And upon his hand held fast Shallum son of Halohesh, chief of half the circuit of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.


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And the gate of the valley held fast Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and they will set up its doors its bolts and its bars, and a thousand cubits in the wall even to the gate of the dung-hill.


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And the gate of the dung-hill held fast Malchiah the son of Rechab, chief of the circuit of the house of the vineyard; he will build it, and set up its doors, its bolts and its bars.


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And the gate of the fountain Shallum son of Colhozeh, ruler of the circuit of Mizpeh, held fast; he will build it and cover it, and set, it up, its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the walls of the pool of Shiloh by the king's garden, and even to the steps going down from the city of David.


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After him held fast Nehemiah son of Azbuk, chief of half the circuit of the house of the rock, even to the front of the sepulchres of David, and even to the pool being made, and even to the house of the strong ones.


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After him held fast the Levites, Rehum, son of Bani. Upon his hand held fast Hashabiah chief of half the circuit of Keilah to his circuit.


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And upon his hand held fast Ezer son of Joshua, chief of Mizpeh, the second measure from before the going up of the weapons of the corner.


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And after him Barach son of Zabbai, being ardent, held fast the second measure from the corner even to the entrance of the house of Eliashib the great priest.


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After him held fast Meremoth son of Urijah son of Koz the second measure from the entrance of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib.


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After him held fast Benjamin and Hashub, before their house. After him held fast Azariah son of Maaseiah son of Ananiah, near his house.


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After him held fast Binnui, son of Henadad the second measure, from the house of Azariah even to the corner, even to the turning.


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Palal son of Uzai from before the corner, and from the tower coming forth from the king's house, the highest which was to the enclosure of the prison. After him Pedaiah son of Parosh.


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And the Nethinims were dwelling in Ophel even to the front of the gate of waters to the sunrising, and the tower coming forth.


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After him held fast the Tekoites the second measure, from before the great tower coming forth and even to the walls of Ophel.


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After him held fast Zadok son of Immer, before his house. And after him held fast Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, watching the gate of the sunrising.


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After him held fast Hananiah son of Shelemiah, and Hanun, sixth son of Zalaph, the second measure. After him held fast Meshullam son of Berechiah before his cell.


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After him held fast Malchiah son of the goldsmith, even to the house of the Nethinims, and the merchants before the gate of the review, and even to the going up of the turning.


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And between the going up of the turning to the sheep gate, held fast the goldsmiths and the merchants.


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And it will be that when Sanballat heard that we are building the wall, and it will kindle to him, and he will be greatly angry, and he will mock against the Jews.


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And he will say before his brethren and the strength of Shomeron, and he will say, What are the feeble Jews doing? will they leave to themselves? will they sacrifice? will they finish in a day? will they give life to the stones of the heaps of dust, and they being burnt?


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And Tobiah the Ammonite near him, and he will say, Also that they are building, if a fox shall go up, and he brake their walls of stones.


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Hear, O our God; for we were despised: and turn back their reproach upon their head, and wilt thou give them for plunder in the land of captivity?


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And thou wilt not cover over their iniquity, and their sin shall not be wiped away before thee: for they provoked before the builders.


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And we shall build the wall; and all the wall will be completed even to its half: and a heart will be to the people to work.


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And it will be that when Sanballat heard, and Tobiah, and the Arabians and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, that healing ascended to the walls of Jerusalem, that the breaches began to be stopped, and it kindled to them greatly;


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And they will conspire all of them together to come to war against Jerusalem, and to do damage to it.


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And we will pray to our God, and we shall set up a watch against them day and night, from before them.


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And Judah will say, The strength of the bearer was weak, and the dust much; and we shall not be able to build upon the wall.


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And our adversaries will say, They shall not know, and they shall not see, till that we shall come to their midst and kill them, and cause the work to cease.


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And it will be that when the Jews dwelling near them came, and they will say to us ten times, From all places which ye shall turn back to us.


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And I shall set from underneath to the place from behind to the wall upon the dry places, and I shall set the people to the families with their swords, their spears and their bows.


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And I shall see, and I shall rise up and say to the nobles and to the prefects and to the rest of the people, Ye shall not be afraid from their face: remember Jehovah great and terrible; and war for yourselves, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.


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And it will be that when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God will disperse their counsel, and we shall turn back all of us to the wall, each to his work.


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And it will be from that day the half of my young men doing in the work, and half of them holding fast and the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the chiefs behind every house of Judah.


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They building upon the wall, and they bearing in the burden, they loading with one of his hands doing in the work, and one holding fast the weapon.


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And the builders, a man his sword being girded upon his loins, and building. And he striking upon the trumpet near me.


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And saying to the nobles and to the prefects and to the rest of the people, The work much and broad, and we being scattered upon the wall, far off a man from his brother.


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In the place which ye shall hear the voice of the trumpet there ye shall gather together to us; our God shall war for us.


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And we doing in the work: and half of them holding fast upon the spears from the ascending of the dawn even till the coming forth of the stars.


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Also in that time I said to the people, A man and his youth shall lodge in the midst of Jerusalem; and they were watching for us in the night, and work in the day.


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And not I and my brethren and my young men, and the men of the watch which were after me, we not putting off our garments; a man his weapon for water.


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And there is which saying, Our sons and our daughters, we being many: and we will take grain and we will eat and live.


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And there are those saying, Our fields and our vineyards and our houses we pledge, and we will take grain in the famine.


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And there are those saying, We borrowed silver for the king's tribute, our fields and our vineyards.


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And now according to the flesh of our brethren, our flesh; as their sons, our sons: and behold, we subdue our sons and our daughters for servants, and there is from our daughters being subdued: and not to the strength of our hand and our fields and our vineyards to others.


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And my heart will take counsel to me, and I shall contend with the nobles and the prefects, and say to them, Ye impose a debt each upon his brother. And I shall give a great convocation against them.


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And saying to them, We bought off our brethren the Jews, being sold to the nations; according to the sufficiency in us and also will ye sell your brethren? and were they sold to us? And they will be silent, and they found not a word.


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And it will be said, Not good the word which ye do: will ye not go in the fear of our God from the reproach of the nations our enemies?


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And also I, my brethren and my young men exacting upon them silver and grain: we will leave off now this debt.


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Turn back now to them according to this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive trees, and their houses, and the hundredth of the silver and the grain, the new wine and the new oil which ye impose upon them.


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And they will say, We will turn back, and we will not seek from them; thus will we do as thou sayest And I shall call the priests and shall cause them to swear to do according to this word.


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Also I shook out my arm, and said, Thus God will shake out every man who will not raise up this word from his house and from his labor; so shall he be shaken out and emptied. And all the convocation will say, Amen, and praise Jehovah. And the people did according to this word.


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Also from the day which it was commanded me to be their prefect in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year and even to the thirty and second year to Arthasatha the king, twelve years I and my brethren ate not the bread of the prefect.


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And the former prefects that were before me made heavy upon the people, and they will take from them in bread and wine, the last silver forty shekels; also their young men ruled over the people: and I did not thus from the face of the fear of God.


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And also I held fast upon the work of this wall, and we bought not a field: and all my young men being gathered there for the work.


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And the Jews and prefects a hundred and fifty men, and they coming to us from the nations that were round about us; to my table.


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And what was done for one day, one ox, six choice sheep; and birds were done for me, and within ten days with every wine for abundance: and with this, the bread of the prefect I sought not for the servitude was heavy upon this people.


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And it will be as it was heard by Sanballat and Tobiah, and by Geshem the Arabian, and by the rest of our enemies, that I built the wall and a breach was not left in it; also even to this time I set not up the doors in the gates;


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And Sanballat sent to me and Geshem, saying, Come, and we will pass over together in the villages in the valley of Ono. And they reckoned to do evil to me.


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And I shall send messengers to them, saying, I do a great work, and I shall not be able to come down: wherefore shall the work cease when I shall desist and come down to you?


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And they will send to me according to this word four times; and I shall turn them back according to this word.


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And Sanballat will send his young man to me according to this word the fifth time, and a letter opened in his hand;


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Being written in it, It was heard in the nations, and Geshem said, Thou and the Jews are reckoning to rebel: for this thou buildest the wall, and thou to be to them for king according to these words.


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And also thou didst set up prophets to call upon thee in Jerusalem, saying, A king in Judah: and now it will be heard by the king according to these words: and now come and we will counsel together.


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And I shall send to him saying, It was not according to these words which thou sayest, for from thy heart thou feignest them.


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For all of them causing us to be afraid, saying, their hands shall be slackened from the work, and it shall not be done. And now strengthen my hand.


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And I came to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabeel, and he was shut up; and he will say, We will pass over to the house of God into the midst of the temple, and we will shut the doors of the temple: for they are coming to kill thee; and by night coming to kill thee.


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And saying, Shall a man like me flee? and who as I that shall go into the temple and live? I will not go in.


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And I shall know, and behold, not God sent him; for he spake the prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat hired him.


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So that he was hired that I shall be afraid and do thus, and sin, and it was to them for an evil name, so that they shall reproach me.


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Remember, O my God, to Tobiah and to Sanballat, according to these his works, and also to Noadiah the prophetess, and to the rest of the prophets who were causing me to fear.


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And it will be as all our enemies heard, and all the nations that were round about us saw, and they will fall greatly in their own eyes: and they knew that from God was done this work.


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Also in these days the nobles of Judah were multiplying their letters going to Tobiah, and those to Tobiah came to them.


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For many in Judah being married by oath to him for he was son-in-law to Shechaniah son of Arah; and Johanan his son took the daughter of Meshullam, son of Berechiah.


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Also his good things were said before me, and my words were brought forth to him. Tobiah sent letters to cause me to fear.


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And it will be as the wall was built, and I shall set up the doors, and the gate-keepers, and those singing, and the Levites will be appointed.


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And I shall command Hanani my brother, and Hananiah chief of the fortress, over Jerusalem, for he is as a man of truth, and fearing God above many.


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And it will be said to them, The gates of Jerusalem shall not be opened till the sun being hot; and till they standing by shall shut the doors and fasten: and setting up watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, a man in his watch, and a man before his house.


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And my God will give to my heart, and I shall gather together the nobles and the prefects and the people, to be enrolled: and I shall find the writing of the register of those coming up among the first, and I shall find written as it.


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These the sons of the province coming up from the captivity of the: exile which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel carried into exile; and they will turn back to Jerusalem and to Judah, a man to his city;


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Those coming with Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:


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The sons of Pahath-Moab to the sons of Joshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.


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The gate keepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, a hundred thirty and eight.


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And these going up from Tel-Mela, Tel-Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: and they could not announce their father's house, and their seed, if they were from Israel.


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And from the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Koz, the sons of Barzillai, who took from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite a wife, and he will be called for their name.


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These sought their writing of those being enrolled, and it was not found: and they will be defiled from the priesthood.


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And the Tirshatha will say to them that they shall not eat from the holy of holies till a priest stood up for Lights and Truth.


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Besides their servants and their maids, these seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and to them men singing and women singing, two hundred and forty and five:


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And from the sum of heads of the fathers they gave for the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure gold a thousand drachmas, fifty vases, thirty and five hundred priests' tunics.


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And from the chiefs of the fathers they gave to the treasure of the work, gold, two myriads of drachmas, and silver, two thousand two hundred portions.


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And what the rest of the people gave was gold, two myriads of drachmas, and silver, two thousand portions, and priests' tunics, sixty and seven.


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And there dwelt the priests and the Levites and the gatekeepers, and those singing, and from the people and the Nethinims, and all Israel in their cities; and the seventh month will draw near, and the sons of Israel in their cities.


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And all the people will gather together as one man to the broad place that was before the gate of the waters; and they will say to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which Jehovah commanded Israel.


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And Ezra the priest will bring the law before the convocation, from man and even to woman, and all understanding to hear in one day to the seventh month.


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And he will read in it before the broad place which is before the gate of the waters, from the light even to the half of the day, before the men and the women, and those understanding; and the ears of all the people will be to the book of the law.


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And Ezra the scribe will stand upon a tower of wood which they made for the word; and near him will stand Mattathiah and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, upon his right hand; and his left, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, Meshullam.


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And Ezra will open the book before the eyes of all the people; for he was above all the people; and when he opened it all the people stood:


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And Ezra will praise Jehovah the great God: and all the people will answer, Amen, Amen, in lifting up their hands: and they will bow down and worship to Jehovah, with faces to the earth.


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And Joshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, causing the people to understand to the law: and the people upon their standing.


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And they will read in the book in the law of God accurately, and he set up the understanding, and they will cause to understand the reading.


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And Nehemiah, (he the Tirshatha) will say, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites causing the people to understand, To all the people this day is holy to Jehovah your God; ye shall not mourn, and ye shall not weep. For all the people weeping in their hearing to the words of the law.


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And he will say to them, Go ye; eat fatnesses, and drink sweetnesses, and send portions to him for whom nothing was prepared: for the day is holy to our Lord: and ye shall not grieve, for the joy of Jehovah this is your strength.


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And the Levites silencing to all the people, saying, Silence; for the day is holy; and ye shall not grieve.


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And all the people will go to eat and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great gladness, for they understood the words that were made known to them.


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


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And they will find written in the law which Jehovah commanded by the hand of Moses, that the sons of Israel dwelt in booths in the festival in the seventh month.


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And that they will cause to hear and will cause a voice to pass over in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go ye forth to the mountain and bring leaves of olive, and leaves of the tree of oil, and leaves of myrtle, and leaves of palms, and leaves of the tree interwoven, to make booths according to the writing.


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And the people will go forth, and will bring and make for themselves booths, each upon his roof, and in their enclosures, and in the enclosures of the house of God, and in the broad place of the gate of the waters and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim.


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And all the convocation of those turning back from the captivity will make booths, and they will dwell in booths; for from the days of Joshua son of Nun, the sons of Israel did not thus even to this day. And there will be great gladness exceedingly.


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And he will read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day even to the last day. And they will do a festival seven days; and in the eighth day a restraint according to judgment.


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And in the twenty and fourth day to this month, the sons of Israel were gathered together with fasting and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.


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And the seed of Israel will be separated from all the sons of the stranger, and they will stand and confess over their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.


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And they will rise up upon their standing and read in the book of the law of Jehovah their God, the fourth of the day; and a fourth confessing and worshiping to Jehovah their God.


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And there will rise up upon the ascent of the Levites, Joshua and the sons of Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bani, Sherebiah, Bani, Chenani; and they will cry with a great voice to Jehovah their God.


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And the Levites, Joshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, will say, Rise up, praise Jehovah your God from forever even to forever: and they shall praise the name of thy glory, exalting over all blessing and praise.


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Thou thyself, O Jehovah, thou alone, didst make the heavens, the heavens of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all that is upon it, the seas and all that is in them, and thou makest alive all of them: and the army of the heavens worshiping to thee.


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Thou thyself Jehovah the God who chose in Abram, and thou broughtest him from Ur of the Chaldees, and didst set his name Abraham.


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And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee, and thou didst cut out a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perezzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give to his seed: and thou wilt set up thy words, for thou art just:


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And thou wilt see the humbling of our fathers in Egypt, and thou heardest their cry upon the sea of sedge:


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And thou wilt give signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants, and upon all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they acted proudly against them. And thou wilt make to thee a name as this day.


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And thou didst cleave asunder the sea before them, and they will pass over in the midst of the sea upon dry land; and those pursuing them thou didst cast into the depths as a stone into the strong waters.


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And in a pillar of cloud thou didst guide them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, to enlighten the way to them that they shall go in it.


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And upon mount Sinai thou camest down, and speaking with them from the heavens, and thou wilt give to them right judgments, and laws of truth, good laws and commands.


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And thou didst make known to them thy holy Sabbath, and commands, and ordinances, and law; thou didst charge to them by the hand of Moses thy servant:


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And bread from the heavens thou gavest to them for their hunger, and water from the rock thou broughtest forth to them for their thirst; and thou wilt say to them to go in and to inherit the land which thou didst lift up thy hand to give to them.


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And they and our fathers acted proudly, and they will harden their neck, and will not hear to thy commands,


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And they will refuse to hear, and they will not remember thy wonders which thou didst with them; and they will harden their necks, and they will give a head to turn back to their servitude in their perverseness: and thou a God of forgivenesses, merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and great of mercy, and thou didst not forsake them.


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Also when they made to them a molten calf, and they will say, This thy God which brought thee up from Egypt; and they will make great reproaches;


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And thou in thy many compassions forsookest them not in the desert: not removing the pillar of cloud from above them in the day to guide them in the way; and the pillar of fire in the night, to enlighten to them, and the way that they shall go in it.


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And thy good spirit thou gavest to instruct them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and water gavest thou to them for their thirst.


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And forty years thou didst nourish them in the desert; they wanted not; their garments fell not away, and their feet swelled not.


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And thou wilt give to them kingdoms and nations, and thou wilt divide them to the extremity: and they will inherit the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.


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And their sons thou didst multiply as the stars of the heavens, and thou wilt bring them to the land which thou saidst to their fathers to come in to possess.


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And their sons will come in and possess the land, and thou wilt subdue before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and thou wilt give them into their hand, and all their kings, and the nations of the land, to do them according to their will.


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And they will take inaccessible cities, and a fat land, and they will inherit houses full of all good, and wells hewed out, vineyards and olive trees, and the tree of food for abundance: and they will eat and be filled, and be fat, and will live delicately in thy great goodness.


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And they will be perverse, and they will rebel against thee, and they will cast thy law behind their back, and they killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them back to thee, and they will make great reproaches.


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And thou wilt give them into the hand of their adversaries, and they will press upon them: and in the time of their straits they will cry to thee, and thou wilt hear from the heavens; and according to thy many compassion thou wilt give to them saviours, and they will save them from the hand of their adversaries.


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And when rest to them they will turn back to do evil before thee: and thou wilt leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they will come down upon them: and they will turn back and cry to thee, and thou from the heavens wilt hear, and wilt deliver them according to thy compassion, many times.


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And thou wilt testify against them to turn them back to thy law: and they acted proudly and heard not to thy commands, and in thy judgments they sinned in them; (which a man shall do and he lived in them) and they will give a shoulder turning aside, and they hardened their neck and heard not.


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And thou wilt protract over them many years, and thou wilt testify against them by thy spirit in the hand of thy prophets: and they gave not ear, and thou wilt give them into the hand of the people of the lands.


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And in thy many compassions thou madest them not a finishing, and thou didst not forsake them; for thou a God merciful and compassionate.


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And now our God, the great the mighty, and the terrible God, watching the covenant and the mercy, it shall not be little before thee all the distress which found us, to our kings, to our chiefs, to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers, and to all thy people from the days of the kings of Assur even to this day.


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And our kings, our chiefs, our priests and our fathers, they did not thy law, and they attended not to thy commands and thy testimonies which thou didst testify against them.


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And they in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness which thou gavest to them, and in the broad and fat land which thou gavest before them, served not thee, and turned not back from their evil works.


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Behold, we this day are servants, and the land which thou gavest to our fathers to eat its fruit and its goodness, behold, we are servants upon it:


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And its produce being much for the kings whom thou gavest over us in our sins: and ruling over our bodies and upon our cattle according to their will, and we in great straits.


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And for all this we cut out faithfulness, and write; and upon the sealing, our chiefs, our Levites, and our priests.


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And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gate-keepers, those singing, the Nethinims, and all being separated from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all knowing understanding;


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Holding upon their brethren, their mighty ones, and coming into a curse, and into an oath, to go in the law of God which was given by the hand of Moses the servant of God, and to watch and to do all the command of Jehovah our Lord, and his judgments and his ordinances;


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


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And the people of the land bringing wares and all grain in the day of the Sabbath to sell, we will not take from them in the Sabbath and in the holy day: and we will leave the seventh year, and the debt of every hand.


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And we set up commands for us to give for us the third of the shekel in the year for the service of the house of our God.


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For the bread of the arrangement and the gift of continuance, and for the burnt-offering of continuance of the Sabbaths, the new moons, for the appointments and for the holies, and for the sins, to expiate for Israel and all the work of the house of our God.


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And we cast the lots for the oblation of the woods, of the priests, the Levites and the people, to bring to the house of our God, for the house of our fathers at the times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of Jehovah our God, as 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 the tree year by year, to the house of Jehovah:


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And the first-born of our sons, and of our cattle, as written in the law; and the first-born of our herds and our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests serving in the house of our God,


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And the first-fruits of our groats and our oblations, and the fruits of every tree, new wine and new oil we shall bring to the priests to the cells of the house of our God; and the tenth of our lands to the Levites, and these Levites giving tenths in all the cities of our work.


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And the priest the son of Aaron being with the Levites in the tenth of the Levites: and the Levites shall bring up the tenth of the tenth to the house of our God to the cells to the house of the treasure.


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For to the cells shall the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi bring the oblations of the grain, of the new wine and the new oil, and there the vessels of the holy place, and the priests serving, and the gate-keepers and those singing: and we will not forsake the house of our God.


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And the chiefs of the people dwelt in Jerusalem: and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one from ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine hands in the cities.


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And these the heads of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: and in the cities of Judah they dwelt, each in his possession in their cities of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the sons of Solomon's servants.


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And in Jerusalem dwelt from the sons of Judah, and from the sons of Benjamin, from the sons of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziel, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahaleel, from the sons of Perez;


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And Maaseiah son of Baruch, son of Col-Hozeth, son of Hazaiah, son of Adaiah, son of Joiarib, son of Zechariah, son of Shiloni.


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


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


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And their brethren doing the work to the house, eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechaliah, son of Pashur, son of Malchiah,


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And his brethren chiefs to the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai son of Azareel, son of Ahazai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,


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And their brethren men of strength, a hundred twenty and eight: and he reviewing over them Zabdiel, son of the great ones:


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And Sabbethai and Jozabad over the exterior work to the house of God, from the heads of the Levites.


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And Mattaniah son of Micha, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, head of the beginning of Judah for prayer: and Bakbukiah the second from his brethren, and Abda, son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthan.


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And the gate-keepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren watching in the gates, a hundred seventy and two.


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And the rest of Israel, the priests, the Levites in all the cities of Judah, each in his inheritance.


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And he reviewing the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micha. From the sons of Asaph, those singing before the work of the house of God.


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And Pethahiah son of Meshezaheel, from the sons of Zerah son of Judah, at the hand of the king for every word to the people.


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And for the villages with their field, from the sons of Judah dwelt in Kirjath-Arba, and its buildings, and in Dibon and its buildings, and in Jekabzeel, and its villages,


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Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its buildings. And they will dwell from the well of the oath even to the valley of Hinnom.


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And these the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Joshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,


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Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These the heads of the priests and their brethren in the days of Joshua.


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And the Levites: Joshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, Mattaniah, over the choirs, he and his brethren.


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


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The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, being written heads of the fathers: and the priests for the kingdom of Darius the Persian.


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And the sons of Levi, the chiefs of the fathers, being written upon the book of the words of the days, and even to the days of Johanan son of Eliashib.


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And the heads of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Joshua son of Kadmiel, and their brethren over against them, to praise, to confess in the command of David the man of God watching over against watching.


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Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, watching the gates the watch of the stores of the gates.


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


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And in the consecration of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to do the consecration and gladness, and with praises and with song of cymbals, lyres, and with harps.


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And the sons of those singing will gather together, and from the circuit round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;


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And from the house of Gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for those singing built for themselves villages round about Jerusalem.


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And the priests and the Levites will be purified, and they will purify the people and the gates and the wall.


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And I shall bring up the chiefs of Judah from above the wall, and I shall cause to stand two great choirs, and to go about to the right hand above to the wall to the gate of the dung-hill:


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And from the sons of the priests with trumpets: Zechariah son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah the son of Mattaniah, son of Michaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph:


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And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nathaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with instruments of song of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.


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And at the gate of the fountain, and before them, they went up upon the steps of the city of David in the going up to the wall from above to the house: of David, and even to the gate of waters of the sunrising.


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And the second praised going about to the front, and I after it, and, half the people above to the wall, above to the tower of the furnaces and even to the broad wall;


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


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


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And Maaseiah and Eleazar and Uzzi and Jehonathan and Malchijah and Elam and Ezer and those singing will cause to hear, and Jezrahiah, reviewing.


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And they will sacrifice in that day great sacrifices, and they will rejoice, for God caused them to rejoice with great gladness: and also the women and the children, rejoiced, and the gladness of Jerusalem will be heard even to far off.


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And in that day they will appoint men over the cells to the treasures for the oblations for the first-fruits and for the tenths to collect into them to the fields of the cities the portions of the law to the priests and to the Levites: for the gladness of Judah over the priests and over the Levites standing.


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And they will watch the watches of their God, and the watches of the purification, and those singing, and the gate-keepers, according to the command of David, and of Solomon his son.


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For in the days of, David and Asaph from of old the head of those singing, and the song of praise and confessions to God.


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And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah giving, portions, of the singers and the gate-keepers, the word of a day in its day: and consecrating to the Levites; and the Levites consecrating to the sons of Aaron.


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In that day was read in the book of Moses in the ears of the people; and it was found written in it that there shall not come in an Ammonite and a Moabite to the convocation of God, even to forever;


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For they anticipated not the sons of Israel with bread and with water, and he will hire Balaam against him to curse him: and God will turn the curse to blessing.


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And before this, Eliashib the priest being given over the cells of the house of our God, being near to Tobiah:


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And he will make for him a great cell, and there before them were given the gifts, the frankincense and the vessels, and the tenth of the grain of the new wine and the new oil, (the command of the Levites, and those singing, and the gate-keepers,) and the oblations of the priests.


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And in all this I was not in Jerusalem: for in the thirty and second year to Arthasatha king of Babel, I came to the king, and at the end of days I asked for myself from the king:


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And I shall come to Jerusalem, and I shall understand upon the evil which Eliashib did for Tobiah to prepare for him a cell in the enclosures of the house of God.


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And it will be greatly evil to me: and I shall cast forth all the vessels of the house of Tobiah without from the cell.


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And saying, and they will purify the cells: and I shall turn back there the vessels of the house of God, with the gift and the frankincense.


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And I shall know that the portions of the Levites were not given: and they will flee a man to his field, the Levites and those singing, doing the work.


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And I shall contend with the prefects, and say, Wherefore was the house of God forsaken? And I shall gather them together, and cause them to stand upon their standing.


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And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah from the Levites: and upon their hand Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah: for they were reckoned faithful: and upon them to divide out to their brethren.


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Remember to me, O my God, concerning this, and thou wilt not wipe out my kindness which I did in the house of my God, and in its watches.


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In those days I saw in Judah those treading the wine-presses in the Sabbath, and bringing in the sheaves, and loading upon the asses; and also wine, grapes, and figs, and every burden, and bringing into Jerusalem in the day of the Sabbath: and I shall testify in the day of their selling provision.


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And the Tyrians sat in it, bringing in fish and every selling, and selling in the Sabbath to the sons of Judah, and in Jerusalem.


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And I shall contend with the nobles of Judah, and say to them, What this evil word that ye are doing, and profaning the day of the Sabbath?


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Did not your fathers thus, and our God will bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? and ye are adding burning upon Israel to profane the Sabbath.


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And it will be as the gates of Jerusalem were darkened before the Sabbath, and saying, and the doors shall be shut, and saying that they shall not open them till after the Sabbath: and from my young men I caused to stand at the gates; a burden shall not be brought in in the day of the Sabbath.


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And the merchants and those selling every selling will lodge from without to Jerusalem once and twice.


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And I shall testify against them, and say to them, Wherefore are ye lodging before the wall? if ye shall do it a second time I will stretch forth the hand against you From that time they came not upon the Sabbath.


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And saying to the Levites that they shall be purifying, and coming, watching the gates to consecrate the day of the Sabbath. Also this remember for me, O my God, and spare upon me according to the multitude of thy mercy.


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And their sons half speaking the Ashdod dialect, and they not knowing to speak the Judean dialect, and according to the tongue of people and people.


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And I shall contend with them, and I shall curse them and I shall strike of them men, and I shall make them bald, and cause them to swear by God, If ye shall give your daughters to their sons, and if ye shall lift up from their daughters to your sons and to yourselves.


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Did not Solomon king of Israel sin concerning these? and in many nations was there not a king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God will give him king over all Israel: also him did women strangers cause to sin.


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And to you shall we hear to do all this great evil to transgress against our God to cause strange women to dwell.


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And from the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the great priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: and I shall cause him to flee from me.


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Remember to them, O my God, for the pollutions of the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.


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And I cleansed them from every stranger, and I shall set up watches to the priests and to the Levites, a man in his work.


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And for the bringing near the woods in the times appointed, and for the first-fruits. Remember to me, O my God for good.


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And it will be in the days of Ahasuerus, (this Ahasuerus reigned from India and even to Cush; seven and twenty and one hundred provinces:)


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


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


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In his causing to see the riches of the glory of his kingdom, and the honor of his great splendor many days, eighty and one hundred days.


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And in these days being completed the king made to all the people being found in Shushan the fortress, a drinking to the great and even to the small, seven days, in the enclosure of the garden of the king's house;


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Splendid fine white linen, and cerulean purple, made fast with cords of byssus and purple, upon rings of silver and pillars of marble: couches of gold and silver upon a tesselated pavement of marble, and marble and pearl and spotted marble.


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And giving drink in vessels of gold and vessels different from vessels, and wine of the kingdom, an abundance, according to the hand of the king.


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Giving to drink according to the edict; none compelling, for thus the king appointed to all the multitude of his house to do according to the desire of man and man.


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Also Vashti the queen made a drinking to the women of the house of the kingdom which was to king Ahasuerus.


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In the seventh day, as the heart of the king being good with wine, he said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs serving the face of king Ahasuerus,


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To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown of the kingdom, to cause the people and the chiefs to see her beauty: for she was good of appearance.


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And the queen Vashti will refuse to come in at the word of the king which was by the hand of the eunuchs: and the king will be angry greatly, and his wrath burnt in him.


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And the king will say to the wise knowing the times, (for thus spake the king before all knowing the edict and judgment:


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And there drew near to him Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, Memucan, seven chiefs of Persia and Media, seeing the face of the king, sitting the first in the kingdom;)


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According to the edict what to do against the queen Vashti, for that she did not the word of the king Ahasuerus by the hand of the eunuchs?


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And Memucan will say before the king, Not against the king alone did Vashti the queen do evil, but against all the chiefs and against all the peoples that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.


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For the word of the queen will go forth ball the women to cause their husbands to be despised in their eyes, in their saying, The king Ahasuerus said to bring in Vashti the queen before him, and she came not.


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And this day shall the chief ladies of Persia and Media say, which heard the word of the queen to all the chiefs of the king, and according to contempt and reproach.


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If good to the king, the word of the kingdom shall go forth from before him, and it shall be written in the edict of the Persians and Medea, and it shall not pass away, that Vashti shall not come before the king Ahasuerus; and the king shall give her kingdom to her companion good above her.


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And the decree of the king which he shall make being heard in all his kingdom, (for it is great,) and all the women shall give honor to their husbands, to the great and even to the small.


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And the word will be good in the eyes of the king and the chiefs; and the king will do according to the word of Memucan.


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And he will send letters to all the provinces of the king, to provinces and provinces, according to its writing, and to people and people, according to their tongue, for every man to be ruling in his house; and being spoken according to the tongue of his people.


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After these words, as the wrath of the king Ahasuerus was quiet, he remembered Vashti, and what she did, and what was decided against her:


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And the king's young men will say, those serving him, They shall seek for the king, maidens, virgins good of appearance:


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And the king shall appoint overseers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and they shall gather together all the maidens, virgins, good of appearance, to Shushan the fortress, to the house of the women, to the hand of Hegai, the king's eunuch, watching the women; giving their purifications:


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And the maiden who shall be good in the eyes of the king shall reign instead of Vashti. And the word will be good in the eyes of the king; and he will do so.


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A man, a Jew, was in Shushan the fortress, and his name Mordecai, son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a man, a Benjamite;


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Who was carried captive from Jerusalem with the captivity which was carried into exile with Jeconiah, king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel carried into exile.


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And he will be nourishing Hadassah (this is Esther) his uncle's daughter: for not to her, father and mother, and the maiden beautiful of form and good of aspect; and in the death of her father and her mother; Mordecai took her to him for a daughter.


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And it will be in hearing the word of the king and his edict, and in the gathering together of the many maidens to Shushan the fortress, to the hand of Hegai, and Esther will be taken to the house of the king to the hand of Hegai watching the women.


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And the maiden will be good in his eyes, and she will receive mercy before him; and he will hasten her purifications, and to give her portion to her, and to give to her seven chosen maidens from the house of the king: and he will change her and her maidens for good to the house of the women.


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Esther announced not her people and her birth: for Mordecai commanded to her that she shall not announce.


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And in every day and day, Mordecai going about before the enclosure of the house of the women, to know the peace of Esther, and what will be done with her.


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And in the coming of the order of maiden and maiden to come in to the king Ahasuerus, from the end of there being to her, according to edict; of women twelve months (for so shall be completed the days of their purifications, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with spices, and with the purifications of the women;)


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And thus came the maiden to the king; all which she shall say shall be given to her, to come with her from the house of the women even to the, house of the king.


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In the evening she came, and in the morning she turned back to the second house of the women, to the hand of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch watching the concubines: she will no more come to the king except the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.


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And in the coming of the turn of Esther the daughter of Abihail, uncle of Mordecai, which he took to him for a daughter, to go in to the king, she sought not a word except what Hegai the king's eunuch watching the women shall say. And Esther will be taking up favor in the eyes of all seeing her.


