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As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.


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And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.


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I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel will their fold be: there will they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture will they feed upon the mountains of Israel.


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I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.


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And as for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.


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Seems it a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?


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And as for my flock, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.


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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD to them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.


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Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad;


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Therefore will I save my flock, and they will no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.


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And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David; he will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.


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And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.


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And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they will dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.


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And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there will be showers of blessing.


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And the tree of the field will yield her fruit, and the earth will yield her increase, and they will be safe in their land, and will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.


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And they will no more be a prey to the heathen, neither will the beast of the land devour them; but they will dwell safely, and none will make them afraid.


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And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they will be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.


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Thus will they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord GOD.


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And say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against you, and I will stretch out mine hand against you, and I will make you most desolate.


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Because you have had a perpetual hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:


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Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will prepare you to blood, and blood will pursue you: sith you have not hated blood, even blood will pursue you.


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Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passes out and him that returns.


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And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in your hills, and in your valleys, and in all your rivers, will they fall that are slain with the sword.


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I will make you perpetual desolations, and your cities will not return: and you will know that I am the LORD.


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Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:


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Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will even do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have used out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged you.


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And you will know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.


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Thus with your mouth you have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.


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As you did rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you will be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they will know that I am the LORD.


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Also, you son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:


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Thus says the Lord GOD; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:


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Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the heathen, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:


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Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;


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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.


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Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because you have borne the shame of the heathen:


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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they will bear their shame.


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But you, O mountains of Israel, you will shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.


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And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities will be inhabited, and the wastes will be builded:


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And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they will increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better to you than at your beginnings: and you will know that I am the LORD.


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Yes, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will no more henceforth bereave them of men.


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Thus says the Lord GOD; Because they say to you, You land devour up men, and have bereaved your nations:


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Neither will I cause men to hear in you the shame of the heathen any more, neither will you bear the reproach of the people any more, neither will you cause your nations to fall any more, says the Lord GOD.


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Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.


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Therefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:


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And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.


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And when they entered to the heathen, where they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.


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But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, where they went.


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Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the heathen, where you went.


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And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen will know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when I will be sanctified in you before their eyes.


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For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.


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Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you will be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.


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A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.


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And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you will keep my judgments, and do them.


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And you will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you will be my people, and I will be your God.


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I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.


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And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you will receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.


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Then will you remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and will lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.


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Not for your sakes do I this, says the Lord GOD, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.


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Thus says the Lord GOD; In the day that I will have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes will be builded.


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And they will say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.


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Then the heathen that are left round about you will know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.


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Thus says the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.


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As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they will know that I am the LORD.


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The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,


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And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.


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Again he said to me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.


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Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live:


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And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you will live; and you will know that I am the LORD.


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So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.


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And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.


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Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.


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So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.


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Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.


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Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.


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And you will know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,


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And will put my spirit in you, and you will live, and I will place you in your own land: then will you know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, says the LORD.


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Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:


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And when the children of your people will speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?


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Say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in mine hand.


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And say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, where they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:


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And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king to them all: and they will be no more two nations, neither will they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.


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Neither will they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so will they be my people, and I will be their God.


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And David my servant will be king over them; and they all will have one shepherd: they will also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.


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And they will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they will dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David will be their prince for ever.


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Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.


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And the heathen will know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary will be in the midst of them for evermore.


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Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,


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And say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:


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And I will turn you back, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:


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Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with you.


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Be you prepared, and prepare for yourself, you, and all your company that are assembled to you, and be you a guard to them.


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After many days you will be visited: in the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they will dwell safely all of them.


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You will ascend and come like a storm, you will be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your bands, and many people with you.


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Thus says the Lord GOD; It will also come to pass, that at the same time will things come into your mind, and you will think an evil thought:


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And you will say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,


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To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn your hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.


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Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, will say to you, Are you come to take a spoil? have you gathered your company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?


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Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwells safely, will you not know it?


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And you will come from your place out of the north parts, you, and many people with you, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:


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And you will come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it will be in the latter days, and I will bring you against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I will be sanctified in you, O Gog, before their eyes.


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Thus says the Lord GOD; Are you he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring you against them?


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And it will come to pass at the same time when Gog will come against the land of Israel, says the Lord GOD, that my fury will come up in my face.


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For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;


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So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, will shake at my presence, and the mountains will be thrown down, and the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.


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


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And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.


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Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they will know that I am the LORD.


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Therefore, you son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:


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And I will turn you back, and leave but the sixth part of you, and will cause you to come up from the north parts, and will bring you upon the mountains of Israel:


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And I will smite your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.


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You will fall upon the mountains of Israel, you, and all your bands, and the people that is with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.


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And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they will know that I am the LORD.


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So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.


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And they that dwell in the cities of Israel will go forth, and will set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they will burn them with fire seven years:


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So that they will take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they will burn the weapons with fire: and they will spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, says the Lord GOD.


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And it will come to pass in that day, that I will give to Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it will stop the noses of the passengers: and there will they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they will call it The valley of Hamongog.


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Yes, all the people of the land will bury them; and it will be to them a renown the day that I will be glorified, says the Lord GOD.


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And they will sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months will they search.


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And the passengers that pass through the land, when any sees a man's bone, then will he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.


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And, you son of man, thus says the Lord GOD; Speak to every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh, and drink blood.


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You will eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.


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And you will eat fat till you be full, and drink blood till you be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.


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Thus you will be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord GOD.


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And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen will see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.


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And the heathen will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.


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According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done to them, and hid my face from them.


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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;


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After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.


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When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;


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Then will they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them to their own land, and have left none of them any more there.


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Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.


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In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.


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In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.


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And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.


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And the man said to me, Son of man, behold with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I will show you; for to the intent that I might show them to you are you brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.


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And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.


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Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.


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And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.


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Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.


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And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.


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And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.


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The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.


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He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.


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And from the face of the gate of the entrance to the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.


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And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.


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Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.


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And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.


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Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.


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And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.


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And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.


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And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looks toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.


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And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits.


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After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.


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And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.


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And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.


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And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.


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And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;


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And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.


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And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.


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And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.


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And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.


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And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.


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The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.


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And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.


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And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.


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And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.


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And at the side without, as one goes up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.


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Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they killed their sacrifices.


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And the four tables were of cut stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.


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And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.


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And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.


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And he said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.


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And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister to him.


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So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.


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And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.


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The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.


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Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.


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And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.


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Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.


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So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.


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After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.


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And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.


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And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.


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I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.


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The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.


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And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.


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Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.


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So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;


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Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.


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And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;


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The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;


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To that above the door, even to the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.


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And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;


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So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.


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From the ground to above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.


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The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.


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The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before the LORD.


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And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.


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And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.


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And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.


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Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.


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Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.


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And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.


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Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.


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For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.


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And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.


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For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.


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And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the utter court.


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The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.


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And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.


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And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.


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Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach to the LORD will eat the most holy things: there will they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.


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When the priests enter therein, then will they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they will lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and will put on other garments, and will approach to those things which are for the people.


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Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.


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He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.


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He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.


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And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.


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And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.


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And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.


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So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.


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And he said to me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, will the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.


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In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in mine anger.


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Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.


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You son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.


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And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, show them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.


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This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about will be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.


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And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom will be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about will be a span: and this will be the higher place of the altar.


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And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle will be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle will be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.


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And the settle will be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it will be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof will be a cubit about; and his stairs will look toward the east.


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And he said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they will make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.


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And you will give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach to me, to minister to me, says the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.


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And you will take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus will you cleanse and purge it.


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You will take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he will burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.


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And on the second day you will offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they will cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.


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When you have made an end of cleansing it, you will offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.


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And you will offer them before the LORD, and the priests will cast salt upon them, and they will offer them up for a burnt offering to the LORD.


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Seven days will you prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they will also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.


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And when these days are expired, it will be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests will make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord GOD.


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Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looks toward the east; and it was shut.


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Then said the LORD to me; This gate will be shut, it will not be opened, and no man will enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered in by it, therefore it will be shut.


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It is for the prince; the prince, he will sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he will enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and will go out by the way of the same.


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Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.


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And the LORD said to me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.


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And you will say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; O you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,


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In that you have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.


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And you have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.


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Thus says the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, will enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.


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And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they will even bear their iniquity.


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Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they will slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them.


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Because they ministered to them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, says the Lord GOD, and they will bear their iniquity.


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And they will not come near to me, to do the office of a priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they will bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.


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But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that will be done therein.


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But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they will come near to me to minister to me, and they will stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord GOD:


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They will enter into my sanctuary, and they will come near to my table, to minister to me, and they will keep my charge.


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And it will come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they will be clothed with linen garments; and no wool will come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.


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They will have linen bonnets upon their heads, and will have linen breeches upon their loins; they will not gird themselves with any thing that causes sweat.


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And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they will put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they will put on other garments; and they will not sanctify the people with their garments.


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Neither will they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they will only poll their heads.


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Neither will they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they will take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.


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And they will teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.


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And in controversy they will stand in judgment; and they will judge it according to my judgments: and they will keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they will hallow my sabbaths.


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And they will come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that has had no husband, they may defile themselves.


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And in the day that he goes into the sanctuary, to the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he will offer his sin offering, says the Lord GOD.


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And it will be to them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and you will give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.


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They will eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel will be theirs.


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And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, will be the priest's: you will also give to the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in your house.


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Moreover, when you will divide by lot the land for inheritance, you will offer an oblation to the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length will be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth will be ten thousand. This will be holy in all the borders thereof round about.


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Of this there will be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.


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And of this measure will you measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it will be the sanctuary and the most holy place.


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The holy portion of the land will be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which will come near to minister to the LORD: and it will be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.


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And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth will also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.


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And you will appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it will be for the whole house of Israel.


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And a portion will be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length will be over against one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.


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In the land will be his possession in Israel: and my princes will no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land will they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.


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Thus says the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, says the Lord GOD.


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The ephah and the bath will be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof will be after the homer.


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And the shekel will be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, will be your maneh.


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This is the oblation that you will offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and you will give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:


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Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, you will offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:


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And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, says the Lord GOD.


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And it will be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he will prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.


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Thus says the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, you will take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:


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And the priest will take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.


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And so you will do the seventh day of the month for every one that errs, and for him that is simple: so will you reconcile the house.


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In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you will have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread will be eaten.


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And upon that day will the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.


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And seven days of the feast he will prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.


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And he will prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.


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In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, will he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.


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Thus says the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east will be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it will be opened, and in the day of the new moon it will be opened.


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And the prince will enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and will stand by the post of the gate, and the priests will prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he will worship at the threshold of the gate: then he will go forth; but the gate will not be shut until the evening.


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Likewise the people of the land will worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.


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And the burnt offering that the prince will offer to the LORD in the sabbath day will be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.


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And the meat offering will be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he will be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.


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And in the day of the new moon it will be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they will be without blemish.


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And he will prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand will attain to, and an hin of oil to an ephah.


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And when the prince will enter, he will go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he will go forth by the way thereof.


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But when the people of the land will come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that enters in by the way of the north gate to worship will go out by the way of the south gate; and he that enters by the way of the south gate will go forth by the way of the north gate: he will not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but will go forth over against it.


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And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, will go in; and when they go forth, will go forth.


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And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering will be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.


