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And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people, in all the provinces of your kingdom. And their laws [are] different from all people, neither do they keep the king's laws. And it is not for the king's gain to allow them to live.


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If it pleases the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed. And I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those who have charge of the business, to bring [it] into the king's treasuries.


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And Mordecai understood all that was done, and Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes and went out into the middle of the city, and cried with a loud and bitter cry.


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And the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, [there is] one law of his, execution, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter so that he may live. But I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.


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And Mordecai commanded them to answer Esther, Do not think within yourself that you shall escape in the king's house more than all the Jews.


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For if you are completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house shall be destroyed. And who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for a time like this?


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Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, night or day. My maidservants and I will also fast in the same way. And so I will go in to the king, which [is] not according to the law. And if I perish, I perish.


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And he even came before the king's gate for none [might] enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.


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


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And Esther's servant women and her eunuchs came and told her. And the queen was exceedingly grieved, and she sent clothing to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him. But he did not receive [it].


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And Esther called for Hatach, [one] of the king's eunuchs whom he had appointed to attend on her, and gave him a command to Mordecai to know what it [was] and why it [was].


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


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Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree which [was] given at Shushan in order to destroy them, to show [it] to Esther and to declare it to her, and to command her that she should go in to the king to make supplication to him, and to seek help for her people.


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And it happened on the third day, Esther put on royal [clothing], and stood in the inner court of the king's house, across from the king's house. And the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, across from the gate of the house.


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But Haman held himself in. And when he came home, he sent and called [for] his friends and Zeresh his wife.


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And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and his many sons, and all to which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.


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And Haman said, Yes, Esther the queen let [no man] but me come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared. And also tomorrow I am invited to [her banquet], with the king.


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And Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, Make a wooden [gallows], fifty cubits high and tomorrow speak to the king that Mordecai may be hanged on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman, and he caused the wooden [gallows] to be made.


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And it happened when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she received favor [in] his sight. And the king held out to Esther the golden scepter in his hand. And Esther drew near and touched the top of the scepter.


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And the king said to her, What do you [desire], queen Esther? And what [is] your wish? It shall be given to you even to half of the kingdom.


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And Esther answered, If [it is] good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet which I have prepared for him.


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And the king said, Cause Haman to hurry so that he may do as Esther has said. And the king and Haman came to the banquet which Esther had prepared.


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And the king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, What [is] your petition that it shall be granted to you? And what [is] your request? It shall be performed even to half of the kingdom.


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if I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet which I shall prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.


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And Haman went forth that day joyful and with a glad heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he did not stand up nor move for him, he was full of fury against Mordecai.


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On that night the king could not sleep, and he commanded to bring the Book of the Records of the Matter of the Days. And they were read before the king.


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And the king said to Haman, Make haste! Take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Do not fail to do any of all the things you have spoken.


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And Haman took the clothing and the horse and dressed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, This is what shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!


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


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And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every [thing] that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, If Mordecai is of the seed of the Jews, before whom you have begun to fall, you shall not prevail against him but shall surely fall before him.


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And while they [were] still talking with him, the king's eunuchs came. And they hurried to bring Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.


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And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, the keepers of the door who tried to lay a hand on King Ahasuerus.


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And the king said, What honor and dignity has been done to Mordecai for this? And the king's servants who served him said, Nothing has been done for him.


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And the king said, Who [is] in the court? And Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the wooden [gallows] which he had prepared for him.


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


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


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let the royal clothing be brought, which the king wears, and the horse that the king rides on, and the royal crown which is set on his head.


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And let this clothing and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes so that they may dress the man whom the king delights to honor, and bring him on horseback through the streets of the city, and proclaim before him, This is what shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.


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And they hanged Haman on the wooden [gallows] that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath lay down.


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And the king said again to Esther on the second day of the banquet of wine, What [is] your petition, queen Esther, that it may be granted you? And what [is] your request? And it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.


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And Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.


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For we are sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to perish. But if we had been sold for men-slaves and women-slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could not make up for the king's damage.


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And King Ahasuerus answered and said to Esther the queen, Who [is] he, and where [is] the one who dares presume in his heart to do so?


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And Esther said, The man who is our adversary and enemy [is] this wicked Haman. And Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.


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And the king, arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath, [went] into the palace garden. And Haman stood up to beg for his life from Esther the queen, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.


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And the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine. And Haman had fallen on the bed on which Esther [was]. And the king said, Will he also force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.


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And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said before the king, Also look! the wooden [gallows] fifty cubits high which Haman made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him on it!