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And Esther will be taken to the king Ahasuerus, to the house of his kingdom, in the tenth month, this the month Tebeth, in the seventh year to his kingdom.


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And the king will love Esther above all the women, and she will receive favor and mercy before him above all the virgins; and he will set the crown of the kingdom upon her head, and he will cause her to reign instead of Vashti.


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And the king will make a great drinking to all his chiefs and his servants; Esther's drinking; and he made rest to the provinces, and he will give a lifting up according to the hand of the king.


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And in the gathering together the virgins the second time, and Mordecai sat in the gate of the king.


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And Esther not announcing her kindred and her people, as Mordecai commanded to her: and Esther did the saying of Mordecai as when she was in bringing up with him.


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In those days, and Mordecai sat in the gate of the king, Bigthan was angry, and Teresh, two eunuchs of the king watching the threshold; and they will seek to stretch forth the hand against the king Ahasuerus.


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And the word will be known to Mordecai, and he will announce to Esther the queen; and Esther will tell to the king in the name of Mordecai.


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And the word will be sought out and found, and they two will be hung upon a tree: and it will be written in the book of the words of the days before the king.


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After these words the king Ahasuerus magnified Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite; and he will lift him up and set his seat above all the chiefs that were with him.


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And all the king's servants which were in the king's gate were bowing and worshiping to Haman; for thus the king commanded for him. And Mordecai will not bow, and he will not worship.


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And the king's servants that were in the king's gate will say to Mordecai, Wherefore dost thou pass by the king's Command?


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And it will be in their saying to him day and day, and he will not hear to them, and they will announce to Haman to see whether the words of Mordecai will stand: for he announced to them that he was a Jew.


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And Haman will see that Mordecai bowed not, and not worshiping to him, and Haman will be filled with wrath.


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And it will be despised in his eyes to stretch forth the hand against Mordecai alone; for they announced to him the people of Mordecai: and Haman will seek to destroy all the Jews which are in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.


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In the first month (this the month Nisan,) in the twelfth year to the king Ahasuerus, he cast Pur (this is the lot) before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, this the twelfth the month Adar.


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And Haman will say to king Ahasuerus, There is one people scattered and dispersed between the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws different from all people; they not doing the laws of the king: and it not being suitable to the king to suffer them.


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If good to the king, it shall be written to destroy them: and I will weigh ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those doing the work, to bring to the king's treasures.


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And the king will remove the signet ring from his hand, and will give it to Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, to press the Jews.


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And the king will say to Haman, The silver is given to thee, and the people, to do with them as is good in thine eyes.


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And the king's scribes will be called in the first month, in the thirteenth day in it, and it will be written according to all that Haman commanded to the king's satraps and to the prefects, which were over province and province, and to the chiefs of people and people of province and province, according to its writing, and people and people according to their tongue; in the name of king Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king's signet ring.


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And the letters were sent by the hand of the runners to all the king's provinces, to cut off, to kill and to destroy, all the Jews, from the youth and even to the old man, the little ones and women, in one day, in the thirteenth to the twelfth month, (this the month Adar) and their spoil for plunder.


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A copy of the writing to be given an edict in every province and province, being manifested to all peoples to be ready for that day.


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And they running went forth, being impelled by the word of the king, and the edict was given in Shushan the fortress. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; and the city Shushan was disquieted.


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And Mordecai knew all that was done, and Mordecai will rend his garments, and put on sackcloth and ashes, and he will go forth into the city, and he will cry out a great and bitter cry;


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And he will come even before the king's gate: for none to come into the king's gate in putting on sackcloth.


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And in every province and province the place where the word of the king and his edict coming, great mourning to the Jews, and fasting and weeping and wailing; sackcloth and ashes will be spread to many.


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And Esther's maidens will go in, and her eunuchs, and they will announce to her: and the queen will be greatly grieved; and she will send garments to clothe Mordecai and to put away his sackcloth from off him: and he received not.


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And Esther will call to Hatach from the king's eunuchs, whom he caused to stand before her, and she will give him a charge to Mordecai, to know what this, and for what this.


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And Mordecai will announce to him all which befell him, and the exposition of the silver which Haman said to weigh to the king's treasures for the Jews to destroy them.


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And the copy of the writing of the edict which was given in Shushan to destroy them, he gave to him to cause Esther to see, and to announce to her, and to charge upon her to go in to the king to implore mercy, and to seek from before him for her people.


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All the king's servants, and the people of the kings provinces, knowing that every man and woman who shall go in to the king to the inner enclosure who shall not be called, one edict of his to put to death only which the king shall stretch out to him the sceptre of gold, and he lived: and I was not called to go in to the king this thirty days.


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And Mordecai will tell to turn back to Esther, Thou wilt not imagine in thy soul to escape in the house of the king more than all the Jews.


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For if being silent, thou shalt be silent in this time, breath and deliverance shall stand up to the Jews from another place; and thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who shall know if for a time like this thou camest to the kingdom?


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Go collect together all the Jews being found in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and ye shall not eat and ye shall not drink three days, night and day also I and my maidens will fast thus and in this I will go in to the king which is not according to the edict; and according to that I perished, I perished.


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And it will be in the third day, Esther will put on dominion, and she will stand in the enclosure of the king's house, the interior before the king's house: and the king will sit upon the throne of his kingdom, in the house of the kingdom, before the door of the house.


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And it will be when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the enclosure, she received favor in his eyes: and the king will stretch out to Esther the sceptre of gold which is in his hand: and Esther will draw near and touch upon the head of the sceptre.


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And the king will say to her, What to thee, Esther the queen? what thy seeking? even to the half of the kingdom and it shall be given to thee.


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And Esther will say, If good to the king, will the king come, and Haman, this day, to the drinking which I made for him?


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And the king will say, Hasten ye Haman to do the word of Esther. And the king will go in, and Haman, to the drinking which Esther made.


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And the king will say to Esther at the drinking of wine, What thy asking? and it shall be given to thee: and what thy seeking? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be done.


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If I found favor in the eyes of the king, and if good to the king to give my asking and to do my seeking, the king shall come and Haman to the drinking that I shall make for them, and to-morrow I will do as the king said.


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And Haman went forth in that day being glad and good of heart: and when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, and he rose not up and moved not himself for him, and Haman will be filled with wrath against Mordecai.


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And Haman will contain himself, and will go in to his house; and he will send and cause his friends to come, and Zeresh his wife.


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And Haman will recount to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all how the king magnified him, and how he lifted him up over the chiefs and servants of the king.


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And Haman will say also, Esther the queen caused none to come in with the king to the drinking which she made but me; and also to-morrow I am called to her with the king.


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And all this was not an equivalent to me in all the time which I see Mordecai the Jew sitting in the king's gate.


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And Zeresh his wife will say to him, and all his friends, Make ye a tree high fifty cubits, and in the morning say thou to the king, and they shall hang Mordecai upon it: and go thou in with the king to the drinking, being glad. And the word will be good before Haman; and he will make the tree.


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In that night the king's sleep fled away, and he will say to bring in the book of memorials of the words of the days; and they will be read before the king.


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And it will be found written that Mordecai announced concerning Bigthana and Teresh, the king's two eunuchs watching the threshold, who sought to stretch forth the hand upon the king Ahasuerus.


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And the king will say, What honor was done and greatness to Mordecai for this? And the young men of the king serving him will say, Not a word was done with him.


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And the king will say, Who is in the enclosure? And Haman came to the enclosure of the king's house the exterior, to say to the king to hang Mordecai upon the tree which he prepared for him.


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And the king's young men will say to him, Behold, Haman standing in the enclosure. And the king will say, He shall come in.


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And Haman will come in. And the king will say to him, What to be done for the man whom the king delighted in his honor? And Haman will say in his heart, To whom will the king delight to do honor more abundantly than me?


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They shall bring in the clothing of the kingdom which the king was clothed in, it and the horse which the king rode upon him, and the crown of the kingdom which was given upon his head:


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And giving the clothing and the horse to the hand of a man of the chiefs of the king, the nobles; and clothe the man which the king delighted in his honor, and cause him to ride upon the horse in the broad place of the city, and tall before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighted in his honor.


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And the king will say to Haman, Hasten; take the clothing and the horse according as thou spakest, and do thus to Mordecai the Jew, sitting in the king's gate: not a word shall fall from all which thou spakest.


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And Haman will take the clothing and the horse, and he will clothe Mordecai, and cause him to ride in the broad place of the city, and he will call before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighted in his honor.


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And Mordecai will turn back to the king's gate. And Haman hastened to his house, and the head covered.


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And Haman will recount to Zeresh his wife, and to all his friends, all which befell him. And his wise men and Zeresh his wife will say to him, If Mordecai be from the seed of the Jews which thou didst begin to fall before him, thou shalt not prevail against him; for falling, thou shalt fall before him.


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They yet speaking with him, and the king's eunuchs drew near, and they will hasten to bring Haman to the drinking which Esther made.


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And the king will say to Esther also in the second day at the drinking of wine, What thy asking, queen Esther? and it shall be given to thee: and what thy seeking? even to the half of the kingdom and it shall be done.


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And Esther the queen will answer and say, If I found grace in thine eyes, O king, and if good to the king, my soul shall be given to me in my asking, and my people in my seeking.


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For we were sold, I and my people, to cut off, to kill and to destroy. And if for servants and for maids we were sold, I was silent, but the enemy made not even for the loss of the king.


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And the king Ahasuerus will say, and he will say to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, whom his heart filled him to do thus?


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And Esther will say, The man, the adversary and enemy, this evil Haman. And Haman was terrified from before the king and the queen.


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And the king rose up in his wrath from the drinking of wine, to the garden of the palace: and Haman stood up to seek out for his soul from Esther the queen; for he saw that evil was completed for him from the king.


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And the king turned back from the garden of the palace to the house of the drinking of wine; and Haman fell upon the bed which Esther was upon And the king will say, Also is he to force the queen with me in the house? The word went forth from the king's mouth, and they covered Haman's face.


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And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, will say before the king, Also behold the tree which Haman made for Mordecai who spake good for the king, standing in Haman's house, high fifty cubits: And the king will say, Ye shall hang him upon it.


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And they will hang Haman upon the tree that he preps for Mordecai. And the wrath of the king subsided.


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In that day the king Ahasuerus gave to Esther the queen, the house of Haman the Jews enemy. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther announced what he was to her.


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And the king will remove his signet ring which he caused to pass from Haman, and he will give it to Mordecai. And Esther will set Mordecai over the house of Haman.


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And Esther will add and she will speak before the king, and she will fall before his feet and weep, and make supplication to him to cause the evil of Haman the Agagite to pass away, and his purpose that he purposed against the Jews.


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And the king will stretch out to Esther the scepter of gold: and Esther will rise and stand before the king,


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And she will say, If good to the king, and if I found favor before him, and the word be right before the king, and I good in his eyes, it shall be written to turn back the writings, the purposes of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, that he wrote to destroy the Jews that were in all the king's provinces:


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For how shall I be able and I looked upon the evil which shall be found with my people? And how shall I be able and I looked upon the destruction of my kindred?


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And the king Ahasuerus will say to Esther the queen, and to Mordecai the Jew, The house of Haman I gave to Esther, and they hung him upon the tree because he stretched forth his hand against the Jews.


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And write ye for the Jews as is good in your eyes, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's signet ring: for the writing which was written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's signet ring, none to turn back.


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And the king's scribes will be called in that time in the third month, (this the month Sivan) in the three and twentieth in it; and it will be written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the prefects, and the chiefs of the provinces which are from India and even to Cush, seven and twenty and a hundred provinces, province and province according to its writing, and people and people according to their tongue, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their tongue.


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And he will write in the name of the king Ahasuerus, and seal with the king's signet ring; and he will send letters by the hand of runners on horses riding the courser, the mules, sons of mares:


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Which the king gave to the Jews which were in every city and city to gather together, and to stand for their soul, to cut off, and to kill and to destroy all the power of the people and province pressing upon them, little ones and women, and their spoil for booty,


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In one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, in the thirteenth to the twelfth month, this the month Adar.


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The copy of the writing to be given an edict in every province and province, revealed to all the peoples, and for the Jews to be ready for this day to avenge themselves of their enemies.


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The runners riding the courser, the mules, went forth, being hastened and impelled by the word of the king. And the edict was given in Shushan the fortress.


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And Mordecai went forth from before the king in clothing of the kingdom, cerulean purple, and white, and a great crown of gold, and a wide robe of byssus and purple: and the city Shushan shouted and was glad:


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And in every province and province, and in every city and city, the place where the word of the king and his edict coming, gladness and joy to the Jews, a drinking and a good day. And many peoples of the land becoming Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.


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And in the twelfth month (this the month Adar) in the thirteenth day in it, when the word of the king drew near, and his edict to do in the day that the enemies of the Jews expected to have power over them, (and it was turned that these Jews will have power over those hating them:)


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The Jews were gathered together in their cities in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to stretch forth the hand upon those seeking their evil: and a man stood not before them, for their fear fell upon all the peoples.


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And all the chiefs of the provinces, and the satraps, and the prefects, and those doing the work that was for the king, were lifting up with the Jews; for the fear of Mordecai fell upon them:


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For great was Mordecai in the house of the king, and his fame went into all the provinces: for the man Mordecai went and was magnified.


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And the Jews will strike against all their enemies with the blow of the sword, and killing and destruction; and they will do according to their desire upon those hating them.


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The ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the Jews enemy, they slew; and upon the prey they stretched not out their hand.


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And the king will say to Esther the queen, In Shushan the fortress the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men, and the ten sons of Haman: in the rest of the king's provinces what did they? and what thy asking? and it shall be given to thee: and what more thy seeking? and it shall be done.


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And Esther will say, If good to the king, it shall be given also to-morrow to the Jews that are in Shusan to do according to the edict of the day, and they shall hang Haman's ten sons upon the tree.


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And the king will say to do this. And the edict will be given in Shushan; and they hung the ten sons of Haman.


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For the Jews that were in Shushan will gather together also in the fourteenth day to the month Adar, and they will kill in Shushan three hundred men; and upon the prey they sent not the hand.


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And the rest of the Jews which were in the king's provinces gathered together and stood for their soul, and rested from their enemies, and slew among their enemies five and seventy thousand; and upon the prey they sent not their hand.


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In the thirteenth day to the month Adar, and resting in the fourteenth in it, and making it a day of drinking and gladness.


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And the Jews that were in Shushan were assembled in the thirteenth in it, and in the fourteenth in it; and resting in the fifteenth in it, and making it a day of drinking and gladness.


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For this the Jews of the villages and in cities of the open country making the fourteenth day to the month Adar, gladness and drinking, and a good day, and sending portions a man to his neighbor.


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And Mordecai will write these words, and send letters to all the Jews that were in all the king Ahasuerus's provinces, near and far off,


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To set up to them to be doing the fourteenth day to the month Adar, and the fifteenth day in it, in every year and year,


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As the days which the Jews rested in them from their enemies, and the month that was turned to them from grief to gladness, and from mourning to a good day, to make them days of drinking and gladness, and sending portions a man to his neighbor, and gifts to the needy.


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For Haman son of Hammedatha the Amite, oppressing all the Jews, purposed against the Jews to destroy them, and he cast Pur (this the lot) to discomfit them and to destroy them;


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And in her coming before the king, he said by letter he will turn back his purpose of evil that he purposed against the Jews upon his head: and they hung him and his sons upon the tree.


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For this they called to these days Purim, for the name of Pur. For this upon all the words of this epistle, and What they saw upon this, and what came to them,


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The Jews set up and admitted upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all joining themselves to them, and they shall not pass by to be doing these two days according to their writing, and according to their time in every year and year;


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And these days being remembered and done in every generation and generation, family and family, province and province, city and city; and these days of the lots shall not pass by from the midst of the Jews, and their remembrance shall not be ended from their seed.


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And Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, will write with all power to set up the epistle of Purim, this second.


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And he will send the letter to all the Jews, to the seventy and twenty and a hundred provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, words of peace and truth,


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To set up these days of Purim in their times, as Mordecai the Jew set up to them, and Esther the queen, and as they set up for their souls and for their seed, the words of fastings and their cry:


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And all the work of his power and his strength, and the exposition of the greatness of Mordecai which the king magnified him, are they not written upon the book of the words of the days to the kings of Media and Persia?


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For Mordecai the Jew was second to the king Ahasuerus, and great to the Jews, and acceptable to the multitude of his brethren, seeking good for his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.


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A man as in the land of Uz, Job his name; and that man was blameless and upright, and fearing God, and departing from evil.


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And his possession will be seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pair of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and service exceedingly much; and that man shall be great above all the sons of the east.


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And his sons went and made a drinking in the house, a man his day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and drink with them.


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And it will be that the days of drinking went round, and Job will send and consecrate them, and he rose early in the morning and brought up burnt-offerings for the number of them all: for Job said, Perhaps my sons sinned, and blessed God in their hearts. Thus did Job all the days.


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And the day will be and the sons of God will come to stand before God, and also the adversary will come in the midst of them.


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And Jehovah will say to the adversary, From whence wilt thou come? And the adversary will answer Jehovah, and say, From running to and fro in the earth, and from walking about in it.


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And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Didst thou set thy heart to my servant Job? for none like him in the earth; a man blameless and upright, fearing God and departing from evil.


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Didst thou, not hedge about him and about his house, and about all that is to him from round about? Thou didst bless the work of his hands, and his possession spread abroad in the earth.


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But send forth now thy band and tough upon all which is to him, if he will not bless thee upon thy face.


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And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold, all that is to him in thy hand: only upon him thou shalt not send forth thy hand. And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah.


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And the day will be and his sons and daughters will be eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born:


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And a messenger came to Job; and he will say, The oxen were ploughing, and the he asses were feeding upon their hands.


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And Sheba will fall and take them; they struck the young men by the month of the sword; and only shall escape, I alone, to announce to thee.


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This one yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, The fire of God fell from the heavens, and it will burn upon the sheep and upon the young men, and it will devour them; and I shall escape, only I alone, to announce to thee.


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This one yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, The Chaldeans set three heads, and they invaded upon the camels, and they will take them, and they struck the young men with the mouth of the sword; and I shall escape, only I alone, to announce to thee.


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This yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, Thy sons and thy daughters Were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born:


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And behold, a great wind came from beyond the desert, and it will touch upon the four corners of the house, and fall upon the young men, and they will die; and I shall escape, I only, to announce to thee.


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And he will say, Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn back there: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah took; the name of Jehovah shall be blessed.


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And the day will be and the sons of God will come to stand before Jehovah, and the adversary also will come in the midst of them to stand before Jehovah.


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And Jehovah will say to the adversary, From whence wilt thou come? And the adversary will answer to Jehovah and say, From running to and fro in the earth, and from walking about in it.


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And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Didst thou set thy heart to my servant Job, that none like him in the earth, a man blameless and upright, fearing God and departing from evil? And yet he holding fast upon his integrity, and thou wilt stimulate me to destroy him without cause.


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And the adversary will answer Jehovah and say, Skin for skin, and all which is to a man he will give for his soul.


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But send forth now thy hand and touch upon his bone and upon his flesh, if he will not bless thee to thy face.


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And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah, and he will strike Job with an evil burning sore, from the sole of his foot even to his crown.


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And he will take to him a pot sherd to scrape himself with it, and he will sit in the midst of the ashes.


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And he will say to her, According to the word of one of the foolish women thou wilt speak. Shall we also receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this. Job sinned not with his lips.


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And the three friends of Job will hear all this evil coming upon him, and they will come, a man from his place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: and they will appoint to come together to deplore for him, and to comfort him.


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And they will lift up their eyes from far off, and they knew him not, and they will lift up their voice and weep; and they will rend each his covering, and they will sprinkle dust upon their heads to the heavens.


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And they sat with him upon, the earth seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word to him: for they saw that grief was great exceedingly.


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That day shall be darkness; God shall not search it out from above, and the light shall not shine upon it.


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Darkness shall pollute it, and the shadow of death; a cloud shall dwell upon it; the obscurations of day shall terrify it.


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That night darkness shall take it; it shall not be joined upon the days of the year; it shall not come into the number of months.


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The stars of its twilight shall he dark; it shall wait for light, and none; and it shall not look upon the eyelashes of the dawn.


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But now it shall come to thee and thou wilt be wearied; it will touch even to thee, and thou wilt tremble.


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It will stand, and I shall not recognize its appearance: a form before mine eyes; I shall hear stillness and a voice:


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Also those dwelling in houses of clay which their foundation in the dust, being crushed before the moth.


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Which his harvest the hungry one will devour, and not from thorns shall they take it, and destruction gaped after their substance.


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Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:


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In the scourge of the tongue thou shalt be hid, and thou shalt not be afraid of desolation when it shall come.


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I would weighing, my anger shall be weighed, and my falls shall be lifted up in the balances together.


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For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.


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And it will yet be my consolation, and I shall exult in pain: he will not spare; for I hid not the words of of the Holy One.


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In the time they will flow of they became extinct: in its heat they were extinguished from their place.


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If I lay down, and I said, When shall I arise, and the evening be measured? And I was filled with tossings even to the twilight.


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


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How long wilt thou not look away from me? wilt thou not desist from me even to my swallowing down my spittle?


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I sinned; what shall I do to thee, guarding men? wherefore didst thou set me for an assault to thee, and I shall be upon myself for a burden?


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And why wilt thou not lift up my transgression and pass over mine iniquity? for now I shall lie down to the dust; and thou soughtest me and I was not.


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If thou wert pure and upright, for now he will awake for thee and requite the habitation of thy justice.


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He shall lean upon his house and it shall not stand: he shall hold fast upon it, and it shall not rise up.


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Behold, God will not reject the blameless one, and he will not take hold upon the hand of those doing evil:


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Behold, he will pass by me, and I shall not see: and he will glide on and I shall not understand for him.


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The earth was given into the hand of the unjust one: he will cover the faces of her judges; if not now, who is it?


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My soul was weary in my life; I shall leave upon me my complaint; I shall speak in the bitterness of my soul.


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Is it good to thee that thou wilt oppress, that thou wilt despise the labor of thy hinds, and thou didst shine upon the counsels of the unjust?


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If I did evil, wo to me; and was I just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with dishonor: and see thou mine affliction;


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And shall it be lifted up? Thou wilt hunt me as the lion, and thou wilt turn back, thou wilt show thyself wonderful upon me.


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Thou wilt renew thy testimonies before me, and thou wilt increase thy wrath upon me; changes and war with me.


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A land of darkness, as thick darkness; of the shadow of death, and not orders, and the brightness, as thick darkness.


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And he shall announce to thee hidden things of wisdom, for they are the double for understanding. And know thou that God will set to thee from thine iniquity.


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And thou didst trust, for there is hope; and thou didst search out; thou shalt lie down confidently.


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And the eyes of the unjust shall be consumed, and flight shall perish from them, and their hope a breathing out of the soul.


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I shall be he laughing at his neighbor, calling to God, and he will answer him: the just blameless one being laughed at.


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To misfortune is contempt to the thoughts of him at ease, being prepared for the waverings of the foot.


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The tents to those oppressing will be secure, and confidence to those provoking God to anger: whom God will bring into his hand.


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


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Behold, he will pull down and it shall not be built up: he will shut up against man and it shall not be opened.


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Behold, he will hold back upon the waters, and they will dry up: and he will send them forth and they will overturn the earth.


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Making great to the nations, and he will destroy them: he spread out to the nations, and he will guide them.


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Taking away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth, and he will cause them to wander in a waste, not a way.


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For thou wilt write bitter things against me; and thou wilt give me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.


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And thou wilt set my feet in the stocks, and thou wilt watch all my paths; thou wilt dig round the roots of my feet.


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And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.


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If his days are determined, the number of his months with thee; thou madest his limit; he shall not pass over.


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For there is hope for a tree if it shall be cut down, and it shall yet revive, and its suckers shall not cease.


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And man lay down and he will not rise: till the heavens be no more they shall not awake and rise from their sleep.


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Who will give thou wilt hide me in hades? wilt thou cover me till the turning away of thine anger? wilt thou set for me a limit, and wilt thou remember me?


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The waters rubbed the stones: thou wilt overflow the flowings of the dust of the earth; and thou didst destroy the hope of man.


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His sons will be honored and he knew not: they will be brought low, and he will not understand for them.


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For thy mouth will accustom itself to thine iniquity, and thou wilt choose the tongue of the crafty.


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All the days the unjust one himself being pained, and numbering the years they were hidden to him terrifying.


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And he will dwell in cities out off, the houses shall not be inhabited by them, which were ready for heaps.


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He shall not be rich, and his wealth shall not rise up; their possession shall not extend upon the earth.


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He shall not depart from darkness; the flame shall dry up his suckers, and by the breath of his mouth shall he depart.


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Also I will speak as you: if it is your soul instead of my soul, I will join together with words against you, and shake my head against you upon it.


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Thou wilt lay fast hold on me to be for a testimony, and my leanness will rise up in me; it will answer against my face.


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He rent in his anger, and he will lie in wait for me, gnashing upon me with his teeth; mine enemy will sharpen his eyes against me.


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They gaped upon me with their mouth; with reproach they struck upon my cheek; they will fill out together against me.


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I was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a mark:


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His multitudes will surround upon me, he will cleave my reins asunder, and not spare; he will pour my gall upon the earth.


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The upright shall be astonished upon this, and the innocent Shall arouse himself against the profane.


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He rent his soul in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed from its place?


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They shall drive him out of light into darkness, and they shall exclude him from the habitable globe.


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His troops shall come together and raise up their way against me, and they will encamp round about to my tent.


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They sojourning in my house and my maids, mill reckon me for a stranger: I was a foreigner in their eyes.


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Who will give now, and my words shall be written? who will give and they shall be delineated in a book?


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Which I shall see for myself, and mine eyes beheld, and not a stranger: my reins were finished in my bosom.


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And fear ye to yourselves, from the face of the sword? for wrath the iniquities of the sword, so that ye shall know there is judgment.


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I shall hear the instruction of my shame, and the spirit of my understanding will cause me to answer.


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As a dream he shall fly away, and they shall not find him: and he shall flee away as the vision of the night.


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Turning back the labor, and he shall not swallow down: according to the substance of his exchange and he shall not exult.


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He will be for filling his belly, he will send upon him the burning of his anger, and will rain upon him in his eating.


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Being drawn it will come forth from the body; and the lightning will go from his bile, and terrors upon him.


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All darkness hid for his secret places: a fire not blown upon shall devour him; and the remaining one shall do evil upon his tent.


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What the Almighty that we shall serve him? and what shall we be profited if we shall supplicate to him?


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How often the light of the unjust shall be extinguished, and their destruction will come upon them. He will distribute pains in his anger.


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For ye will say, Where the house of the noble one; and where the tent of the dwellings of the unjust?


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For the evil one will be spared for the day of destruction; they shalt be led away to the day of wraths.


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And the clods of the valley were sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, and before him no number.


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For thou wilt take a pledge of thy brethren, in vain, and the garments of the naked thou wilt strip of.


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Thou wilt not give to the weary one water to drink, and from the hungry one thou wilt withhold bread.


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If thou wilt turn back even to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt remove iniquity far off from thy tent.


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The left hand in his working, and I shall not behold: he will cover himself on the right hand, and I shall not see.


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Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young.


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They will be wet from the pouring rains of the mountains, and they embraced the rock from no shelter.


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They were among the rebels of light; they knew not his ways, and they dwelt not in his beaten paths.


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The murderer will rise by light; he will kill the poor and needy; and in the night he will be as a thief.


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And the eye of the adulterer watched the twilight, saying, Eye shall not perceive me: and secretly he will set the face.


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For the morning altogether to them the shadow of death: if it shall be known, the terrors of the shadow of death.


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He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion will be cursed in the earth: he will not see the way of the vineyards.


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The womb shall forget him; the worm sucked him; he shall be no more remembered: and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.


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They were lifted up a little while, and they are not, and they were brought low; as all they will be drawn together, and as the head of an ear of grain they shall be cut off.


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He marked out with a compass the law upon the face of the waters, even till the end of light with darkness.


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Behold these the ends of his ways; how transient a sound of the word was heard in him! and the thunder of his might who shall understand?


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This the portion of an unjust man with God, and the inheritance of the terrible they shall take from the Almighty.


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If his sons shall be multiplied, for then the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.


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The east wind shall lift him up, and he shall go: and it shall sweep him away in storm from his place.


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He set an end to darkness, and he searched out for all completeness: the stone of darkness and the shadow of death.


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The torrent broke out from the sojourner; being forgotten of the foot, they were weak, they wandered from men.


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And he will say to man, Behold, the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.


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I shall choose their way, and I shall sit the head, and I shall dwell as king in the troop, as he shall comfort those mourning.


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And now the younger than I laughed upon me, which I rejected their fathers to set with the dogs of my flock.


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Upon the right the brood will rise up; they cast away my feet, and they will cast up the paths of their destruction against me.


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Terror turned upon me, it will pursue my willingness as the wind, and my salvation passed away as a cloud.


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By the multitude of power my clothing will be disguised: it will gird me about as the mouth of my coat.


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If my going will incline from the way, and my heart went after mine eyes, and a blemish did cleave upon my hands:


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And what shall I do when God shall rise up? And when he shall review, what shall I turn back to him?


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If I, shall fear a great multitude, and the contempt of families terrify me, and I will be silent and not go out of my door.


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Who will give to me hearing to me? Behold, my sign, the Almighty will answer me, and the man contending with me wrote a book.


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The thorn shall come forth, instead of wheat, and the weed instead of barley. The words of Job were completed.


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And the anger of Elihu will kindle, son of Barachel the Buzite, from the family of Ram: against Job was, his anger kindled, for his justifying his soul above God.


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And against his three friends was his anger kindled, because they, found not an answer, and they will condemn Job.


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And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite will answer and say, I few for days, and ye old men; for this I was afraid, and I shall fear showing you my knowledge.


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Behold, I waited for your words, giving ear even to your understandings while ye will search out words.


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And I will show myself attentive even to you, and behold, none from you confuting to Job, answering his words.


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In a dream, in a vision of the night, in the falling of deep sleep upon men, in slumbers upon the bed;


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If there is a messenger upon him, an interpreter, one from a thousand, to announce to man his uprightness:


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And he will compassionate him and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I found an expiation.


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He shall pray to God and he shall receive him into favor: and he shall see his face with rejoicing, and he will turn back to man his justice.


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He will look upon men, and he shall say, I sinned, and I perverted the right, and it was not fitting to me;


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For this, ye men of heart, hear to me: far be it to God from doing evil; and the Almighty from iniquity.


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Who accepted not the face of chiefs, and looked not upon the rich one before the poor: for his hand made all of them.


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In a moment shall they die, and the middle of the night shall the people be moved and pass away: and the mighty shall be removed with not a hand.


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And he will give quiet, and who shall disturb? and he will hide the face, and who shall look upon him? and against a nation and against man wholly:


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Is it with thee? he will requite it, if thou didst refuse, if thou shalt choose, and not I: and what thou knewest, speak.


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If thou sinnedst, what wilt thou do against him? and thy transgressions were multiplied, what wilt thou do to him?


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And who teacheth us from the cattle of the earth, and he will make us wise above the birds of the heavens?


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He will not take off his eyes from the just: and with kings upon the throne, and he will seat them for glory, and they shall be exalted.


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And he will uncover their ear for instruction, and he will say that they shall turn back from iniquity.


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If they will hear and will serve him, they shall finish their days in good, and their years in delights.


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And if they will not hear, they shall pass away by the spear, and they shall expire without knowledge.


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And also he moved thee from the mouth of the enemy to a broad, not straight place; and thy table came down full of fatness.


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Because of wrath, lest he shall remove thee with smiting, and a multitude of covering shall not turn thee away.


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Watch thyself; thou shalt not turn to iniquity: for upon this thou didst choose rather than affliction.


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After him a voice shall rear; he will thunder with the voice of his majesty: and he will not leave them behind when his voice shall be heard.


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For he will say to the snow, Be it on earth; and to the shower of rain, and to the shower of the rains of his strength.


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Being turned by his guidance to their doing all that he commanded them upon the face of the habitable globe of the earth.


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And now they saw not the bright light that is in the clouds: and the wind passed over and it will cleanse them.


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And saying, Even to this shalt thou come, and thou shalt not add: and here in the pride of thy waves, stand thou.


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To satisfy the desolation and burning, and to cause the springing up of the finding of the tender grass?


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Wilt thou bring forth the twelve signs in its time? and the great bear and his sons, wilt thou guide them?


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Who will prepare for the raven his food? for his young will cry to God; they will wander without food.


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Knewest thou the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock? and wilt thou watch the bearing of the hinds?


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Wilt thou number the months they shall fill up? and didst thou know the time of their bringing forth?


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Their sons will be fat, they will increase with grain; they will go forth and not turn back to them.


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They will dig in the valley, and he will rejoice in strength: he will go forth to the meeting of the weapon.


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He will laugh at fear, and he will not be dismayed; and he will not turn back from the face of the sword.


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With leaping and rage he will swallow the earth; and he will not believe that it is the voice of the trumpet.


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He will say according to the multitude of the trumpet, Aha! and he will smell the battle from far off, the thunder of the chiefs, and the war cry.


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Behold, he will oppress a river, and he will not spring up: he will trust that Jordan burst forth into his mouth.


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Who this hiding counsel without knowledge? for this, I announced, and I shall not understand; wonders above me, and I shall not know.