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Now when the prince will prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily to the LORD, one will then open him the gate that looks toward the east, and he will prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he will go forth; and after his going forth one will shut the gate.


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You will daily prepare a burnt offering to the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: you will prepare it every morning.


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And you will prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance to the LORD.


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Thus will they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.


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Thus says the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift to any of his sons, the inheritance thereof will be his sons'; it will be their possession by inheritance.


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But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it will be his to the year of liberty; after it will return to the prince: but his inheritance will be his sons' for them.


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Moreover the prince will not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he will give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.


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After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.


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Then said he to me, This is the place where the priests will boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they will bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.


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Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.


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In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.


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And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.


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Then said he to me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house will boil the sacrifice of the people.


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Afterward he brought me again to the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.


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Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without to the utter gate by the way that looks eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.


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And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.


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Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.


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Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.


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And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.


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Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.


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Then said he to me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters will be healed.


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And it will come to pass, that every thing that lives, which moves, wherever the rivers will come, will live: and there will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters will come thither: for they will be healed; and every thing will live where the river comes.


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And it will come to pass, that the fishers will stand upon it from Engedi even to Eneglaim; they will be a place to spread forth nets; their fish will be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.


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But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof will not be healed; they will be given to salt.


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And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, will grow all trees for meat, whose leaf will not fade, neither will the fruit thereof be consumed: it will bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof will be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.


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Thus says the Lord GOD; This will be the border, whereby you will inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph will have two portions.


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And you will inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers: and this land will fall to you for inheritance.


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And this will be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;


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Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.


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And the border from the sea will be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.


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And the east side you will measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border to the east sea. And this is the east side.


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And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.


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The west side also will be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.


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And it will come to pass, that you will divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which will beget children among you: and they will be to you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they will have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.


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And it will come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourns, there will you give him his inheritance, says the Lord GOD.


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Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goes to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.


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And by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the offering which you will offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary will be in the midst of it.


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The oblation that you will offer to the LORD will be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.


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And for them, even for the priests, will be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD will be in the midst thereof.


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It will be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.


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And this oblation of the land that is offered will be to them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.


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And over against the border of the priests the Levites will have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length will be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.


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And they will not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy to the LORD.


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And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, will be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city will be in the midst thereof.


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


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And the suburbs of the city will be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.


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And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion will be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it will be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof will be for food to them that serve the city.


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All the oblation will be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: you will offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.


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And the residue will be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it will be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house will be in the midst thereof.


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Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, will be for the prince.


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And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border will be even from Tamar to the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.


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This is the land which you will divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, says the Lord GOD.


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And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.


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And the gates of the city will be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.


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And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.


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And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.


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At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.


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It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day will be, The LORD is there.


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In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it.


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And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.


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And the king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes;


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Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.


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And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.


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To whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave to Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego.


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But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.


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And the prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then will you make me endanger my head to the king.


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Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,


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Prove your servants, I beseech you, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.


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Then let our countenances be looked upon before you, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as you see, deal with your servants.


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And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.


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Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.


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As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.


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Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.


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And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.


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And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.


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And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep broke from him.


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Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.


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Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.


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The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if you will not make known to me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.


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But if you show the dream, and the interpretation thereof, you will receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore show me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.


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They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation of it.


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The king answered and said, I know of certainty that you would gain the time, because you see the thing is gone from me.


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But if you will not make known to me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me the interpretation thereof.


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The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.


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And it is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is none other that can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.


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For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.


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And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.


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Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:


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He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.


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Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would show the king the interpretation.


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Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:


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That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.


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Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:


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And he changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and set up kings: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:


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He reveals the deep and secret things: he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.


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I thank you, and praise you, O you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have made known to me now what we desired of you: for you have now made known to us the king's matter.


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Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus to him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.


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Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus to him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known to the king the interpretation.


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The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?


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Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king has demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, show to the king;


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But there is a God in heaven that reveals secrets, and makes known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed, are these;


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As for you, O king, your thoughts came into your mind upon your bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that reveals secrets makes known to you what will come to pass.


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But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that will make known the interpretation to the king, and that you might know the thoughts of your heart.


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You, O king, saw, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and the form thereof was terrible.


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This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,


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You saw till that a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces.


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Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.


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You, O king, are a king of kings: for the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.


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And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven has he given into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold.


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And after you will arise another kingdom inferior to you, and another third kingdom of brass, which will bear rule over all the earth.


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And the fourth kingdom will be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things: and as iron that breaks all these, will it break in pieces and bruise.


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And whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom will be divided; but there will be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.


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And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong, and partly broken.


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And whereas you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they will not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.


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And in the days of these kings will the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which will never be destroyed: and the kingdom will not be left to other people, but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand for ever.


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Forasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.


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Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours to him.


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The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you could reveal this secret.


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Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.


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Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.


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Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.


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That at what time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up:


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And whoever falls not down and worships will the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.


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Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.


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You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that will hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, will fall down and worship the golden image:


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And whoever falls not down and worships, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.


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There are certain Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded you: they serve not your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said to them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not you serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?


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Now if you be ready that at what time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, you fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if you worship not, you will be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that will deliver you out of my hands?


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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer you in this matter.


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If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.


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But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.


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Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.


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And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.


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Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.


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Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flames of the fire killed those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied to you.


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How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.


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I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.


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Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.


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Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me the interpretation thereof.


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But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my God, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, saying,


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O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.


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Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.


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The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached to heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:


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The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.


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I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;


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He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:


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Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:


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Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given to him; and let seven times pass over him.


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This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will, and set up over it the basest of men.


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This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now you, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation: but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.


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Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spoke, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate you, and the interpretation thereof to your enemies.


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The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;


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Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:


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It is you, O king, that are grown and become strong: for your greatness is grown, and reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the end of the earth.


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And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;


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This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:


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That they will drive you from men, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field, and they will make you to eat grass as oxen, and they will wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times will pass over you, till you know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will.


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And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; your kingdom will be sure to you, after that you will have known that the heavens do rule.


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Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of your tranquillity.


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The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?


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While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from you.


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And they will drive you from men, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field: they will make you to eat grass as oxen, and seven times will pass over you, until you know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will.


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The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.


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And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes to heaven, and mine understanding returned to me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that lives for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:


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And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say to him, What do you?


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At the same time my reason returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned to me; and my counsellors and my lords sought to me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added to me.


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Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.


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Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.


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Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.


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Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.


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They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.


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In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.


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Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against another.


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The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever will read this writing, and show me the interpretation thereof, will be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and will be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.


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Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.


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Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spoke and said, O king, live for ever: let not your thoughts trouble you, nor let your countenance be changed:


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There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, I say, your father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;


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Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.


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Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel, which are of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?


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I have even heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in you.


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And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof: but they could not show the interpretation of the thing:


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And I have heard of you, that you can make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if you can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, you will be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and will be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; yet I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.


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O you king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:


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And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he killed; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.


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But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:


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And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appoints over it whomsoever he will.


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But have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine in them; and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, have you not glorified:


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Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;


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And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts to them, and the king should have no damage.


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Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.


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Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.


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Then said these men, We will not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.


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Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live for ever.


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All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whoever will ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of you, O king, he will be cast into the den of lions.


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Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which alters not.


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Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.


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Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's decree; Have you not signed a decree, that every man that will ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of you, O king, will be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which alters not.


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Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regards not you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.


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Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.


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Then these men assembled to the king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.


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Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.


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And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.


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Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.


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And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice to Daniel: and the king spoke and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?


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My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before you, O king, have I done no hurt.


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Then was the king exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.


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And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.


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Then king Darius wrote to all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied to you.


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I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed, and his dominion will be even to the end.


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He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.


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In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.


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Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.


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The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.


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And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.


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After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.


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After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the remnant with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.


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I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.


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I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.


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A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.


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I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.


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As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.


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I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.


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And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.


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I came near to one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.


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But the saints of the most High will take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.


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Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the remnant with his feet;


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And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.


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Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.


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Thus he said, The fourth beast will be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which will be diverse from all kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down, and break it in pieces.


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And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that will arise: and another will rise after them; and he will be diverse from the first, and he will subdue three kings.


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And he will speak great words against the most High, and will wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.


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But the judgment will sit, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.


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And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, will be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.


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Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.


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In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.


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And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.


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Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.


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I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.


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And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.


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And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran to him in the fury of his power.


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And I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.


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Therefore the he goat grew very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.


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And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which grew exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.


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And it grew great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.


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Yes, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of the sanctuary was cast down.


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And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.


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Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said to that certain saint which spoke, How long will be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?


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And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.


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And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.


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So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said to me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end will be the vision.


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Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.


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And he said, Behold, I will make you know what will be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end will be.


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And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.


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Now that being broken, when four stood up for it, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.


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And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.


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And his power will be mighty, but not by his own power: and he will destroy wonderfully, and will prosper, and practise, and will destroy the mighty and the holy people.


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And through his policy also he will cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he will magnify himself in his heart, and by peace will destroy many: he will also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he will be broken without hand.


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And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: therefore shut you up the vision; for it will be for many days.


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And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.


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In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;


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In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.


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And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:


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And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;


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We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from your precepts and from your judgments:


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Neither have we hearkened to your servants the prophets, which spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.


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O LORD, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.


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O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.


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Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.


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Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even by departing, that they might not obey your voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.


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And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven has not been done as has been done upon Jerusalem.


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As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand your truth.


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Therefore has the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does: for we obeyed not his voice.


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And now, O Lord our God, that have brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten you renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.


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O LORD, according to all your righteousness, I beseech you, let your anger and your fury be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach to all that are about us.


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Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of your servant, and his supplications, and cause your face to shine upon your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.


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O my God, incline your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our supplications before you for our righteousnesses, but for your great mercies.


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O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for your own sake, O my God: for your city and your people are called by your name.


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And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;


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Yes, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.


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And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give you skill and understanding.


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At the beginning of your supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to show you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.


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Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.


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Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Messiah the Prince will be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street will be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.


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And after threescore and two weeks will Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof will be with a flood, and to the end of the war desolations are determined.


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And he will confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he will make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined will be poured upon the desolate.


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In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.


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I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.


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And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;


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Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:


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His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.


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And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.


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Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.


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Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.


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And he said to me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright: for to you am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.


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Then said he to me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that you did set your heart to understand, and to chasten yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I am come for your words.


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But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.


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Now I am come to make you understand what will befall your people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.


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And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.


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For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.


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And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be to you, be strong, yes, be strong. And when he had spoken to me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.


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Then said he, Know you therefore I come to you? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia will come.


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But I will show you that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holds with me in these things, but Michael your prince.


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And now will I show you the truth. Behold, there will stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth will be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he will stir up all against the realm of Grecia.


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And when he will stand up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others beside those.


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And the king of the south will be strong, and one of his princes; and he will be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion will be a great dominion.


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And in the end of years they will join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she will not retain the power of the arm; neither will he stand, nor his arm: but she will be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.


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But out of a branch of her roots will one stand up in his estate, which will come with an army, and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will deal against them, and will prevail:


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And will also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he will continue more years than the king of the north.


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But his sons will be stirred up, and will assemble a multitude of great forces: and one will certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then will he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.


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And the king of the south will be moved with anger, and will come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he will set forth a great multitude; but the multitude will be given into his hand.