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On that day King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews' enemy, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he [was] to her.


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And he wrote in the name of king Ahasuerus and sealed [it] with the king's ring. And he sent letters by riders on horseback, riders on royal steeds, stallions, even sons of mares.


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In [them] the king granted the Jews in every city to gather themselves, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to kill and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province who desired to attack them, little ones and women, and [to take] what they owned for a prize,


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on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which [is] the month Adar.


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The copy of the writing for a command to be given in every province [was] announced to all people, even that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.


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The runners, riders on stallions, royal steeds, went out, being hurried and pressed on by the king's command. And the order was given at Shushan the palace.


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And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown [of] gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple. And the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.


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And in every province, and in every city where the king's command and his order came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews, for the fear of the Jews fell on them.


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


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And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the evil of Haman the Agagite, and his plot which he had plotted against the Jews.


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Then the king held out the golden scepter toward Esther. And Esther arose and stood before the king,


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and said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing [is] right before the king, and if I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to bring back the documents (a sly plan by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite) which he wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king's provinces.


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For how can I bear to see the evil that shall come on my people? Or how can I endure to see the slaughter of my kindred?


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And King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and have hanged him on the wooden [gallows], because he laid his hand on the Jews.


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And you write for the Jews as it pleases you, in the king's name, and seal [it] with the king's ring. For the writing which is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's ring, no man may turn back.


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Then the king's scribes were called at that time in the third month, the month Sivan, on the twenty-third of it. And it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the lieutenants and the governors and rulers of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to the writing of it, and to every people in their writing, and to the Jews according to their writing and according to their language.


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And in the twelfth month, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and his order came to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them; though it was turned around, so that the Jews had rule over the ones who hated them.


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they killed the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not lay their hands on the spoil.


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And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? And what [is] your petition, that it may be granted you? Or what further request do you have? And it shall be done.


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Then Esther said, If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews in Shushan to do tomorrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged on the wooden [gallows].


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And the king commanded it to be done. And the order was given at Shushan, and they hanged Haman's ten sons.


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For the Jews in Shushan gathered themselves on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men at Shushan. But they did not lay their hands on the spoil.


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But the rest of the Jews in the king's provinces gathered themselves and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of their foes. But they did not lay their hands on the spoil.


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


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But the Jews at Shushan gathered on the thirteenth of it and on the fourteenth of it. And on the fifteenth of the same, they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.


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Therefore the Jews of the villages, who lived in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar [a day of] gladness and feasting, and a good day, and [a day of] sending portions to one another.


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The Jews gathered themselves in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, in order to lay hand on any who sought their harm. And no man could withstand them, for the fear of them fell on all people.


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


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


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


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because Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, the lot, to finish them and to destroy them.


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But when [Esther] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plot which he had plotted against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the wooden [gallows].


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


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


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


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


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And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants and the governors and officers of the king helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai fell on them.


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And he sent the letters to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, [with] words of peace and truth,


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


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For Mordecai [was] great in the house of the king, and his fame went throughout all the provinces. For this man Mordecai was going on and growing greater.


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


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And these [were] the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt. Every man and his household came with Jacob:


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Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it will be when there comes a war, they join also to our enemies, and fight against us, and get out of the land.


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And they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built treasure cities for Pharaoh, Pithon and Raamses.


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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the sons of Israel.


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And they made their lives bitter with hard work in mortar and in bricks, and in all [kinds of] work in the field; all their work in which they made them do [was] with harshness.


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And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one [was] Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah.


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And he said, When you midwife the Hebrew women, and look on the birth stools, if it [is] a son, then you shall kill him. But if it [is] a daughter, then she shall live.


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But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved alive the male children.


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And the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, Why have you done this thing, and have saved the male children alive?


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And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women [are] not like the Egyptian women. For they [are] lively, and are delivered before the midwives come in to them.


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And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.


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And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls, for Joseph was [already] in Egypt.


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And the sons of Israel were fruitful, and increased very much, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty. And the land was filled [with] them.


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And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel [are] many and mightier than we.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, so that I might show these My signs before him,


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And he said to them, May the LORD be so with you, as I send you and your little ones away. Watch out, for evil [is] before you.


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Not so! You men go now and serve the LORD, for it is you who did desire it. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt and eat every herb of the land, all that the hail has left.


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And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all the night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.


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And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the coasts of Egypt, very numerous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.


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For they covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkened. And they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. And there did not remain any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.


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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste. And he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.