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And it will be after Jehovah spake these words to Job, and Jehovah will say to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger was kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye spake not the right before me as my servant Job.


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And now take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and bring up a burnt-offering for yourselves; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for his face I will accept, so as not to do with you for folly, for ye spake not to me the right as my servant Job.


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And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite, will go, and they will do according as God Jehovah spake: and Jehovah will accept the face of Job.


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And Jehovah turned back the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends: and Jehovah added all which was to Job, to the double.


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And there will come to him all his brethren and all his sisters, and all knowing him before; and they will eat bread with him in his house: and they will deplore for him, and they will comfort him upon all the evil which Jehovah brought upon him: and they will give to him each one weight, and each one ring of gold.


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And Jehovah blessed the latter state of Job more than his beginning: and there will be to him fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.


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And he will call the name of the one, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-Happuch.


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And women were not found fair as the daughters of Job, in all the land: and their father will give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.


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And Job will live after this a hundred and forty years, and he will see his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.


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Happy the man who went not in the counsel of the unjust, and he stood not in the way of the sinful, and sat not in the seat of those scoffing.


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And he was as a tree planted by the streams of water which will give its fruit in its time; his leaf shall not fall away, and all which he shall do shall be prospered.


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The kings of the earth will place themselves, and the princes sat down together against Jehovah and against his Messiah.


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Ask of me and I will give the nations thine inheritance, and thy possession the extremities of the earth.


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Kiss the chosen lest he shall be angry, and ye perish in the way when his anger shall kindle as a little. Happy all they putting their trust in him.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 3:1-2</n> Chanting of David in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. Jehovah, how they pressing upon me were multiplied! many rising up against me.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 3:3</n> Many saying to my soul, No salvation to him in God. Silence.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 3:4</n> And thou, Jehovah, a shield about me: my glory, and lifting up my head.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 3:5</n> With my voice will I call to Jehovah, and he will answer me from his holy mountain. Silence.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 3:6</n> I lay down and I, shall sleep; I awaked: for Jehovah will uphold me.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 3:7</n> I shall not be afraid of ten thousand of people who sit round about upon me.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 3:8</n> Arise, O Jehovah; save me, my God, for thou didst strike all mine enemies upon the cheek; thou didst break the teeth of the unjust.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 3:9</n> To Jehovah salvation: upon thy people thy blessing. Silence.


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To the overseer upon the stringed instruments; chanting of David. In my calling, answer me, O God of my justice: in straits thou didst enlarge me; compassionate me and hear my prayer.


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Sons of man, how long mine honor for shame? Ye will love emptiness, ye will seek falsehood. Silence.


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In peace together shall I lie down, and I shall sleep: for thou Jehovah alone wilt cause me to dwell confidently.


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To the overseer of the pipes; chanting of David. Give ear to my sayings, O Jehovah; attend to my cry.


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O Jehovah, the morning thou wilt hear my voice; the morning I will set in order to thee, and I will look about.


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And I in the multitude of thy mercy will come into thy house; I will worship to thy holy temple in thy fear.


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O Jehovah, guide me into thy justice, for sake of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.


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Not steadfast in his mouth; the midst of them mischiefs; their throat a grave opened; they will be smooth with their tongue,


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Punish them, O God: they shall fall by their counsels; in the multitude of their transgressions thrust them down, for they rebelled against thee.


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And all they putting trust in thee shall rejoice forever: they shall shout for joy, and thou wilt cover over them: and they loving thy name shall exult in thee.


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To the overseer upon the stringed instruments upon the octave, chanting of David. O Jehovah, not in thine anger wilt thou correct me, and not in thy wrath wilt thou chastise me.


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I was wearied with my sighing all the night I shall make my bed to swim with my tears; I shall make my couch to flow.


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All mine enemies shall be ashamed, they shall tremble exceedingly they shall turn back, they shall be ashamed suddenly.


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Song of David which he sang to Jehovah upon the words of Cush, son of the right hand. O Jehovah my God, in thee I put My trust: save me from all pursuing me, and deliver me:


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The enemy will pursue my soul, and overtake; and he will tread down my life to the earth, and he will cause mine honor to dwell upon the dust Silence.


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Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger, lift up thyself for the wrath of mine enemies: and awake to me the judgment thou didst command.


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Jehovah shall judge peoples: judge me, O Jehovah, according to my justice, and according to mine integrity upon me.


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Now shall the evil of the unjust come to an end; and thou wilt direct the just one: for the just God tried hearts and reins.


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I will confess to Jehovah according to his justice: and I will play on the harp to the name of Jehovah most high.


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To the overseer upon the stringed instrument, chanting of David. O Jehovah our Lord, how mighty thy name in all the earth! who will set thy majesty over the heavens.


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Out of the mouth of children and sucklings thou hast founded strength on account of thine enemies, to cause the enemy and the avenger to cease.


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For I shall see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars which thou didst prepare.


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And thou wilt diminish him a little more than the messengers, and thou wilt surround him with glory and honor.


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To the overseer upon the death of Laban, chanting of David. I will praise, O Jehovah, with all my heart; I will recount all thy wonderful works.


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Thou didst rebuke the nations, thou didst destroy the unjust one, wiping off their name forever and ever.


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O enemy! desolations were wholly finished, and thou didst tear down cities; their remembrance perished with them.


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And they knowing thy name will trust in thee, for thou didst not forsake those seeking thee, O Jehovah.


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Compassionate me, O Jehovah: see my affliction from those hating me, thou lifting me up from the gates of death:


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So that I shall recount all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.


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And Jehovah was known by the judgment he did: by the work of his hands the unjust was snared. Meditation. Silence.


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In the pride of the unjust he will burn the poor: they shall be taken in the devices that they purposed.


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For the unjust boasted upon the desire of his soul, and he blessed him plundering, despising Jehovah.


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His ways will be in pain in all time; thy judgments high from before him: all his enemies he will puff at them.


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Sitting in ambush of the enclosures: in hiding-places he will slay the innocent: his eyes will be hid to the afflicted.


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He will lie in wait in secret as the lion in her den: he will lie in wait to catch the poor one: he will catch the poor one in drawing him into his net.


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Thou sawest; for thou wilt look upon trouble and anger, to give with thine hand: the poor will be left to thee; thou wert the helper of the orphan.


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Thou heardest the desire of the poor, O Jehovah: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to attend.


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To the overseer; of David. In Jehovah I put my trust: how will ye say to my soul, Wander ye to your mountain, little bird?


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For behold, the unjust will bend the bow, they prepared their arrow upon the cord, they will shoot in darkness the upright of heart.


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Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, in the heavens his throne: his eyes will behold, his eyelashes will try the sons of man.


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He will rain upon the, unjust, snares, fire and brimstone, and a wind of violent heat: the portion of their cup.


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To the overseer upon the octave, chanting of David. Save, O Jehovah, for the merciful one ceased; for faithfulnesses failed from the sons of men.


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They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak.


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From the oppression of the poor, from the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, Jehovah will say; I will set with salvation, he will puff at him.


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The sayings of Jehovah are pure sayings: silver tried in the crucible of the earth, purified seven times.


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How long shall I put counsels in my soul, grief in my heart the day? how long shall mine enemy rise up against me?


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Lest mine enemy shall say, I prevailed against him; mine adversaries shall exult when I shall be moved.


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And I trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall exult in thy salvation. I will sing to Jehovah for he benefited me.


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To the overseer; of David. The fool said in his heart, No God. They were corrupted, they made their; works abominable, none doing good.


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Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the sons of men, to see is there he understanding, seeking God.


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Who will give out of Zion the salvation of Israel? in Jehovah bringing back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall exult, Israel shall rejoice.


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Slandering not with his tongue, not doing evil to his neighbor, lifting up no reproach against his neighbor.


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In his eyes a reprobate being despised; and those fearing Jehovah, he will honor. Swearing to the friend, and he will not change.


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Not giving his silver for interest, and gave not presents against the innocent. He doing these things shall not be moved forever.


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Their labors shall be multiplied after they hastened: I will not gather their libations of blood, and I will not lift up their names upon my lips.


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Thou wilt cause me to know the way of life: abundance of joys with thy face; favors in thy right hand forever.


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Prayer of David. Hear justice, O Jehovah, attend to my outcry, give ear to my prayer, not in lips of deceit.


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Thou didst try my heart; thou didst review the night; thou didst refine me, thou wilt find nothing: I purposed, my mouth shall not pass by.


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Make thy kindnesses distinguished, thou saving those putting their trust, from those rising up against thy right hand.


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From the face of the unjust that laid me waste, enemies against the soul will go round about against me.


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From men of thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this world their portion in life, and thou wilt fill their belly with thy hidden things: they will be filled with sons, they left the remaining things to their children.


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To the overseer; to the servant of Jehovah, of David who spake to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he will say, I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.


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Jehovah is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, I will put my trust in him; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my height.


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In my straits I will call upon Jehovah, and to my God will I cry: he will hear my voice from his temple, and my cry will come before him into his ears.


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And it will be moved and the earth will tremble, and the foundations of the mountains will be moved and they will shake, for it was kindled to him.


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And Jehovah will thunder in the heavens, and the Most High will give his voice; hail and coals of fire.


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And he will send his arrows and scatter them; and he increased lightnings, and he will discomfit them.


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And the channels of waters will be seen, and the foundations of the habitable globe will be uncovered from thy rebuke, O Jehovah, from the breathing of the spirit of thine anger.


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Jehovah will recompense me according to my justice, according to the cleanness of my hands he will turn back to me.


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And Jehovah will turn back to me according to my justice, and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.


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Thou wilt give to me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand will uphold me, and thy clemency will enlarge me.


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I will pursue mine enemies, and I will overtake them: and I shall not turn back till consuming them.


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I will smite them through and through, and they shall not be able to rise: they shall fall under my feet.


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And I will beat them in pieces as dust upon the face of the wind: I will pour them out as the mire of the streets.


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Thou wilt deliver me from the contentions of the people; thou wilt set me for head of the nations: a people I knew not shall serve me.


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Delivering me from mine enemies: from those rising up thou wilt lift me up: thou wilt deliver me from the man of violence.


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Magnifying the salvation of his king; and he did mercy to his anointed, and to David and to his seed even to forever.


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To the overseer; chanting of David. The heavens recounting the glory of God, and the firmament announcing the work of his hands.


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Their line went forth into all the earth, and their words into the ends of the habitable globe. In them he set a tent for the sun.


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And he as a bridegroom coming forth from his nuptial couch, will rejoice as a strong one to run a way.


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From the extremity of the heavens his going forth and his circuits upon their extremities and no hiding from his heat.


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The law of Jehovah is blameless, turning back the soul; the testimonies of Jehovah being faithful, making wise the simple.


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The mandates of Jehovah are straight, rejoicing the heart: the command of Jehovah pure, enlightening the eyes.


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The fear of Jehovah being pure, standing forever: the judgments of Jehovah, truth, they were altogether just.


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Being desirable above gold, and above much pure gold, and being sweet above honey, and the dropping of honey-combs.


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Also withhold thy servant from arrogant things; they shall not rule over me: then shall I be blameless, and I was acquitted from much transgression.


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The saying of my mouth and the meditation of my heart shall be for acceptance before thee, O Jehovah, my rock and my redeemer.


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To the overseer; chanting of David. Jehovah will answer thee in the day of straits; the name of the God of Jacob shall exalt thee.


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We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will cover over: Jehovah will fill up all our petitions.


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Now I knew that Jehovah saved his Messiah; he will answer him from his holy heavens by the strength of the salvation of his right hand.


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To the overseer; chanting of David. O Jehovah, in thy strength shall the king rejoice; and in thy salvation how shall he greatly exult.


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The desire of his heart thou gavest to him, and the longing of his lips thou didst not withhold. Silence.


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For thou wilt anticipate him with praises of goodness: thou wilt set a crown of pure gold to his head.


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Thou wilt set them as a furnace of fire for the time of thy face: Jehovah in his anger will swallow them down, and the fire shall devour them.


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To the overseer upon the first place of the dawn; chanting of David. My God, my God, wherefore forsookest thou me? far off from my salvation the words of my groaning.


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I was poured out as water, and all my bones were sundered; my heart was as wax being melted in the midst of my bowels.


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My strength was dried up as the potsherd, and my tongue cleaving to my jaws; and thou wilt set me for the dust of death.


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For dogs surrounded me: the assembly of those being evil moved round about me: they digged my hands and my feet.


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Ye fearing Jehovah, praise him; all the seed of Jacob honor him; and be afraid of him all ye seed of Israel.


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For he despised not and he abhorred not the afflictions of the bumble; and he hid not his face from him, and in his crying to him he heard.


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The humble shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise Jehovah they seeking him: your heart shall live forever.


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All the ends of the earth shall remember and shall turn back to 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 before him, and all they going down to dust shall bow down, and he preserved not alive his soul.


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Also if I shall go into the valley of the shadow of death, I shall not be afraid of evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they will comfort me.


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Thou wilt set in order a table before me in front of mine enemies: thou madest fat mine head with oil; my cup being satisfied with drink.


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Surely goodness and mercy, shall pursue me all the days of my life: and I dwelt in the house of Jehovah to the length of days.


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To David chanting. To Jehovah the earth and its fulness, the habitable globe and they dwelling in it.


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The blameless one of hands and the clean of heart; who lifted not up his soul to vanity, and swore not for deceit.


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


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


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Cause me to tread in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art God saving me; on thee I waited all the day.


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The sins of my youth and my transgressions thou wilt not remember: according to thy mercy remember thou for me for sake of thy goodness, O Jehovah.


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To David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I went in mine integrity, and in Jehovah I trusted: I shall not waver.


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To David. Jehovah my light and my saviour; of whom shall I be afraid? Jehovah the strength of my life; from whom shall I tremble?


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In the drawing near of those doing evil to me, to eat my flesh, adversaries and enemies to me, they were weak and fell.


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If a camp shall encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: if war shall rise up against me, in this I trust.


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I asked one from Jehovah, I will seek it; I sat in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to look upon the sweetness of Jehovah, and to inquire in his temple.


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For he will hide me in the booth in the day of evil: he will cover me with the covering of his tent; he will lift me up upon a rock.


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And now he will lift up my head over mine enemies round about me: and I will sacrifice in his tent sacrifices of rejoicing; I will sing and I will play on the harp to Jehovah.


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Thou wilt not cover thy face from me; thou wilt not turn away thy servant in anger: thou, wert my help; thou wilt not leave me and thou wilt not forsake me, my God saving me.


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Thou wilt not give me to the soul of him pressing me, for witnesses of falsehood rose up against me, and violence will blow.


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To David. To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, my rock; thou wilt not be silent from me: lest thou wilt be silent from me and I was made like with them going down to the pit.


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Hear the voice of my supplications in my crying to thee, in my lifting up my hands to the oracle of thy holy place.


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Thou wilt not draw me with the unjust, and with those working vanity, speaking peace with their neighbors, and evil in their heart.


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Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their doings, according to the word of their hands; give to them, turn back to them their recompense.


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For they will not understand for the doing of Jehovah, and for the work of his hands; he will destroy them and he will not build them up.


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Jehovah my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusted, and I was helped: and my heart will exult, and from my song will I praise him.


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The voice of Jehovah will cause the desert to whirl; Jehovah will cause the desert of holiness to whirl.


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The voice of Jehovah will cause the hinds to bring forth, and will uncover the forests: and in his temple every one said, Glory.


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Chanting a song of consecration of the house of David. I will exalt thee, O Jehovah, for thou didst draw me out, and thou didst not gladden mine enemies to me.


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O Jehovah, thou broughtest up my soul from hades: thou didst save me alive from those going down to the pit.


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For a moment in his anger; life in his acceptance: weeping shall lodge in the evening, and rejoicing for the morning.


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O Jehovah, in thy good will thou didst cause strength to stand for my mountain: thou didst cover thy face, I was in trepidation.


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What the profit in my blood in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it announce thy truth?


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Thou didst turn my wailing to dancing to me: thou didst loose my sackcloth, and thou wilt gird me with gladness;


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So that glory shall play on the harp to thee, and shall not be silent O Jehovah my God, I will praise thee forever.


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To the overseer, chanting of David. In thee, O Jehovah, I put my trust, I shall not be ashamed forever: in thy justice deliver me.


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Incline thine ear to me, hastening to deliver me: be to me for a rock of strength, for a house of fortresses to save me.


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For thou my rock and my fortress; and for sake of thy name thou wilt guide me, and thou wilt protect me.


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I will rejoice and be glad in thy mercy, for thou sawest mine affliction; thou knewest my soul in straits;


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And thou didst not shut me up in the hand of the enemy: thou didst cause my feet to stand in a broad place.


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For my life was finished in sorrow, and my years in sighing: my strength was weak in mine iniquity, and my bones fell away.


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From all mine enemies I was a reproach, and greatly to my neighbors, and a fear to those knowing me: they seeing me without fled from me.


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For I heard the slander of many sojourning round about: in their sitting together against me they purposed to take away my soul.


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O Jehovah, I shall not be ashamed, for I called upon thee: the unjust shall be ashamed and they shall be destroyed to hades.


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How much thy goodness which thou didst conceal for them fearing thee; thou didst work for those putting their trust in thee before the sons of man.


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Thou wilt cover them in the covering of thy face from the snares of man: thou wilt conceal them in the booth from the strife of tongues.


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And I said in my hasty flight; I was cut off from before thine eyes: yet thou heardest the voice of my supplications in my crying to thee.


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Love Jehovah, all ye his godly ones: and he watched the faithful and requiting abundantly the doing of pride.


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For day and night thy hand will be heavy upon me: my moisture was turned into the dryness of summer. Silence.


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I will make known to thee my sin, and mine iniquity I hid not I said, I will confess upon my transgression to Jehovah; and thou didst take away the iniquity of my sin. Silence.


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For this all the godly shall pray to thee for the time of finding: only for the inundation of many waters they shall not draw near to him.


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Thou a covering to me, from straits thou wilt watch me; thou wilt surround me with rejoicings of deliverance. Silence.


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I will make thee wise, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel mine eyes upon thee.


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Ye shall not be as the horse, as the mule, not understanding: with bit and curb to stop his youth, not drawing near to thee.


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All the earth shall fear from Jehovah: and of him shall all dwelling in the habitable globe be afraid.


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To David in his changing his understanding before Abimelech; and he will drive him out, and he will go. I will praise Jehovah in all time: always his praise in my mouth.


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Draw out the spear, and shut up to the meeting of them pursuing me: say to my soul, I am thy salvation.


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They seeking my soul shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be drawn back and be ashamed purposing my evil.


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Desolation shall come to him not knowing, and his net which he hid shall take him: in destruction he shall fall in it.


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All my bones shall say, O Jehovah, who as thee, delivering the poor from him strong above him, and the poor and the needy from him stripping him?


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And I, in their being sick, my clothing sackcloth: I humbled my soul in fasting, and my prayer shall be turned back upon my bosom.


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And in my halting they rejoiced, and they were gathered together: they smiting were gathered together against me, and I knew not; they rent asunder and ceased not:


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O Jehovah, how long wilt thou see? Turn back my soul from their destruction, my only one from the lions.


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Mine enemies shall not rejoice over me for falsehood: they hating me gratuitously shall pinch the eye.


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For they will not speak peace: and against the quiet of the land they will purpose words of deceits.


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They shall be ashamed and they shall blush together, rejoicing for my evil: they shall be clothed with shame and reproach, magnifying against me.


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Those delighting in my justice shall rejoice and be glad: they shall say always, Jehovah shall be magnified: he delighted in the peace of his servant.


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To the overseer, to the servant of Jehovah: to David. A song of transgression to the unjust one in the midst of my heart, no fear of God before his eyes.


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He will purpose vanity upon his bed; he will set himself upon a way not good; he will not reject evil.


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Thy justice as the mountains of God; thy judgments a great deep: man and cattle thou wilt save, O Jehovah.


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How precious thy mercy, O God! and the sons of man shall put their trust in the shadow of thy wings.


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They shall satiate from the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt give them to drink the torrent of thy delights.


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To David. Thou shalt not be angry at those doing evil, and thou shalt not envy those working iniquity.


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Be silent to Jehovah and wait for him: thou shalt not be angry at him prospering his way, at the man doing wickednesses.


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The unjust let loose the sword, and they bent their bow; they cast down the poor and needy, to slaughter the upright of way.


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For the unjust shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah as the preciousness of lambs: they ended in smoke; they ended.


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For Jehovah love's judgment, and he will not forsake his godly ones; forever they were watched, and the seed of the unjust was cut off.


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Wait for Jehovah and watch his way, and be will exalt thee to inherit the earth: in the cutting off the unjust thou shalt see.


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And Jehovah shall help them, and he will deliver them: he will deliver them from the unjust, and he will save them, for they trusted in him.


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My heart moved about rapidly, my strength forsook me, and the light of mine eyes also they not with me.


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And they seeking my soul will lay snares: and they seeking my evil spake mischief, and they will meditate deceits all the day,


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And they requiting evil for good will be mine adversaries, for my pursuing Thou wilt not forsake me, O Jehovah: my God, thou wilt not remove far off from me.


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To the overseer, to Jeduthun: chanting of David. I said, I will watch my way from sinning with my tongue: I will watch for my mouth with a muzzle while yet the unjust one is before me.


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O Jehovah, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I shall know how I fail.


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Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.


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Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.


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With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence.


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Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry; thou wilt not be silent at my tears, for I a sojourner with thee, a dweller, as all my fathers.


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To the overseer: of David chanting. Waiting, I waited for Jehovah, and he will incline to me, and he will hear my cry.


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And he will bring me up from the pit of destruction, from the clay of mire, and he will set my feet upon a rock, preparing my goings.


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And he will give a new song in my mouth, praise to our God: many shall see and fear, and they shall trust in Jehovah.


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Happy the man who set Jehovah his trust, and turned not to the arrogant, and those turning aside to falsehood.


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Many the wonders thou didst, O Jehovah my God, and thy purposes to us: none shall set in order to thee: I will announce and speak, they were numerous above number.


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Sacrifice and a gift thou didst not delight in; the ears thou didst pierce to me: burnt-offering and sin thou didst not ask.


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I announced good news, justice in the great convocation: behold, my lips I will not shut up, O Jehovah, thou knewest.


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I hid not thy justice within my heart; I said thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I hid not thy mercy and thy truth to the great convocation.


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Thou wilt not, O Jehovah, shut up thy compassions from me: thy mercy and thy truth shall always guard me.


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For evils even not being numbered encompassed about me: mine iniquities overtook me, and I was not able to see; they were numerous above the hairs of my head, and my heart forsook me.


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They shall be ashamed and blush together seeking my soul to take it away; they shall be turned back, and they delighting in my evil shall be ashamed.


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All they seeking thee shall rejoice and be glad in thee: they loving thy salvation shall say, Jehovah shall be magnified.


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And I am poor and needy, Jehovah will think upon me: thou my help and my deliverer; thou will not delay, O my God.


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To the overseer: chanting of David. Happy he attending to the weak one: in the day of evil Jehovah will deliver him.


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Jehovah will watch him and preserve him alive; he shall be happy upon the earth, and thou wilt not give him to the soul of his enemies.


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And if he came to see, he will speak vanity: his heart will gather vanity to him; he will go forth without; he will speak.


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To the overseer instructing for the sons of Borah. As the stag will long for the channels of waters, thus will my soul long for thee, O God.


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These I shall remember, and I shall pour out my soul in me: for I shall pass through into the booth, I shall go softly with them even to the house of God, with the voice of joy and confession, of the multitude keeping a festival.


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Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him for the salvation of his face.


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O my God, my soul will be bowed down upon me: for this I will remember from the land of Jordan and the Hermonites, from the mountain of smallness.


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The day Jehovah will command his mercy, and in the night the song with me; the prayer to the God of my life.


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I will say to God my rock, Wherefore didst thou forget me? wherefore darkened shall I go for the oppression of the enemy?


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With a breaking of my bones mine enemies reproached me, in their saying all the day, Where their God?


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Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face and my God.


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Judge me, O God, and contend my contention from a nation not godly: from the man of deceit and iniquity thou wilt deliver me.


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For thou the God of my strength: why didst thou reject me? wherefore darkened shall I go about for the oppression of the enemy?


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Send forth thy light and thy truth; they shall lead me, they shall bring me to thy holy mountain and to thy tents.


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I will come to the altar of God, to God the gladness of my joy: and I will praise thee upon the harp, O God, my God.


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Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face, and my God.


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To the overseer for the sons of Korah: of instruction. O God, with our ears we heard; our fathers recounted to us the work thou didst in their days, in days of old.


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Thou didst with thy hand drive out the nations and thou wilt plant them; thou wilt pluck in pieces the people, and thou wilt send them forth.


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For by their sword they possessed not the land, and their arm saved them not: for thy right hand and thine arm, and the light of thy face, for thou didst delight in them.


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For thou didst crush us in the place of jackals, and thou wilt cover over us with the shadow of death.


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To the overseer over the lilies, for the sons of Korah, instruction: a song of the beloved. My heart boiled over a good word: I say my works to the king: my tongue the pen of one writing promptly.


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Thou wert very beautiful above the sons of man: grace was poured forth by thy lips: for this God praised thee forever.


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And in thy splendor prosper thou riding upon the word of truth and humility, of justice; and thy right hand shall teach thee wonderfully.


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Thou lovedst justice, and thou wilt hate injustice: for this, God thy God anointed thee with the oil of joy above thy companions.


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With variegation she shall be brought to the King; the virgins after her, her companions, being brought to thee.


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I will cause thy name to be remembered in every generation and generation: for this the peoples shall praise thee forever and ever.


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To the overseer for the sons of Korah, with the female voice: a song. O God, to us refuge and strength, helping greatly, being found in straits.


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For this we will not fear in the changing of the earth, and in the moving of the mountains into the heart of the seas.


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Causing wars to cease even to the end of the earth; he will break the bow, and be cut off the spear, and he will burn the cars in fire.


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To the overseer, to the son of Korah: chanting. All peoples ye shall clap the hand; shout to God with the voice of rejoicing.


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The nobles of the peoples were gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham: for to God the shields of the earth: he was lifted up greatly.


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A song of chanting to the sons of Korah. Great is Jehovah, and greatly praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.


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Fair of elevation, the joy of all the earth, is mount Zion, the sides of the north, the city of the great King.


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As we heard, so we saw in the city of Jehovah of armies, in the city of our God: God will prepare it even forever. Silence.


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According to thy name, O God, so thy praise upon the ends of the earth: thy right hand being full of justice.


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Set your hearts to her fortification; divide up her palaces, so that ye shall recount to the later generation.


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To the overseer, to the sons of Korah: chanting. Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the World:


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For he shall see the wise shall die: together the fool and the stupid one shall perish, and they left their wealth to others.


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The midst of them their houses forever, their dwellings to generation and generation; they called in their names upon their lands.


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As sheep they were laid in hades; death shall rule over them, and the upright shall come down upon them in the morning; and their rock for falling away in hades from a dwelling to him.


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Thou shalt not fear when a man shall be enriched, and when the honor of his house shall be increased;


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For in his living he will praise his soul, (and he will praise thee for thou wilt do good to thyself,)


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Chanting to Asaph. The God of gods, Jehovah spake, and he will call the earth from the rising of the sun even to its going down.


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Our God shall come, and he will not be silent: a fire shall consume before him, and it stormed greatly round about him.


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And to the unjust one God said, What to thee to recount my law, and thou wilt lift up my covenant upon thy mouth?


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Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak against thy brother; against the son of thy, mother thou wilt give a stumbling-block.


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These things thou didst and I was silent; thou thoughtest, being, I shall be like to thee: I will reprove thee, and I will set it in order before thine eyes.


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He sacrificing praise shall honor me, and he setting the way I will cause him to look upon the salvation of God.


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To the overseer: chanting to David; In the coming to him of Nathan the prophet, when he went in to Bathsheba. Compassionate me, O God, according to thy mercy: according to the Multitude of thy compassions wipe away my transgressions.


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Against thee, thee alone, did I sin, and I did evil in thine eyes: so that thou wilt be justified in thy speaking, and thou wilt be pure in thy judging.


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Behold, thou didst delight in truth in the reins, and in bidden things thou wilt cause me to know wisdom.


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Thou wilt purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: thou wilt wash me and I shall be white above snow.


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The sacrifices of God a spirit being broken: a heart being broken and crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.


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Then wilt thou delight in sacrifices of justice, in burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering: then they will bring up bullocks upon thine altar.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 52:1-3</n> To the overseer instruction to David: In the coming of Doeg the Edomite to Saul, and he will say to him, David came to the house of Ahimelech. Why wilt thou boast in evil, thou strong one? the mercy of God is all the day.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 52:4</n> Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 52:5</n> Thou lovedst evil above good; falsehood more than speaking justice. Silence.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 52:6</n> Thou lovedst all words of destruction, a tongue of deceit.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 52:7</n> Also God will break thee down forever; he will take thee and sweep thee away from the tent, and root thee up from the land of the living. Silence.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 52:8</n> And the just shall see and fear, and laugh at him.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 52:9</n> Behold, the man will not set God his strength, and he will trust in the multitude of his riches he will be strengthened in his mischief.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 52:10</n> And I am as a green olive tree in the house of God: I trusted in the mercy of God forever and ever.


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<n> The original Julia E. Smith Bible records the following as a verse reference for Ps 52:11</n> I will praise thee forever and ever, for thou didst: and I will wait for thy name, for it is good before thy godly ones.


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To the overseer upon the stringed instrument: instruction to David. The fool said in his heart, No God. They were corrupted; they made iniquity abominable: none doing good.


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God from the heavens looked forth upon the sons of man to see if there is he understanding, seeking God.


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Did not those transgressing know any thing? eating up my people, they ate bread: they called not upon God.


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They feared a fear; there was no fear: for God scattered the bones of him making narrow: thou didst make ashamed, for God rejected them.


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Who will give from Zion the salvation of Israel? In God turning back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.


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To the overseer upon the stringed instrument, instruction to David: In the going of the Ziphims, and they will say to Saul, Is not David hiding with us? O God, in thy name save me, and in thy strength thou wilt judge me.


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For strangers rose up against me, and the powerful sought out my soul: they set not God before them. Silence.


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To the overseer upon the stringed instrument, instruction to David. Give ear O God, to my prayer; thou wilt not hide thyself from my supplication.


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From the voice of the enemy, from the face of the oppression of the unjust one: for they will bring down vanity upon me, for in anger they will lie in wait for me.


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For not the enemy will reproach me, and I will bear: not he hating me magnified against me; and I will hide from him.


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Death shall lay waste upon them; they shall go down living to hades, for evils in their sojournings in the midst of them.


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God will hear and he will humble them, and he dwelt of old. Silence. With whom no changes to them and they feared not God.


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They were divided from the wrath of his mouth, and his heart drew near: his words were soft above oil, and they drawn swords.


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Cast thy giving upon Jehovah and he will sustain thee: he will not give forever a wavering to the just one.


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And thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the well of destruction: men of bloods and deceit shall not halve their days; and I will trust in thee.


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To the overseer for the silent dove of those far off: to David, a poem in the rovers taking him in Gath. Compassionate me, O God, for man panted after me; warring all the day, he will press me.


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For thou deliveredst my soul from death: are not my feet from falling, to go about before God in the light of the living?


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To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy, to David a poem in his fleeing from the face of Saul in the cave. Compassionate me, O God, compassionate me: for in thee my soul put trust, and in the shadow of thy wings I will put my trust till calamity shall pass by.


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He will send from the heavens and he will save me; he rebuked him panting after me. Silence. God will send forth his mercy and his truth.


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My soul is in the midst of lions: I shall lie down with the flaming, the sons of man, their teeth spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.


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They prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bent down: they dug a pit before me, they fell into the midst of it. Silence.


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I will praise thee, O Jehovah, among the peoples: I will play on the harp to thee among the nations.


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To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy; to David a poem. Will ye indeed speak dumb justice? will ye judge justly, ye sons of man?


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Wrath to them according to the likeness of the wrath of a serpent: as the deaf adder will stop its ear;


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They shall melt away as water shall go about to them: he will bend his arrow, they shall be as cut off.


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The just one shall rejoice as seeing vengeance: he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the unjust one.


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To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy, to David a poem; in Saul sending, and they will watch the house to kill him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O God: thou wilt set me on high from those rising up against me.


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For behold, they lay in wait for my soul: the strong will gather against me; not my transgression and not my sin, O Jehovah.


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And thou Jehovah God of armies, God of Israel, awake to review all the nations: thou wilt not compassionate all covering iniquity. Silence.


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Thou wilt not kill them lest my people shall forget: cause them to wander to and fro by thy strength, and bring them down, O Jehovah, our shield.


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The sin of their mouth the word of their lips, and they shall be taken in their pride: and from cursing and from falsehood they will recount.


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Finish in wrath, finish, and they not be: and they knew that God ruled in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Silence.


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They shall wander to and fro to eat, though they shall not be satisfied; and they will pass the night.


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And I will sing thy strength; and I will rejoice at morning for thy mercy; for they wert a height to me, and a refuge in the day of straits to me.


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To the overseer upon the lily of song: poem to David to teach; In the setting on fire Aram of the two rivers, and Aram of the station; and Joab will turn back and strike Edom in the valley of salt, twelve thousand. O God, thou didst cast us off, thou didst break us down, thou wert angry; wilt thou turn back to us?


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God spake in his holy place; I will rejoice, I will divide the shoulder, and I will measure the valley of booths.


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To the overseer upon the stringed instrument; to David. Hear, O God, my wailing; attend to my prayer.