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And when he has taken away the multitude, his heart will be lifted up; and he will cast down many ten thousands: but he will not be strengthened by it.


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For the king of the north will return, and will set forth a multitude greater than the former, and will certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.


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And in those times there will many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of your people will exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they will fall.


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So the king of the north will come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south will not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither will there be any strength to withstand.


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But he that comes against him will do according to his own will, and none will stand before him: and he will stand in the glorious land, which by his hand will be consumed.


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He will also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus will he do: and he will give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she will not stand on his side, neither be for him.


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After this will he turn his face to the isles, and will take many: but a prince for his own behalf will cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he will cause it to turn upon him.


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Then he will turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he will stumble and fall, and not be found.


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Then will stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he will be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.


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And in his estate will stand up a vile person, to whom they will not give the honour of the kingdom: but he will come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.


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And with the arms of a flood will they be overflown from before him, and will be broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant.


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And after the league made with him he will work deceitfully: for he will come up, and will become strong with a small people.


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He will enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he will do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he will scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yes, and he will forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.


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And he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south will be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he will not stand: for they will forecast devices against him.


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Yes, they that feed of the portion of his meat will destroy him, and his army will overflow: and many will fall down slain.


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And both of these kings' hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it will not prosper: for yet the end will be at the time appointed.


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Then will he return into his land with great riches; and his heart will be against the holy covenant; and he will do exploits, and return to his own land.


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At the time appointed he will return, and come toward the south; but it will not be as the former, or as the latter.


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For the ships of Chittim will come against him: therefore he will be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so will he do; he will even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.


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And arms will stand on his part, and they will pollute the sanctuary of strength, and will take away the daily sacrifice, and they will place the abomination that makes desolate.


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And such as do wickedly against the covenant will he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God will be strong, and do exploits.


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And they that understand among the people will instruct many: yet they will fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.


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Now when they will fall, they will be holpen with a little help: but many will cleave to them with flatteries.


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And some of them of understanding will fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.


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And the king will do according to his will; and he will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and will prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined will be done.


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Neither will he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he will magnify himself above all.


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But in his estate will he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not will he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.


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Thus will he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he will acknowledge and increase with glory: and he will cause them to rule over many, and will divide the land for gain.


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And at the time of the end will the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he will enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass over.


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He will enter also into the glorious land, and many countries will be overthrown: but these will escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.


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But he will have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps.


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But tidings out of the east and out of the north will trouble him: therefore he will go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.


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And he will plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he will come to his end, and none will help him.


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And at that time will Michael stand up, the great prince which stands for the children of your people: and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people will be delivered, every one that will be found written in the book.


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And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.


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And they that be wise will shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.


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But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many will run to and fro, and knowledge will be increased.


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Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.


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And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long will it be to the end of these wonders?


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And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and sware by him that lives for ever that it will be for a time, times, and an half; and when he will have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.


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Many will be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked will do wickedly: and none of the wicked will understand; but the wise will understand.


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And from the time that the daily sacrifice will be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there will be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.


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But go you your way till the end be: for you will rest, and stand in your lot at the end of the days.


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The word of the LORD that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Aha, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.


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The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take to you a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land has committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.


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And the LORD said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.


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And it will come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.


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And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said to him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.


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But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.


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Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.


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Then will the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they will come up out of the land: for great will be the day of Jezreel.


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Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;


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Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.


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For their mother has played the harlot: she that conceived them has done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.


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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, that she will not find her paths.


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And she will follow after her lovers, but she will not overtake them; and she will seek them, but will not find them: then will she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.


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For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.


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Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.


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And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none will deliver her out of mine hand.


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I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.


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And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she has said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field will eat them.


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And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, says the LORD.


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Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her.


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And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she will sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.


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And it will be at that day, says the LORD, that you will call me Ishi; and will call me no more Baali.


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For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they will no more be remembered by their name.


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And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.


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And I will betroth you to me for ever; yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.


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And it will come to pass in that day, I will hear, says the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they will hear the earth;


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And I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, You are my people; and they will say, You are my God.


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Then said the LORD to me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.


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So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:


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And I said to her, You will abide for me many days; you will not play the harlot, and you will not be for another man: so will I also be for you.


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For the children of Israel will abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:


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Afterward will the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and will fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.


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Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.


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By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood touches blood.


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Therefore will the land mourn, and every one that dwells therein will languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yes, the fishes of the sea also will be taken away.


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Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive with the priest.


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Therefore will you fall in the day, and the prophet also will fall with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother.


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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you will be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.


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And there will be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.


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For they will eat, and not have enough: they will commit whoredom, and will not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.


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My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares to them: for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.


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They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters will commit whoredom, and your spouses will commit adultery.


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I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that does not understand will fall.


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Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not you to Gilgal, neither go you up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD lives.


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For Israel slides back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.


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Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give you.


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Hear you this, O priests; and hearken, you house of Israel; and give you ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.


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I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, you commit whoredom, and Israel is defiled.


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They will not frame their doings to turn to their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.


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And the pride of Israel does testify to his face: therefore will Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also will fall with them.


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They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they will not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.


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They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now will a month devour them with their portions.


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Blow you the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after you, O Benjamin.


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Ephraim will be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which will surely be.


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The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.


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When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.


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For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none will rescue him.


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I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.


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Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.


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After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we will live in his sight.


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Then will we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.


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O Ephraim, what will I do to you? O Judah, what will I do to you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.


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Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and your judgments are as the light that goes forth.


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And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.


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I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.


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When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without.


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And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.


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They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.


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In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.


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For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.


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They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calls to me.


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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not: yes, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knows not.


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And the pride of Israel testifies to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.


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When they will go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.


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Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.


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And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.


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They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this will be their derision in the land of Egypt.


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Set the trumpet to your mouth. He will come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.


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They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.


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Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?


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For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria will be broken in pieces.


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For they have sown the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind: it has no stalk; the bud will yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers will swallow it up.


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Yes, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they will sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.


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They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepts them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they will return to Egypt.


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For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it will devour the palaces thereof.


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Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God, you have loved a reward upon every cornfloor.


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They will not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean things in Assyria.


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They will not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither will they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices will be to them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof will be polluted: for their bread for their soul will not come into the house of the LORD.


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For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles will possess them: thorns will be in their tabernacles.


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The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel will know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of your iniquity, and the great hatred.


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The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.


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They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.


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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves to that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.


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As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.


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Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there will not be a man left: yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!


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Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim will bring forth his children to the murderer.


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All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.


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Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they will bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.


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My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken to him: and they will be wanderers among the nations.


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Israel is an empty vine, he brings forth fruit to himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.


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Their heart is divided; now will they be found faulty: he will break down their altars, he will spoil their images.


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For now they will say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?


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They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.


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The inhabitants of Samaria will fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof will mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.


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It will be also carried to Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.


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The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars; and they will say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.


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O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.


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It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people will be gathered against them, when they will bind themselves in their two furrows.


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And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loves to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah will plow, and Jacob will break his clods.


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Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.


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You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.


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Therefore will a tumult arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.


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So will Bethel do to you because of your great wickedness: in a morning will the king of Israel utterly be cut off.


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As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.


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I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat to them.


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He will not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian will be his king, because they refused to return.


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And the sword will abide on his cities, and will consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.


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And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.


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How will I give you up, Ephraim? how will I deliver you, Israel? how will I make you as Admah? how will I set you as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.


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I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you: and I will not enter into the city.


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They will walk after the LORD: he will roar like a lion: when he will roar, then the children will tremble from the west.


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They will tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, says the LORD.


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Ephraim compasses me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet rules with God, and is faithful with the saints.


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Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.


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The LORD has also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.


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Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us;


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And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they will find none iniquity in me that were sin.


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And I that am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt will yet make you to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.


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I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.


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Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.


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And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.


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Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore will he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach will his LORD return to him.


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And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.


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Therefore they will be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.


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Yet I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt, and you will know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.


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According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.


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I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast will tear them.


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I will be your king: where is any other that may save you in all your cities? and your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and princes?


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The sorrows of a travailing woman will come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.


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I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: repentance will be hid from mine eyes.


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Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind will come, the wind of the LORD will come up from the wilderness, and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up: he will spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.


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Samaria will become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: they will fall by the sword: their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their women with child will be ripped up.


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Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.


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Asshur will not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, You are our gods: for in you the fatherless finds mercy.


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They that dwell under his shadow will return; they will revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof will be as the wine of Lebanon.


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Ephraim will say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is your fruit found.


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Who is wise, and he will understand these things? prudent, and he will know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just will walk in them: but the transgressors will fall therein.


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Hear this, you old men, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?


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Tell you your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.


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That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that which the locust has left has the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left has the caterpiller eaten.


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Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.


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For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.


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He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.


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The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.


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The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languish.


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Be you ashamed, O you husbandmen; howl, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.


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The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languish; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.


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Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.


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Sanctify you a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry to the LORD,


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Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty will it come.


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The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.


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How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.


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O LORD, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.


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The beasts of the field cry also to you: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.


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Blow you the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD comes, for it is nigh at hand;


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A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there has not been ever the like, neither will be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.


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A fire  before them; and behind them a flame burns: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and nothing will escape them.


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Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains will they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that  the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.


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They will run like mighty men; they will climb the wall like men of war; and they will march every one on his ways, and they will not break their ranks:


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Neither will one thrust another; they will walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they will not be wounded.


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They will run to and fro in the city; they will run upon the wall, they will climb up upon the houses; they will enter in at the windows like a thief.


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The earth will quake before them; the heavens will tremble: the sun and the moon will be dark, and the stars will withdraw their shining:


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And the LORD will utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executes his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?


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Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:


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And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repents him of the evil.


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Who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God?


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Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.


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Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: therefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?


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Yes, the LORD will answer and say to his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:


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But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink will come up, and his ill savour will come up, because he has done great things.


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Be not afraid, you beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree bears her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.


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Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he has given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.


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And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.


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And you will eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that has dealt wondrously with you: and my people will never be ashamed.


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And you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people will never be ashamed.


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And it will come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions:


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The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.


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And it will come to pass, that whoever will call on the name of the LORD will be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD will call.


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For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I will bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,


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I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.


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And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.


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Yes, and what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will you render me a recompence? and if you recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;


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Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:


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The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have you sold to the Grecians, that you might remove them far from their border.


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Behold, I will raise them out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:


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And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD has spoken it.


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Proclaim you this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:


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Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause your mighty ones to come down, O LORD.


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Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.


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Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.


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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.


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The LORD also will roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.


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So will you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then will Jerusalem be holy, and there will no strangers pass through her any more.


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And it will come to pass in that day, that the mountains will drop down new wine, and the hills will flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will come forth out of the house of the LORD, and will water the valley of Shittim.


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Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.


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The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.


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And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither.


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Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:


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I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holds the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria will go into captivity to Kir, says the LORD.


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Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:


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And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holds the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines will perish, says the Lord GOD.


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Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:


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Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:


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Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:


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But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:


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Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:


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But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:


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And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, says the LORD.


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Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:


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Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;


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That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in to the same maid, to profane my holy name:


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And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.


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Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.


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Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.


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And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O you children of Israel? says the LORD.