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From the end of the earth I will call to thee, in the fainting of my heart: thou wilt lead me into the rock it will be lifted up above me.


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To the overseer, to Jeduthun: chanting to David. Surely my soul was silent to God: from him my salvation.


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Surely they counseled to thrust down his lifting up: they will delight in falsehood: with their mouth they will praise, and in their inward parts they will curse. Silence.


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Trust in him in all time; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Silence.


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Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.


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Ye shall not trust in oppression, ye shall not become vain in plunder: if wealth shall increase ye shall not set the heart.


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Chanting to David in his being in the desert of Judah. O God thou art my God; I will seek thee: my soul thirsted for thee, my flesh longed for thee in a land of dryness, and thirsty without water.


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And the king shall rejoice in God; all swearing in him shall glory: for the mouth of those speaking falsehood shall be stopped.


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To the overseer; chanting to David. Hear, O God, my voice in my complaint: thou wilt guard my life from the fear of the enemy.


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To shoot down the blameless one in secret things: suddenly they will shoot, and they will not be afraid.


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They will strengthen to themselves an evil word: they will recount to hide snares; they said, Who shall see them.


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They will search out iniquities; they completed a search searched out: and a man drew near, and a deep heart.


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The just one shall rejoice in Jehovah, and he put his trust in him; and all the upright of heart shall glory.


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To the overseer; chanting to David a song. Praise being silent to thee, O God in Zion: and to thee shall the vow be repaid.


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Happy him thou wilt choose, and thou wilt draw near; he shall dwell in thy enclosures: we shall be satisfied in the good of thy house; holy is thy temple.


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Wonderful things in justice thou wilt answer us, O God saving us, the trust of all the ends of the earth, and those being far off upon the sea:


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And they shall be afraid, those dwelling in the ends, from thy signs: the goings forth of the morning and evening thou wilt cause to rejoice.


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Thou reviewedst the earth, and thou wilt water it: thou wilt greatly enrich it; the stream of God being full of waters: thou wilt prepare their grain, for so thou wilt prepare it.


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Thou givest its furrows to drink to the full: thou wilt cause its incisions to flow down in showers: thou wilt bless its springing up.


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The lambs of the sheep were clothed, and the valleys shall be covered with corn; they shall shout for joy, they shall also sing.


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Say to God, How terrible thy works! in the multitude of thy strength thine enemies shall lie to thee.


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All the earth shall worship to thee, and they shall play on the harp to thee; they shall play on the harp to thy name. Silence.


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He turned the sea into dry land: they will pass through the river on foot: there we shall rejoice in him.


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Ruling by his strength forever; his eyes will look about upon the nations: they turning away shall not lift up for themselves. Silence.


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Thou didst cause men to ride upon our head; we went through fire and through water: and thou wilt bring us forth to abundance.


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I will bring up to thee burnt-offerings of marrows with incense of rams; I will do oxen with he goats. Silence.


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To the overseer upon the stringed instrument: chanting of the song. God will compassionate us and bless us; his face will enlighten us. Silence.


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The nations shall be glad and rejoice, for thou wilt judge peoples in uprightness, and thou wilt pity the nations upon earth. Silence.


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To the overseer; to David chanting of a song. God will rise; his enemies shall be scattered, and they hating him shall flee from his face.


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As smoke being dispersed thou wilt disperse: as wax melting from the face of fire, the unjust shall perish from the face of God.


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Sing ye to God; play on the harp to his name: raise him up to ride in the evenings, in Jah his name, and rejoice before him.


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God setting the only ones in the house, bringing forth the bound into prosperities, but those turning away dwelt in a dry land.


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The earth shook, also the heavens dropped from the face of God, this Sinai from the face of God, the God of Israel.


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Thou wilt scatter a rain of abundance, O God, to thine inheritance, and being weary thou didst make it firm.


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Kings of armies will flee away, they will flee away, and she resting in the house will divide the spoil.


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If ye shall lie down within the stalls, the wings of the dove being covered with silver, and her wing feathers with yellowness of gold.


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Wherefore will ye lie in wait, ye mountains of heights? the mountain God desired to dwell in it: also Jehovah will dwell forever.


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The chariot of God twice ten thousand thousands upon thousands: Jehovah among them, Sinai in the holy place.


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Thou didst go up to height, thou didst take captive captivity: thou didst receive gifts in man, also those turning away, for Jehovah God to dwell.


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Then little Benjamin in a deep sleep, the chiefs of Judah their throng, the chiefs of Zebulon, the chiefs of Naphtali.


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Rebuke the beasts of the reed, the assembly of the strong ones, with the heifers of the peoples, prostrating themselves with pieces of silver: scatter the peoples, they will delight in wars.


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To him riding upon the heavens of heavens of old, behold, he will give in his voice a voice of strength.


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O God, being wonderful in thy holy things: the God of Israel, he gave strength and powers to the people. Praised be God.


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I sank in mire of depth, and no standing: I came into depths of waters and the floods overwhelmed me.


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Those hating me were many above the hairs of my head: mine enemies destroying me by falsehood were strong: then I will turn back what I plucked not away.


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They waiting for thee shall not be ashamed for me: O Lord Jehovah of armies, they shall not be disgraced for me, seeking thee, O God of Israel.


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They sitting in the gate will speak against me, and I was but the music of stringed instruments, of strong drink.


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And I, my prayer is to thee, O Jehovah, a time of acceptance: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy answer me, in the truth of thy salvation.


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Deliver me from the mire and I shall not sink: I shall be delivered from those hating me, and from the depths of waters.


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The streams of water shall not overflow me, and the depth shall not swallow me down, and the well shall not close upon me her mouth.


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Answer me, O Jehovah, for good is thy mercy: according to the multitude of thy compassions turn to me.


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Reproach broke my heart, and I shall be ill at ease: and I shall hope for comforting, and none; and for those consoling, and I found not.


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For God will save Zion, and he will build the cities of Judah, and they shall dwell there and inherit it.


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To the overseer: to David, to bring to remembrance. O God, to deliver me; O Jehovah hasten to help me.


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They seeking my soul shall be confused and ashamed: they shall be turned away behind; and they desiring my evils, shall be ashamed.


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All seeking thee shall rejoice and be glad in thee, and they shall say always, God shall be magnified; they loving thy salvation.


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And I am poor and needy: O God, hasten to me, my help and my deliverer; thou, O Jehovah, wilt not delay.


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Be thou to me for a rock of refuge to come always: thou didst command to save me, for thou my rock and my fortress.


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My God, deliver me from the hand of the unjust one, from the hand of him transgressing, and the violent one.


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Upon thee was I supported from the womb: from the bowels of my mother thou didst separate me: in thee my praise always.


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They lying in wait for my soul shall be ashamed; they shall be finished; they seeking my evil shall be covered with reproach and shame.


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And also even to old age and grayness, O God, thou wilt not forsake me; till I shall announce thine arm to the generation, thy strength to every one who shall come:


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Who didst cause us to see great straits and evils; thou wilt turn back, thou wilt preserve us alive, and from the depths of the earth thou wilt turn back, thou wilt bring us up.


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Also I will praise thee with the instrument of the harp; thy truth, O God, I will play on the harp, to thee, O Thou, Holy One of Israel.


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Also my tongue all the day shall celebrate thy justice; for they were confused, for they seeking my evil were ashamed.


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He shall judge the poor of the people, and save to the sons of the needy, and he will break in pieces him oppressing.


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The kings of Tarshish and the islands shall turn back a gift, the kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring a present.


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From oppression and from violence he will redeem their soul, and their blood shall be precious in his eyes.


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And he shall live, and there shall be given to him from the gold of Sheba: and there shall always be supplications for him; all the day shall they praise him.


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There shall be diffusion of grain in the earth upon the head of the mountains; its fruit shall shake as Lebanon, and they shall blossom from the city as the grass of the earth.


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His name shall be forever: his name shall flourish before the sun: and they shall be praised in him: all nations shall pronounce him happy.


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And praised be the name of his glory forever; and his glory shall fill all the earth. Amen and Amen.


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How they were for desolation as in a moment they perished; they were finished from sudden destruction.


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For behold, they being far off from thee shall perish: thou didst lay waste all committing fornication from thee.


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And I drawing near to God, it is good for me: I put in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, to recount all thy works.


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Understanding to Asaph. Wherefore, O God, didst thou reject forever? will thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy feeding?


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Remember thine assembly thou didst purchase of old; thou didst redeem the rod of thine inheritance; this mount Zion thou didst dwell in it.


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They said in their heart, We will rage against them together: they burnt up all the appointments of God in the earth.


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Thou didst cleave the sea in thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons upon the waters.


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Thou didst break the heads of the sea monster, thou wilt give him for food to the people, to the inhabitants of the desert.


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Thou wilt not give the soul of thy turtle-dove to the beast: the life of thy poor thou wilt not forget forever.


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Thou wilt not forget the voice of thine adversaries: the pride of them rising up against thee going up always.


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To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy: chanting to Asaph a song. We confessed to thee, O God, we confessed: and thy name is near, thy wonders recounted.


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For a cup in the hand of Jehovah, and the wine red, being full of mixed wine; and he will pour out from this: but its lees all the unjust of the earth shall suck out, they shall drink.


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To the overseer upon the stringed instrument: chanting to Asaph song. In Judah was God known: great his name in Israel.


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The mighty of heart were spoiled, they slumbered their sleep: and all the men of strength found not their hands.


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To the overseer for Jeduthun: to Asaph a chanting. My voice to God, and I will cry with my voice to God, and he gave ear to me.


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In the day of my straits I sought Jehovah: my hand was stretched out at night, and it will not be slack: my soul refused to be comforted.


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I will remember God and I shall be disquieted: I shall be depressed and my spirit will languish. Silence.


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I will remember my stringed instruments in the night: I shall meditate with my heart, and my spirit will search out.


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The voice of thy thunder in the wheel: the lightnings lightened the habitable globe: the earth moved and it will shake.


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Instruction to Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the sayings of my mouth.


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It was not hid from their sons, to a later generation recounting the praises of Jehovah and his strength, and his wonders which he did.


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For he raised up a testimony in Jacob and set a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make them known to their sons:


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So that a later generation shall know; sons shall be born, they shall rise up and recount to their sons.


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And they shall set their hope in God, and they shall not forget the works of God, and they shall watch his commands.


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And they shall not be as their fathers, a generation turning away and bitter, a generation it prepared not its heart, and its spirit was not firm with God.


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He rent the sea and he will cause them to pass through; and he will cause the waters to stand as a heap.


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Behold, he struck the rock and waters will flow, and torrents will pour out; will he be able also to give bread? or will he prepare flesh for his people?


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For this Jehovah heard and he will overflow, and a fire was kindled in Jacob, and also anger came up upon Israel.


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He will cause the east wind to go forth in the heavens, and by his strength he will lead the south wind.


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And the anger of God came up upon them, and he will slay among their fat ones and he bowed down the chosen of Israel.


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And he being compassionate will cover iniquity, and he will not destroy: and he multiplied to turn back his anger, and he will not rouse up all his wrath.


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He will send forth among them the gad-fly, and they shall devour them; and frogs, and they shall destroy them.


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He will send upon them the burning of his anger, outpouring and wrath, and straits, sending evil messengers.


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He will prepare a beaten path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, and their life he delivered to the word;


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And he will cast out the nations from their face, and he will divide them by lot in the measure of inheritance, and he will cause the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.


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And they will draw back, and they will transgress as their fathers: they were turned as a bow of deceit.


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And they will make him angry with their heights, and they will provoke him to jealousy with their carved images.


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And he will feed them according to the integrity of his heart, and he will guide them in the understandings of his hands.


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Chanting to Asaph. O God, the nations came into thine inheritance; they defiled thy holy temple; they set Jerusalem for ruins.


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They gave the corpses of thy servants food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of thy godly ones to the beasts of the earth.


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Pour out thy wrath upon the nations which knew thee not, and upon the kingdoms which called not upon thy name.


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Thou wilt not remember against us former iniquities: thy compassions shall quickly anticipate us, for we were greatly weak:


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Help us, O God; save us, for the word of the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and cover our sins for sake of thy name.


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Wherefore shall the nations say, Where is their God? He will make known among the nations before our eyes the vengeance of the blood of thy servants being poured out.


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The mourning of the bound shall come before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm let the sons of death remain.


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And turn back to our neighbors seven fold to their bosom their reproach which they reproached thee, O Jehovah.


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And we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture: we will confess to thee forever: to generation and generation we will recount thy praise.


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To the overseer for the lilies of the testimonies; to Asaph a chanting. O thou feeding Israel, give ear, guiding Joseph as sheep; thou dwelling in the cherubs, shine forth.


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Thou didst set in order before it, and thou wilt cause its roots to take root and the earth will be filled.


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To the overseer upon the stringed instrument; to Asaph. Rejoice ye in God our strength: shout to the God of Jacob.


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He set him a testimony in Joseph in his going forth upon the land of Egypt: I shall hear a lip I knew not.


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Thou calledst in straits, and I will deliver thee; I will answer thee in the hiding place of thunder. I will prove thee at the water of strife. Silence.


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I am Jehovah thy God bringing thee up from the land of Egypt: make broad thy mouth and I will fill it.


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And he shall cause them to eat from the fat of wheat, and from the rock with honey will I satisfy thee.


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They will not know, they will not Understand: they will go about in darkness: all the foundations of the earth will be moved.


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A song of chanting to Asaph. O God, not stillness to thee: thou wilt not be silent, and thou wilt not rest, O God.


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Against thy people they will make crafty consultation, and they will counsel against thy hidden ones.


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They said, Come, and we will cut them off from a nation; and the name of Israel shall no more be remembered.


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To the overseer upon the stringed instrument: to the sons of Korah, a chanting. How beloved are thy tents, O Jehovah of armies!


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My soul longed after, and also failed for the enclosures of Jehovah: my heart and my flesh will rejoice for the living God.


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Also the sparrow found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself where she put her young brood, thine altars, O Jehovah of armies, my King and my God.


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Passing through in the valley of Baca they will set it a fountain; also the early rain will cover the ponds.


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For good a day in thine enclosures above a thousand. I chose to wait on the threshold in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tents of injustice.


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For Jehovah God a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; he will not withhold good to those going uprightly.


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To the overseer: to the sons of Korah a chanting. O Jehovah, thou didst delight in thy land: thou didst turn back the captivity of Jacob.


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I will hear what God Jehovah shall speak: for he will speak peace to his people, and to his godly ones: and they shall not turn back to folly.


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All the nations which thou madest shall come and worship before thee, O Jehovah, and they shall do honor to thy name.


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O God, the proud rose up against me, and the assemblies of the terrible sought my soul; and they set not thee before them.


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And thou, O Jehovah, art a God compassionate and merciful, and slow to anger and great of mercy and truth.


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Turn to me and pity me; thou wilt give thy strength to thy servant, and save to the son of thy maid-servant.


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Make with me a sign for good, and they hating me shall see and be ashamed: for thou, Jehovah, didst help me and comfort me.


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I will make mention of Rahab and Babel to those knowing me: behold the rovers, and Tyre, with Cush; this was born there.


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A song of chanting to the sons of Korah to the overseer upon the lute, for affliction of instruction, for Heman the Ezrabite. O Jehovah, God of my salvation, the day have I cried in the night before thee.


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Free among the dead, as they wounded lying down in the grave, whom thou no more didst remember them, and they were cut off by thy hand.


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Thou didst remove far from me mine acquaintance; thou didst set me an abomination to them: I was shut up, and I shall not go forth.


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Mine eye languished from affliction: I called to thee, O Jehovah, in all the day, I stretched my hands to thee.


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Of instruction to Ethan the Ezrahite. The mercies of Jehovah forever will I sing: to generation and generation will I make known thy faithfulness with my mouth.


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For I said, Mercy shall be built up forever: the heavens, thy faithfulness shall be prepared in them.


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Even to forever I will prepare thy seed, and I built up to generation and generation thy throne, Silence.


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And the heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Jehovah, also thy faithfulness in the convocation of the holy ones.


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For who in the cloud shall be compared to Jehovah? shall he be likened to Jehovah among the sons of God?


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Thou didst break Rahab in pieces as the wounded one; with the arm of thy strength thou didst scatter thine enemies.


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To thee the heavens, also to thee the earth; the habitable globe and its fulness thou didst found them.


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Then thou spakest in a vision to thy godly one, and thou wilt say, I put help upon the mighty one; I exalted the chosen one from the people.


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Remember, O Jehovah, the reproach of thy servants; I lifted up in my bosom all the multitudes of peoples;


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Before the mountains were born, and the earth shall be begun, and the habitable globe, and from forever even to forever, thou art God.


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For a thousand years in thine eyes as the day of yesterday, for it shall pass away, and watches in the night.


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In the morning it will flourish, and it will pass away at evening; it will be cut off and will dry up.


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The days of our years, in them seventy years; and if in strengths, eighty years, and their pride labor and vanity; for being soon cut off and we shall fly away.


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And the sweetness of Jehovah our God shall be upon us: and the work of our hands prepare thou it upon us; and the work of our hands prepare thou it.


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He will cover thee with his wing feathers, and under his wings thou shalt trust: his truth a shield and buckler.


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A thousand shall fall from thy side, and ten thousand from thy right hand; and to thee it shall not reach.


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Chanting a song to the day of Sabbath. It is good to confess to Jehovah, to play on the harp to thy name, O Most High.


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In the putting forth of the unjust as grass, and all working iniquity shall flourish; to destroy them even to forever:


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For behold, thine enemies, O Jehovah, for behold, thine enemies shall perish; all working iniquity shall be dispersed.


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And mine eye shall look upon mine enemies: in the risings up of the unjust against me, mine ears shall hear.


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Jehovah reigned, he put on majesty: Jehovah put on strength, he girded himself: also the habitable globe shall be prepared, it shall not be moved.


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The rivers lifted up, O Jehovah, the rivers lifted up their voice, the rivers shall lift up their roarings.


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Who shall rise up for me against those doing evil? who shall stand for me against those working iniquity?


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And he will turn back upon them their iniquity, and in their evil he will cut them off; Jehovah our God will cut them off.


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For he is our God, and we the people of his feeding and the sheep of his hand. This day if ye will, hear to his voice.


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Forty years I shall loathe to the generation, and saying, A people they wandering in heart, and they knew not my ways:


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Say ye among the nations, Jehovah reigned: also the habitable globe shall be prepared, it shall not be moved: he will judge the peoples in uprightness.


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Before the face of Jehovah; for he came, for he came to judge the earth: he will judge the habitable globe in justice, and the peoples in his faithfulness.


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The mountains melted as wax from before the face of Jehovah, from before the face of the Lord of all the earth.


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All serving a carved thing shall be ashamed, they boasting themselves in nothings; worship to him, all ye Gods.


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Zion heard and she will be glad, and the daughters of Judah shall rejoice for sake of thy judgments, O Jehovah.


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Hate evil, ye loving Jehovah: he watched the souls of his godly ones; he will deliver them from the hand of the unjust.


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Chanting. Sing ye to Jehovah a new song, for he did wonders: his right hand saved for him, and his holy arm.


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He remembered his mercy and his faithfulness to the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth saw the salvation of our God.


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Before Jehovah; for he came to judge the earth: he will judge the habitable globe in justice, and the peoples in uprightness.


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And the king's strength loved judgment; thou didst prepare uprightnesses, thou didst judgment and justice in Jacob.


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Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among those calling upon his name; calling to Jehovah and he will answer them.


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O Jehovah our God, thou didst answer them; thou wert God lifting up to them, and taking vengeance for all their doings.


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Come ye into his gates with confession, his enclosures with praise: confess ye to him, praise his name.


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I will be prudent in a blameless way. When wilt thou come to me? I will go about in integrity of heart in the midst of my house.


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I will not set a word of Belial before mine eyes: I hated him doing transgressions; he shall not cleave to me.


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Slandering his neighbor in secret, him will I cut off: him being lofty of eyes and broad of heart, with him I will not eat.


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Mine eyes are upon the faithful of the earth, to dwell with me: he walking in a blameless way, he shall serve me.


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He doing deceit shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he speaking falsehoods shall not be prepared before mine eyes.


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For the mornings I will destroy all the unjust of the land; to cut off from the city of Jehovah all doing iniquity.


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Prayer for the poor when he shall languish, and before Jehovah shall pour out his complaint O Jehovah, hear my prayer, and my cry shall come to thee.


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Thou wilt not hide thy face from me in the day of straits to me; incline thine ear to me: in the day I shall call, speedily answer me.


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Thou wilt arise, thou wilt compassionate Zion: for the time to compassionate her for the appointment came.


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For be looked forth from the height of his holy place; from the heavens Jehovah looked upon the earth;


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Saying, O my God, thou wilt not take me away in the half of my days: thy years in generations of generations.


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They shall perish and thou shalt stand. And all they shall fall away as a garment; as clothing thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed.


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He did not to us according to our sins, and he did not recompense upon us according to our iniquities.


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And the mercy of Jehovah is from forever even to forever upon those fearing him, and his justice to sons' sons.


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Praise Jehovah, ye his messengers mighty of strength, doing his word, to hear the voice of his word.


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Praise Jehovah, O my soul. O Jehovah my God thou wert great exceedingly; thou didst put on strength and honor:


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Framing his upper chambers in the waters: setting the clouds his chariot: going upon the wings of the wind.


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They shall go up the mountains; they shall go down into the valleys to the place: this thou didst found for them.


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Watering the mountains from his upper chambers: with the fruit of thy work shall the earth be filled.


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Causing grass to spring up for the cattle, and the green herb for the service of man, to bring forth bread from the earth:


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And wine will gladden the heart of man, to cause the face to shine from oil, and bread will support the heart of man.


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How thy works were multiplied. O Jehovah! in wisdom thou madest them all: the earth was filled with thy possessions.


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This great and broad sea, hands there of the creeping thing, and no number of the beasts, small with great.


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Thou wilt give to them, they will gather up: thou wilt open thy hand, they will be filled with good.


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Thou wilt hide thy face, they will tremble: thou wilt take away their spirit, they shall expire and turn back to dust.


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To see the goodness of thy chosen ones, to be glad in the gladness of thy nation, to boast with thine inheritance.


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Our fathers considered not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; they embittered at the sea, the sea of sedge;


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And he will rebuke in the sea of sedge, and it will be dried up: and he will lead them in the depths as the desert.


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And he will save them from the hand of him hating, and he will redeem them from the hand of the enemy.


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And he will say to destroy them unless Moses his chosen stood in the breaking before him to turn away his wrath from destroying.


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And they will pour out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters which they sacrificed to the images of Canaan: and the land will be polluted with bloods.


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Many times he will deliver them, and they will embitter with their counsel, and they will be brought low in their iniquity.


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And he will remember his covenant to them, and he will console according to the multitude of his mercy.


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Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations to confess to thy holy name, to boast in thy praise.


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Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel from forever and even to forever: and all the people saying, Amen. Praise ye Jah.


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And he gathered them from the lands, from the sunrisings and from the west, from the north and from the sea.


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They will go up to the heavens, they will go down to the depths: their soul will be melted with evil.


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And they will cry to Jehovah in straits to them, and he will bring them forth from their distresses.


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And they shall exalt him in the convocation of the people, and they shall praise him in the seat of the old men.


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Song of chanting to David. My heart being prepared, O God, I will sing and play on the harp, also mine honor.


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God shake in his holy place; I will exult, I will divide Shechem, and I will measure the valley of tents.


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For the mouth of the unjust, and the mouth of deceit opened against me; they spake with me the tongue of false-hood.


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There shall not be to him any drawing out mercy, and there shall not be any compassionating to his orphans.


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The iniquity of his fathers will be in remembrance to Jehovah, and the sins of his mother shall not be wiped of.


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Because he remembered not to do mercy, and he will pursue the poor and needy man to slay the dejected of heart.


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And he will love cursing, and it shall come to him: and he delighted not in praise, and it shall be far from him.


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And he will put on cursing as his garment, and it shall come into his midst as water, and as oil into his bones.


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They will curse and thou wilt bless: they arose and they shall be ashamed; and thy servant shall be glad.


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They lying in wait for me shall put on shame, and they shall be covered with their shame as an upper garment.


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To David a chanting. Jehovah spake to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand and I will set thine enemies the stool to thy feet.


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Thy people were willing in the day of thy strength, in the splendors of holiness from the womb of the dawn: to thee the dew of thy childhood.


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Jehovah sware and he will not lament, Thou a priest forever according to the manner of Melchizedeck.


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Praise ye Jah. I will praise Jehovah with all the heart, in the consultation of the upright, and the assembly.


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The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah: a good understanding to all doing them: his praise stands forever.


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The unjust one shall see and be angry; shall gnash his teeth and he melted away: the desire of the unjust shall perish.


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Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, but to thy name thou wilt give glory, for thy mercy, for thy truth.


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Their hands, and they will not feel: their feet, and they shall not go: they shall not murmur in their throat.


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Jehovah remembered us: he will bless, he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.


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The pains of death surrounded me, and the distresses of hades found me: shall find straits and affliction.


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Now, O Jehovah, for I am thy servant; I thy servant, the son of thy maid-servant: thou didst loose to my bonds.


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They surrounded me as bees; they were quenched as the fire of thorns: in the name of Jehovah for I will destroy them.


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God is Jehovah, and he will shine to us: make ye fast the festival with interweavings, even to the horns of the altar.


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And thou wilt not take away from my mouth the word of truth even wholly: for I hoped for thy judgments.


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The proud shall be ashamed, for they acted perversely to me without cause: I will meditate in thy charges.


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Our feet were standing in the gates of <n> The hard copy spelling records the following as:</i></font><b> Jeursalem </b></n> Jerusalem.


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There the tribes went up, the tribes of Jah, the testimonies to Israel, to confess to the name of Jehovah.


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Behold, as the eyes of servants to the hand of their lords, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are to Jehovah our God, even till he compassionate us.


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Our soul as a sparrow was delivered from the snare of the fowlers: the snare was broken and we were delivered.


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Song of ascensions. They trusting in Jehovah are as mount Zion; it shall not be moved; remaining forever.


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Jerusalem, the mountains are round about to her; and Jehovah is round about to his people from now and even to forever.


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For the rod of the unjust one shall not rest upon the lot of the just; so that the just shall not stretch forth their hand in iniquity.


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And those turning to their winding ways, Jehovah will cause them to go with those working iniquity: peace upon Israel.


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Then our mouth will be filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing: then shall they say among the nations, Jehovah magnified to do with those.


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He going, shall go; and weeping he lifted up the drawing of the seed: coming, he shall come with joy, lifting up his sheaves.


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Song of ascensions to Solomon. If Jehovah shall not build the house, they building it, in it labored in vain. If Jehovah shall not watch the city, he watching, watched in vain.


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In vain for you rising early to arise from after sitting; eating the bread of toils: so will he give to his beloved sleep.


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Happy the man who filled his quiver from them: they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak with their enemies in the gate.


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Thy wife as a vine bearing fruit in the sides of thy house: thy sons as plants of olives round about thy table.


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Jehovah shall bless thee from Zion: and look thou upon the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.


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Song of ascensions to David. O Jehovah, my heart was not lifted up, and mine eyes were not exalted, and I went not in great things and in wonders above me.


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Jehovah sware the truth to David; he will not turn back from it: from the fruit of thy belly I will set upon the throne to thee.


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If thy sons shall watch my covenant and my testimonies, these I shall teach them; also their sons even to forever shall sit upon the throne to thee forever.


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Song of ascensions to David. Behold, how good and how pleasant the dwelling of brethren even together.


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As good oil upon the head, going down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron: coming down upon the mouth of his garments:


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As the dew of Hermon coming down upon the mountains of Zion: for there Jehovah commanded the blessing, life even forever.


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Song of ascensions. Behold, praise ye Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah, standing in the house of Jehovah, in the nights.


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All which Jehovah delighted in he did, in the heavens and in the earth, in the seas and all the depths.


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Causing the liftings up to ascend from the ends of the earth; he made lightnings for the rain; bringing forth the wind from his treasures.


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For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of Zion.


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My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy.


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Remember, O Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; they saying, Make bare, make bare, even to the foundations in her.


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I will worship to thy holy temple, and I will praise thy name for thy mercy and for thy truth: for thou didst magnify thy word over all thy name.


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If I shall go in the midst of straits, thou wilt make me alive: against the anger of mine enemies thou wilt stretch forth thy hand, and thy right hand shall save me.


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Jehovah will complete for me: O Jehovah, thy mercy is forever: thou wilt not let go the works of thy hands.


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Also darkness shall not darken from thee; and the night shall shine as the day: as the darkness, so the light.


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I will praise thee; for I was wonderfully distinguished: thy works are wonders, and my soul knew greatly.


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My bones were not hid from thee, when I was made in secret. I was variegated in the lower parts of the earth.


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Thine eyes saw my substance unformed; and upon thy book all of them shall be written; the days they were formed, and not one in them.


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I will count them; they shall be multiplied above the sand of the sea: I awoke, and I am yet with thee.


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Shall I not hate those hating thee, O Jehovah? and I shall loathe against those rising up against thee.


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To the overseer, chanting to David: Deliver me, O Jehovah, from the evil man: wilt thou guard me from the man of violences.


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Watch me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the unjust one; from the man of violences wilt thou guard me; who purposed to overthrow my steps.


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The proud hid a snare for me, and cords; they spread a net at the hand of the way; they set snares for me. Silence.


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O Jehovah my Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou didst cover for my head in the day of weapons.


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Thou wilt not give, O Jehovah, the desires of the unjust one: thou wilt not bring forth his device; they will be lifted up. Silence.


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Burning coals shall be shaken upon them; he shall cast them into fire, into whirlpools; they shall not rise up.


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A man of tongue shall not be prepared in the earth: a man of violence, evil shall hunt him to melt down the coverings.


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Chanting to David. O Jehovah, I called to thee; hasten to me; give ear to my voice in my calling to thee.


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Thou wilt not incline my heart to an evil word, to work works in injustice with men doing iniquity: and I will not eat upon their dainties.


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The just one shall smite me; a mercy: and he shall admonish me, an oil of the head it shall not decorate my head: for yet my prayer in their evils.


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Their judges were cast down against the hands of the rock, and they heard my words, for they were sweet.


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For to thee, O Jehovah my Lord, are mine eyes: in thee I put my trust; thou wilt not make my soul naked.


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Watch me from the hands of the snare they will lay for me, and the snares of those working iniquity.


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Of the understanding to David; a prayer in his being in the cave. With my voice I will cry to Jehovah; with my voice I will entreat to Jehovah.


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In my spirit languishing upon me, and thou knewest my beaten paths. In the way which I shall go they hid a snare for me.


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Looking upon the right hand, and seeing, and none caring for me: flight perished from me; none sought for my soul.


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Attend to my cry, for I languished greatly: deliver me from those pursuing me, for they were strengthened above me.


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Bring forth my soul out of prison to praise thy name: the just shall surround upon me; for thou wilt benefit to me.


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Chanting to David. O Jehovah, hear my prayer, give ear to my supplication: in thy faithfulness answer me; in thy justice.


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And thou wilt not come into judgment with thy servant, for all living shall not be justified before thee.


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For the enemy pursued my soul; he crushed to the earth my life; he caused me to dwell in darknesses, as the dead of old.


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I remembered the days of old and I meditated in all thy work, and I will meditate upon the work of thy hands.


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Quickly answer me, O Jehovah: my spirit failed: thou wilt not hide thy face from me: I was made like those going down to the pit.


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Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee I trusted: cause me to know the way that I shall go; for to thee I lifted up my soul.


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Teach me to do thine acceptance, for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; thou wilt guide me into a land of uprightness.


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For sake of thy name, O Jehovah, thou wilt make me live: in thy justice thou wilt bring forth my soul out of straits.


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And in thy mercy thou wilt cut off mine enemies, and thou destroyedst all those pressing my soul: for I am thy servant.


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My mercy and my fortress, my height and delivering for me; my shield, and in him I put my trust; treading down peoples under me.


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O Jehovah, incline thy heavens, and thou wilt come down: touch upon the mountains and they shall smoke.


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Send forth the lightning, and thou wilt scatter them: send thine arrows, and thou wilt destroy them.


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Send thy hands from height; snatch me away, and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of the stranger;


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O God, a new song will I sing to thee; with an instrument of ten strings, I will play on the harp to thee.


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Snatch me away and deliver me from the hand of the sons of the stranger, whom their mouth spake vanity, and their right hand a right hand of falsehood:


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That our sons as plants growing great in their youth, our daughters as corners variegated, the likeness of a temple:


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Our garners being filled, bringing forth from sort to sort; our sheep bringing forth thousands, ten thousands in our streets:


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They shall pour forth the remembrance of the multitude of thy goodness, and they shall shout forth thy justice.


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My mouth shall speak the praise of Jehovah, and all flesh shall bless his holy name forever and ever.


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He did judgment for the oppressed; he gave bread to the hungering: Jehovah loosed those being bound.


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Jehovah opened the eyes of the blind: Jehovah raised those being bowed down: Jehovah loved the just.


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Jehovah watched the strangers he will restore the orphan and the widow, and he will overturn the way of the unjust.


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Praise ye Jah: for it is good to play on the harp to our God; for it is pleasant: praise is becoming.


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Covering the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, causing the grass to spring up on the mountains.


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They shall praise the name of Jehovah: for his name alone is exalted; his majesty over the earth and the heavens.


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And he will lift up the horn to his people, praise to all his godly ones; to the sons of Israel a people drawing near to him. Praise ye Jah.


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Praise ye him with ringing instruments of hearing: praise him with ringing instruments of loud noise.


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If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously;


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She will call in the head of sound, in the entrances of the gates: in the city she will say her words:


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How long, ye simple, will ye love simplicity? and mockers delight to mock for them, and the foolish hate knowledge?


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Ye shall turn back at my reproofs: behold, I will pour forth my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you.


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In your terror coming as a destroying tempest, and your ruin shall come as a whirlwind; in the coming upon you of straits and distress.


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For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them.


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Mercy and truth shall not forsake thee: bind them upon thy throat; write them upon the tablet of thy heart:


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And thy storehouses shall be filled with abundance, and thy wine-vats shall break forth with new wine.


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My son, thou shalt not reject the instruction of Jehovah, and thou shalt not loathe upon his reproofs:


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Thou shalt not be afraid from sudden terror, and from the destruction of the unjust when it shall come.


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Thou shalt not say to thy neighbor, Go, and turn back, and to-morrow I will give; and there is with thee.


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And he taught me, and he will say to me, Thy heart shall hold fast my words: watch my commands and live.


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Obtain wisdom, obtain understanding: thou shalt not forget, and thou shalt not decline from the words of my mouth.


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For they slept not, if they shall not do evil; and their sleep was taken away, if they shall not cause to falter.


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For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above oil:


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The hind of loves and the wild goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate thee in all time; thou shalt always wander in her loves.


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Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself when thou camest into the hand of thy friend; go humble thyself and enlarge thy friend.


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In thy going about it shall lead thee; in thy lying down it shall watch over thee; and awaking, it shall speak to thee.


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He will not lift up the face of any ransom, and he will not be willing if thou shalt increase the reward.


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With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.


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He went after her suddenly as the ox will go to the slaughter, and as the fetter for the correction of the foolish.


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Till an arrow shall cleave his liver; as a bird hastening to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul.


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The fear of Jehovah hates evil: pride and haughtiness, and the evil way, and the mouth of perverseness I hated.


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In his setting his law to the sea, and the waters shall not pass by his mouth; in his making firm the foundations of the earth:


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And I shall be near him the builder, and I shall be a delight of day, day, smiling before him in all time.


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Happy the man hearing to me, to watch at my doors day, day; to watch the door posts of my entrances.


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He instructing him mocking received to himself dishonor: and he reproving to the unjust one, his blemish.


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Thou shalt not reprove him mocking, lest he shall hate thee: reprove to the wise one and he will love thee.


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Thou shalt give to the wise one and he will be more wise: make known to the just one and he will add receiving.


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The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah, and the knowledge of the holy ones is understanding.


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Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son will gladden a father: and a son of the foolish will grieve his mother.


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Jehovah will not cause the soul of the just one to hunger: and he will thrust away the desire of the unjust.


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In the lips of him understanding, wisdom shall be found: and a rod for the back of him wanting heart.


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The integrity of the upright shall guide them: and the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.


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The justice of the blameless shall make straight his way, and in his injustice the unjust shall fall.


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With the mouth the profane will destroy his neighbor: and by knowledge, shall the just one be delivered.


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By the blessing of the upright the city shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the unjust it shall be overthrown.


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The evil one shall become evil, for he became surety for a stranger: and he hating those striking hands being secure.


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The words of the unjust are the lying in wait of blood: and the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.


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According to the mouth of understanding a man shall be praised: and he being perverse of heart shall be for contempt.


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In the transgression of the lips is the snare of evil: and the just one shall come forth out of straits.


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From the fruit of the mouth a man shall be satisfied with good: and the reward of the hands of a man shall be good to him.


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The just one will hate the word of falsehood: and the unjust one will be loathsome and be put to shame.


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The desire coming to pass, will be sweet to the soul: and an abomination to the foolish to depart from evil.


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The good shall cause his sons' sons to inherit: and the wealth of him sinning was treasured up for the just.


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In a multitude of people the king's decoration: and in the cessation of the people the destruction of the prince.


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In the heart of him understanding, wisdom shall rest: and in the midst of fools it shall be made known.


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The acceptance of the king to a servant of understanding: and his wrath shall be to him causing shame.


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The tongue of the wise will make knowledge good: and the mouth of the foolish will gush forth folly.


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The sacrifice of the unjust an abomination of Jehovah: and the prayer of the upright his acceptance.


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The heart of the just one shall meditate to answer: and the mouth of the unjust shall gush out evil.


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The obtaining of wisdom how good above gold and the obtaining of understanding to be chosen above silver.


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The understanding of him possessing it is a fountain of life: and the instruction of the foolish is folly.


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An understanding servant shall rule a son causing shame, and shall divide the inheritance in the midst of the brethren.


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He mocking to the poor one reproached him making him: and he rejoicing at misfortune shall not be unpunished.


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The lip of excellence is not becoming to, the foolish one: much less the lip of falsehood to the noble one.


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The gift a stone of grace in the, eyes of him possessing it: to all which it shall turn it shall prosper.


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The causing water to break forth is the beginning of strife: cast off contention before being irritated.


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He justifying the unjust one and he condemning the just one, is an abomination to Jehovah, also they two.


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The perverse of heart shall not find good: and he turning about with his tongue shall fall into evil.


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The foolish one was born for sorrow to himself, and the father of the foolish one shall not rejoice.


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Wisdom, is with the face of him understanding, and the eyes of the foolish one are in the ends of the earth.


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From the fruit of a man's mouth his belly shall be filled; and he shall be filled with the increase of his lips.


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All the brethren of the poor hated him: how much more his friends removed far from him? pursuing words they are not.


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The fear of Jehovah is to life: and he being filled shall lodge satisfied; he shall not be reviewed for evil.


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Thou shalt strike him mocking, and the simple will be crafty: and reprove to him understanding, and he will understand knowledge.


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He oppressing the father and putting the mother to flight, is a son causing shame and causing disgrace.


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The terror of the king growling as the young lion: he overflowing against him sinned against his soul.


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Thou shalt not love sleep lest thou shalt be dispossessed: open wide thine eyes, being filled with bread.


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He revealing a secret going about tale-bearing: and thou shalt not intermingle with him embracing his lips.


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Steams of waters the heart of the king, in the hand of Jehovah: upon all which he shall delight in he will turn it.


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Good to dwell upon the corner of the roof rather than with a woman of strifes and a house of community.


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In punishing him mocking, the simple shall become wise: and in instruction to the wise one he will take knowledge.


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The wise one ascended the city of the strong, and he will bring down the strength of its confidence.


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Straiten to a youth upon the mouth of his way, also when he shall grow old he will not depart from it.


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For pleasant things if thou shalt watch them in thy belly; they shall be prepared together for thy lips.


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To cause thee to know the truth of the words of truth; to turn back the words of truth to those sending thee?


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Sawest thou a man apt in his works? Before kings shall he stand; he shall not stand before the dark ones.


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Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.


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Like him estimating evil in his soul, so is he: Eat and drink, he will say to thee; and his heart not with thee.


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In the ears of the foolish thou shalt not speak, for he will despise for the understanding of thy words.


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Thou shalt not withhold instruction from youth: if thou shalt strike him with a rod he shall not die.


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The father of the just one rejoicing, shall rejoice: he shall beget a wise one and shall rejoice in him.


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To whom wo? to whom want? to whom strife? to whom complaint? to whom wounds gratuitously? to whom dark flashings of the eyes?


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Thou shalt not look upon wine when it shall be red, when it shall give its eye in the cup, it will go about in uprightnesses.


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And thou wert as he lying down in the heart of the sea, and as he lying down upon the head of the mast.


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They struck me, I was not pained; they beat me, I knew not: when shall I awake? I will add, I will yet seek it.


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If thou shalt say, Behold, we knew not this; will not he trying hearts, understand? and he guarding thy soul, knew? and he turned back to man according to his work.


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So the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul if thou shalt find: and there is a latter state and thine expectation shall not be cut off.


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Thou shalt not lay wait, O wicked one, against the dwelling of the just one; thou shalt not destroy his resting place:


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In the falling of thine enemies thou shalt not rejoice, and in his stumbling thy heart shall not exult:


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Thou shalt not say, According to what he did to me, thus will I do to him: I will turn back to the man according to his work.


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And behold, it came up all of it with thorns; brambles covered its face, and the wall of its stones was overthrown.


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Thou shalt not show thyself proud before the king, and thou shalt not stand in the place of the great.


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For good to say to thee, Come up hither, rather than humbling thyself before the noble whom thine eye saw.


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Thou shalt not go forth hastily to strive, lest what thou shalt do in its latter state in thy neighbor putting thee to shame.


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As the cold of snow in the day of harvest a faithful messenger to those sending him: he shall restore the soul of his lord.


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A mallet and a sword and an arrow sharpened, the man answering against his neighbor testimony of falsehood.


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He removing a covering in the day of cold, and vinegar upon nitre, and he singing in songs to an evil heart.


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Good to dwell upon a corner of the roof rather than with a woman of strifes and a house of community.


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A fountain trampled down, and a fountain corrupted, the just one turned aside before the unjust one.


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Thou shalt not boast upon the day of the morrow, for thou shalt not know what a day shall bring forth.


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Oil and incense will rejoice the heart: and the sweetness from his friend from the counsel of the soul.


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Thy friend and thy father's friend thou shalt not forsake; and thou shalt not go to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: good he dwelling near, more than a brother far off.


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He blessing his friend with a great voice, rising early in the morning, a curse shall be reckoned to him.


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If thou shalt pound the foolish in a mortar in the midst of the grain with a pestle, thou shalt not remove from him his folly.


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The grass was uncovered and the young herbage was seen; and the green plants of the mountains were gathered.


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In the transgression of a land many its chiefs: and by a man understanding to know, the place shall be extended.


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He causing the upright to wander in an evil way, into his pit shall he fall: and the good shall inherit complete things.


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He covering his transgression shall not prosper: but he confessing and forsaking, shall be compassionated.


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He terrifying violence upon the blood of a soul shall flee even to the pit; none shall hold fast upon him.


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He working his land shall be filled with bread: and he pursuing the vain shall be filled with poverty.


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He stripping his father and his mother, and saying, No transgression; is companion to a man destroying.


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In the increasing of the just the people will rejoice: and in the ruling of the unjust one the people will groan.


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A man of iniquity is an abomination of the just; and the upright of way, an abomination of the unjust one.


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The words of Agur, son of Jakeh: the lifting up: the declaration of the man to Ithiel; to Ithiel and Ucal:


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Who went up to the heavens, and came down? who gathered the wind in his fists? who bound the waters in a garment? who set up all the ends of the earth? what his name and what his son's name, if thou shalt know?


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Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:


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Lest I shall be filled and I spake lies, and said, Who is Jehovah? and lest I shall be dispossessed and I stole, and I laid hold upon the name of God.


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A generation, its teeth swords, and its biter's teeth, knives, to devour the poor from the land, and the needy from man.


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To the leech two daughters: Give, give. Behold, three shall not satisfied; four shall not say, Wealth:


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The eye shall mock to his father, and despise to obey the mother, the ravens of the valley shall bore it out and the sons of the eagle shall eat it.


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The way of the eagle in the heavens; the way of the serpent upon the rock; the way of the ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.


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So the way of a woman committing adultery; eating and wiping her mouth, and saying, I transgressed not.


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For the pressure of milk will bring forth cheese, and the pressure of the nose will bring forth blood: and the pressure of wrath will, bring forth contention.


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Lest he shall drink and forget what is prescribed, and change the judgment of all the sons of affliction.


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Going to the south and turning round about to the north, it turned round about; the wind turned round about, going, and the wind turned back upon its circuits.


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All the torrents going into the sea, and the sea not full: to the place the torrents going, there they turn back to go.


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All words becoming weary; man shall not be able to speak: the eye shall not be satisfied to see, and the ear shall not be filled from hearing.


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Is there a word will be said, See, this is new? This was already to a long time which was before us.


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No remembrance to former things; and also to the latter things that shall be; to them shall be no remembrance with them which shall be for the latter state.


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And I gave my heart to seek and to search out in wisdom concerning all which was done under the heavens: this evil business God gave to the sons of man to be occupied in it.


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The crooked thing shall not be able to be made straight: and the deficiency shall not be able to be numbered.


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It spake with my heart, saying, Behold, I was magnified, and added wisdom over all that were before me at Jerusalem: and my heart saw much of wisdom and knowledge.


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And I will give my heart to know wisdom, and the knowledge of praise and understanding: I knew this also it is the striving of the spirit.


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I said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.


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I examined in my heart to draw my flesh with wine, and my heart led in wisdom; and to lay hold upon folly till that I shall see what this good to the sons of man which they will do under the heavens the number of the days of their life.


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I obtained servants and maids, and sons of the house were to me; also obtaining cattle, and many sheep were to me more than all that were before me in Jerusalem.


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I gathered to me also silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and the provinces: I made to me men singing and women singing, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and mistresses.


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And I was magnified and increased more than all being before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom stood to me.


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And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them, and I withheld not my heart from all gladness; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor: and this was my portion from all my labor.


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And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.


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And I turned to see wisdom, madness, and folly: for what the man that shall come after the king? with those things they did already.


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And I saw there is profit to wisdom more than to folly, as the excellence of the light above darkness.


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The wise, his eyes in his head; and the foolish one goes in darkness: and I knew, I also, that one event will meet with them all.


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And I said in my heart, As the event of the foolish one, also I, it will meet me; and wherefore then was I more wise? And I spake in my heart, This is also vanity.


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For no remembrance for the wise with the foolish one forever, since in the days coming, all being forgotten. And how will the wise die? with the foolish one.


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And I hated life, for evil to me the work done under the sun: for all vanity and striving of the spirit.


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And who shall know whether he shall be wise or foolish? And he shall have dominion over all my labor which I labored, and was wise under the sun. Also this is vanity.


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For there is man his labor in wisdom, and in knowledge and in success; and to man not laboring in it he shall give his portion. Also this is vanity and much evil.


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For all his days pains, and vexation, his labor; also in the night his heart rested not Also this it is vanity.


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Not good in man he shall eat and drink and cause his soul to see good in his labor. Also this I saw that it is from the hand of God.


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For to a man good before his face, he gave wisdom and knowledge and gladness: and to him sinning, he gave labor, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good one before the face of God. Also this is vanity and the striving of the spirit.


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A time to cast away stones, and a time to collect stones a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embracing:


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He made everything beautiful in his time: also he gave hidden time in their heart, so that man shall not find the work which God did from the beginning and even to the end.


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I knew that all which God will do it shall be forever: to it not to be added, and from it not to be taken away: and God doing they shall be afraid from his face.


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And yet I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there the unjust one; and the place of the just one, there the unjust one.


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I said in my heart, The just one and the unjust one, God will judge: for a time for every inclination and for every work there.


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I said in my heart concerning the speeches of the sons of man, for God to separate them, and for them to see that they are cattle to themselves.


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For the event of the sons of man, and the event of the cattle, one event to them: as this, so dies this; and the breath of one to all; and the preeminence of man not above the cattle: for all is vanity.


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Who shall know the spirit of the sons of man? it ascending to above, and the spirit of cattle, it going downwards to the earth.


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And I saw that no good more than that man shall rejoice in his works; for this is his portion: for who shall bring him to look upon what shall be after him?


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And I turned back, and I shall see all the oppressions which are doing under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and none comforting to them; and from the hand of those oppressing them was power, and none comforting to them.


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And good above them two which were not yet, which saw not the evil work which was done under the sun.


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And I saw all the labor and all the success of the work, for this the jealousy of a man from his neighbor. Also this is vanity and striving of spirit.


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There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.


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For if they shall fall, the one will raise up his companion: and wo to him, the one that shall fall, and not a second to raise him up.


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And if one shall become strong against him, two shall stand before him; and a three-fold thread shall not be quickly broken.


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For from the house of those turning away he came forth to reign; for also he being born in his kingdom became poor.


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No end to all the people, to all which were before them: also the last ones shall not rejoice in him. For also this is vanity and striving of the spirit.


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Watch thy feet when thou shalt go to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than give the sacrifice of the foolish, for they not knowing the doing of evil.


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Thou shalt not hasten with thy mouth, and thy heart shall not be quick to bring forth a word to the face of God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon the earth: for this thy words shall be few.


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For the dream came in the multitude of labor; and the voice of the foolish one in the multitude of words.


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When thou shalt vow a vow to God, thou shalt not delay to repay it; for there is no desire in the foolish: repay what thou shalt vow.


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Thou shalt not give thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; and thou shalt not say to the face of the messenger that it is an error: wherefore shall God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?


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If thou shalt see the oppression of the poor one, and the spoiling of judgment and justice in a province, thou shalt not wonder at the inclination: for the high one above the high one is watching, and the high ones over them.


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He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.


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In the multitude of good they were multiplied eating it: and what the success to its possessors but seeing with his eyes?


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The sleep of the servant is sweet, if little, or if much he shall eat: and the satiety to the rich not permitting to him to sleep.


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According as he came forth from his mother's womb, naked he shall turn back to go as he came, and he shall not take away anything in his labor that shall go in his hand.


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And also this an evil making sick, wholly as he came so shall he go: and what to him he shall labor for the wind?


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Behold, what I saw: good, which is beautiful to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he will labor under the sun the number of the days of his life, which God gave to him; for this his portion.


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Also every man which God gave to him wealth and riches, and permitted him to eat from it, and to lift up his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this the gift of God himself.


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For he shall not much remember the days of his life; for God humbles him in the gladness of his heart.


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A man which God will give to him wealth and riches and honor, and wanting not to his soul from all which he shall desire, and God will not permit him to eat from it, for a man, a stranger shall eat it. This is vanity and it is an evil disease.


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If a man shall beget a hundred, and live many years, and a multitude shall be the days of his years, and his soul shall not be satisfied from good, and also there was no burial to him; I said, Good above him an abortion.


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For in vanity he came, and in darkness he will go away, and his name shall be covered with darkness.


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For what will remain to the wise one more than the foolish one? what to the poor that shall know to go before the living.


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What was, its name was called already, and it was known that it is man: and he shall not be able to contend with the powerful above him.


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For who shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?


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Good to go to the house of mourning rather than to go to the house of drinking, in that it is the end of every man; and he living shall give to his heart.


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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; and the heart of the foolish in the house of gladness.


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Thou shalt not say, Why was it the former days were good above these? for thou didst not ask from wisdom concerning this.


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For in the shadow, wisdom; in the shadow, silver: and the excellence of knowledge is wisdom shall preserve alive those possessing it.


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In the day of good, be in good; and in the day of evil, see thou: also God made this over against this, to the end that man shall not find anything after him.


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I saw all in the days of my vanity: there is a just one perishing in his justice, and there is an unjust one, being prolonged in his evil.


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Thou shalt not be greatly just; and thou shalt not be exceedingly wise: wherefore wilt thou be made desolate?


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Thou shalt not be greatly wicked, and thou shalt not be foolish: wherefore wilt thou die not in thy time?


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Good that thou shalt hold fast upon this; also from this thou shalt not lead away thy hand: for he fearing God shall come forth with all of them.


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Also to all the words that shall be spoken thou shalt not give thy heart, that thou shalt not hear thy servant cursing thee.


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I went round about, I and my heart, to know, and to examine, and to search out wisdom and understanding, and to know the injustice of folly, and the folly of wickedness:


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And I find bitter above death the woman that her heart it is snares and nets, her hands are bonds: the good one before God shall escape from her, and he sinning shall be taken by her.


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Which yet my soul sought, and found not; one man from a thousand I found; and a woman in all these I found not.


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Who as the wise one? and who will know the interpretation of the word? The wisdom of man shall enlighten his face, and the hard of face shall be hated.


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Thou shalt not hasten going from his face: thou shalt not stand by the word of evil; for he shall do all that he will desire.


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No man having power in spirit to restrain the spirit: and no power in the day of death: and no sending forth in war; and injustice shall not deliver its possessors.


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All this I saw, and giving my heart to every work which was done under the sun: a time which man had power over man for evil to him.


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And so then I saw the unjust buried, and they came and they will go from the holy place, and they will be forgotten in the city where they did thus: also this is vanity.


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Because a decree was not done quickly upon an evil work, for this the heart of the sons of man was filled in them to do evil.


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Whoever sinned, doing evil a hundred, and it being prolonged to him, for also I know that it will be to those fearing God, who shall be afraid from his face.


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And it shall not be good to the unjust one; he shall not lengthen the days as a shadow, for he feared not from before the face of God.


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There is vanity which was done upon the earth; that there is the just which it comes upon them according to the work of the unjust: and there is the unjust, it comes upon them according to the work of the just. I said, Also this is vanity.


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And I praised joy, because there is no good to man under the sun but to eat and to drink, and to rejoice: for this shall lodge with him in his labor the days of his life which God gave to him under the sun.


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According as I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to see the labor that was done upon the earth: for also in the day and in the night he saw not sleep with his eyes.


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And I saw all the work of God, that no man shall be able to find out the work that was done under the sun in whatsoever a man shall labor to seek out, and he shall not find: and also if the wise one shall say to know, he shall not be able to find.


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For all this I gave to my heart, and to examine all this, that the just and the wise and their works are in the hand of God: also love, also hatred, no man shall know of all before them.


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All according to all: one event to the just one and to the unjust one; to the good one and to the clean one, and to the unclean one; to him sacrificing and to him not sacrificing: as the good one, so the sinning one; he swearing, as he who shall fear an oath.


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This an evil in all being done under the sun, thus one event is to all: and also the heart of the sons of man being full of evil, and folly in their heart in their living, and after it to their deaths.


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For whoever shall choose to all the living there is hope: for to a living dog it is good above a dead lion.


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For the living know they shall die: and the dead know not any thing, and no more to them a reward; for their remembrance was forgotten.


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Also their love, also their hatred, also their envy perished already; and no more portion to them forever in all which was done under the sun.


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Go eat in joy thy bread, and drink thy wine in a good heart; for already God was satisfied with thy works.


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See life with the wife which thou didst love all the days of the life of thy vanity which he gave to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for this thy portion in life, and in thy labor which thou laborest under the sun.


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All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.


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I turned back, and saw under the sun that not to the fleet the race, and the war not to the strong, and also not to the wise, bread; and also not to the understanding ones, riches; and also not to the knowing, favor; for time and chance will light upon all of them.


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For also man knew not his time: as the fishes being laid hold of in an evil net, and as the birds laid hold of in the snare, as they, the sons of men being snared for an evil time, as it will fall upon them suddenly.


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A little city, and men in it few; and a great king came against it, and surrounded it, and built against it great entrenchments:


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And a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom; and not a man remembered that poor man.


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And I said, Wisdom is good above strength: and the wisdom of the poor one was despised, and his words not heard.


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Flies of death will cause the oil of the perfume to stink, it will ferment: the preciousness of wisdom above the honor of the least folly.


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And also as the foolish one went in the way, his heart was wanting, and he said to all, It is folly.


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If the spirit of him ruling shall go up against thee, thou shalt not leave thy place; for quietness will put down great sins.


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He removing stones; shall suffer pain by them; and he cleaving woods asunder shall be endangered by them.


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If the iron became dull and he polished not the face, and he will strengthen the forces: and wisdom will make preeminence to prosper.


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The beginning of the words of his mouth, folly: and the latter state of his mouth the folly of evil.


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And the foolish one will multiply words: man shall not know what shall be; and what shall be after him, who shall announce to him?


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Happy thou, O land: thy king the son of nobles, and thy chiefs shall eat in time, in strength and not in drinking.


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Thou shalt not curse the king in thy consciousness, and in thy bed-chamber thou shalt not curse the rich for the bird of the heavens will bring the voice, and the possessor of wings shall announce the word.


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Thou shalt give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou shalt not know what shall be evil upon the earth.


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If the clouds shall be filled with rain, they shall pour out upon the earth: and if the tree shall fall in the south or in the north, the place the tree shall fall, there it shall be.


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As thou wilt not know what the way of the spirit, as the bones in the womb of her being filled, so thou shalt not know the work of God who will make all.


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In the morning sow thy seed, and at evening thou shalt not let thy hand rest: for thou shalt not know whether this shall be right, this or that, or if they two as one being good.


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If man shall live many years, in them all shall he rejoice; and he shall remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All coming is vanity.


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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and thy heart shall do thee good in the days of thy youth, and go in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: and know thou, that for all these God will bring thee into judgment.


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And put away anger from thy heart, and cause evil to pass away from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.


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And remember him creating thee in the days of thy youth, till even when the days of evil shall not come, and the years draw near in which thou shalt say, Not to me delight in them;


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Till when the sun shall not be darkened, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, and the clouds turned not back after the rain:


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In the day those watching the house shall tremble, and the strong men bent themselves, and the grinders ceased for they were few, and they looking through the lattice were darkened,


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And the doors were shut in the street, in the lowness of the voice of the grinding, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of the song shall bow down;


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Also from height they shall be afraid, and being dismayed in the way, and the almond tree shall be despised, and the locust shall become a burden, and the caperberry shall fail: for man shall go to his eternal house, and they mourning, went about in the street:


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Till when the cord of silver shall be removed far off, and the bowl of gold be broken, and the bucket shall be broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern.


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And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.


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And besides, the preacher was wise; he yet taught the people knowledge; and he gave ear, and sought out, setting in order many parables.


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The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails planted of the masters of the gatherings; they were given from one shepherd.


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And besides, from these, my son, beware: of making many books, no end; and much study wearies the flesh.


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For God will bring every work into judgment, with every thing hidden, whether good, and whether evil.


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To the odor of the good ointments thy name shall be poured forth an ointment; for this, the maidens loved thee.


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Draw me, we will run after thee: the king brought me to his chambers: we will exult and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy breasts above wine: the upright loved thee.


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I am black and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.


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Thou shalt not see me, I am black; the sun searched me: my mother's sons were angry with me; they set me to watch the vineyards; my vineyard I watched not for me.


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Announce to me, thou whom my soul loved, where thou wilt feed, where thou wilt lie down at noon: wherefore shall I be as he covered by the herds of thy companions.


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If thou shalt not know for thyself, O fair one among women, come forth for thyself at the heels of the flock, and feed thy kids by the shepherds tents.


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As the apple among the trees of the forest, so my beloved between the sons. In his shadow I delighted, and I sat down, and his fruit was sweet to my palate.


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I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, if ye shall awake and if ye shall arouse love till he shall desire.


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My beloved is like to the roe or to the fawn of the hinds: behold him standing behind our wall looking forth from the windows, glancing from the lattices.


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My beloved answered and said to me, Rise up for thyself, my friend, my beautiful one, and go for thyself.


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The flowers were seen in the earth; the time of pruning came, and the voice of the turtle-dove was heard in our land.


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The fig tree ripened its unripe figs, and the vines are in blossom; they gave an odor. Rise up, my friend, my beautiful one, and go for thyself.


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My dove in the refuges of the rock, in the biding of the steep mountain: cause me to see thy form, cause me to hear thy voice; for thy voice is sweet and thy form becoming.


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Seize for us the foxes, the little foxes destroying the vineyards: and our vineyards are in blossom.


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Until the day shall breathe and the shadows fled away, turn, thou, it being likened to thee, my beloved, to the roe, or to the fawn of the hind upon the mountains of section.


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I will arise now, and I will go round about in the city; in the streets, and in the broad places I will seek him whom my soul loved. I sought him, and I found him not.


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As a little I passed from them till I found him my soul loved: I held him fast, and I shall not let him go till I brought him into my mother's house, and to the chamber of her conceiving me.


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I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, if ye shall awake and if ye shall arouse love till he shall desire.


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Who is this coming up from the desert as columns of smoke of burning incense, of myrrh and frankincense from all the powder of the trader.


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All of them holding the sword, being trained to war: each his sword upon his thigh from terror in the night.


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Its pillars he made silver, its support gold, its seat reddish purple, its midst tesselated with love from the daughters of Jerusalem.


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Go forth, ye daughters of Zion, and look upon king Solomon; upon the crown his mother crowned to him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.


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Behold thee beautiful, my friend, behold thee beautiful; thine eyes doves from behind to thy veil: thy hair as a herd of goats which lay down from mount Gilead.


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Thy teeth as a herd of the shorn which came up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and none barren among them.


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As a scarlet thread thy lips, and thy speech becoming: as a piece of pomegranate, thy temples from behind thy veil.


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As the tower of David thy neck, built for the weapons; a thousand shields hung upon it, all shields of the powerful.


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Till the day shall breathe, and the shadows fled away, I will go for myself to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of Lebanon.


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Thou shalt come with me from Lebanon, O bride, with me from Lebanon: thou shalt go round about from the head of faith, from the head of Shenir and Hermon, from the dwellings of lions, from the mountains of panthers.


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Thou didst rob me of the heart, my sister, O bride; thou didst rob me of the heart with one of thine eyes, with one necklace of thy neck.


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How beautiful were thy breasts, my sister, O bride! how good were thy breasts above wine, and the odor of thine ointments above all spices.


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Thy lips will drop honey droppings, O bride: honey and milk under thy tongue, and the odor of thy garments as the odor of Lebanon.


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Spikenard and saffron; the reed and cinnamon, with all the woods of Lebanon; myrrh and aloes, with all the heads of spices.


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Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south, blow upon my garden; its spices shall flow out. My beloved shall come to his garden, and he shall eat his most precious fruits.


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I Came to my garden, my sister, O spouse: I gathered my myrrh with my spices; I ate my droppings with my honey; I drank my wine with my milk: Eat, O friends; drink ye, and drink to the full, O beloved ones.


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I slept and my heart waked: the voice of my beloved knocks at the door; Open to me, my sister, my friend, my dove, my perfect one: my head was filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.


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I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dropped myrrh, and my fingers, myrrh overflowing upon the hands of the bolt.


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I opened to my beloved, and my beloved turned about, he passed away: my soul went forth in his speaking: I sought and I found him not; I called him and he answered me not.


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They watching going round about in the city, found me; they struck me, they wounded me: they watching the wall took away my veil from me.


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I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye shall find my beloved, what ye shall announce to him: I am pierced by love.


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What is thy beloved above the beloved, O beautiful one among women? What thy beloved above the beloved, that thou didst thus adjure us?


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His cheeks as beds of spices, towers of aromatic herbs: his lips lilies, dropping overflowing myrrh.


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His hands rings of gold completed in Tarshish: his bowels wrought ivory covered over with sapphires.


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His legs bases of white marble, founded upon of pure gold: his aspect as Lebanon, choice as the cedars.


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His palate, sweetness: he is all loveliness. This my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.


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Where went thy beloved, O beautiful one among women? where turned away thy beloved, and we will seek him with thee.


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My beloved went down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.


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Thou art beautiful my friend, as delight; becoming as Jerusalem, a terror as those being furnished with banners.


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Turn away thine eyes from before me; they enlarged me: thy hair as a herd of goats which lay down from Gilead.


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Thy teeth as a herd of sheep which went up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and none barren among them.


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She is one, my dove, my perfect one; she is one to her mother, she is the chosen to her bearing her. The daughters saw her and pronounced her happy; the queens and the concubines, and they will praise her.


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Who this looking forth as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, a terror as those being furnished with banners?


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I went down into the garden of nuts to look upon the greens of the valley, to see whether the vine was fruitful, whether the pomegranates blossomed.


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Turn back, turn back, thou Shulamite; turn back, turn back, and we will look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As the stringed instrument of the camps.


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How beautiful were thy steps with shoes, O daughter of a noble! the circuits of thy thighs a necklace, the work of the hands of an artist.


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Thy navel a bowl of roundness, it will not want mixed wine; thy belly a heap of wheat enclosed with lilies.


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Thy neck as a tower of ivory; thine eyes pools in Heshbon, by the gate of the daughter of many: thy nose as the tower of Lebanon viewing the face of Damascus.


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I said, I will go up upon the palm tree, I will hold fast upon its branches: and now thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the odor of thy nose as apples.


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And thy palate as good wine going to my beloved for uprightness, causing the lips of the sleeping to flow softly.


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We will rise early to the vineyards; we will see if the vine was fruitful, the vine blossoms opened, the pomegranates blossomed: there will I give my beloved to thee.


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The mandrakes gave an odor, and upon our entrances all precious things, new also old, my beloved, I laid up for thee.


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Who will give thee as a brother to me, sucking the breasts of my mother? I shall find thee without, I shall kiss thee; also they shall not despise me.


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I will lead thee, I will bring thee to the house of my mother; thou wilt teach me: I will give thee to drink from spiced wine from the new wine of my pomegranate.


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I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, why will ye awake, and why will ye rouse love till he shall desire?


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Who this coming up from the desert, leaning herself upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused thee: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she bearing thee, brought forth.


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Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love was strong as death; jealousy hard as hades: its flames, flames of fire, flames of Jehovah.


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Many waters shall not be able to quench love, and rivers shall not overwhelm it: if a man shall give all the riches of his house for love, despising, they shall be despised for him.


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A little sister to us, and no breasts to her: what shall we do for our sister in the day it shall be spoken for her?


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If she be a wall, we will build upon her a fortress of silver: and if she is a door we will bind upon her a tablet of cedar.


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A vineyard was to Solomon in the place of a multitude; he gave the vineyards to those watching; each shall bring in its fruit a thousand of silver.


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My vineyard to me before me: a thousand to thee, O Solomon, and two hundred to those watching its fruit.


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Flee, my beloved, and be it likened to thee to the roe or to the fawn of the hinds upon the mountains of spices.