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Therefore the flight will perish from the swift, and the strong will not strengthen his force, neither will the mighty deliver himself:


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Neither will he stand that handles the bow; and he that is swift of foot will not deliver himself: neither will he that rides the horse deliver himself.


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Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,


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You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.


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Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?


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Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? will one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?


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Will a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? will there be evil in a city, and the LORD has not done it?


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Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.


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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; An adversary there will be even round about the land; and he will bring down your strength from you, and your palaces will be spoiled.


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Thus says the LORD; As the shepherd took out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so will the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.


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That in the day that I will visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.


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And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end, says the LORD.


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Hear this word, you kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.


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The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days will come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.


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And you will go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and you will cast them into the palace, says the LORD.


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Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:


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And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this like you, O you children of Israel, says the Lord GOD.


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And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have you not returned to me, says the LORD.


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And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.


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So two or three cities wandered to one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have you not returned to me, says the LORD.


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I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have you not returned to me, says the LORD.


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I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up to your nostrils: yet have you not returned to me, says the LORD.


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I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have you not returned to me, says the LORD.


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Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.


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For, lo, he that forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, that makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.


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The virgin of Israel is fallen; she will no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.


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For thus says the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand will leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred will leave ten, to the house of Israel.


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But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal will surely go into captivity, and Bethel will come to nought.


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Seek the LORD, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.


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Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:


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That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled will come against the fortress.


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Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you will not drink wine of them.


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For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.


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Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have spoken.


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Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.


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Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, says thus; Wailing will be in all streets; and they will say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they will call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.


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Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.


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As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.


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Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.


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But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.


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Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.


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Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!


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Pass you to Calneh, and see; and from thence go you to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?


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That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;


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That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.


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Therefore now will they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves will be removed.


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The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, says the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.


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And a man's uncle will take him up, and he that burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and will say to him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with you? and he will say, No. Then will he say, Hold your tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.


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For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.


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Will horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:


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You which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?


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But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, says the LORD the God of hosts; and they will afflict you from the entering in of Hemath to the river of the wilderness.


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Thus has the Lord GOD showed to me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.


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And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech you: by whom will Jacob arise? for he is small.


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Thus has the Lord GOD showed to me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.


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Thus he showed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.


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And the LORD said to me, Amos, what see you? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:


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And the high places of Isaac will be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.


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Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.


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For thus Amos says, Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely be led away captive out of their own land.


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Also Amaziah said to Amos, O you seer, go, flee you away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:


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Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:


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And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.


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Now therefore hear you the word of the LORD: You say, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not your word against the house of Isaac.


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Therefore thus says the LORD; Your wife will be an harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided by line; and you will die in a polluted land: and Israel will surely go into captivity forth of his land.


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And he said, Amos, what see you? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD to me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.


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And the songs of the temple will be howlings in that day, says the Lord GOD: there will be many dead bodies in every place; they will cast them forth with silence.


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Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?


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That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?


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Will not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwells therein? and it will rise up wholly as a flood; and it will be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.


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And it will come to pass in that day, says the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:


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And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.


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Behold, the days come, says the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:


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And they will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they will run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and will not find it.


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They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Your god, O Dan, lives; and, The manner of Beersheba lives; even they will fall, and never rise up again.


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I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that flees of them will not flee away, and he that escapes of them will not be delivered.


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Though they dig into hell, thence will mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:


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And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he will bite them:


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And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it will slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.


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And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that touches the land, and it will melt, and all that dwell therein will mourn: and it will rise up wholly like a flood; and will be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.


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It is he that builds his stories in the heaven, and has founded his troop in the earth; he that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.


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Are you not as children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? says the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?


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Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.


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For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet will not the least grain fall upon the earth.


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All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, which say, The evil will not overtake nor prevent us.


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In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:


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That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.


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Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman will overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains will drop sweet wine, and all the hills will melt.


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And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they will build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they will also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.


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And I will plant them upon their land, and they will no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.


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The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise you, and let us rise up against her in battle.


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The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that says in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?


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Though you exalt yourself as the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, thence will I bring you down, says the LORD.


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If thieves came to you, if robbers by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes?


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All the men of your confederacy have brought you even to the border: the men that were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; that they eat your bread have laid a wound under you: there is none understanding in him.


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Will I not in that day, says the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?


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And your mighty men, O Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.


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For your violence against your brother Jacob shame will cover you, and you will be cut off for ever.


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In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even you were as one of them.


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But you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress.


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You should not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yes, you should not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;


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Neither should you have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither should you have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.


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For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as you have done, it will be done to you: your reward will return upon your own head.


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For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so will all the heathen drink continually, yes, they will drink, and they will swallow down, and they will be as though they had not been.


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But upon mount Zion will be deliverance, and there will be holiness; and the house of Jacob will possess their possessions.


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And the house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they will kindle in them, and devour them; and there will not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken it.


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And they of the south will possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they will possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin will possess Gilead.


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And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel will possess that of the Canaanites, even to Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the south.


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And saviours will come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom will be the LORD's.


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Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.


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But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.


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But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.


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Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.


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So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What mean you, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.


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And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.


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Then said they to him, Tell us, we pray you, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is your occupation? and where come you? what is your country? and of what people are you?


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And he said to them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which has made the sea and the dry land.


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Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him. Why have you done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.


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Then said they to him, What will we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea done, and was tempestuous.


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And he said to them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so will the sea be calm to you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.


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Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea done, and was tempestuous against them.


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Therefore they cried to the LORD, and said, We beseech you, O LORD, we beseech you, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.


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Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.


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And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heard my voice.


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For you hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all your billows and your waves passed over me.


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The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.


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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.


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When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.


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But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.


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So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.


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And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh will be overthrown.


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So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.


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For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.


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And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:


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But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God: yes, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.


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And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do to them; and he did it not.


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And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish: for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repent you of the evil.


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Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.


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So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.


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And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.


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But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.


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And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.


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And God said to Jonah, Do you well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death.


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Then said the LORD, You have had pity on the gourd, for the which you have not laboured, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:


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And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?


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The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Aha, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.


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Hear, all you people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.


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For, behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.


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And the mountains will be molten under him, and the valleys will be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.


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For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?


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Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.


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And all the graven images thereof will be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof will be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they will return to the hire of an harlot.


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Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.


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For her wound is incurable; for it is come to Judah; he is come to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.


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Pass you away, you inhabitant of Saphir, having your shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he will receive of you his standing.


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For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.


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O you inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.


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Therefore will you give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib will be a lie to the kings of Israel.


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Yet will I bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he will come to Adullam the glory of Israel.


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Make you bald, and poll you for your delicate children; enlarge your baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from you.


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Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.


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And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.


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Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which you will not remove your necks; neither will you go haughtily: for this time is evil.


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In that day will one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people: how has he removed it from me! turning away he has divided our fields.


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Prophesy you not, say they to them that prophesy: they will not prophesy to them, that they will not take shame.


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O you that are named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walks uprightly?


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Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.


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The women of my people have you cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have you taken away my glory for ever.


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Arise you, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it will destroy you, even with a sore destruction.


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If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink; he will even be the prophet of this people.


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I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they will make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.


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The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king will pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.


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And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?


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Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;


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Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.


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Then will they cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.


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Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.


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Therefore night will be to you, that you will not have a vision; and it will be dark to you, that you will not divine; and the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be dark over them.


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Then will the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they will all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.


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But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.


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Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.


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The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.


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Therefore will Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.


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But in the last days it will come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established in the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and people will flow to it.


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And many nations will come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law will go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.


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And he will judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation will not lift up a sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.


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But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none will make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken it.


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For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.


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In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble her that halts, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;


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And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD will reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.


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And you, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, to you will it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom will come to the daughter of Jerusalem.


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Now why do you cry out aloud? is there no king in you? is your counsellor perished? for pangs have taken you as a woman in travail.


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Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now will you go forth out of the city, and you will dwell in the field, and you will go even to Babylon; there will you be delivered; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.


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Now also many nations are gathered against you, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.


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But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he will gather them as the sheaves into the floor.


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Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass: and you will beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain to the LORD, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.


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Now gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops: he has laid siege against us: they will smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.


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But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, though you be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you will he come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.


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Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travails has brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren will return to the children of Israel.


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And he will stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they will abide: for now will he be great to the ends of the earth.


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And this man will be the peace, when the Assyrian will come into our land: and when he will tread in our palaces, then will we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.


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And they will waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus will he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he comes into our land, and when he treads within our borders.


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And the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarries not for man, nor waits for the sons of men.


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And the remnant of Jacob will be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treads down, and tears in pieces, and none can deliver.


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And it will come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you, and I will destroy your chariots:


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Your graven images also will I cut off, and your standing images out of the midst of you; and you will no more worship the work of your hands.


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Hear you now what the LORD says; Arise, contend you before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.


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Hear you, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and you strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.


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For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of servants; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.


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O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal; that you may know the righteousness of the LORD.


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Wherewith will I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? will I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?


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Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? will I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?


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He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?


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The LORD's voice cries to the city, and the man of wisdom will see your name: hear you the rod, and who has appointed it.


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Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?


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For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.


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You will eat, but not be satisfied; and your casting down will be in the midst of you; and you will take hold, but will not deliver; and that which you deliver will I give up to the sword.


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You will sow, but you will not reap; you will tread the olives, but you will not anoint you with oil; and sweet wine, but will not drink wine.


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For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore you will bear the reproach of my people.


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Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.


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The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.


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That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man, he utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.


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The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of your watchmen and your visitation comes; now will be their perplexity.


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Trust you not in a friend, put you not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.


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For the son dishonours the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.


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Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I will arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.


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I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I will behold his righteousness.


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Then she that is mine enemy will see it, and shame will cover her which said to me, Where is the LORD your God? mine eyes will behold her: now will she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.


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In that day also he will come even to you from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.


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Notwithstanding the land will be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.


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Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.


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The nations will see and be confounded at all their might: they will lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears will be deaf.


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They will lick the dust like a serpent, they will move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they will be afraid of the LORD our God, and will fear because of you.


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Who is a God like to you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retains not his anger for ever, because he delights in mercy.


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He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.


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You will perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.


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God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies.


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The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.


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He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan languish, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languish.


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The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yes, the world, and all that dwell therein.


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Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.


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But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness will pursue his enemies.


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What do you imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction will not rise up the second time.


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For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they will be devoured as stubble fully dry.


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Thus says the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus will they be cut down, when he will pass through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.


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And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown: out of the house of your gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make your grave; for you are vile.


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Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows: for the wicked will no more pass through you; he is utterly cut off.


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He that dashes in pieces is come up before your face: keep the munition, watch the way, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.


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For the LORD has turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.


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The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots will be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees will be terribly shaken.


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The chariots will rage in the streets, they will justle one against another in the broad ways: they will seem like torches, they will run like the lightnings.


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He will recount his worthies: they will stumble in their walk; they will make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence will be prepared.


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And Huzzab will be led away captive, she will be brought up, and her maids will lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.


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But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they will flee away. Stand, stand, will they cry; but none will look back.


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Take you the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.


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She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.


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Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?


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The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.


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Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions: and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no more be heard.


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The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.


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The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:


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Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that sells nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.


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Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts; and I will discover your skirts upon your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.


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And it will come to pass, that all they that look upon you will flee from you, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? where will I seek comforters for you?


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Are you better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?


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Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.


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All your strong holds will be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they will even fall into the mouth of the eater.


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Behold, your people in the midst of you are women: the gates of your land will be set wide open to your enemies: the fire will devour your bars.


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Draw you waters for the siege, fortify your strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.


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There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off, it will eat you up like the cankerworm: make yourself many as the cankerworm, make yourself many as the locusts.


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You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoils, and flees away.


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Your crowned are as the locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.


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Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: your nobles will dwell in the dust: your people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathers them.


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There is no healing of your bruise; your wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of you will clap the hands over you: for upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?


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O LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out to you of violence, and you will not save!


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Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.


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Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go forth: for the wicked does compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.


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Behold you among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which you will not believe, though it be told you.


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For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which will march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.


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Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen will spread themselves, and their horsemen will come from far; they will fly as the eagle that hastes to eat.


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They will come all for violence: their faces will sup up as the east wind, and they will gather the captivity as the sand.


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And they will scoff at the kings, and the princes will be a scorn to them: they will deride every strong hold; for they will heap dust, and take it.


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Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we will not die. O LORD, you have ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, you have established them for correction.


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You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: therefore look you upon them that deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when the wicked  the man that is more righteous than he?


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They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.


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Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.


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I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer when I am reproved.


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And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that reads it.


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For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it will speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.


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Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and heaps to him all people:


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Will not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increases that which is not his! how long? and to him that loads himself with thick clay!


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Will they not rise up suddenly that will bite you, and awake that will vex you, and you will be for booties to them?


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Because you have spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people will spoil you; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.


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Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!


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You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.


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Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people will labour in the very fire, and the people will weary themselves for very vanity?


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For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.


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Woe to him that gives his neighbour drink, that put your bottle to him, and make him drunken also, that you may look on their nakedness!


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You are filled with shame for glory: drink you also, and let your foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand will be turned to you, and shameful spewing will be on your glory.


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For the violence of Lebanon will cover you, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.


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What profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts therein, to make dumb idols?


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Woe to him that says to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it will teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.


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O LORD, I have heard your speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.


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God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.


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And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.


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He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.


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Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was your anger against the rivers? was your wrath against the sea, that you did ride upon your horses and your chariots of salvation?


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Your bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even your word. Selah. You did cleave the earth with rivers.


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The mountains saw you, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.


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The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of your arrows they went, and at the shining of your glittering spear.


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You went forth for the salvation of your people, even for salvation with your anointed; you woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation to the neck. Selah.


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You did strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.


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When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he comes up to the people, he will invade them with his troops.


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Although the fig tree will not blossom, neither will fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive will fail, and the fields will yield no meat; the flock will be cut off from the fold, and there will be no herd in the stalls:


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The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.


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The word of the LORD which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.


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I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked: and I will cut off man from off the land, says the LORD.


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I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;


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And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;


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And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.


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Hold your peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD has prepared a sacrifice, he has bid his guests.


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And it will come to pass in the day of the LORD's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.


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In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.


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And it will come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.


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Howl, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.


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And it will come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.


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Therefore their goods will become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they will also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.


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The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hastes greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man will cry there bitterly.


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That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,


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And I will bring distress upon men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood will be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.


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Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.


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Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you.


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Seek you the LORD, all you meek of the earth, which have done his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you will be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.


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For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they will drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron will be rooted up.


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Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.


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And the coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they will feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon will they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God will visit them, and turn away their captivity.


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I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.


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Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people will spoil them, and the remnant of my people will possess them.


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This will they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.


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The LORD will be terrible to them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men will worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.


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And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.


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And flocks will lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern will lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice will sing in the windows; desolation will be in the thresholds; for he will uncover the cedar work.


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This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passes by her will hiss, and wag his hand.


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She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.


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Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.


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Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.


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The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning does he bring his judgment to light, he fails not; but the unjust knows no shame.


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I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passes by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.


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I said, Surely you will fear me, you will receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.


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Therefore wait you upon me, says the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.


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For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.


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From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, will bring mine offering.


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In that day will you not be ashamed for all your doings, wherein you have transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of you them that rejoice in your pride, and you will no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.


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I will also leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will trust in the name of the LORD.


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The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they will feed and lie down, and none will make them afraid.


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Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.


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The LORD has taken away your judgments, he has cast out your enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of you: you will not see evil any more.


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The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over you with singing.


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I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of you, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.


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Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict you: and I will save her that halts, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.


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At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, says the LORD.


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In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,


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Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built.


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You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.


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Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says the LORD.


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You looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when you brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and you run every man to his own house.


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And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground brings forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.


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Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.


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Then spoke Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message to the people, saying, I am with you, says the LORD.


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And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,


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In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,


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Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,


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Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?


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Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, says the LORD, and work: for I am with you, says the LORD of hosts:


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According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so my spirit remains among you: fear you not.


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For thus says the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;


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And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations will come: and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.


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The glory of this latter house will be greater than of the former, says the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, says the LORD of hosts.


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In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,


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If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, will it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.


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Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It will be unclean.


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Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, says the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.


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And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:


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Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.


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I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet you turned not to me, says the LORD.


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Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it.


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Is the seed yet in the barn? yes, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, has not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.


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And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders will come down, every one by the sword of his brother.


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In that day, says the LORD of hosts, will I take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, says the LORD, and will make you as a signet: for I have chosen you, says the LORD of hosts.


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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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Therefore say you to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Turn you to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the LORD of hosts.


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Be you not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Turn you now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, says the LORD.


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But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us.


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Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.


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Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show you what these be.


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And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.


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And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sits still, and is at rest.


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Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these threescore and ten years?


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So the angel that communed with me said to me, Cry you, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.


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And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.


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Therefore thus says the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house will be built in it, says the LORD of hosts, and a line will be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.


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Cry yet, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity will yet be spread abroad; and the LORD will yet comfort Zion, and will yet choose Jerusalem.


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And I said to the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.


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Then said I, What come these to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.


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Then said I, Where go you? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.


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And said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem will be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:


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For I, says the LORD, will be to her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.


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Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, says the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, says the LORD.


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For thus says the LORD of hosts; After the glory has he sent me to the nations which spoiled you: for he that touches you touches the apple of his eye.


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For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they will be a spoil to their servants: and you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.


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Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you, says the LORD.


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And many nations will be joined to the LORD in that day, and will be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.


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And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.


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And the LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebuke you, O Satan; even the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?


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And he answered and spoke to those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And to him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with change of raiment.


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And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.


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Thus says the LORD of hosts; If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you will also judge my house, and will also keep my courts, and I will give you places to walk among these that stand by.


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Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you, and your fellows that sit before you: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.


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For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone will be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, says the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.


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In that day, says the LORD of hosts, will you call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.


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And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.


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And said to me, What see you? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:


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And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.


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Then the angel that talked with me answered and said to me, Know you not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.


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Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts.


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Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will become a plain: and he will bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace to it.


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The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands will also finish it; and you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.


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For who has despised the day of small things? for they will rejoice, and will see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.


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Then answered I, and said to him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?


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And I answered again, and said to him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?


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And he said to me, What see you? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.


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Then said he to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that steals will be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that swears will be cut off as on that side according to it.


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I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.


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Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that goes forth.


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And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.


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And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sits in the midst of the ephah.


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And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.


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Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.


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And he said to me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it will be established, and set there upon her own base.


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And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.


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And the angel answered and said to me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the LORD of all the earth.


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The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.


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And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.


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Then cried he upon me, and spoke to me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.


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Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come you the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;


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Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;


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And speak to him, saying, Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he will grow up out of his place, and he will build the temple of the LORD:


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Even he will build the temple of the LORD; and he will bear the glory, and will sit and rule upon his throne; and he will be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace will be between them both.


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And the crowns will be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.


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And they that are far off will come and build in the temple of the LORD, and you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And this will come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.


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And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;


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When they had sent to the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,


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And to speak to the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?


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Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did you at all fast to me, even to me?


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And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did not you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?


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Should you not hear the words which the LORD has cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?


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Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:


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And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.


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But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.


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Yes, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts has sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.


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Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts:


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But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.


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Thus says the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.


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Thus says the LORD; I am returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.


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Thus says the LORD of hosts; There will yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.


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Thus says the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? says the LORD of hosts.


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Thus says the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;


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And I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.


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Thus says the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, you that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.


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For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.


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For the seed will be prosperous; the vine will give her fruit, and the ground will give her increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.


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And it will come to pass, that as you were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and you will be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.


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For thus says the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, says the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:


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So again have I thought in these days to do well to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear you not.


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These are the things that you will do; Speak you every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:


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And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, says the LORD.


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Thus says the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, will be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.


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Thus says the LORD of hosts; It will yet come to pass, that there will come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:


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And the inhabitants of one city will go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.


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Yes, many people and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.


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Thus says the LORD of hosts; In those days it will come to pass, that ten men will take hold out of all languages of the nations, even will take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.


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The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus will be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, will be toward the LORD.


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And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.


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Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.


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Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also will see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation will be ashamed; and the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.


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And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remains, even he, will be for our God, and he will be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.


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And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passes by, and because of him that returns: and no oppressor will pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.


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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes to you: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.


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And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be cut off: and he will speak peace to the heathen: and his dominion will be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.


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As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.


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Turn you to the strong hold, you prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double to you;


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When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you as the sword of a mighty man.


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And the LORD will be seen over them, and his arrow will go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.


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The LORD of hosts will defend them; and they will devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they will drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they will be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.


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And the LORD their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they will be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.


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For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn will make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.


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Ask you of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD will make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.


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For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.


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Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts has visited his flock the house of Judah, and has made them as his goodly horse in the battle.


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Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.


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And they will be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they will fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses will be confounded.


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And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.


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And they of Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine: yes, their children will see it, and be glad; their heart will rejoice in the LORD.


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I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they will increase as they have increased.


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And I will sow them among the people: and they will remember me in far countries; and they will live with their children, and turn again.


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I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place will not be found for them.


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And he will pass through the sea with affliction, and will smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river will dry up: and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt will depart away.


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Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O you oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.


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There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.


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Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.


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For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they will smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.


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And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took to me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.


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Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.


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Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dies, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.


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And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.


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And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.


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And I said to them, If you think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.


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And the LORD said to me, Cast it to the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.


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Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.


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For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which will not visit those that be cut off, neither will seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that stands still: but he will eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.


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Woe to the idol shepherd that left the flock! the sword will be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm will be clean dried up, and his right eye will be utterly darkened.


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The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, says the LORD, which stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.


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Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the people round about, when they will be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.


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And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it will be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.


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In that day, says the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.


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And the governors of Judah will say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem will be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.


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In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they will devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem will be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.


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The LORD also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.


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In that day will the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day will be as David; and the house of David will be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.


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And it will come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.


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And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they will look upon me whom they have pierced, and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.


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In that day will there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.


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And the land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;


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The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;


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In that day there will be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.


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And it will come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.


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And it will come to pass, that when any will yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him will say to him, You will not live; for you speak lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him will thrust him through when he prophesies.


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And it will come to pass in that day, that the prophets will be ashamed every one of his vision, when he has prophesied; neither will they wear a rough garment to deceive:


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But he will say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.