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The vision of Isaiah 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, ye heavens, and give ear thou earth, for Jehovah spake: for I caused to grow and lifted up sons, and they rebelled against me.


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Wo! sinful nation, a people heavy with sin, a seed doing evil, sons acting wickedly; they forsook Jehovah; they despised the holy one of Israel; they separated themselves backward.


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For what shall ye be yet struck? will ye add apostasy? every head for sickness, and every heart sick.


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From the sole of the foot and even to the head, no wholeness in it; a wound and bruise, and a fresh blow: they were not pressed out, and they were not bound up, and they were not softened with oil.


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Your land made desolate, your cities burnt with fire, your land before your strangers eating it up, and made desolate, as the overthrow of strangers.


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And the daughter of Zion was left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a field of cucumbers, as a city besieged.


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Unless Jehovah of armies left to us an escaping so small, we were as Sodom and we were made like to Gomorrah.


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Hear the word of Jehovah, ye leaders of Sodom: give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.


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For what to me the multitude of your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I was filled with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fatlings; and I delighted not in the blood of bullocks, and of he lambs and of he goats.


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Ye shall not add to bring gifts of iniquity; incense, this an abomination to me; the new moon and the Sabbath, the calling of the assembly; I shall not be able to bear vanity and restraining.


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Your new moons and your appointments my soul hated; they were for a burden upon me; I was wearied to lift up.


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And in the spreading forth of your hands I will hide mine eyes from you; also when ye shall multiply prayer I hear not: your hands were full of blood.


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Wash ye, cleanse yourselves: turn away evil from your doings from before mine eyes; leave off the evil;


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Learn to do good; seek out judgment, lead right the oppressor, judge the orphan, contend for the widow.


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Come now we will confute together Jehovah will say: if your sins shall be as deep scarlet, they shall be white as snow; if they shall be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.


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How was the faithful city for a harlot! I filled with judgment; justice will lodge in her; and now they are killing.


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Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.


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For this says the lord Jehovah of armies, the mighty one of Israel, Wo! I will take vengeance of mine adversaries, and I will avenge myself of mine enemies:


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And I will turn back my hand upon thee, end I will straiten thy dross according to pureness, and I will remove all thine alloy:


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And I will turn back thy judges as in the beginning, and thy counsellors as in the beginning: after this he shall call to thee, The city of justice, the faithful city.


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For they shall be ashamed of their mighty ones which ye desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens which ye chose.


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And the strong was for tow, and his work for a spark, and they two were burnt together, and none quenching.


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And it was in the last days, the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be prepared upon the head of the mountains, and lifted up above the hills; and all nations flowed to it.


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And many people went and said, Come, and we will go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us from his ways, and we will go in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.


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And he judged between the nations, and he will decide for many peoples: and they shall beat down their swords to plough-shares and their spears to pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.


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For thou didst cast out thy people the house of Jacob, for they were filled from the east, and practicing magic as the rovers, and they will strike hands with the children of strangers.


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And their land shall be full of silver and gold, and no end to their treasures; and their land shall be full of horses, and no end to their chariots.


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And their land will be full of nothings; they will worship to the work of their hand, to what their fingers made:


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Go into the rock, and hide in the dust from the face of the fear of Jehovah, and from the splendor of his majesty.


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The lofty eyes of man were humbled, and the height of men bowed down, and Jehovah alone was exalted in that day.


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For the day to Jehovah of armies is upon all the haughty and the high, and upon all lifted up; and he was humbled:


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And the haughtiness of man was bowed down, and the height of man was humbled: and Jehovah alone was exalted in that day.


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And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the caverns of the dust, from the face of the fear of Jehovah, and from the splendor of his majesty in his rising to terrify the earth.


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In that day man shall cast the nothings of his silver and the nothings of his gold which they made for him to worship, to the digging of moles and to bats.


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To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the rocks from the face of the fear of Jehovah, and from the splendor of his majesty in his rising to terrify the earth.


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For behold, the Lord Jehovah of armies taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay, and the stay, all the stay of bread, and all the stay of water.


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The captain of fifty and the elevated of face, and the counselor, and the wise of the artificers, and the intelligent one enchanting.


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And the people were pressed, man by man, and a man by his neighbor: the boy shall enlarge himself against the old man and the despised against the honorable.


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For a man shall seize upon his brother of the house of his father, A garment to thee, thou shalt be chief to us, this ruin under thy hand:


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He shall lift up in that day, saying, I will not be binding up; and in my house no bread and no garment: thou shalt not set me a chief of the people.


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For Jerusalem was weak, and Judah fell: for their tongues and their doings are against Jehovah to embitter the eyes of his glory.


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The withdrawing of their face answered against them; and they announced their sins as Sodom, and they covered not. Wo to their soul! for they rewarded evil to themselves.


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My people, their tyrants from children, and women ruled over them. My people, they calling thee happy, causing to err; they destroyed the way of thy paths.


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Jehovah will go into judgment with the old men of his people and his chiefs: and ye burnt up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.


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And Jehovah will say, Because the daughters of Zion were lifted up, and they will go extending the neck and ogling their eyes, going and tripping their going, and binding back their feet:


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In that day Jehovah will turn away the ornament of the ankle bands, and the inter-weavings, and the crescents,


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And it was instead of a sweet smell there shall be rottenness, and instead of a girdle, a rope, and instead of turned work, baldness, and instead of a variegated garment, a girding of sackcloth a brand instead of beauty.


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And seven women shall lay hold upon one man in that day, saying, We will eat our bread, and we will be clothed with our garments: only thy name shall be called upon us to take away our reproach.


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In that day shall the springing up of Jehovah be for beauty and for glory, and the fruit of the earth for majesty and for ornament, for the escaping of Israel.


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And it was he being left in Zion and he remaining in Jerusalem, he shall say to him holy, all being written for their life in Jerusalem.


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When Jehovah washed out the excrements of the daughters of Zion, and he shall cleanse the blood of Jerusalem from her midst with the spirit of judgment, and with the spirit of burning.


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And Jehovah created upon all the foundation of mount Zion and upon all her convocation, a cloud by day, and smoke, and the shining of afire of flame by night: and upon all the glory a covering.


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And a booth shall be for a shadow by day from heat, and for a refuge, and for a hiding place from the storm, and from rain.


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I will sing now to my beloved a song of my love for his vineyard. There was a vineyard to my beloved in the horn of the son of oil:


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And he will dig it up, and he will free it from stones, and he will plant it with a vine of purple grapes, and build a tower in its midst, and he will also hew out a wine-vat in it: and he will wait for grapes to be made, and it will make wild grapes.


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And now, ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge ye now, between me and between my vineyard.


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What to do more to my vineyard, and did I not in it? wherefore I waited for grapes to be made, and it will make wild grapes.


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And now I will make known to you now what I do to my vineyard, taking away its hedge, and it was for consuming, breaking down its wall, and it was for a treading down.


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And I will make it a desolation; it shall not be pruned and it shall not be dressed, and there came up sharp points and thorns: and upon the clouds I will command from raining rain upon it.


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For the vineyard of Jehovah of armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his pleasures: and he will wait for judgment, and behold bloodshed; for justice, and behold a cry.


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Wo to those touching house upon house, they will bring near field upon field, till no more place, and ye dwelt yourselves alone in the midst of the earth.


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In the ears of Jehovah of armies, If not many houses shall be for desolation, great and good from none dwelling.


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Wo to those rising early in the morning, they will follow strong drink; remaining in the evening, wine will inflame them.


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And there was the harp and the lyre, the drum and the pipe, and the wine of their drinking's: but the work of Jehovah they will not look at, and the work of his hands they saw not.


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For this my people were carried into exile from not knowing; and their honor, men of famine, and their multitude dry with thirst.


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For this, hades enlarged her soul, and opened wide her mouth without bound: and her honor shall go down, and her multitude, and her tumult, and he rejoicing, into her.


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Saying, He shall hasten, he shall urge on his work, so that we shall see: and the counsel of the holy one of Israel shall draw near and come and we shall know.


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Wo to those saying, to evil, good, and to the good, evil; putting darkness for light, and light for darkness; putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitten.


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Justifying the unjust on account of a gift, and they will take away the justice of the just from him.


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For this as the tongue of fire consumes the straw, and the dry grass of flame will collapse: their root shall be as rottenness, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of Jehovah of armies, and the saying of the Holy One of Israel they despised.


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For this the anger of Jehovah was kindled against his people, and he will stretch forth his hand against them and strike them: and the mountains will be moved and their carcasses shall be as dung in the midst of the streets. In all this his anger was not turned back, and his hand was yet stretched out.


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And he lifted up a signal to the nations from far off, and he hissed to them from the extremity of the earth; and behold, they shall come swift from haste.


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None fainted, and none were weak among them; none shall slumber and none shall sleep; and the girdle of their loins was not loosed, and the thong of their shoes was not broken:


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Whose arrows were sharpened, and all their bows bent, the hoofs of their horses were reckoned as the rock, and their wheels as the whirlwind.


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The roaring to him as the lion, and he roared as the young lions: and they shall groan and shall lay hold of the prey, and it shall escape, and none delivering.


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And they shall groan against them in that day as the groaning of the sea: and they looked to the land and, behold, straitened darkness, and the light darkened in its clouds.


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In the year king Uzziah died, and I shall see Jehovah sitting upon his throne, high and lifted up, and his train filling the temple.


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And seraphs standing from above to it; six wings, six wings to one; with two he will cover his face, and with two he will cover his feet, and with two he will fly.


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And this called to this, and said, Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of armies: all the earth full of his glory.


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The foundations of the thresholds will tremble from the voice calling, and the house will be filled with smoke.


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And saying, Wo to me! for I was cut off; because I a man of unclean lips, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell: for mine eyes saw the king, Jehovah of armies.


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And one from the seraphs will fly to me, and in his hand a hot stone, he took with the tongs from off the altar:


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And he will touch upon my mouth, and say, Behold, this touched upon thy lips; and took away thine iniquity, and thy sin shall be covered.


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And I shall hear the voice of Jehovah, saying, Whom shall I send, and who shall go for us? and behold me saying, Send me.


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And he will say, Go, and say to this people, Hearing, hear ye, and ye shall not understand; and seeing, see ye, and ye shall not know.


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Make the heart of this people fat and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes, lest they shall see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and their heart shall understand and turn back and be healed to them.


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And saying, How long, O Lord? And he will say, Till when the cities were laid waste from not being inhabited, and the houses from not a man, and the land shall be laid waste with desolation.


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And yet in it a tenth, and it turned back, and it was for consuming, as the terebinth and as the oak which in casting the trunk in them the holy seed its pillar.


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And it will be in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin, king of Aram came up, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem, to war against her, and he was not able to fight against her.


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And it will be announced to the house of David, saying, Aram rested upon Ephraim; and his heart will move to and fro and the heart of his people, as the woods of the forest moved from the face of the wind.


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And Jehovah will say to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou and Shear-Jashub thy son, at the extremity of the channel of the highest pool of the highway, of the fuller's field;


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And say to him, Watch and rest; thou shalt not fear, and thy heart shall not be tender from the two tails of these smoking fire-brands, upon the heat of anger of Rezin and Aram, and the son of Remaliah.


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We will go up against Judah and terrify her and subdue her for us, and we will make a king in the midst of her, the son of Tabeal:


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For the head of Aram, Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rezin, and in yet sixty and five years Ephraim shall be broken from a people.


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And the head of Ephraim, Shomeron, and the head of Shomeron, the son of Remaliah. If ye will not believe, because ye will not believe.


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And he will say, Hear ye now, house of David; is it small for you to weary men, but will ye weary God also.


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For this, Jehovah he will give to you a sign Behold, the virgin conceiving, and she will bare a son, and call his name Immanuel.


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For before the boy shall know to reject in evil and to choose in good the land which thou abhorrest shall be forsaken from the face of its two kings.


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Jehovah shall bring upon thee and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days which came not, from the day Ephraim turned away from Judah; the king of Assur.


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And it was in that day Jehovah shall hiss for the fly which is in the extremity of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assur.


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And they shall come and rest all of them in the valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and in all the thorn hedges, and in all pastures.


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In that day shall Jehovah shave with a hired razor by those beyond the river, by the king of Assur, the head and the hair of the feet: and it also shall scrape off the beard.


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And it was from the abundance of making milk he shall eat curdled milk; for curdled milk and honey shall eat all they being left in the midst of the land.


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And it was in that day every place shall be where shall be there a thousand vines for a thousand of silver, for sharp points and thorns shall it be.


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And all the mountains which shall be dressed with the hoe, the fear of sharp points and thorns shall not come there: and it was for the sending forth of the ox and for the treading of sheep.


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And Jehovah will say to me, Take to thee a great tablet, and write upon it with a man's graving tool to hasten the spoil, urging on the plunder.


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I will take to witness to me faithful witnesses, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.


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And I shall draw near to the prophetess; and she will conceive and bear a son, and Jehovah will say to me, Call his name, Hastening the spoil, urging on the plunder.


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For before the boy shall know to call, My father and my mother, he shall lift up the strength of Damascus and the spoil of Shomeron before the king of Assur.


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Because this people rejected the water of Shiloh, going softly and rejoicing in Rezin and the son of Remaliah;


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And for this, behold Jehovah bringing up upon them the water of the river, strong and many, the king of Assur and his glory: and he came up over all his channels and he went over all his banks.


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And he went in Judah; and he overflowed and passed through; he will reach even to the neck; and the expansion of his wings was the fulness of the land, God with us.


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Make friendship, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, every land from afar; be girded and be broken in pieces; be girded and be broken in pieces.


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Counsel ye, counsel, and it shall be dispersed; speak the word and it shall not stand: for God is with us.


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For thus said Jehovah to me with strength of the hand, and he will turn me away from going in the way of this people, saying,


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Ye shall not say, A conspiracy to all whom this people shall say a conspiracy; and ye shall not fear their fear, and ye shall not be afraid.


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And he was for a holy place and for a stone of striking, and for a rock of falling to the two houses of Israel; for a trap net and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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Behold me and the children which Jehovah gave to me for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of armies dwelling in mount Zion.


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And when they shall say to you, Seek ye to necromancers and to wizards peeping and panting: shall not a people seek their God among the living for the dead?


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To the law and to the testimony if they will not speak according to this word, because no morning is in them.


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And passing through it, harshly oppressed and hungry; and it was when he shall be hungry, and they brake forth and cursed against their king and their God, and looked upwards.


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And they shall look to the earth, and behold, straits and darkness and fainting of distress; and to darkness being removed.


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For the fainting not to what the straits to her according to the time of the first he made light the land of Zebulon and the land of Naphtali; and afterward he made heavy the way of the sea beyond Jordan of Galilee of the nations.


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The people going in darkness saw a great light: they dwelling in the land of the shadow of death, light shone upon them.


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Thou didst multiply the nation, thou didst not increase the joy: they rejoiced before thee according to the joy in harvest as they will exalt in their dividing the spoil.


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For the yoke of his burden and the rod of his shoulder, and the rod of him oppressing with it thou didst break in pieces the day of Midian.


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For every shoe of the shod with trembling, and a garment being rolled in bloods; and it was for burning the food of fire.


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For a child was born to us, a son was given to us, and the dominion shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Captain of Peace.


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To the increase of his dominion and to peace no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to prepare it and to support it in judgment and in justice from now and even to forever: the zeal of Jehovah of armies will do this.


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And the people shall know, all they of Ephraim and the inhabitants of Shomeron, in pride and in greatness of heart, saying,


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The bricks fell, and we will build with hewn stone: the sycamores were cut down, and the cedars we will renew.


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Aram from the east, and the rovers from behind; and they will eat up Israel with all the mouth. In all this his anger was not turned back, and yet his hand stretched out.


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The old man and they lifting up faces, he the head; and the prophet teaching falsehood, be the tail.


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And there will be those leading this people causing them to wander; and those being led being swallowed up.


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For this upon their young men Jehovah shall not rejoice, and their orphans and their widows he will not compassionate; for they all are polluted and doing evil, and every mouth speaking folly. In all this his anger turned not back, and yet his hand stretched out.


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For wickedness burnt as fire; the sharp point and the thorn it shall consume, and shall burn in the thickets of the forest, and they shall roll up in the mounting up of smoke.


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In the outpourings of Jehovah of armies the land was consumed, and the people will be as the food of fire: and they shall not pity a man to his brother.


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And he shall cut upon the right hand, and hungering; and he shall eat upon the left, and they were not satisfied: they shall eat a man the flesh of his arm.


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Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: they being united against Judah. In all this his anger turned not back, and yet his hand stretched out.


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To turn away the judgment of the powerless, and to strip off judgment of the distressed of my people, for widows to be their plunder, and they will plunder orphans.


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And what will ye do for the day of reviewing, and for the tempest coming from far off? upon whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?


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Not to bow under the bound, and they shall fell under the slain; in all this his anger turned not back, and yet his hand stretched out.


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Against a polluted nation will I send him, and upon a people of my outpouring will I command him to spoil a spoil and to plunder a plunder, and to set them a treading down as the clay of the streets.


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And he will not thus purpose, and his heart will not reckon thus; for in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not few.


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As my hand found for the kingdoms of nothing, and their carved images from Jerusalem and from Shomeron;


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Is it not according to what I did to Shomeron and to her nothings, thus will I do to Jerusalem and to her images?


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And it was when the Lord will complete all his work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will review upon the fruit of the great heart of the king of Assur and upon the glory of his eyes lifted up.


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For he said, By strength of my hand I did, and by my wisdom, for I was discreet: and I will remove the bounds of the people, and their things prepared I plundered, and I will bring down as a strong one the inhabitants.


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And my hand will find as a nest for the strength of the peoples: and as he gathering eggs left, I gathered all the land; and there was not moving the wing, and opening wide the mouth, and peeping.


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Shall the axe vaunt itself against him hewing with it? shall the saw magnify itself against him moving it up and down? as the rod moving up and down with those lifting it up; as the lifting up of the rod not wood.


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For this shall Jehovah, the Lord of armies send among his fatnesses leanness; and under his glory he shall burn a burning as the burning of fire.


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And the light of Israel was for a fire, and his Holy for a flame: and he burnt and consumed his thorns, and his sharp points in one day:


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And the glory of his forest and his Carmel, from the soul and even to the flesh, he shall finish, and it was as he fainting pined away.


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And it was in that day the remainder of Israel shall no more add, and the escaping of the house of Jacob, to lean upon him smiting them; and were leaning upon Jehovah the holy of Israel in truth.


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For if my people Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall turn back among them: a consumption decided overflowing justice.


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For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah of armies, Thou my people dwelling in Zion shalt not fear from Assur: with the rod he shall strike thee and he will lift up his rod upon thee, in the way of Egypt.


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And Jehovah of armies roused up for him a scourge according to the blow of Midian at the rock Oreb: and his rod upon the sea, and he lifted it up in the way of Egypt.


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And it was in that day, his burden shall remove from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke was lightened from the face of the anointing.


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Yet the day to stand in Nob: his hand will shake the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.


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Behold the Lord Jehovah of armies dividing the bough with sudden violence: and the high of stature hewn down, and the lofty shall be humbled.


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And the spirit of Jehovah resting upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of Jehovah:


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His sweet odor in the fear of Jehovah: and not according to the seeing of his eyes shall he judge, and not according to the hearing of his ears shall he decide.


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And he judged the powerless with justice, and he decided in straightness for the humble of the earth: and he struck the earth with the rod of his mouth, and by the spirit of his lips he will slay the unjust.


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The wolf dwelt with the lamb; and the panther will lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together, and a little boy leading with them.


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And the heifer and the bear shall feed together, and their young shall lie down; and the lion shall eat straw as the ox.


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And the suckling was delighted upon the hole of the asp, and upon the viper's den the weaned directed his hand.


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They shall not do evil, and they shall not destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth full of the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters covering to the sea.


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And there was in that day a root of Jesse which stood for a signal of the peoples; to him shall the nations seek, and his rest was glory.


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And it was in that day Jehovah shall add the second time his hand to gain the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assur 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 lifted up a signal to the nations, and he gathered the outcasts of Israel, and he will collect the dispersed of Judah from the four wings of the earth.


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And the jealousy of Ephraim was removed, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not press upon Ephraim.


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And they flew upon the shoulder of the rovers to the sea; together shall they plunder the sons of the east: Edom and Moab the sending forth of their hand, and the sons of Ammon their audience.


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And Jehovah exterminated the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and he moved to and fro his hand over the river with the strength of his wind, and he struck it to the seven torrents, and he caused them to tread in shoes.


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And there was a highway for the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assur, as it was to Israel in the day of his coming up from the land of Egypt.


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And thou saidst in that day, I will praise thee, O Jehovah: for thou wert angry with me, thine anger will turn back and thou wilt comfort me,


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Behold God my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid: for my strength and song is Jah Jehovah, and he will be to me for salvation.


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And ye said in that day, Praise ye to Jehovah, call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples; keep ye in remembrance that his name was exalted.


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Cry out and shout for joy thou inhabitress of Zion, for great in the midst of thee the Holy One of Israel.


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Lift ye up a signal upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice to them; move the hand to and fro and they shall come in to the entrances of the noble minded.


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I commanded to the consecrated, also I called the strong ones for mine anger, those exulting in my lifting up.


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The voice of a multitude in the mountain; the likeness of much people; the voice of the uproar of kingdoms, nations being gathered: Jehovah of armies reviewing the army of battle.


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Coming from a land from afar, from the extremity of the heavens, Jehovah and the vessels of his wrath to overthrow all the earth.


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And they trembled; pains and writhings will lay hold of them; as she bringing forth they will be in pain: they shall wonder a man at his neighbor; their faces the face of flames.


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Behold, the day of Jehovah coming fierce and overflowing, and burning anger to set the earth for desolation: and he will destroy the sinner out of it.


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For the stars of the heavens and the giants of the sky shall not shine their light: the sun was darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.


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And I appointed evil over the habitable globe, and upon the unjust their iniquity; and I caused to cease the pride of the arrogant, and I will humble the pride of the terrible.


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For this I will provoke the heavens to anger, and the earth shall tremble from her place, in the wrath of Jehovah of armies, and in the day of his burning anger.


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And it was as the roe being thrust down and as a sheep and not a man gathering: to his people shall they turn, and they shall flee a man to his land.


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And their children shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, and their houses shall be plundered, and their wives shall be ravished.


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Behold me rousing up the Modes against them, who shall not reckon silver; and gold they shall not delight in it.


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And the bows of the boys shall be dashed in pieces, and the fruit of the womb they shall not pity; and upon their sons their eye shall not have compassion.


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And Babel the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' grandeur was as God overthrowing Sodom and Gomorrah.


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It shall not be inhabited forever, and it shall not be dwelt in even to generation and generation: and the Arabian shall not go on there, and the shepherds shall not recline there.


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And inhabitants of the desert reclined there, and their houses were filled with howlings, and the daughters of the ostrich dwelt there, and he goats shall leap there.


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And howlers cried out in its palaces, and great serpents in the temples of delight: and her time draws near to come, and her days shall not be protracted.


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For Jehovah will pity Jacob, and he yet chose in Israel, and he gave them rest upon their land: and the stranger was joined to them, and they joined <n> The hard copy spelling records the following as:</i></font> themseves</n> themselves to the house of Jacob.


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And peoples took them and brought them to their place, and the house of Israel inherited them upon the land of Jehovah for servants and for maids: and they were captives to those having been made captives, and they came down upon those pressing them.


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And it was in that day Jehovah gave rest to thee from thy toil and from thy trouble, and from the hard service which was served upon thee.


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And thou tookest up this parable against the king of Babel, and thou saidst, How did he oppressing, cease! oppression ceased.


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Striking the peoples in wrath a blow not removed, bringing down the nations in anger; pursuing, not sparing.


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Also the cypresses rejoiced at thee, the cedars of Lebanon: From that time thou wert laid down, he cutting off will not come up against us.


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Hades from beneath was moved for thee to meet thy coming: it roused the shades for thee, all the leaders of the earth: it raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.


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Thy grandeur was brought down to hades, the sound of thy harps: the worm was spread under thee, and worms covering thee.


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How thou fallest from the heavens, brilliant star, son of the morning! thou wert cut off to the earth, overthrowing upon the nations!


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And thou saidst in thy heart, I will go up to the heavens; from above to the stars of God I will lift up my throne, and I will sit upon the mountain of appointment in the thighs of the north.


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They seeing thee shall look upon thee, they shall attend to thee. This the man moving the earth, shaking kingdoms:


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Setting the habitable globe as a desert, and destroying its cities: for his bound opening not the house.


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And thou wert east out of thy grave as a sprout abhorred, a garment of the slain thrust through with the sword, and going down to the stones of the pit as a corpse trodden down.


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Thou shalt not be united with them in the grave, for thou destroyedst thy land, and didst slay thy people: the seed of those doing evil shall not be called forever.


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Prepare slaughter for his sons, for the iniquity of their fathers; they shall not rise and possess the land, and fill the face of the habitable globe with cities.


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And I rose against them, said Jehovah of armies, and I cut off to Babel the name and remainder, offspring and progeny, says Jehovah.


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And I set it for the possession of the hedge-hog, and pools of water: and I swept her with the broom of desolation, says Jehovah of armies.


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Jehovah of armies sware, saying, If not as I purposed thus it was, and as I counseled, this shall stand:


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To break Assur in my land, and upon my mountain I will tread him down: and his yoke was removed from off them, and his burden shall remove from off their shoulder.


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This the counsel being counseled upon all the land: and this the hand stretched out upon all the nations.


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For Jehovah of armies counseled and who shall bring to nought? and his hand was stretched out, and who shall turn it back?


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Thou shalt not rejoice Philistia, all of thee, because the rod of him striking thee was broken: for from the root of the serpent shall come forth a viper, and his fruit burning flying.


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And the first born of the poor were fed, and the needy shall lie down confidently: and I killed thy root with famine, and thy residue he shall slay.


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Wail, thou gate; cry out, thou city; all thou Philistia, melting away, for from the north a smoke coming, and none being alone in his appointments.


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And what shall the messengers of the nations answer? for Jehovah founded Zion, and the humble of his people shall trust in her.


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The burden of Moab. For in the night the city of Moab was destroyed, perishing; for in the night the wall of Moab was destroyed, perishing.


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He went up to the house and to Dibon, the heights, to weep: over Nebo and Medeba shall Moab wail: upon all their heads baldness; every beard cut off.


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And in their places without they girded themselves with sackcloth: upon her roofs and in her streets every one shall wail, going down into weeping.


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And Heshbon shall cry and Elealah; even to Jahaz their voice was heard: for this the loins of Moab shall make a loud noise his soul shall be evil to him.


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My heart shall cry out for Moab; passing through even to Zoar, a heifer of three years: for going up to Luhith with weeping shall they go up into it: for the way of Horonaim they shall rouse up a cry of breaking.


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For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolation; for the grass dried up, the herbage failed; there was no green.


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For this the abundance made and their wealth upon the torrent of the Arabians shall they lift them up.


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For the cry surrounded the bound of Moab, its wailing even to Eglaim, and its wailing to the well of Elim.


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For the waters of Dimon were filled with blood: I will put additions upon Dimon, to the escaping of Moab, lions, and to the rest of the land.


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Send ye a lamb to the ruler to the land, from the rock of the desert to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.


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And it shall be as the bird fleeing, the nest cast out, the daughters of Moab shall be from the passages to Arnon.


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Bring ye counsel, do judgment; place as the night thy shadow in the midst of noon; hide the driven out; thou shalt not betray the fugitive.


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The outcast shall dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covering to them from the face of him laying waste: for the oppressor ceased, violence was finished, the treaders-down were consumed out of the land.


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And the throne was set up in mercy: and he sat upon it in truth in the tent of David, judging and seeking judgment, and hastening justice.


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We heard the pride of Moab; he was greatly elated; his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; not so his empty talk.


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For this shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the foundations of the wall of Haresheth shall ye sigh; surely they were smitten.


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For the fields of Heshbon languished, the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the nations struck its vine of purple grapes, they reached even to Jazer, they wandered to the desert: her sprouts were thrust out, they passed over the sea.


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For this I will weep with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealah: for upon thy fruit harvest and upon thy harvest the vintage shout fell.


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And joy and gladness was taken away from Carmel, and in the vineyards there shall be no shout for joy, there shall be no cry with a loud voice: and he treading shall not tread out wine in the wine-vat: I caused the vintage shout to cease.


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And it was when it was seen that Moab was weary upon the height, and coming to his holy place to pray and he shall not be able.


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And now Jehovah spake, saying, In three years as the years of a hireling and the honor of Moab despised with with all the great multitude; and the remnant being small, not great.


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The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus being taken away from a city, and it was a falling heap of rubbish.


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The cities of Aroer were forsaken: they shall be for flocks, and they lay down, and none terrifying.


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And the fortress ceased from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram: they shall be as the glory of the sons of Israel, says Jehovah of armies.


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And it was in that day the glory of Jacob shall be feeble, and the fatness of his flesh shall waste away.


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And it was as he gathered the harvest of standing grain, and he shall reap the ears with his arm; and it was as he gathering ears in the valley of Rephaim.


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And he left in it gleaning, as the beating of the olive tree, two, three berries upon the head of the summit, four, five in the branches of its fruit, says Jehovah, God of Israel.


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In that day shall the man look upon him making him, and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.


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And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and what his fingers made he shall not see, and the statues and the images.


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In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken thicket, and the summit which they forsook from the face of the sons of Israel: and it was a desolation.


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For thou didst forget the God of thy salvation, and didst not remember the rock of thy fortress, for this, thou shalt plant pleasant plants, and thou shalt sow it with vine shoots of the stranger.


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In the day of thy planting thou shalt hedge in, and in the morning thou shalt make thy seed fruitful: the harvest a heap in the day of thy possession and incurable pain.


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Wo to the multitude of many peoples; they will sound as the sound of the seas; and the tumult to the nations shall rage as the tumult of great waters.


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To the nations as the tumult of many waters they shall rage, and he rebuked him and he fled from far off and was pursued as the chief of the mountains before the wind and as stubble before the whirlwind.


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For the time of evening, behold, terror; before morning he is not This the portion of those plundering us, and the lot of those spoiling us.


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Sending messengers upon the sea, and in vessels of the bulrush upon the face of the waters, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation drawn out and sharpened, to a people to be feared from this, and farther off; a nation of might, of might, and of treading down, of which the rivers divided up its land.


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All ye inhabiting the habitable globe, and dwelling in the earth, when lifting up a signal on the mountains, ye shall see; and when striking the trumpet, ye shall hear.


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For thus said Jehovah to me, I will cause rest, and I will behold in my dwelling place as the serene heat upon the light, and as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.


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For before the harvest, when the flower was completed, and the sour grape shall be ripening in the flower, and he cut off the shoots with pruning-hooks, and cutting off he took away the tendrils.


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They shall be left together to the ravenous bird of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the ravenous bird summered upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.


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In that time shall a gift be brought to Jehovah of armies of a people drawn out, and sharpened, and from a people to be feared from this, and farther off; a nation of might, of might, and of treading down, of which the rivers divided up its lands, to the place of the name of Jehovah of armies, mount Zion.


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The burden of Egypt Behold, Jehovah riding upon a swift cloud and coming to Egypt: and the vanities of Egypt moved to and fro from his face, and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.


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And I aroused Egypt against Egypt, and they warred a man against his brother, and a man against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.


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And the spirit of Egypt was emptied in its midst, and its counsel I will destroy: and they sought to the vanities and to the mutterers, and to the necromancers, and to the wizards.


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And I shut up Egypt into the hand of hard lords, and a strong king shall rule over them, says the Lord Jehovah of armies.


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They cast away the rivers; the rivers of Egypt languished and dried up; the reed and the sedge pined away.


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The naked places by the river upon the mouth of the river, and everything being sown by the river was dried up, driven away, and nothing of it.


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And the fishermen groaned, and all casting the hook into the river mourned, and they spreading nets upon the face of the water, languished.


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Also the chiefs of Zoan are foolish, the wise counseling Pharaoh the counsel became brutish: how shall ye say to Pharaoh, I the son of the wise, the son of kings of old?


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Where are they? where thy wise? and they shall announce to thee now, and they shall make known what Jehovah shall counsel upon Egypt.


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The chiefs of Zoan were foolish, the chiefs of Noph were deceived; and they caused Egypt to wander, the pinnacles of its tribes.


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Jehovah mingled in the midst of her a spirit of perversities) and they caused Egypt to wander in all its works as the intoxicated wanders in his vomit.


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In that day Egypt shall be as women; and it trembled and was afraid from the face of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of armies which he shook over it.


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And the land of Judah was to Egypt for consternation, all which shall have it in remembrance shall be afraid to himself from the face of the counsel of Jehovah of armies which he shall counsel against it.


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In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt speaking the lip of Canaan, and they sware to Jehovah of armies; and to one it shall be said, The city of the sun.


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In that day there shall be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar near its bound to Jehovah.


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And it was for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of armies in the land of Egypt, for they shall cry to Jehovah from the face of those pressing them, and he shall send to them him saving, and great, and he delivered them.


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And Jehovah shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day, and they made a sacrifice and gift, and they vowed a vow to Jehovah, and they completed.


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And Jehovah smote Egypt, and he smote and healed: and they turned back even to Jehovah, and he was entreated by them, and he healed them.


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In that day shall be a highway from Egypt to Assur, and Assur came into Egypt, and Egypt into Assur, and the Egyptians served with Assur.