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And one will say to him, What are these wounds in your hands? Then he will answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.


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Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, says the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.


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And it will come to pass, that in all the land, says the LORD, two parts therein will be cut off and die; but the third will be left therein.


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And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they will call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they will say, The LORD is my God.


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For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city will go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people will not be cut off from the city.


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Then will the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.


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And his feet will stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives will cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there will be a very great valley; and half of the mountain will remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.


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And you will flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azal: yes, you will flee, like as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God will come, and all the saints with you.


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But it will be one day which will be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it will come to pass, that at evening time it will be light.


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And it will be in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter will it be.


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All the land will be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it will be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel to the king's winepresses.


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And men will dwell in it, and there will be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem will be safely inhabited.


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And this will be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh will consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their holes, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.


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And it will come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD will be among them; and they will lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbour.


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And Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about will be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.


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And so will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that will be in these tents, as this plague.


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And it will come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem will even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.


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And it will be, that whoever will not come up of all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them will be no rain.


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And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there will be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.


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This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.


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In that day will there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD's house will be like the bowls before the altar.


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Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holiness to the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice will come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there will be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.


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I have loved you, says the LORD. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,


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Whereas Edom says, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus says the LORD of hosts, They will build, but I will throw down; and they will call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD has indignation for ever.


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A son honours his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, Wherein have we despised your name?


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You offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and you say, Wherein have we polluted you? In that you say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.


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And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now to your governor; will he be pleased with you, or accept your person? says the LORD of hosts.


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And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious to us: this has been by your means: will he regard your persons? says the LORD of hosts.


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Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do you kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.


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For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same my name will be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name will be great among the heathen, says the LORD of hosts.


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But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.


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You said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and you have snuffed at it, says the LORD of hosts; and you brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus you brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? says the LORD.


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But cursed be the deceiver, which has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.


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If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.


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Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one will take you away with it.


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And you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with Levi, says the LORD of hosts.


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My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.


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The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.


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For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.


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But you are departed out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.


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Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.


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Have we not all one father? has not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?


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Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and has married the daughter of a strange god.


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The LORD will cut off the man that does this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offers an offering to the LORD of hosts.


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And this have you done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regards not the offering any more, or receives it with good will at your hand.


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Yet you say, Therefore? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously: yet is she your companion, and the wife of your covenant.


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And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And therefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.


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For the LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates putting away: for one covers violence with his garment, says the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that you deal not treacherously.


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You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have we wearied him? When you say, Every one that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?


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Behold, I will send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he will come, says the LORD of hosts.


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But who may abide the day of his coming? and who will stand when he appeared? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:


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And he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he will purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.


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Then will the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.


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And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.


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Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you said, Wherein will we return?


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Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.


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Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough to receive it.


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And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he will not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither will your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, says the LORD of hosts.


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Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, What have we spoken so much against you?


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You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?


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And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are set up; yes, they that tempt God are even delivered.


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Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.


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And they will be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.


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Then will you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.


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For, behold, the day comes, that will burn as an oven; and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, will be stubble: and the day that comes will burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it will leave them neither root nor branch.


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But to you that fear my name will the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you will go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.


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And you will tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I will do this, says the LORD of hosts.


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Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.


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Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:


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And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.


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And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;


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So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon to Christ are fourteen generations.


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Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.


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Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privately.


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But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, you son of David, fear not to take to you Mary your wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.


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And she will bring forth a son, and you will call his name JESUS: for he will save his people from their sins.


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Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,


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Behold, a virgin will be with child, and will bring forth a son, and they will call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.


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Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took to him his wife:


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Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,


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Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.


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And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.


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And you Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, are not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of you will come a Governor, that will rule my people Israel.


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Then Herod, when he had privately called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.


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And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when you have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.


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When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.


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And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented to him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.


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And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.


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And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be you there until I bring you word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.


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And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.


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Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and killed all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.


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In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.


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Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.


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But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:


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And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He will be called a Nazarene.


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For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.


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And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.


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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?


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And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say to you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.


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And now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.


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I indeed baptize you with water to repentance: but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he will baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:


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Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.


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And Jesus answering said to him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becomes us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.


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And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:


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And when the tempter came to him, he said, If you be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.


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But he answered and said, It is written, Man will not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.


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And says to him, If you be the Son of God, cast yourself down: for it is written, He will give his angels charge concerning you: and in their hands they will bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.


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Again, the devil took him up into an exceeding high mountain, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;


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Then says Jesus to him, Get you hence, Satan: for it is written, You will worship the Lord your God, and him only will you serve.


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And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:


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The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;


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The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.


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And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.


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And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.


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And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.


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And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.


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And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.


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And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came to him:


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Blessed are you, when men will revile you, and persecute you, and will say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.


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Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.


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You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith will it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.


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Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light to all that are in the house.


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Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.


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Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.


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For truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle will in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.


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Whoever therefore will break one of these least commandments, and will teach men so, he will be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever will do and teach them, the same will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.


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For I say to you, That except your righteousness will exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.


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You have heard that it was said of them of old time, You will not kill; and whoever will kill will be in danger of the judgment:


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But I say to you, That whoever is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment: and whoever will say to his brother, Raca, will be in danger of the council: but whoever will say, You fool, will be in danger of hell fire.


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Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has ought against you;


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Leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.


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Agree with yours adversary quickly, whiles you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.


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Truly I say to you, You will by no means come out thence, till you have paid the uttermost farthing.


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But I say to you, That whoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.


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And if your right eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.


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And if your right hand offend you, cut it off, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.


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But I say to you, That whoever will put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whoever will marry her that is divorced commits adultery.


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Again, you have heard that it has been said by them of old time, You will not forswear yourself, but will perform to the Lord yours oaths:


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Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.


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But I say to you, That you resist not evil: but whoever will smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.


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But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;


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That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.


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Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.


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Therefore when you do yours alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.


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That yours alms may be in secret: and your Father which sees in secret himself will reward you openly.


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And when you pray, you will not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.


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But you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret; and your Father which sees in secret will reward you openly.


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But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.


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Be not you therefore like to them: for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him.


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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.


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Moreover when you fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.


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That you appear not to men to fast, but to your Father which is in secret: and your Father, which sees in secret, will reward you openly.


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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:


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But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:


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The light of the body is the eye: if therefore yours eye be single, your whole body will be full of light.


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But if yours eye be evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!


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No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.


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Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?


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Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?


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And why take you thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:


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Therefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?


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Therefore take no thought, saying, What will we eat? or, What will we drink? or, Wherewithal will we be clothed?


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(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.


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But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things will be added to you.


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Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow will take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.


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For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged: and with what measure you mete, it will be measured to you again.


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And why behold you the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in yours own eye?


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Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of yours eye; and, behold, a beam is in yours own eye?


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You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of yours own eye; and then will you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye.


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Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast you your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.


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For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it will be opened.


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If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?


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Therefore all things whatever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.


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Enter you in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:


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Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it.


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Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.


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Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.


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Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?


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Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:


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And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.


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And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, will be likened to a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:


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And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.


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And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:


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And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.


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And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be you clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.


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And Jesus says to him, See you tell no man; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.


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The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant will be healed.


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For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.


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When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Truly I say to you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.


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And I say to you, That many will come from the east and west, and will sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.


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But the children of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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And Jesus said to the centurion, Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it done to you. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.


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When the even was come, they brought to him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:


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That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.


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And Jesus says to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has not where to lay his head.


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And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.


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And he says to them, Why are you fearful, O you of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.


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But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!


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And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.


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And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus, you Son of God? are you come here to torment us before the time?


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So the devils besought him, saying, If you cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.


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And he said to them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.


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And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.


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And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts.


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And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said to the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; your sins be forgiven you.


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But that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (then says he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up your bed, and go to yours house.


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But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power to men.


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And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he says to him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.


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And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.


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And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why eats your Master with publicans and sinners?


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But when Jesus heard that, he said to them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.


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But go you and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.


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Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples fast not?


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And Jesus said to them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then will they fast.


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No man puts a piece of new cloth to an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up took from the garment, and the rent is made worse.


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Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runs out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.


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While he spoke these things to them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay your hand upon her, and she will live.


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And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:


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But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; your faith has made you whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.


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And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, You son of David, have mercy on us.


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And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus says to them, Believe you that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord.


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And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.


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And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.


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But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.


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And when he had called to him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.


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Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;


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Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;


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These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter you not:


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Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely you have received, freely give.


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Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.


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And into whatever city or town you will enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till you go thence.


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And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.


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And whoever will not receive you, nor hear your words, when you depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.


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Truly I say to you, It will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.


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Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be you therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.


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But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;


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And you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.


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But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you will speak: for it will be given you in that same hour what you will speak.


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And the brother will deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children will rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.


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But when they persecute you in this city, flee you into another: for truly I say to you, You will not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.


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It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call them of his household?


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Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that will not be revealed; and hid, that will not be known.


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What I tell you in darkness, that speak you in light: and what you hear in the ear, that preach you upon the housetops.


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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.


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Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them will not fall on the ground without your Father.


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Whoever therefore will confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.


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For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.


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He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.


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He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward; and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.


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And whoever will give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he will in no wise lose his reward.


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And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.


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The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.


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And as they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What went you out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?


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But what went you out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.


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For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, which will prepare your way before you.


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Truly I say to you, Among them that are born of women there has not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.


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And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.


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But whereunto will I liken this generation? It is like to children sitting in the markets, and calling to their fellows,


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And saying, We have piped to you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not lamented.


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The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.


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Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:


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Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.


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But I say to you, It will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.


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And you, Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.


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But I say to you, That it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.


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At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes.


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All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.


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Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you will find rest to your souls.


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At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.


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But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Behold, your disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.


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But he said to them, Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;


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How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?


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Or have you not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?


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But if you had known what this means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless.


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And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.


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And he said to them, What man will there be among you, that will have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?


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Then says he to the man, Stretch forth yours hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.


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But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;


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Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he will show judgment to the Gentiles.


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A bruised reed will he not break, and smoking flax will he not quench, till he send forth judgment to victory.


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Then was brought to him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spoke and saw.


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But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow does not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.


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And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself will not stand:


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And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they will be your judges.


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Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.


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Therefore I say to you, All manner of sin and blasphemy will be forgiven to men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost will not be forgiven to men.


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And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him: but whoever speaks against the Holy Ghost, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.


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Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.


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O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.


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A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.


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But I say to you, That every idle word that men will speak, they will give account thereof in the day of judgment.


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Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you.


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But he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there will no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:


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For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


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The men of Nineveh will rise in judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.


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The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.


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When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.


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Then he says, I will return into my house from where I came out; and when he is come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished.


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Then goes he, and took with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this wicked generation.


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While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.


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Then one said to him, Behold, your mother and your brethren stand without, desiring to speak with you.


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For whoever will do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.


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And great multitudes were gathered together to him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.


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Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:


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But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.


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He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.


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For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more abundance: but whoever has not, from him will be taken away even that he has.


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Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.


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And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which says, By hearing you will hear, and will not understand; and seeing you will see, and will not perceive:


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For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.


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For truly I say to you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.


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When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.


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But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that hears the word, and anon with joy receives it;


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Yet has he not root in himself, but lasts for a while: for when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, by and by he is offended.