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In that day Israel shall be the third to Egypt and to Assur, and a blessing in the midst of the land:


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Whom Jehovah of armies blest him, saying, Blessed my people of Egypt, and the work of my hand, Assur, and my inheritance Israel.


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In the year Tartan came to Ashdod, (in Sargon's sending him, king of Assur) and he will fight with Ashdod and take it:


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In that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah, son of Amos, saying, Go loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and thou shalt draw off the shoe from thy foot And he will do so, going naked and barefoot.


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And Jehovah will say, As my servant Isaiah went naked and barefoot three years, a sign and miracle upon Egypt and upon Cush:


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Thus shall the king of Assur lead the captivity of Egypt, and the exile of Cush, boys and old men naked and barefoot, and buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.


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And he inhabiting this island said in that day, Behold, thus our expectation, where we fled there for help to be delivered from the face of the king of Assur: and how shall we escape?


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The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south for passing through, from the desert it came, from a fearful land.


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A hard vision was announced to me: The spoiler spoiled, and he laying waste, laid waste. Go up, O Elam: press, O Media; all her sighing I caused to cease.


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For this, my loins were filled with pain: distress took hold of me as the pains of her bringing forth: I was shaken from hearing; I trembled from seeing.


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My heart wandered; trembling made me afraid: the evening twilight of my desire he put to me for fear.


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He will see a chariot, a pair of horse men, the rider of an ass, the rider of a camel; and listening, he listened with much attention.


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And he will call, A lion: on the watch-tower my lord, I stand continually in the day, and upon my watch I stand all the night.


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And behold, here came a chariot, a man, a pair of horsemen. And he will answer and say, She fell, Babel fell; and the carved images of her god he brake in pieces to the earth.


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O my threshing, and the son of my threshing-floor, what I heard from Jehovah of armies the God of Israel, I announced to you.


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To meet the thirsty, bring ye water, O inhabitants of the land of Tema: anticipate ye him wandering, with bread.


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For they fled from the face of the swords, the sword drawn out, and from the face of the bent bow, and from the face of the heaviness of war.


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For thus said the Lord to me, Within yet a year; as the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar was finished.


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The burden of the valley of vision. What to thee now, that thou wentest up all of thee, to the roofs?


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The city put in commotion was filled with noise, the exulting city: thy wounded not wounded of the sword, and not the dead of war.


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All thy chiefs fled together, they were bound of the bow: all they finding thee were bound together; they fled from from far off.


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For this I said, Look ye away from me; I will be bitter in my weeping, ye shall not hasten to comfort me upon the desolation of the daughter of my people.


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For a day of consternation, and of treading down, and perplexity by the Lord Jehovah of armies of the valley of vision, of undermining the wall, and of a cry for help to the mountains.


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And it shall be the chosen of thy valleys was filled with chariots, and the horsemen placed a seat at the gate.


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And he will uncover the covering of Judah, and thou wilt look in that day to the weapons of the house of the forest.


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The clefts of the city of David ye saw, that they were many: and ye shall gather the water of the lowest pool.


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And ye made a gathering place between the two walls for the water of the old pool; and ye looked not to him making it, and ye saw not him forming it from far off.


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And the Lord Jehovah of armies in that day will call to weeping and to wailing, and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth:


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And behold, gladness and joy, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.


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And it was uncovered in the ears of Jehovah of armies, If this iniquity shall be expiated to you till ye shall die, said the Lord Jehovah of armies.


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Thus said the Lord Jehovah of armies, Go, come in to this associate to Shebna who is over the house,


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What to thee here, and who to thee here, that thou hewedst to thee here a tomb, he hewing from on high his tomb and cutting in a dwelling in a rock to himself?


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Rolling, he will roll thee a roll as a ball into a land broad of hands: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory the dishonor of thy lord's house.


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And I will clothe him with thy tunic, and I will strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will give thy dominion into his hand, and he was for a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.


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And I gave the key of the house of David upon his shoulder, and he opened and none shut, and he shut and none opened.


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And I fastened him a peg in a faithful place; and he was for a throne of glory to his father's house.


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And they hung upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the sprouts, all the vessels of smallness, from the vessels of lavers and even to all the vessels of flasks.


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In that day, says Jehovah of armies, shall the peg fastened in a faithful place give way, and it was cut down, and it fell; and the lifting up which was upon it was cut off: for Jehovah spake.


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The burden of Tyre. Wail, ye ships of Tarshish, for it was laid waste from a house from going in: from the land of Chittim it was uncovered to them.


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On many waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river her produce; and she shall be the emporium of nations.


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Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea said, the strength of the sea, saying, I was not pained, I brought not forth, and I caused not youths to grow, and I raised not up virgins.


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This to you the exulting from the days of old, her beginning; her feet shall fail her sojourning from far off.


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Who will counsel this against Tyre, encircled with a crown, whom her merchants, chiefs; her merchants the honored of the earth.


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Jehovah of armies purposed it to profane the pride of all glory, to make light all the honored of the earth.


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He stretched forth his hand over the sea, he disquieted kingdoms: Jehovah commanded to Canaan to destroy her fortress.


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And he will say, Thou shalt no more add to exalt, thou violated virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; also there it shall not be rest to thee.


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Behold the land of the Chaldees; this people was not; Assur founded it for the inhabitants of the desert: they set up its watch-towers, they raised up its fortresses, he set it for ruins.


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And it was in that day, and Tyre was forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: from the end of seventy years it shall be to Tyre as the song of a harlot.


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Take a harp, go about the city, O harlot having been forgotten; be cheerful, playing on the instrument; increase the song so that thou shalt be remembered.


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And it was from the end of seventy years, Jehovah will review Tyre, and she turned back to her gift, and she committed fornication with all the kingdoms of the land upon the face of the earth.


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And her traffic and her gift holy to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured up, and it shall not be laid up; for to those dwelling before Jehovah her traffic shall be for eating to be satisfied, and for a splendid covering.


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Behold, Jehovah emptying the earth and making it waste, and subverting its face, and scattering its inhabitants.


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And it was as the people, so the priest; as the servant, so his lord; as the maid, so the mistress; as the buyer, so he selling; as he lending, so the borrower; as be lending on interest, so he exacting interest to him.


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Being emptied, the land shall be emptied: and being plundered, it shall be plundered: for Jehovah spake this word.


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The earth mourning, fell away: the habitable globe languishing, fell away: the heights of the people of the land languished,


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And the earth was polluted under its inhabitants, for they passed by the instructions, they changed the law, they broke the eternal covenant.


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For this, the curse consumed the earth, and they dwelling in it, will transgress: for this, they dwelling upon the earth were burned, and those remaining, men of fewness.


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The exulting of the drums ceased, the noise of those triumphing, left off, the exulting of the harp ceased.


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An outcry for wine in the streets; all joy grew dark, the exulting of the earth was carried into exile.


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For thus it shall be in the midst of the land in the midst of the peoples, as the beating of the olive, as the gleanings if the vintage was finished.


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They shall lift up their voice, they shall shout for joy in the majesty of Jehovah they cried aloud from the sea.


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For this, with lights they honored Jehovah in the isles of the sea, the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.


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From the wing of the earth we heard songs, glory to the just one. And saying, Destruction to me, destruction to me, wo to me! they acting deceitfully, acted deceitfully; and spoiling, they acting deceitfully, acted deceitfully.


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And it was he fleeing from the voice of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he coming up out of the midst of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from the height were opened, and the foundations of the earth, will tremble.


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And being broken, the earth was broken to pieces, and the earth being abolished, it was abolished; the earth being shaken, shook.


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The earth moving to and fro, shall move to and fro as the intoxicated, and it was removed as a lodge; and its transgression was heavy upon it and it fell, and it shall not add to rise.


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And it was in that day Jehovah shall review upon the army of the height upon the height, and upon the kings of the earth upon the earth.


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And they gathered a collection of the bound into the dungeon, and they were shut up into a shutting up, and after many days they shall be reviewed.


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And the moon blushed, and the sun was ashamed, for Jehovah of armies reigned in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and was honored before his old men.


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O Jehovah, thou my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name, for thou didst a wonder; counsels from far off, stability, faithfulness.


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For thou didst set from a city to a heap, a fortified city to ruins: a palace of strangers from a city; it shall not be built forever.


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For thou wert a fortress to the poor, a fortress to the needy in straits; to him a refuge from the inundation, a shadow from the heat when the wind of the terrible ones as the inundation of the wall.


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As the heat in Zion the noise of strangers thou shalt bring down; the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the song of the terrible shall be humbled.


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Jehovah of armies will make to all peoples in this mountain a drinking of fatness, a drinking of lees of wine, fatness of marrows, strained lees of wine.


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And he will swallow up in this mountain the face of the covering covered over all peoples, and the veil covered over all nations.


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He swallowed up death for glory, the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people he will remove from off all the earth, for Jehovah spake.


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And it was said in that day, Behold, this our God, we hoped for him, and he will save us: this Jehovah, we hoped for him, we will rejoice and be glad in his salvation.


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For the hand of Jehovah shall rest in this mountain, and Moab was thrust down under him as straw was thrust down in the water of the dunghill.


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And he spread forth his hands in their midst, as he swimming will spread forth to swim: and he humbled their pride with the ambuscades of their hands.


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And the fortress of the height of thy walls shall be brought low; be humbled, be struck to the earth, even to the dust.


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In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: A strong city to us; he will set salvation the wall and the fortification.


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For he bows down those dwelling in height; for the city set up on high he will bring it down; he will bring it down even to the earth; he will cause it to touch even to the dust.


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The way to the just one is straightness: being upright, thou wilt prepare the departing of the just one.


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Also the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, we hoped for thee; to thy name and to thy remembrance is the desire of the soul.


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My soul desired thee in the night; also my spirit in the midst of me I will seek thee: for when thy judgments to the earth, those dwelling in the habitable globe will learn justice.


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Shall the unjust be shown favor? He learnt not justice; in the land of justice he will act perversely, and he will not see the majesty of Jehovah.


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O Jehovah, high thy hand, they will not see: they shall see and be ashamed for their jealousy of the people; also the fire of thine enemies shall consume them.


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O Jehovah our God, lords besides thee had dominion over us; but in thee alone will we make mention of thy name.


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The dead shall not live; shades shall not rise; for this, thou reviewedst and thou wilt destroy them, and all remembrance to them shall perish.


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Thou didst add to the nation, O Jehovah, thou didst add to the nation thou wert honored: thou didst put far; away all the ends of the earth.


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As she conceiving will draw near to bring forth, she will be pained and cry out in her pangs, thus were we from before thee, O Jehovah.


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We conceived, we were pained, thus we brought forth wind; we shall not make the earth salvation, the inhabitants of the habitable globe shall not fall.


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Thy dead shall live, with my corpse shall they rise. Awake and shout, ye dwelling in dust: for the dew of brightness is thy dew, and the land of the shades shall fall.


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Go, my people, enter into thy apartments and shut thy doors about thee: hide thee as a little moment till the wrath shall pass by.


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For behold, Jehovah will come forth out of his place to review the iniquity of him dwelling in the earth upon him; and the earth uncovered her bloods, and she will no more cover over her slain.


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In that day Jehovah will review with his hard and great and strong sword upon leviathan the serpent fleeing, and upon leviathan the winding serpent; and he killed the dragon which was in the sea.


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I Jehovah watched her; for the moments I will water her; lest he will review upon her, night and day I will watch her.


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Wrath not to me: who shall distribute to me the sharp point of the thorn in battle? I will rush upon her; I will set her on fire together.


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Those coming of Jacob shall he cause to take root: Israel shall blossom and be fruitful, and they filled the face of the habitable globe with produce.


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According to the blow of him striking him, he struck him; or according to the killing of those killing him, he killed.


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In measure, in sending her forth thou wilt contend with her: he took away with a hard spirit in the day of the east,


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Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob shall be expiated; and this all the fruit to remove his sin; in his setting all the stones of the altar as stones of lime broken in pieces, the statues and images shall not stand up.


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For the fortified city was separated, the habitation being cast out and forsaken as the desert: there shall the calf feed, and there he shall lie down, and there he finished its branches.


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In its harvest being dried up, women shall break it off in coming, illuminating it: for it is a people not understanding: for this he making them will not compassionate them, and he forming them will not have mercy upon them.


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And it was in that day Jehovah will beat off from the stream of the river even to the torrent of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered together by one, one, ye sons of Israel.


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And it was in that day he shall strike upon the great trumpet, and they perishing came into the land of Assui, and the outcasts into the land of Egypt, and they worshiped to Jehovah in the holy mountain in Jerusalem.


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O to the crown of pride, wo to the hirelings of Ephraim! a flower falling away is the glory of his beauty which is upon the head of the valley of fatness of those smitten with wine.


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Behold, a strong and active one to Jehovah, as a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, as a storm of vast waters overflowing, let fall to the earth with the hand.


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And the flower falling away was the glory of his beauty which is upon the head of the valley of fatness, as the first-fruits before fruit harvest which he looking at it shall see, in its continuing in his hand he will swallow it up.


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In that day shall Jehovah of armies be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people.


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And for a spirit of judgment to him sitting upon the judgment, and for strength of them turning back the battle of the storm.


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And these also went astray by wine, and by strong drink they erred; the priest and the prophet went astray by strong drink, they were swallowed up from wine, they erred from strong drink, they went astray in seeing, they wavered in judgment.


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Whom shall he teach knowledge? whom shall he cause to understand hearing? those weaned from milk and those taken away from the breasts.


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For precept to precept, precept to precept; line to line, line to line; a little there, a little there:


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To whom he said to them, This the rest they caused to the weary to rest; and this the quiet: and they would not hear.


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And the word of Jehovah was to them, precept to precept, precept to precept; line to line, line to line; a little there, a little there, so that they shall go and they stumbled backward, and were broken and snared and taken.


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Because ye said, We cut out a covenant with death, and with hades we did this; when this overflowing scourge passed through it shall not come to us, for we set falsehood our refuge, and in a lie we hid ourselves.


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For this, thus said the Lord. Jehovah, Behold me placing for a foundation in Zion a stone, a stone of trial, a corner precious, a foundation being founded: and he believing shall not hasten.


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And I set judgment to the line and justice to the weight: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of falsehood, and the waters shall overflow the covering.


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And your covenant with death was obliterated, and your league with hades shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through and ye were for a treading down to it.


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When passing through it shall take you: for by morning by morning it shall pass through in the day and in the night: and it was only an agitation to;understand the hearing.


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For the spreading was shortened above stretching out, and the covering narrow for hiding one's self.


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For as mount Perazim shall Jehovah rise up, as the valley in Gibeon shall he be moved to do his work, his strange work, and to work his service, his unknown service.


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And now ye shall not be mocker's lest your bonds shall be strong: for I heard a completion and decision from the Lord. Jehovah of armies upon all the earth.


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Did he not make level its face and disperse the fennel flower, and he will scatter the cummin, and he set the wheat in order, and designated the barley, and the spilt in his bound?


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For the fennel flower shall not be beaten with the threshing sledge, and the wheel of a wagon shall not be turned about upon the cummin; for the fennel flower shall be beaten out with the rod and the cummin with the rod.


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Bread shall be beaten small; for threshing, he will not forever thresh it; and the wheel of his wagon he put in motion and his horsemen shall not beat it small.


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Also this shall come forth from Jehovah of armies, he being wonderful of counsel and great of understanding.


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Wo to Ariel, Ariel, the city David encamped in! add ye year upon year; the festivals shall run their circle.


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And I encamped as a circle upon thee, and I pressed upon thee with a garrison, and I raised intrenchments against thee.


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And thou being brought down, thou shalt speak from the earth, and thy word shall be depressed out of the dust, and thy voice as a necromancer from the earth, and thy saying Shall peep from the dust.


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And the multitude of thy strangers was as the thin dust, and Its the chaff passing away, the multitude of the terrible ones: and it was at a moment suddenly.


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From Jehovah of armies shalt thou be reviewed, with thunder and with shaking, and a great voice, whirlwind and storm, and the flames of consuming fire.


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And it was as a dream of a vision of the night, the multitude of all the nations warring against Ariel and all warring against her and her fastnesses, and those pressing upon her.


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And it was as when the hungry shall dream, and behold, he ate; and he awoke and his soul was empty: and as when the thirsty shall dream, and behold, he drank, and he awoke, and behold, he fainted, and his soul desired: thus shall be the multitude of all the nations warring against mount Zion.


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Linger ye, and wonder; delight yourselves, and be ye blinded; they were drunken and not with wine; they reeled and not with strong drink.


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For Jehovah poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and he will close your eyes: the prophets and your heads, the seeing he covered.


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And the vision of all will be to you as the words of the book being sealed, which they shall give to him, to him knowing writing, saying, Read now, this: and he said, I shall not be able, for it was sealed.


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And the book was given to him not knowing writing, saying, Read now, this: and he said, I know not writing.


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And Jehovah will say, Because that this people drew near with their month, and honored me with their lips, and their heart was far from me, and their fear towards me shall be taught from the command of men.


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For this, behold me adding to be wonderful with this people, dealing wonderfully and being a wonder: and the wisdom of their wise perished, and the understanding of their understanding ones shall be hid.


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Wo to those making deep to hide counsel from Jehovah, and their work was in darkness, and they will say, Who saw us? and who knew us?


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Shall not your perverting be reckoned as the potter's clay? for shall the work say to him making it, He made me not? and he being formed, say to him forming, He understood not?


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Is it not yet a very little and Lebanon turned back to Carmel, and Carmel shall be reckoned for a forest?


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In that day the deaf heard the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of thick darkness, and darkness.


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And the humble shall add joy in Jehovah, and the poor of men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.


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Leading a man into sin by a word, and laying snares for him doing justice in the gate, and they will turn aside the just one by vanity.


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For this, thus said Jehovah, to the house of Jacob, who redeemed Abraham, Jacob shall not now be ashamed and his face shall not now become pale.


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For in his seeing his children, the work of my hand, in his midst, they shall consecrate my name, and consecrate the Holy One of Jacob, and they shall fear the God of Israel.


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Wo to sons turning aside, says Jehovah, to make counsel and not from me; and to cover a covering, and not my spirit so as to add sin upon sin:


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Going to come down to Egypt, and my mouth they asked not; to be strengthened by the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt.


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And the strength of Pharaoh was to you for shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt for reproach.


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All acted wickedly for a people who will not profit them, not for help and not for profiting, but for shame and also for a reproach.


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The burden of quadrupeds of the south: into the land of straits and distress, the lioness and the lion from them, the viper and the burning flying they will lift up upon the shoulder of young asses, their riches, and upon the humps of camels their treasures, for a people who shall not profit.


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And the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I called to this their violence ceased.


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Now go, write it to them upon a tablet, and engrave it upon a book, and it shall be for the latter day, forever even forever.


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Who said to the seeing, Ye shall not see, and to the perceiving, Ye shall not perceive for us right things, speak to us smooth things, perceive delusions.


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


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Therefore thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because ye rejected in this word, and ye will trust in violence and perverseness, and ye will do upon it.


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For this, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach falling, gushing out in a high wall, of which the breaking will come suddenly at a moment.


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And he broke it as the breaking of a vessel of the potter's being crushed; he will not spare: and there shall not be found in its crushing a sherd to take fire from the burning, and to skim off water from the reservoir.


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For thus said Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In turning back and in rest shall ye be saved; in quiet and in trust shall be your strength, and ye would not.


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And ye will say, No; for upon horses we will flee: for this ye shall flee: and upon the swift will we ride; for this they pursuing you shall be swift.


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One thousand from before the rebuke of one; from before the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye were left as a mast upon the head of the mountain, and as a signal upon the hill.


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And for this Jehovah will wait to compassionate you, and for this he will be lifted up to pity you, for Jehovah is a God of judgment: happy all they waiting for him.


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For the people shall dwell in Zion in Jerusalem: weeping, thou shalt not weep: pitying, he will pity thee at the voice of thy cry; for in his hearing, he answered thee.


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And Jehovah gave to you the bread of straits and the waters of oppression, and he will no more cover those teaching thee, and thine eyes shall be seeing those teaching thee:


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And thine ears shall hear the word from after thee, saying, This the way, go ye in it when ye shall turn to the right, and when ye shall turn to the left.


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And defile ye the thin covering of the carved images of thy silver, and the overlaying of the molten things of thy gold: thou shalt scatter them as a menstruous cloth, thou shalt say to it, Go forth.


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And he gave the rain of thy seed which thou shalt sow the earth and bread of the increase of the earth: and it was fat and fertile, thy cattle shall feed in that day in a large meadow.


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And the oxen and the young asses working the land shall eat salted provender which was winnowed with the fan and by the winnower.


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And there was upon every mountain being lofty and every hill lifted up, brooks and streams of water in the day of much slaughter, in the falling of the towers.


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And the light of the moon was as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun, shall be seven fold, as the light of seven days, in the day Jehovah bound up the breaking of his people, and he will heal the wound of his smiting.


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Behold, the name of Jehovah coming from far off, burning his wrath, and its lifting up heavy: his lips they were full of anger, and his tongue as consuming fire:


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And his spirit as the torrent overflowing, shall divide even to the neck, to shake the nations in the sieve of ruin: and a curb upon the cheeks of the people, causing to err.


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The song shall be to you as by night, consecrating a festival and gladness of heart, as he going with a pipe to come into the mountain of Jehovah to the rock of Israel.


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And Jehovah caused the swelling of his voice to be heard, and he will cause the letting down of his arm to be seen in the anger of his wrath, and the flame of a consuming fire, violent rain and tempest, and the stone of hail,


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And it was every one passing by the rod of foundation which Jehovah shall cause to rest upon him, with drums and with harps: and in battles of moving to and fro shall he war with with it.


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For tophet was set in order from yesterday; also it was prepared; for the king, he made deep, he made broad, its pile fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah as a torrent of pitch burned upon it.


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Wo to those going down to Egypt for help; and they will look upon horses, and trust upon chariots, because they are many; and upon horsemen because they were strong greatly; and they looked not upon the Holy One of Israel, and sought not Jehovah.


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And he also being wise and he will bring evil, and he removed not his words: and he rose up against the house of those doing evil, and against the help of those working vanity.


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And the Egyptians, men and not God; and their horses, flesh and not spirit And Jehovah will stretch forth his hand, and he helping became weak, and he being helped, fell, and together shall they all be finished.


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For thus spake Jehovah to me, As the lion shall growl, and the young lion over his prey, when a fulness of shepherds shall be called against him, from their voice shall he not be terrified, and shall not he be humbled from their noise: thus shalt Jehovah of armies come down to war from mount Zion and for its hill.


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Its birds flying, so will Jehovah of armies cover over Jerusalem, covering and he delivered; and passing over he saved.


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For in that day they shall reject a man the vanities of his silver, and the vanities of his gold which your hands made for you to sin.


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And Assur fell by the sword, not of a man, and the sword not of a man, shall consume him, and he fled for himself from the face of the sword, and his young men shall be for tribute.


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And his rock shall pass through from fear, and his chiefs were terrified from the signal, says Jehovah whose light to him in Zion, and furnace to him in Jerusalem.


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And a man was as a hiding of the spirit, and a covering of the tempest; as brooks of water in Zion, as the shadow of a weighty rock in a weary land.


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And the heart of the hasty shall understand to know, and the tongue of those stammering shall hasten to speak plain.


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For the foolish will speak folly, and his heart will do vanity to do profaneness and to speak error to Jehovah, to empty the soul of the hungry; and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.


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And the implements of the deceiver are evil: he will meditate counsels to destroy the humble with words of falsehood, and in the needy's speaking judgments.


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Days over a year shall ye being confident, be disturbed; for the vintage being finished, the ingathering shall not come.


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Upon the land of my people shall come up the thorn of the sharp point; so upon the houses of rejoicing of the exulting city.


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For the fortress was left, the multitude of the city was forsaken; the hill and the watch-tower for caves even forever; the rejoicing of the wild asses a pasture of the flocks;


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Until the spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and the desert be for Carmel, and Carmel be reckoned for a forest.


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And the work of justice was peace, and the service of justice, rest and confidence, even to forever.


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And my people shall sit in a dwelling of peace, and in habitations of trust and in quiet resting places.


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Wo to thee oppressing, and thou not oppressed; and spoiling, and they spoiled not upon thee! when thou finishing to oppress, thou shalt be oppressed; when thou ceasing to spoil, they shall spoil upon thee.


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O Jehovah, pity us: we hoped for thee: be thou their arm for the mornings, also our salvation in time of straits.


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And your spoil was gathered the gathering of the locust: as the running about of locusts he ran to and fro upon it.


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And the stability of thy times, the strength of salvation, was wisdom and knowledge: the fear of Jehovah this his treasure.


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The highways lay waste, the traveler passing by, ceased: he brake the covenant, he despised the cities, he reckoned them not men.


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The earth mourning, languished: Lebanon being ashamed, pined away: Sharon was as a sterile region, and Bashan was shaken, and Carmel.


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The sinners in Zion trembled; trembling seized the profane. Who to us shall sojourn with devouring fire? who to us with everlasting burning?


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He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil;


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He shall dwell upon heights: the strongholds of rocks his height: his bread was given; his waters sure.


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Thou shalt not see a firm people, a people of a deep lip above hearing; of a stammering tongue, of no understanding.


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Behold Zion the city of our appointment: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet dwelling, the tent shall not remove; its pegs shall not be pulled up forever, and none of its cords shall be broken.


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But there the mighty Jehovah to us a place of rivers, rivers broad of hands; a ship with the oar shall not go in it, and a mighty ship shall not pass over it.


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Thy cords were broken in pieces; they will not well strengthen their mast; they spread not the flag: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame plundered the plunder.


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Draw near, ye nations, to hear; and ye people, attend: the earth shall hear, and its fulness; the habitable globe, and all its offspring.


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For the wrath of Jehovah is upon all nations, And anger upon all their army: he devoted them to destruction, he gave them to slaughter.


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And their wounded shall be cast out, and their carcasses the stench shall go up, and the mountains flowed down from their blood.


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And all the army of the heavens melted, and the heavens shall roll together as a book, and all their army shall fall away as the leaf falling from the vine, and as a falling from the fig tree.


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For my sword was drunk in the heavens: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of destruction for judgment.


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The sword of Jehovah was filled with blood, it was made fat from the fat of the blood of lambs and he goats, from the fat of kidneys of rams: for a sacrifice to Jehovah 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 strong ones; and their land was drunk from blood, and from fat shall their dust be made fat.


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Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall be laid waste; none passing through it forever to forever.


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And the pelican and the hedgehog shall possess it; the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and he stretched out upon it the line of desolation and the stones of emptiness.


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And thorns came up in her palaces, the nettle and the thorn bush in her fortifications, and it was a dwelling of jackals, an enclosure for the daughters of the ostrich.


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And animals of the desert lighted upon the howlers, and the he goat shall call to his neighbor; also there the night spectre rested, and found for herself a resting place.


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There the arrow-snake nested, and she will lay eggs and hatch, and brood in her shadow: also there the falcons were collected, the female with her companion.


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Seek ye from the book of Jehovah, and read: One of these was not wanting; a female her companion they missed not: for my mouth it commanded, and his spirit it collected them.


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And be cast the lot for them, and his hand divided it to them by line; they shall possess it even forever, to generation and generation they shall dwell in it.


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The desert and the dryness shall be glad for them; and the sterile region shall rejoice and blossom as the meadow flower.


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Blossoming, it shall blossom and rejoice, also with joy and shouting: the glory of Lebanon was given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon they shall see the glory of Jehovah, the majesty of our God.


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Say to those hasty of heart, Be strong ye shall not fear; behold, your God will come with vengeance, the recompense of God; he will come and save you.


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Then shall the lame one leap as the stag, and the tongue of the dumb shall give forth the voice: for waters brake forth in the desert, and torrents in the sterile region.


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And the dry was for a pool, and the thirsty land for fountains of water: in the dwelling of jackals its lying down, an enclosure for the reed and the bulrush


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And a highway was there, and a way, and it shall be called to it, A way of holiness; the unclean one shall not pass through it; and it is for them; he going the way, and the foolish shall not err.


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The lion shall not be there, and the rapacious beast shall not go up upon it, it shall not be found there; and the redeemed went.


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And the ransomed of Jehovah shall turn back and come to Zion with a shout of joy and eternal joy upon their heads: and they shall attain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.


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And it will be in the fourteenth year to king Hezekiah, Senherib kind of Assur came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and he will seize them.


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And the king of Assur will send Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a weighty army. And he will stand by the channel of the higher pool in the highway of the fuller's field.


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And Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, will come forth, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah Asaph's son, remembering.


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And Rabshakeh will say to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus said the king, the great king of Assur, What this trust in which thou trustedst?


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I said, (also a word of the lips) Counsel and strength for the war; now upon whom trustedst thou that thou didst rebel against me?


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Behold, thou trustedst upon the staff of this broken reed, upon Egypt; which, shall a man rest upon it, it was into his hand and pierced it: thus Pharaoh king of Egypt to all trusting upon him.


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And if thou shalt say to me, We trusted to Jehovah our God: is it not he whom Hezekiah turned away his heights, and his altars, and he will say to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar shall ye worship?


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And now, become surety now, to my lord the king of Assur, and I will give to thee two thousand horses if thou shalt be able to give to thee riders upon them.


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And how wilt thou turn back the face of one prefect of the servants of my lord, the smallest of them, aid trust for thee upon Egypt for chariot and for horsemen?


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And now came I 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 will say, and Shebna, and Joah, to Rabshakeh, Speak now to thy servants Aramean, for we hear; and thou shalt not speak to us Judaic in the ears of the people who are upon the wall.


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And Rabshakeh will say, Did my lord send me to thy lord and to thee to speak these words? did he not to the men sitting upon the wall to eat their excrements and to drink their urine with you?


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And Rabshakeh will stand and call with a great voice in Judaic, and say, Hear ye the words of the king, the great king of Assur.


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And Hezekiah shall not cause you to trust to Jehovah, saying, Delivering, Jehovah will deliver us: this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assur.


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Ye shall not hear to Hezekiah; for thus said the king of Assur, Make to me a blessing, and come forth to me: and eat a man of his vine and a man of his fig tree, and drink ye a man water of his cistern;


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Till my coming and I took you to a land as your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.


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Lest Hezekiah shall stimulate you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Did each of the gods of the nations deliver his land from the hand of the king of Assur?


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Where the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where the gods of Sepharvaim? and when have they delivered Shomeron from my hand?


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Who among all the gods of these lands who delivered their land from my hand, that Jehovah will deliver Jerusalem from my hand?


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And they will be silent and not answer him a word: for this the command of the king, saying, Ye shall not answer.


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And Eliakim son of Hilkiah who was over the house, will go in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, remembering, to Hezekiah, their garments rent, and they will announce to him the words of Rabshakeh.


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And it will be when king Hezekiah heard, and he will rend his garments, and he will be covered with sackcloth and go in to the house of Jehovah.


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And he will send Eliakim who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the old men of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah, son of Amos, the prophet.


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And they will say to him, Thus said Hezekiah, A day of straits and chastisement and reproach, this day; for the sons came even to the breaking forth and not strength to bring forth.


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Perhaps Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh whom his lord the king of Assur sent him to reproach the living God, and judge upon the words which Jehovah thy God heard; and lift thou up a prayer for the remnant being found.


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And Isaiah will say to them, Thus shall ye say to your lord, Thus said Jehovah, Thou shalt not fear from the face of the words which thou heardest which the boys of the king of Assur reviled me.


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Behold me giving a spirit into him and he heard a report, and he turned back to his land; and I caused him to fall by the sword in his land.


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And he heard concerning Tirhakah, king of Cush, saying, He came forth to war with thee. And he will hear, and send messengers to Hezekiah, saying,


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Thus shall ye say to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Thy God in whom thou trustest shall not lift thee up in him, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assur.


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Behold, thou heardest what the kings of Assur did to all the lands to destroy them; and shalt thou be delivered?


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Did the gods of the nations deliver them which my fathers destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden which were in Thelassar?


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And Hezekiah will take the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it: and he will go up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah will spread it before Jehovah.


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Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, dwelling in the cherubim, thou thyself God alone to all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made the heavens and the earth.


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Bend, O Jehovah, thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, thine eye, and see; and hear all the words of Senherib which he sent to reproach the living God.


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And he gave their gods into fire; for they were not God but the work of man's hands, wood and stone: and they will destroy them.


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And now, Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that thou alone art Jehovah.


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And Isaiah son of Amos will send to Hezekiah, saying, Thus said Jehovah God of Israel, Because thou didst pray to me against Senherib the king of Assur.


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This the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion despising to thee, deriding to thee; the daughter of Jerusalem shook her head after thee.


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Whom didst thou reproach and revile, and against whom didst thou raise up the voice, and wilt thou lift up thine eyes on high to the Holy One of Israel?


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By the hand of thy servants thou didst reproach Jehovah, and wilt thou say, By the multitude of my chariots I came up to the height of the mountains, to the thighs of Lebanon; and I will cut down the stature of his cedars, the choicest of his cypresses: and I will go into the height of his extremity, the forest of his Carmel.


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Didst thou not hear to remoteness I did it? from days of old and I formed it? now did I bring it and thou shalt be to lay waste fortified cities into straits.


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And their inhabitants short of hand; they were dismayed and ashamed; they were the greet herb of the field and the verdure, and the tender grass of the enclosure of the roofs, and a blasting before it rose up.


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Because thine anger against me and thine arrogance came up into mine ear, and I put my hook in thy nose and my curb in thy lips, and I turned thee back in the way which thou camest in it.