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He also that received seed among the thorns is he that hears the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.


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But he that received seed into the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it; which also bears fruit, and brings forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.


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Another parable put he forth to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man which sowed good seed in his field:


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So the servants of the householder came and said to him, Sir, did not you sow good seed in your field? from where then has it tares?


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He said to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Will you then that we go and gather them up?


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Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather you together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.


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Another parable put he forth to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:


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Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.


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Another parable spoke he to them; The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.


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All these things spoke Jesus to the multitude in parables; and without a parable spoke he not to them:


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That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.


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Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came to him, saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field.


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The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;


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The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.


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The Son of man will send forth his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;


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Then will the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who has ears to hear, let him hear.


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Again, the kingdom of heaven is like to treasure hid in a field; the which when a man has found, he hides, and for joy thereof goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.


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Again, the kingdom of heaven is like to a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:


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Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.


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So will it be at the end of the world: the angels will come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,


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Then said he to them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed to the kingdom of heaven is like to a man that is an householder, which brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.


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And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Where has this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?


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Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?


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And they were offended in him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.


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And said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in him.


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For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.


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And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.


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And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.


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And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.


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When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.


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And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.


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And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.


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And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.


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And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.


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And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.


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And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.


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And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.


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And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.


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But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.


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And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said to him, O you of little faith, therefore did you doubt?


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And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought to him all that were diseased;


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And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.


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Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.


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But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?


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For God commanded, saying, Honour your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die the death.


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But you say, Whoever will say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me;


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And honour not his father or his mother, he will be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.


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This people draws nigh to me with their mouth, and honours me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.


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Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.


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Then came his disciples, and said to him, Know you that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?


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Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.


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Do not you yet understand, that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?


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For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:


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And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, you son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.


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But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she cries after us.


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Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith: be it to you even as you will. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.


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And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh to the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.


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And great multitudes came to him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:


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Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.


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Then Jesus called his disciples to him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.


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And his disciples say to him, Where should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?


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And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.


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And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.


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The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven.


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He answered and said to them, When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.


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And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O you hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky; but can you not discern the signs of the times?


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A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there will no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.


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Which when Jesus perceived, he said to them, O you of little faith, why reason you among yourselves, because you have brought no bread?


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Do you not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?


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How is it that you do not understand that I spoke it not to you concerning bread, that you should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?


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Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.


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When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?


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And they said, Some say that you are John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.


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And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father which is in heaven.


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And I say also to you, That you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.


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And I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever you will bind on earth will be bound in heaven: and whatever you will loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.


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From that time forth began Jesus to show to his disciples, how that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.


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Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from you, Lord: this will not be to you.


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But he turned, and said to Peter, Get you behind me, Satan: you are an offence to me: for you savour not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.


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Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.


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For whoever will save his life will lose it: and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.


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For what is a man profited, if he will gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?


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For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he will reward every man according to his works.


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Truly I say to you, There be some standing here, which will not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.


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And after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and brings them up into an high mountain apart,


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And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.


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Then answered Peter, and said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if you will, let us make here three tabernacles; one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.


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While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear you him.


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And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.


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But I say to you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done to him whatever they listed. Likewise will also the Son of man suffer of them.


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And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,


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Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water.


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Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I suffer you? bring him here to me.


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And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.


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And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief: for truly I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it will remove; and nothing will be impossible to you.


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And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man will be betrayed into the hands of men:


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And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Does not your master pay tribute?


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He says, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What think you, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?


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Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go you to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first comes up; and when you have opened his mouth, you will find a piece of money: that take, and give to them for me and you.


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And said, Truly I say to you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.


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Whoever therefore will humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.


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But whoever will offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.


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Woe to the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!


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Therefore if your hand or your foot offend you, cut them off, and cast them from you: it is better for you to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.


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And if yours eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.


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Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.


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How think you? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not leave the ninety and nine, and goes into the mountains, and seeks that which is gone astray?


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And if so be that he find it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.


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Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.


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Moreover if your brother will trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone: if he will hear you, you have gained your brother.


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But if he will not hear you, then take with you one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.


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And if he will neglect to hear them, tell it to the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be to you as an heathen man and a publican.


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Truly I say to you, Whatever you will bind on earth will be bound in heaven: and whatever you will loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.


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Again I say to you, That if two of you will agree on earth as touching any thing that they will ask, it will be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.


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Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?


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Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a certain king, which would take account of his servants.


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But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.


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The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.


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But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that you owe.


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And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.


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So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.


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Then his lord, after that he had called him, said to him, O you wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt, because you desiredst me:


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And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due to him.


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So likewise will my heavenly Father do also to you, if you from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.


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And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;


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The Pharisees also came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?


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And he answered and said to them, Have you not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,


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And said, For this cause will a man leave father and mother, and will cleave to his wife: and they twain will be one flesh?


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Therefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.


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He says to them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.


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And I say to you, Whoever will put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and will marry another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her which is put away does commit adultery.


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For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.


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Then were there brought to him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.


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But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come to me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.


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And, behold, one came and said to him, Good Master, what good thing will I do, that I may have eternal life?


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And he said to him, Why call you me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if you will enter into life, keep the commandments.


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He says to him, Which? Jesus said, You will do no murder, You will not commit adultery, You will not steal, You will not bear false witness,


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Jesus said to him, If you will be perfect, go and sell that you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.


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Then said Jesus to his disciples, Truly I say to you, That a rich man will hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.


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And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.


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But Jesus beheld them, and said to them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.


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Then answered Peter and said to him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed you; what will we have therefore?


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And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, That you which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man will sit in the throne of his glory, you also will sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And every one that has forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive an hundredfold, and will inherit everlasting life.


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For the kingdom of heaven is like to a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.


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And said to them; Go you also into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went their way.


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And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and says to them, Why stand you here all the day idle?


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They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to them, Go you also into the vineyard; and whatever is right, that will you receive.


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So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last to the first.


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But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.


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Saying, These last have done but one hour, and you have made them equal to us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.


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But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do you no wrong: did not you agree with me for a penny?


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Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they will condemn him to death,


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And will deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he will rise again.


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Then came to him the mother of Zebedees children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.


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And he said to her, What will you? She says to him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on your right hand, and the other on the left, in your kingdom.


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But Jesus answered and said, You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I will drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say to him, We are able.


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And he says to them, You will drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it will be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.


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But Jesus called them to him, and said, You know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.


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Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.


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And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, you son of David.


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And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, you son of David.


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So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.


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And when they drew nigh to Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, to the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,


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Saying to them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway you will find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them to me.


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And if any man say ought to you, you will say, The Lord has need of them; and straightway he will send them.


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Tell you the daughter of Sion, Behold, your King comes to you, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.


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And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.


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And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.


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And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,


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And said to them, It is written, My house will be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.


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And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased,


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And said to him, Hear you what these say? And Jesus says to them, Yes; have you never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have perfected praise?


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And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said to it, Let no fruit grow on you henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.


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Jesus answered and said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have faith, and doubt not, you will not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if you will say to this mountain, Be you removed, and be you cast into the sea; it will be done.


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And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority do you these things? and who gave you this authority?


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And Jesus answered and said to them, I also will ask you one thing, which if you tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.


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The baptism of John, where was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we will say, From heaven; he will say to us, Why did you not then believe him?


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And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said to them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.


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But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.


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Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.


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For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and you, when you had seen it, repented not afterward, that you might believe him.


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Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:


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And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.


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But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.


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They say to him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, which will render him the fruits in their seasons.


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Jesus says to them, Did you never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?


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Therefore say I to you, The kingdom of God will be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.


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And whoever will fall on this stone will be broken: but on whomsoever it will fall, it will grind him to powder.


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And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke of them.


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But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.


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Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come to the marriage.


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But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.


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So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.


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And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.


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Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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And they sent out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God in truth, neither care you for any man: for you regard not the person of men.


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They say to him, Caesar's. Then says he to them, Render therefore to Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's.


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Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother will marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.


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Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife to his brother:


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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.


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But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,


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I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.


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But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.


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Jesus said to him, You will love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.


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And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.


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All therefore whatever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not you after their works: for they say, and do not.


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For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.


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But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,


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But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore you will receive the greater damnation.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.


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Woe to you, you blind guides, which say, Whoever will swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever will swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!


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And, Whoever will swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.


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You blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like to whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.


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Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,


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And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.


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Therefore you be witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets.


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Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them will you scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:


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That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.


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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent to you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!


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For I say to you, You will not see me henceforth, till you will say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.


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And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple.


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And Jesus said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say to you, There will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.


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And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the world?


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And you will hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.


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For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there will be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in various places.


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Then will they deliver you up to be afflicted, and will kill you: and you will be hated of all nations for my name's sake.


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And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world for a witness to all nations; and then will the end come.


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When you therefore will see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:)


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For then will be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever will be.


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And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.


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For there will arise false Christs, and false prophets, and will show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they will deceive the very elect.


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Therefore if they will say to you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.


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For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even to the west; so will also the coming of the Son of man be.


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Immediately after the tribulation of those days will the sun be darkened, and the moon will not give her light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken:


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And then will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then will all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.


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And he will send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.


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Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near:


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For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,


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And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so will also the coming of the Son of man be.


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But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.


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Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?


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The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looks not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,


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And will cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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Then will the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.


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But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go you rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.


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And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.


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For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods.


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And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.


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Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.


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And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, you deliveredst to me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.


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His lord said to him, Well done, you good and faithful servant: you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things: enter you into the joy of your lord.


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He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, you deliveredst to me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.


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His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things: enter you into the joy of your lord.


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Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew you that you are an hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not strawed:


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His lord answered and said to him, You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:


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You ought therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.


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For to every one that has will be given, and he will have abundance: but from him that has not will be taken away even that which he has.


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And cast you the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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When the Son of man will come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then will he sit upon the throne of his glory:


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And before him will be gathered all nations: and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats:


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Then will the King say to them on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:


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For I was hungry, and you gave me meat: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:


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Then will the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you hungry, and fed you? or thirsty, and gave you drink?


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And the King will answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it to me.


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Then will he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:


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I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and you visited me not.


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Then will they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you?


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Then will he answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.


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You know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.


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Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,


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There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.


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When Jesus understood it, he said to them, Why trouble you the woman? for she has done a good work upon me.


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Truly I say to you, Wheresoever this gospel will be preached in the whole world, there will also this, that this woman has done, be told for a memorial of her.


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And said to them, What will you give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.


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Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, Where will you that we prepare for you to eat the passover?


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And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say to him, The Master says, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at your house with my disciples.


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The Son of man goes as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.


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And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.


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But I say to you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.


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Then says Jesus to them, All you will be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered abroad.


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Peter answered and said to him, Though all men will be offended because of you, yet will I never be offended.


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Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you, That this night, before the cock crow, you will deny me thrice.


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Peter said to him, Though I should die with you, yet will I not deny you. Likewise also said all the disciples.


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Then comes Jesus with them to a place called Gethsemane, and says to the disciples, Sit you here, while I go and pray yonder.


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Then says he to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even to death: tarry you here, and watch with me.


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And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as you will.


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And he comes to the disciples, and finds them asleep, and says to Peter, What, could you not watch with me one hour?


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Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.


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He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, your will be done.


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Then comes he to his disciples, and says to them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.


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And while he yet spoke, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.


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Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I will kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.


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And Jesus said to him, Friend, therefore are you come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus and took him.


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And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.


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Then said Jesus to him, Put up again your sword into his place: for all they that take the sword will perish with the sword.


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Think you that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he will presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?


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In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are you come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and you laid no hold on me.


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But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.


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And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.


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But Peter followed him afar off to the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.


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Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;


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But found none: yes, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,


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And the high priest arose, and said to him, Answer you nothing? what is it which these witness against you?


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But Jesus held his peace, And the high priest answered and said to him, I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you be the Christ, the Son of God.


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Jesus says to him, You have said: nevertheless I say to you, Hereafter will you see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.


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Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.


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Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,


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Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came to him, saying, You also were with Jesus of Galilee.


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And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said to them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth.


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And after a while came to him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely you also are one of them; for your speech betrays you.


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And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said to him, Before the cock crow, you will deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.


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When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:


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Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,


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Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see you to that.


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And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.


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Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;


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And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Are you the King of the Jews? And Jesus said to him, You say.


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Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, Whom will you that I release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?


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When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have you nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.


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But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.


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The governor answered and said to them, Whether of the twain will you that I release to you? They said, Barabbas.


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Pilate says to them, What will I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say to him, Let him be crucified.


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And the governor said, Why, what evil has he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.


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When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see you to it.


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Then released he Barabbas to them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.


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Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered to him the whole band of soldiers.


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And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!


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And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.


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And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.


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They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.


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And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.


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And saying, You that destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself. If you be the Son of God, come down from the cross.


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He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.


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And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?


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And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.


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And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;


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And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared to many.


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Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.


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And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him:


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Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedees children.


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When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:


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And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.


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Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate,


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Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.


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Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error will be worse than the first.


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In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.


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And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.


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And the angel answered and said to the women, Fear not you: for I know that you seek Jesus, which was crucified.


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And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there will you see him: lo, I have told you.


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And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.


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And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.


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Then said Jesus to them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there will they see me.


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Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and showed to the chief priests all the things that were done.


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And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money to the soldiers,


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So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.


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Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:


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Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the world. Amen.


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As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, which will prepare your way before you.


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The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.


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And there went out to him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.


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And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;


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And preached, saying, There comes one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.


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And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.


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And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:


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And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.


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Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,


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And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent you, and believe the gospel.


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Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.


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And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.


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And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.


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And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.


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And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.


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Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with you, you Jesus of Nazareth? are you come to destroy us? I know you who you are, the Holy One of God.


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And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commands he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.


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And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.


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And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered to them.


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And at even, when the sun did set, they brought to him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.


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And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.


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And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.


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And he said to them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.


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And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying to him, If you will, you can make me clean.


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And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and says to him, I will; be you clean.


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And says to him, See you say nothing to any man: but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.


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But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.


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And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word to them.


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And when they could not come nigh to him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.


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And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said to them, Why reason you these things in your hearts?


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Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Your sins be forgiven you; or to say, Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?


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But that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (he says to the sick of the palsy,)


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And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.


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And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said to him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.


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And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.


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And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said to his disciples, How is it that he eats and drinks with publicans and sinners?


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When Jesus heard it, he says to them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.


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And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples fast not?


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And Jesus said to them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.


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But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in those days.


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No man also sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up took away from the old, and the rent is made worse.


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And no man puts new wine into old bottles: else the new wine does burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.


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And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.


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And he said to them, Have you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry, he, and they that were with him?


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How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the showbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?


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And he says to them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.


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And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he says to the man, Stretch forth your hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.


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And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.


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But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,


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And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came to him.


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And he spoke to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.


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For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.


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And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, You are the Son of God.


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And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:


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And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,


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And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.


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And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casts he out devils.


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No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.


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Truly I say to you, All sins will be forgiven to the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they will blaspheme:


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But he that will blaspheme against the Holy Ghost has never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.


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And the multitude sat about him, and they said to him, Behold, your mother and your brethren without seek for you.


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And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered to him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.


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And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.


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And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:


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And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.


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And he said to them, To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all these things are done in parables:


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That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.


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And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan comes immediately, and took away the word that was sown in their hearts.


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And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;


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And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution arises for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.


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And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.


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And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.


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And he said to them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?


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For there is nothing hid, which will not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.


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And he said to them, Take heed what you hear: with what measure you mete, it will be measured to you: and to you that hear will more be given.


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For he that has, to him will be given: and he that has not, from him will be taken even that which he has.


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For the earth brings forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.


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But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest is come.


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And he said, Whereunto will we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison will we compare it?


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It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:


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But when it is sown, it grows up, and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.


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But without a parable spoke he not to them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.


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And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.


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And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say to him, Master, care you not that we perish?


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And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.


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And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?


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And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,


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Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.


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And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.


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And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the most high God? I adjure you by God, that you torment me not.


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And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.


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And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.


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And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.


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And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.


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And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.


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Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but says to him, Go home to your friends, and tell them how great things the Lord has done for you, and has had compassion on you.


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And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.


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And when Jesus was passed over again by ship to the other side, much people gathered to him: and he was nigh to the sea.


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And, behold, there comes one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,


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And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lies at the point of death: I pray you, come and lay your hands on her, that she may be healed; and she will live.


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And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,


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And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.


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And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?


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But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.


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And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you whole; go in peace, and be whole of your plague.


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While he yet spoke, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Your daughter is dead: why trouble you the Master any further?


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As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he says to the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.


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And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.


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And when he was come in, he says to them, Why make you this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleeps.


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And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he took the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and enters in where the damsel was lying.


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And he took the damsel by the hand, and said to her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say to you, arise.


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And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.


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And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.


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And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From where has this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given to him, that even such mighty works are done by his hands?


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Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.


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But Jesus, said to them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.


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And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.


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And he called to him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;


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And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:


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And he said to them, In what place soever you enter into an house, there abide till you depart from that place.


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And whoever will not receive you, nor hear you, when you depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Truly I say to you, It will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.


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And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in him.


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For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.


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For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.


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And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;


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And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said to the damsel, Ask of me whatever you will, and I will give it you.


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And she went forth, and said to her mother, What will I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.


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And she came in straightway with haste to the king, and asked, saying, I will that you give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.


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And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.


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And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,


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And the apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.


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And he said to them, Come you yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.


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And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together to him.


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And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.


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And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:


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Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.


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He answered and said to them, Give you them to eat. And they say to him, Will we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?


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He says to them, How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.


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And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.


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And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before to Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.


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And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary to them: and about the fourth watch of the night he comes to them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.


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For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and says to them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.


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And he went up to them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.


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And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.


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And wherever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.


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And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.


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For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands often, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.


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And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.


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Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not your disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?


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He answered and said to them, Well has Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.


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For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things you do.


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And he said to them, Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.


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For Moses said, Honour your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death:


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But you say, If a man will say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me; he will be free.


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Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which you have delivered: and many such like things do you.


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And when he had called all the people to him, he said to them, Hearken to me every one of you, and understand:


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There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.


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And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.


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And he says to them, Are you so without understanding also? Do you not perceive, that whatever thing from without enters into the man, it cannot defile him;


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Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats?


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Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:


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And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.


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For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:


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The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.


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But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the dogs.


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And she answered and said to him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.


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And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.


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And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.


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And they bring to him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.


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And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;


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And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;


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And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He has done all things well: he makes both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.


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In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him, and says to them,


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I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:


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And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.


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And his disciples answered him, From where can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?


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And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.


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And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.


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And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and says, Why does this generation seek after a sign? truly I say to you, There will no sign be given to this generation.


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Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.


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And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.


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And when Jesus knew it, he says to them, Why reason you, because you have no bread? perceive you not yet, neither understand? have you your heart yet hardened?


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When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? They say to him, Twelve.


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And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? And they said, Seven.


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And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.


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After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.


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And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.


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And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying to them, Whom do men say that I am?


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And he says to them, But whom say you that I am? And Peter answers and says to him, You are the Christ.


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And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.


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But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get you behind me, Satan: for you savour not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.


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And when he had called the people to him with his disciples also, he said to them, Whoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.


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For whoever will save his life will lose it; but whoever will lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same will save it.


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Whoever therefore will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also will the Son of man be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.


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And he said to them, Truly I say to you, That there be some of them that stand here, which will not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.


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And after six days Jesus took with him Peter, and James, and John, and leads them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.


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And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.


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And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.


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And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves.


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And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.


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And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.


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And he answered and told them, Elias truly comes first, and restores all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.


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But I say to you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done to him whatever they listed, as it is written of him.


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And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them.


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And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.


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And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought to you my son, which has a dumb spirit;


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And wheresoever he took him, he tears him: and he foams, and gnashes with his teeth, and pines away: and I spoke to your disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.


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He answers him, and says, O faithless generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I suffer you? bring him to me.


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And they brought him to him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.


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And often it has cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if you can do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.


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And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help you mine unbelief.


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When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying to him, You dumb and deaf spirit, I charge you, come out of him, and enter no more into him.


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And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.


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And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?


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For he taught his disciples, and said to them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and after that he is killed, he will rise the third day.


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And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that you disputed among yourselves by the way?


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But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.


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And he sat down, and called the twelve, and says to them, If any man desire to be first, the same will be last of all, and servant of all.


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And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said to them,


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Whoever will receive one of such children in my name, receives me: and whoever will receive me, receives not me, but him that sent me.


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And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in your name, and he follows not us: and we forbad him, because he follows not us.


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But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which will do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.


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For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward.


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And whoever will offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.


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And if your hand offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never will be quenched:


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And if your foot offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never will be quenched:


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And if your eye offend you, pluck it out: it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:


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Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.


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And he arose from thence, and comes into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort to him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.


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And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.


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And he says to them, Whoever will put away his wife, and marry another, commits adultery against her.


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And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.


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But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said to them, Suffer the little children to come to me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.


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Truly I say to you, Whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he will not enter therein.


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And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what will I do that I may inherit eternal life?


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You know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour your father and mother.


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Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said to him, One thing you lack: go your way, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.


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And Jesus looked round about, and says to his disciples, How hardly will they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!


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And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answers again, and says to them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!


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It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.


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And Jesus looking upon them says, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.


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And Jesus answered and said, Truly I say to you, There is no man that has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,


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But he will receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.


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And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen to him,


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Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests, and to the scribes; and they will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles:


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And they will mock him, and will scourge him, and will spit upon him, and will kill him: and the third day he will rise again.


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And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to him, saying, Master, we would that you should do for us whatever we will desire.


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They said to him, Grant to us that we may sit, one on your right hand, and the other on your left hand, in your glory.


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But Jesus said to them, You know not what you ask: can you drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?


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And they said to him, We can. And Jesus said to them, You will indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal will you be baptized:


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But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it will be given to them for whom it is prepared.


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But Jesus called them to him, and says to them, You know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.


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For even the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.


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And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.


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And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me.


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And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, You son of David, have mercy on me.


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And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying to him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calls you.


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And Jesus answered and said to him, What will you that I should do to you? The blind man said to him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.


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And Jesus said to him, Go your way; your faith has made you whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.


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