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And this the sign to thee: To eat this year the self-sown; and in the second year, that growing of itself: and in the third year, sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat the fruits.


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For from Jerusalem shall come forth a remnant, and the escaping from mount Zion: the zeal of Jehovah of armies shall do this.


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For this, thus said Jehovah concerning the king of Assur, Thou shalt not come into this city, and thou shalt not shoot an arrow there, and thou shalt not go before it with a shield, and thou shalt not cast a mound against it.


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In the way which he came in it he shall turn back, and to this city he shall not come in, says Jehovah.


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And the messenger of Jehovah will go forth, and strike in the camp of Assur a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they will rise early in the morning, and behold, all of them dead corpses.


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And it will be he worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword; and they escaped to the land of Ararat; and Esar-Haddon his son will reign in his stead.


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In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah son of Amos, the prophet, will come in to him, and say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Command to thy house, for thou diest, and shalt not live.


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And he will say, O Jehovah, remember now how I went before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and I did the good in thine eyes: And Hezekiah will weep a great weeping.


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Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I heard thy prayer; and I saw thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.


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And I will deliver thee and this city from the hand of the king of Assur: and I covered over this city.


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Behold me turning back the shadow of the steps which will go down in the steps of Ahaz in the sun, backward ten steps. And the sun will turn back ten steps in the steps which it will go down.


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I said in the quiet of my days, I shall go to the gates of hades: I was missed the remainder of my years.


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I said, I shall not see Jah Jah, in the land of the living: I shall no more behold man with the inhabitants of the place of rest.


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Mine age removed, and was carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I rolled together as a weaver my life: from the thread he will cut me off: from the day even to the night thou wilt finish me.


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I set till the morning, as the lion thus will he break all my bones: from the day even to the night thou wilt finish me.


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As the twittering swallow so shall I chirp: I shall murmur as the dove: mine eyes languished for height: O Jehovah, oppression is to me; be surety for me.


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What shall I speak? and he said to me, and he did: I shall go slowly all my years upon the bitterness of my soul.


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O Jehovah, upon these they shall live, and for all of these the life of my spirit: and thou wilt heal me and cause me to live.


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Behold, for peace bitterness, to me bitterness: and thou didst cleave to my soul from the pit of destruction: and thou didst cast all my sin behind my back.


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For not hades shall praise thee, death celebrate: they going down to the pit shall not hope for thy truth.


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The living; the living, he shall praise thee, as from me this day the father to the sons shall make known for thy truth.


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Jehovah to save me; and striking my stringed instruments all the days of our life for the house of Jehovah.


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And Isaiah will say, They shall lift up round cakes of figs, and rub over the burning sore, and he shall live.


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In that time Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan king of Babel, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah: and he will hear that he was sick, and he will be strengthened.


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And Hezekiah rejoiced over them, and he will cause them to see the house of the spices, the silver and the gold and the aromatics, and the good oil, and all the house of his vessels: and all which was found in his treasures, there was not a word which Hezekiah caused them not to see, in his house and in all his dominions.


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And Isaiah the prophet will come to king Hezekiah, and say to him, What said these men? and from whence will they come to thee? And Hezekiah will say, From a land far off came they to me, from Babel.


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And he will say, What saw they in thy house? and Hezekiah will say, All which is in my house they saw: there was not a word that I caused them not to see in my treasures.


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Behold, the days coming and all which is in thy house and which thy fathers treasured up, even to this day, being lifted up to Babel: there shall not be left a word, said Jehovah.


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And from thy sons that shall come forth from thee which thou shalt beget, they shall take; and they were eunuchs in the temple of the king of Babel.


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And Hezekiah will say to Isaiah, Good the word of Jehovah which thou spakest And he will say, That there shall be peace and truth in my days.


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Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her that her war was filled up, her iniquity was paid off: that she received from the hand of Jehovah double for all her sins.


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The voice of him calling in the desert, Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the sterile region a highway for our God.


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Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the acclivity was for evenness, and the mountain ranges for a valley:


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And the glory of Jehovah was uncovered, and all flesh saw it together: for the mouth of Jehovah spake.


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The voice said, Call And he said, What shall I call? All flesh grass, and all its goodness as the flower of the field:


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The grass was dried up, the flower fell away: for the spirit of Jehovah blew upon it: surely the people grass.


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Upon the high mountain come up for thee, O Zion: announcing the good news, lift up thy voice with strength, O Jerusalem; announcing the good news, lift up, thou shalt not be afraid; say to the cities, Behold your God!


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Behold the Lord Jehovah will come in strength, and his arm ruling for him: behold, his reward with him and his work before him.


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As a shepherd he will feed his flock: with his arm he will gather the lambs, and will lift up into his bosom, he will lead those coming up.


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Who measured the water in his palm, and measured the heavens with a span, and held the dust of the earth in a third, and weighed the mountains in a balance and the bills in scales?


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With whom did he consult, and will he cause him to understand and teach him in the path of judgment, and teach him knowledge, and cause him to know the way of understanding?


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Behold, the nations as a drop from a bucket; they were reckoned as the fine dust of the scales: behold, he will cast down the isles as small dust.


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The artificer cast the carved image, and the founder will spread it out with gold, and he smelted chains of silver.


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And he being poor of oblation will choose wood that will not be rotten; he will seek to him a wise artificer to prepare a carved image that will not shake.


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Will ye not know? will ye not hear? was it not announced to you from the beginning? did ye not understand from the foundations of the earth?


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He sitting upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants as locusts; he stretching out the heavens as fine cloth, and he will extend them as a tent to dwell in:


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Also they were not planted: also they were not sown: also their stock took not root in the earth: and he also blew upon them and they will be dried up, and the storm will lift them up as straw.


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Lift up your eyes on high, and see who created these, bringing forth their army by number: he will call to all of them by name, from the multitude of their strength; and he is strong of power; a man was not wanting.


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For what wilt thou say, O Jacob, and wilt thou speak, O Israel, My way was hid from Jehovah, and my judgment will pass over from my God.


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Didst thou not know? heardest thou not the eternal God, Jehovah, creating the extremities of the earth, will not faint, and will not be weary? no searching to his understanding.


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And they waiting for Jehovah shall change power; they shall go up on the wing as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall go and not faint.


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Be silent to me, ye islands; and the people shall change strength: they shall draw near; then shall they speak: together we will come near for judgment.


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Who raised up justice from the sunrising? he shall call him to his foot; he will give the nations before him; and he will bring down kings: he will give as the dust of his sword, as driven straw, his bow.


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Who made and did, calling the generations from the beginning? I Jehovah, the first, and with the last; I am he.


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The isles saw, and they will be afraid; the extremities of the earth will tremble; they drew near and they will come.


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And the artificer will strengthen the founder, he making smooth with the hammer, he beating the anvil, saying, It is good for the welding; he will strengthen it with nails; it shall not totter.


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Whom I held thee fast from the extremities of the earth, and I called thee from its sides, and saying to thee, Thou my servant; I chose thee, and I rejected thee not.


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Thou shalt not fear, for I am with thee: thou shalt not look around for help for I thy God will strengthen thee; also I helped thee; also I held thee up with the right hand of my justice.


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Behold, all they burning with anger against thee shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be as nothing; and the men of thy strife shall be destroyed.


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Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them; the man of thy contention, the men of thy war, shall be as nothing and as no more.


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Thou shalt not fear, thou worm Jacob, ye men of Israel; I helped thee, says Jehovah, and thy redeemer the Holy One of Israel.


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Behold, I set thee to a new cutting threshing sledge having mouths: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat small, and the hills thou shalt set as chaff.


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Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall lift them up, and the storm shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, and glory in the Holy One of Israel.


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The poor and the needy seeking water, and none; their tongue failing in thirst, I Jehovah will answer them; the God of Israel, I will not forsake them.


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I will open rivers upon naked hills, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will set the desert for a pool of water, and the dry land for goings forth of water.


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I will give in the desert the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the tree of oil; I will set in the sterile region the the elm and the box tree together.


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So that they shall see and know and attend, and consider together that the hand of Jehovah did this, and the Holy One of Israel created it.


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Bring near your cause, Will say Jehovah; draw near your strong defences, will the king of Jacob say:


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They shall draw near and announce to us what shall happen: shewed they the former things, what they were, and we will set our heart, and we shall know their latter state; or did we hear things coming?


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Announce the things coming hereafter, and we shall know that ye are God: also will ye do good or will ye do evil, and we shall look around for help and see together.


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I roused up from the north, and he will come: from the rising of the sun he shall call upon my name: and he shall come upon prefects as clay, and as the potter will tread down the mud.


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Who announced from the beginning, and we shall know? and before, and we shall say, He is just; also none announcing; also none hearing; also none heard your words.


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And I shall see, and no man; and from these, and no counselor; and I shall ask them, and they will not turn back a word.


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Behold my servant, I will hold fast in him; my chosen, my soul delighted; I gave my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the nations.


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A broken reed he shall not break, and bedimmed flax shall he not quench it: he shall bring forth judgment to truth.


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He shall not be weak, and he shall not break, till he shall set judgment in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law:


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Thus said God Jehovah, creating the heavens and stretching them out; and spreading out the earth and its productions; giving breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those going upon it:


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I Jehovah called thee in justice, and I will hold by thy hand, and I will guard thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, for the light of the nations,


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To open the eyes of the blind, to bring forth the bound out of prison, those sitting in darkness out of the house of the prison.


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The first things, behold, they came, and new things I announce: before they shall spring up I will cause you to hear.


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Sing ye to Jehovah a new song, and his praise from the extremity of the earth, ye going down to the sea, and its fulness; the isles and their inhabitants.


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The desert and its cities shall lift up, the enclosures shall Kedar inhabit: they inhabiting the rock shall shout for joy, from the head of the mountains they shall shout for joy.


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Jehovah as a strong one shall go forth; as a man of war he shall raise up jealousy: he shall shout, also he shall cry aloud; he shall be strong against his enemies.


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I was silent of old; I will be still, I will restrain myself: as she bringing forth I will cry out; I will lay waste and snuff up together.


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I will lay waste mountains and hills, and I will dry up all their green herbage; and I set the rivers for islands, and I will dry up the pools.


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I brought the blind by a way they knew not; and I will cause them to tread in beaten paths they knew not: I will set darkness for light before them, and crooked ways into straightness; these words I did them, and I forsook them not.


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They were turned back, they will be ashamed with shame, trusting in the carved image, saying to the molten image, Thou our God.


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Who blind but my servant? and deaf as my messenger I shall send? who blind he being perfect? and blind as the servant of Jehovah?


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And this people was plundered and spoiled; snaring all of them in holes, and they were hid in houses of prisons: they were for plunder and none delivering; a treading down, and none said, Turn back.


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Who gave Jacob for a treading down, and Israel for spoils? did not Jehovah against whom we sinned? and they would not go in his ways and they heard not to his laws.


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And be will pour upon him the heat of his anger, and the strength of war: and it will burn him from round about, and he will not know; and it will feed upon him and he will not lay to the heart.


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And now, thus said Jehovah creating thee, O Jacob, and forming thee, O Israel, Thou shalt not fear, for I redeemed thee; I called by thy name; thou art to me.


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When thou shalt pass through the waters, I with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou shalt go through fire thou shalt not be burnt, and the flame shall not consume thee.


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For I Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, saving thee: I gave Egypt expiating thee, Cush and Seba instead of thee.


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From that thou wert precious in mine eyes, thou wert honored, and I loved thee: and I will give man instead of thee, and peoples instead of thy soul.


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Thou shalt not fear, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the sunrisings, and from the west I will gather thee.


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Say to the north, Thou shalt give, and to the south thou shalt not withhold: bring in my sons from far off, and my daughters from the extremities of the earth;


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Gather all nations together, and people shall be collected: who among them shall announce this, and will they cause us to hear former things? shall they give their witnesses, and be justified? and will they hear, and say, Truth?


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Ye my witnesses, says Jehovah, and my servants whom I chose: so that ye shall know and trust to me, and understand that I am he: before me was no God formed, and after me shall be none.


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I announced and I saved, and I caused to hear, and no stranger among you: and ye are witnesses, says Jehovah, and I am God.


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Thus said Jehovah redeeming you, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I sent to Babel, and brought down the bars all of them, and the Chaldees shouting in their ships.


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Bringing forth the chariot and the horse, the strength and the might together, they shall fall down, they shall not rise: they went out; they were quenched as tow.


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Behold me doing a new thing; now it shall spring forth, shall ye not know it? I will also set a way in the desert, rivers in the waste.


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The beast of the field shall know me, the sea monster and the daughters of the ostrich: for I gave waters in the desert, rivers in the waste to give drink to my people, my chosen.


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Thou broughtest not to me the sheep of thy burnt-offering, and thou honoredst me not with thy sacrifices I caused thee not to serve with a gift, and I wearied thee not with frankincense.


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Thou broughtest not for me a buying with silver, thou didst not satiate me with the fat of thy sacrifices also thou causedst me to serve with thy sins, thou didst weary me with thine iniquities.


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And will defile the chiefs of the holy place, and will give Jacob to be devoted, and Israel for reproaches.


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Thus said Jehovah making thee, and forming thee from the belly, he will help thee; Thou shalt not be afraid, my servant Jacob, and Jeshurun whom I chose.


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For I will pour water upon the thirsty, and flowings upon the dry: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.


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This shall say, I to Jehovah; and this shall call in the name of Jacob; and this shall write his hand to Jehovah, and he shall address in the name of Israel.


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Thus said Jehovah king of Israel, and Jehovah of armies, redeeming him, I the first and I the last; and besides me no God.


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And who as I shall call and announce it, and set it in order for me from my placing the people of old? and the things coming and that shall come, they shall announce to them.


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Ye shall not tremble, and ye shall not be afraid: did I not from thence cause thee to hear? and I announced, and ye my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? and no rock; I knew not.


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They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed.


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Behold, all his associates shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they from man, they shall be gathered together, all of them; they shall stand, they shall tremble, they shall be ashamed together.


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The workman of iron with an axe also worked with coal, and he will cleave it with hammers, and will work with the arm of his strength: also he hungered and no strength: he drank not water and was wearied.


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The workman of woods stretched out the line; he will delineate it with an awl, he will do it with chisels, and he will delineate it with a compass, and he will make it according to the image of a man, according to the beauty of man; to dwell in the house.


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To cut down for him cedars, and he will take the fir tree and the oak, and he will strengthen for himself among the trees of the forest: he planted an ash and the rain will cause to grow.


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And it was for a man to burn: and he will take from them and he will be warmed; also he will kindle, and bake bread; also he will make a god, and he will worship; he made it a carved image, and he will fall down to them.


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Half of it he burnt in the fire; upon half of it he will eat flesh; he will roast roast, and he will be satisfied: also he will be warm, and he will say, Aha, I was warm, I saw the light.


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And its remainder he made for a god, for his carved image: he will fall down to it, and he will worship and pray to it, and say, Deliver me, for thou my god.


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They will not know, and they will not discern: he spread over their eyes from seeing; their heart from considering.


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And none will set to his heart; and not knowledge, and not understanding to say, Half of it I burnt in the fire; and also I baked bread upon its coals; I will roast flesh and eat: and its remainder shall I make for an abomination? shall I fall down to a trunk of wood?


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He fed upon ashes: a deceived heart turned him away, and he shall not deliver his soul, and he shall not say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?


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Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I formed thee; a servant to me: thou Israel shalt not forget me.


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I wiped away as a cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins: turn back to me for I redeemed thee.


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Shout, ye heavens, for Jehovah made: make a loud noise, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into a shout of joy, ye mountains, thou forest and every tree in it, for Jehovah redeemed Jacob, and he will be honored in Israel.


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Thus said Jehovah redeeming thee, and forming thee from the belly, I am Jehovah making all; stretching forth the heavens alone; spreading out the earth from myself:


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Bringing to naught the signs at vain boasters, and he will make those divining, foolish; turning back the wise backward, and he will frustrate their knowledge.


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Setting up the word of his servant, and he will complete the counsel of his messengers; saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be dwelt in; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and will raise up her wastes:


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Saying to Cyrus, My shepherd, and he shall complete all my delight: and saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and the temple shall be founded.


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Thus said Jehovah to his Messiah, to Cyrus whom I held by his right hand to bring down nations before him; and I will loosen the loins of kings to open before him the doors; and the gates shall not be shut.


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I will go before thee, and I will make straight the circles: I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and I will cut down the bars of iron:


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And I gave to thee the treasures of darkness, and the hidden stores of lurking places, so that thou shalt know that I Jehovah calling by, thy name am the God of Israel.


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For sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, and I will call to thee by thy name: and I will address thee, and thou knewest me not.


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So that they shall know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that none besides me. I am Jehovah, and none yet.


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Drop, ye heavens, from above, and the clouds shall shake out justice: the earth shall open, and they shall bring forth salvation, and justice shall spring up together; I Jehovah created it.


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Wo to him striving with him forming him! the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him forming it, What wilt thou make? and thy work, No hands to it?


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Thus said Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his potter, Ask me of things coming concerning the sons, and concerning the work of my hands will ye command me?


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I made the earth, and man upon it I created: my hand stretched forth the heavens, and all their army I commanded.


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I mused him up in justice, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall send away my captivity, not by price and not by a gift, said Jehovah of armies.


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This said Jehovah, The labor of Egypt and the gain of Cush, and of the Sabeans, men of measure, shall pass over upon thee, and to thee shall they be: after thee shall they come in fetters: they shall pass over and to thee shall they worship and supplicate to thee, Surely God is in thee, and none yet: no God.


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They were ashamed and also disgraced, all of them: together they went in shame the workmen of images.


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Israel was saved in Jehovah with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed and ye shall not be disgraced even to forever, forever.


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For thus said Jehovah creating the heavens, He the God forming the earth, and he made it; he prepared it, be created it not in vain, he formed it to be dwelt in: I Jehovah and none besides.


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I spake not in secret in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I Jehovah speak justice, announcing straightnesses.


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Assemble ye together and come; draw ye near together, the escaped of the nations: they knew not lifting up the wood of their carved image, and praying to God he will not save.


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Announce ye, and bring near; also ye shall take counsel together: who caused this to be heard from of old, from then announcing it? was it not I Jehovah? and no God more beside me; a just God and Saviour; none beside me.


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By myself I sware the word, justice went forth out of my mouth, and shall not turn back, That to me every knee shall bend, every tongue shall swear.


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Surely saying, In Jehovah to me justice and strength: even to him shall he come; and all being angry against him shall be ashamed.


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Bel bent; Nebo bowed down; their images were for the beast and for the cattle: your gifts were carried; a lifting up to the weary.


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They bowed down, they bent together; they were not able to deliver the burden and their soul went into captivity.


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Hear to me, ye house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, being carried from the belly, being lifted up from the womb:


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find even to old age I am he; and even to grayness I will bear; I made and I will lift up, and I will bear, and I will deliver.


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Squandering gold out of the bag and they will weigh silver in the balance, they will hire a founder, and he will make it a god: they will fall down, they will also worship.


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They will lift him up upon the shoulder, they will carry him, they will set him down in his place and he will stand; from his place he shall not depart: also he will cry out to him and he will not answer; he will not save him from his straits.


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Announcing the last part from the beginning, and from of old what was not done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my delight:


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Calling a ravenous beast from the sunrising, from a land afar off a man of my counsel: also I spake, also I will bring it; I formed, also I will do it.


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I brought near my justice; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not delay: and I gave salvation in Zion for Israel my beauty.


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Come down and sit upon the dust, thou virgin daughter of Babel, sit upon the earth: no throne, thou daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt not be added for them to call thee tender and delicate.


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Take the two mill-stones and grind flour, and uncover thy veil; strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.


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Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, also thy reproach shall be seen: I will take vengeance, I will not make peace with man.


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Sit thou silently and go into darkness, thou daughter of the Chaldeans for thou shalt no more be added for them to call thee The mistress of kingdoms.


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I was angry against my people; I defiled my inheritances, and I will give them into thine hand, and thou didst not set mercy to them; upon the old thou didst make heavy thy yoke greatly.


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And thou wilt say, I shall be mistress forever: till thou didst not set these upon thy heart, thou didst not remember its last part.


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And now hear this, thou living delicately, dwelling securely, saying in her heart, I, and none besides me; I shall not sit a widow, and I shall not know bereavement.


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And these two shall come to thee suddenly, in one day, bereavement and widowhood: as finished they came upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and in the great numbers of thy enchantments.


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And thou wilt trust in thy wickedness: thou saidst, None saw me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge it caused thee to turn away; and thou wilt say in thy heart, I, and none yet besides me.


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And evil came upon thee; thou shalt not know its dawn, and ruin shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to expiate it, and desolation shall suddenly come upon thee; thou shalt not know.


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Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries in which thou didst labor from thy youth; perhaps thou wilt be able to be of use, perhaps thou wilt cause fear.


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Thou wert wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Shall those searching out the heavens, those looking upon the stars, causing to know concerning the months, now stand and save thee from what shall come upon thee?


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Behold, they were as straw; the fire burnt them; they shall not deliver their soul from the hand of the flame: not a coal for warming, light to sit before it.


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Thus shall they be to thee for whom thou didst labor, thy merchants, from thy youth; they wandered a man to his other side; none saving thee.


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Hear this, ye house of Jacob, being called by the name of Israel, and from the water of Judah they came forth swearing by the name of Jehovah, and by the God of Israel they shall bring to remembrance, not in truth and not in justice.


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For they were called of the holy city, and rested themselves upon the God of Israel; Jehovah of armies his name.


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From then I announced the former things, and they went forth out of my Mouth, and I caused them to be heard; I did suddenly, and they shall come.


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I will announce to thee from then; before it shall come I caused thee to hear, lest thou shalt say, My image did them; and my carved image, and my Molten image commanded them.


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Thou heardest, seeing it all; and will ye not announce? I caused thee to hear new things from now, and hidden things, and thou knewest them not.


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Now were they created and not from then; and before the day and thou heardest them not; lest thou shalt say, Behold, I knew them.


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Also thou heardest not; also thou knewest not; also from then thine ear was not opened: for I knew, acting deceitfully, thou wilt act deceitfully, and it was called to thee transgressing from the womb.


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For my:sake, for my sake will I do: for how shall it be defiled? and I will not give my glory to another.


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Also my hand will found the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens: -I call to them, they shall stand together.


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Assemble, all ye, and hear; who among them announced these things? Jehovah loved him: he will do his delight upon Babel, and his arm upon the Chaldeans.


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Draw ye near to me, hear this; I spake not in secret in the beginning; from the time of its being, there was I: and now the Lord Jehovah sent me, and his spirit.


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Thus said Jehovah redeeming thee, the Holy One of Israel: I Jehovah thy God teaching thee to profit, causing thee to tread in a way thou shalt go.


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Would thou didst attend to my commands! and thy peace shall be as a river, and thy justice as the billows of the sea.


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And thy seed shall be as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels as its bowels; his name shall not be cut off and shall not be destroyed from before me.


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Go ye forth from Babel; flee from the Chaldeans; with the voice of shouting, announce ye; cause this to be heard; cause it to go forth, even to the extremity o the earth; say ye, Jehovah redeemed his servant Jacob.


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And they thirsted not causing them to go in dry places: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: and he will cleave asunder the rock, and the waters will flow out.


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Hear to me, ye islands, and attend ye people from far off; Jehovah called me from the belly; from my mother's bowels he made mention of my name.


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And he set my mouth as a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand he hid me, and he will set me for a polished arrow; in his quiver he hid me.


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And I said, I labored in vain, for emptiness; and I finish my strength vainly; surely my judgment is with Jehovah and my work with my God.


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And now, said Jehovah, forming me from the belly for servant to him to turn back Jacob to him, And Israel shall not be gathered, and I shall be honored in the eyes of Jehovah, and God was my strength.


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And he will say, It was light thou being to me a servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to turn back the preserved of Israel: and I gave thee for a light of the nations to be my salvation even to the extremity of the earth.


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Thus said Jehovah redeeming Israel, his Holy One, to the despised of soul, to him being abhorred of the nations, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and princes arose, and they shall worship him for sake of Jehovah who was faithful, the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.


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Thus said Jehovah, In a time of acceptance I answered thee, and in the day of salvation I helped thee: and I will guard thee, and I will give thee for a covenant of the people to cause the earth to stand, to cause to inherit the inheritance of desolations,


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To say to the bound, Go forth; to those in darkness, Uncover yourselves. They shall feed upon the ways, and in all naked hills their pastures.


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They shall not hunger and they shall not thirst, and the heat shall not strike them, and the sun: for he pitying them shall lead them, and to fountains of water he shall conduct them.


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Behold, these shall come from far off; and behold, these from the north, and from the sea; and these from the land of Sinim.


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Shout, ye heavens, and rejoice thou earth; and the mountains shall break forth with shouting: for Jehovah comforted his people and he will pity his afflicted.


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Shall a woman forget her child, from pitying the son of her womb? also these shall forget, and I shall not forget thee.


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Lift up round about thine eyes and see: they all gathered themselves together, they came to thee. I live, says Jehovah, thou shalt put them all on as an ornament, and thou shalt bind them as a bride.


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For thy wastes and thy desolations, and the land of thy destruction, for now it shall press for the inhabitants, and they swallowing thee up were far away.


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Yet shall the sons of thy bereavement say in thine ears, The place is strait to me: draw near to me and I shall dwell.


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And thou saidst in thy heart, Who begat these to me, and I being bereaved and barren, an exile, and departing? and who caused these to grow? Behold, I was left alone; they, where were they?


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Thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and to the peoples I will raise up my signal: and they brought thy sons in the bosom, and thy daughters shall be lifted up upon the shoulder.


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And kings were thy supporters, and princesses thy nurses: their faces to the earth they shall worship to thee, and the dust of thy feet shall they lick up; and thou knewest that I Jehovah, that they shall not be ashamed waiting for me.


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For thus said Jehovah, Also the captivity of the strong shall be taken, and the prey of the terrible shall escape: and I will contend with him contending with thee, and thy sons I will save.


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And I will cause those oppressing thee to eat their own flesh, and they shall drink their blood to the full as new wine: and all flesh shall know that I am Jehovah saving thee, and redeeming thee, the Mighty One of Jacob.


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Thus said Jehovah, Where this writing of cutting off of your mother which I sent her away? or which of my creditors whom I sold you to him? Behold, in your iniquities ye sold yourselves, and in your transgressions your mother was sent away.


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Wherefore, I came, and no man? I called and none answered. Being short, was my hand shortened from redeeming? and if not power in me to deliver behold, in my rebuke I will dry up the sea; I will set the rivers a desert: their fish shall stink from no water, and they shall die with thirst.


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The Lord Jehovah gave to me the tongue of the expert to know to help the weary with a word: he will rouse up in the morning by morning, he will rouse up to me the ear to hear as the expert.


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My back I gave to those smiting, and my cheeks to those tearing out the hair: and my face I hid not from shame and spittle.


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And the Lord Jehovah will help to me: for this I was not ashamed; for this I set my face as the flint, and I shall know that I shall not be ashamed.


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He drawing near justifying me: who shall contend with me? we will stand together: who the lord of my judgment? he shall draw near to me.


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Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help for me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, they all shall decay as a garment; the moth shall eat them.


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Who among you fearing Jehovah, hearing to the voice of his servant? who goes in darkness and no light to him? he shall trust in the name of Jehovah and rest upon his God.


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Behold, all ye kindling a fire, girding yourselves with fiery darts: go ye in the light of your fire, and in the fiery darts ye kindled. From my hand was this to you; ye shall lie down for sorrow.


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Hear to me, ye pursuing justice, seeking Jehovah: look to the rock ye hewed, and at the quarry of the pit ye dug out.


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Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah bringing you forth: for one I called him, and I will bless him, and I will increase him.


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For Jehovah comforted Zion: he comforted all her wastes, and he will set her desert as Eden, and her sterile region as the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found in her confession, and the voice of song.


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Attend to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will cause my judgment to rest for the light of the peoples.


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My justice is near; my salvation went forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me, and to mine arm shall they hope.


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Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look to the earth from beneath: for the heavens as smoke vanished away, and the earth as a garment shall decay, and they inhabiting as thus shall die; and my salvation shall be forever, and my justice shall not be broken.


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Hear to me, ye knowing justice, the people my law in their heart; ye shall not fear the reproach of men; and from their reviling ye shall not be dismayed.


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For the moth shall eat them as a garment, and as wool shall the moth eat them: and my justice shall be forever, and my salvation to generation of generations.


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Rouse up, rouse up, put on strength, thou arm of Jehovah; rouse up as the days of old, of everlasting generations. Was it not with him cutting off Rahab, wounding the sea monster?


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Was it not with him desolating the sea, the water of the great deep? setting the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?


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And the redeemed of Jehovah shall turn back, and they came to Zion with shouting and eternal joy upon their head: and gladness and joy shall they attain; sorrow and sighing fled.


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I, I am he comforting you: who thou? and shalt thou be afraid of man he shall die, and of the son of man shall be given for grass?


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And shalt thou forget Jehovah making thee, stretching out the heavens and founding the earth? and thou wilt tremble continually all the day from the face of the anger of him pressing as being prepared to destroy: and where the wrath of him pressing?


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He being bowed down hastened to be loosed, and he will not die in the pit, and his bread shall not fail.


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And I am Jehovah thy God causing the sea to tremble. And its billows shall be put in motion: Jehovah of armies his name.


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And I will put my word in thy mouth, and in the shadow of my hand I covered thee, to plant the heavens and to found the earth, and to say to Zion, Thou my people.


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Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, who drank from the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou didst drink the goblet cup of reeling, pressing out.


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None providing for her of all the sons she brought forth; and none holding by her hand of all the sons she caused to grow.


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These two encountering thee; who shall be moved for thee? desolation and breaking, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?


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Thy sons fainted; they lay down upon the head of all the streets as an antelope in a net: being full of the wrath of Jehovah the rebuke of thy God.


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Thus said thy Lord Jehovah and thy God, he will contend for his people, Behold, I took from thy hand the cup of reeling, the goblet cup of my wrath; thou shalt not add to drink it more.


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And I put it in the hand of those afflicting thee; who said to thy soul, Bow down, and we will pass over; thou wilt set thy middle as the earth, and as the street to those passing over.


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Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on the garments of thy glory, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for the uncircumcised shall no more add to come into thee, and the unclean.


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Shake thyself from dust: arise, sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bonds of thy neck, thou captive daughter of Zion.


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Thus said the Lord Jehovah, My people at first went down to Egypt to sojourn there, and Assur oppressed them for nothing.


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And now what to me here, says Jehovah, that my people were taken gratuitously? ruling, they will cause to give a sharp sound, says Jehovah; and continually all the day my name being despised.


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How exalted upon the mountains the feet of him announcing good news, causing peace to be beard: announcing good news of good, causing salvation to be heard; saying to Zion, Thy God reigns!


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They watching thee lifted up the voice; the voice together they will shout: for they shall see eye to eye in Jehovah's turning back Zion.


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Break forth into joy, shout together, ye wastes of Jerusalem, for Jehovah comforted his people, he redeemed Jerusalem.


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Jehovah uncovered his holy arm to the eyes of all nations, and all the ends of the earth saw the salvation of our God.


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Turn aside, turn aside, come ye forth from thence; ye shall not touch the unclean thing; come forth from the midst of her; be separated ye lifting up the vessels of Jehovah.


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For ye shall not come forth with haste, and in flight ye shall not go; for Jehovah goes before you, and he gathering you the God of Israel.


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As many were astonished at thee, his appearance being so spoiled from man, and his form from the sons of men.


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So shall he cause many nations to rejoice for him; kings shall shut their mouth; for what was not recounted to them they saw; and what they heard not, they considered.


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He shall come up as a sucking child before him, and as a root out of a land of dryness: no form to him and no decoration; and we shall see him, and no appearance and we shall desire him.


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He was despised and forsaken of men; a man of griefs and knowing affliction: and as hiding the faces from him; he was despised and we regarded him not.


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Surely he lifted up our afflictions, and our griefs he carried them: and we reckoned him to be smitten, struck of God, and afflicted.


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And he being wounded for our transgressions, and crushed from our iniquities; the correction of our peace upon him, and in the marks of his stripes it was healed to us.


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All we as sheep went astray; we turned a man to his way; and Jehovah caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon him.


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He was pressed, and he was afflicted, and he will not open his mouth: he was brought as a sheep for the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shearers being dumb and he will not open his mouth.


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From constraint and from judgment was he taken, and his generation who shall comprehend? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he struck for them.


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And he will give with the unjust his grave, and with the rich in his deaths, for he did no violence, and no deceit in his mouth.


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And Jehovah inclined to crash him; piercing him when his soul shall be set a sacrifice for sin, he shall see seed, he shall prolong the days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.


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And be shall see of the labor of his soul, he shall be satisfied: by his knowledge my just servant shall justify for many; and he shall bear their iniquities.


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For this I will divide to him with many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; for which his soul was poured out to death, and he was numbered with transgressors; and he lifted up the sin of many, and he will supplicate for transgressors.


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Shout, thou barren, not bringing forth; break forth in shouting, cry aloud, not being pained; for more the sons of the desolate than the sons of the married, said Jehovah.


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Enlarge the place of thy tent, stretch forth the hangings of thy dwellings; thou shalt not spare; lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy pegs.


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For the right and the left thou shalt break forth, and thy seed shall inherit the nations, and they shall cause desolated cities to be inhabited.