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And now please, forgive my sin only this once, and pray to the LORD your God, that He may take away from me this death only.


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And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts and threw them into the Red Sea. There did not remain one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.


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and so that you may tell in the ears of your son, and of your son's sons, what things I have worked in Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them, so that you may know that I [am] the LORD.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, so that one may even feel the darkness.


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And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven. And there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.


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They did not see one another, nor did any rise from his place, [for] three days. But all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.


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And Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, You go serve the LORD. Only let your flocks and your herds be left. Let your little ones also go with you.


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And Moses said, You must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.


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Our cattle also shall go with us. There shall not be a hoof left behind. For we must take from them to serve the LORD our God. And we do not know [with] what we must serve the LORD until we come there.


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And Pharaoh said to him, Go away from me! Take heed to yourself; see my face no more. For in the day you see my face you shall die.


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And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, So says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.


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And they shall cover the face of the land, so that one cannot be able to see the earth. And they shall eat the rest of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.


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And they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, which neither your fathers, nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day they were upon the earth until this day. And he turned himself and went out from Pharaoh.


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And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go so that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?


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And Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, Go! Serve the LORD your God. Who [are] the ones that shall go?


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And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters. We will go with our flocks and with our herds. For we [must hold] a feast to the LORD.


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And the LORD said to Moses, I will still bring one plague yet on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out from here altogether.


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And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh. And the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart so that he would not let the sons of Israel go out of his land.


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Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow from his neighbor, and every woman from her neighbor, articles of silver and jewels of gold.


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And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. And the man Moses [was] very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.


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And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the slave-girl that [is] behind the mill; also the first-born of beasts.


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And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.


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But against any of the sons of Israel not even a dog shall move his tongue, against man or beast, so that you may know that the LORD puts a difference [between] the Egyptians and Israel.


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And all these, your servants, shall come down to me and bow themselves down to me, saying, You and all the people that follow you get out. And after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Pharaoh shall not listen to you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.


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And you shall not let any of it remain until the morning. And that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.


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And you shall eat of it this way, [with] your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in a hurry. It [is] the LORD's passover.


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For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I [am] the LORD.


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And the blood shall be a sign to you upon the houses where you [are]. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be upon you for a destruction when I smite in the land of Egypt.


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And this day shall be a memorial to you. And you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it [as] a feast by a law forever.


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You shall eat unleavened [bread] seven days; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.


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And on the first day [shall be] a holy gathering, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy gathering for you. No manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.


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And you shall keep the [Feast of] Unleavened [Bread]. For in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall keep this day in your generations by a law forever.


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In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened [bread], until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.


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Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses. For whoever eats that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, among the aliens and among the natives of the land.


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This month [shall be] to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.


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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take a lamb for yourselves according to your families, and kill the passover.


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And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip in the blood in the bowl, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood in the bowl. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.


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For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians. And when He sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.


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And it shall be, when you have come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as He has promised, that you shall keep this service.


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Then you shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed and worshiped.


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And it happened at midnight the LORD struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive that [was] in the prison; also all the first-born of cattle.


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Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month they shall take to them each man a lamb for a father's house, a lamb for a house.


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And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for [there was] not a house where there was not one dead.


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And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up! Get away from my people, both you and the sons of Israel! And go serve the LORD, as you have said.


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And the Egyptians were urging the people, that they might send them out of the land in a hurry. For they said, We [are] all dead.


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And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.


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And the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses. And they borrowed articles of silver, and articles of gold, and clothing from the Egyptians.


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And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they granted their request, and they plundered the Egyptians.


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And the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, the men being about six hundred thousand men on foot, apart from little ones.


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And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not stay, neither had they prepared any food for a journey for themselves.


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And if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take according to the number of the souls, each one, according to the eating of his mouth, you shall count concerning the lamb.


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And it happened at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even it was on this very day, all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.


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It [is] a night to be much kept to the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This [is] that night of the LORD to be kept by all the sons of Israel in their generations.


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And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, This [is] the ordinance of the Passover. No stranger shall eat of it.


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But every man's servant that is bought for silver, when you have circumcised him, then he shall eat of it.


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It shall be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the flesh out of the house. Neither shall you break a bone of it.


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And when a stranger shall stay with you, and desires to keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. And he shall be as one that is born in the land. And no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.


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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You shall take from the sheep or from the goats.


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And it happened the very same day, [that] the LORD brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.


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And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month. And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.


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And they shall take of the blood and strike on the two side posts and upon the upper door post of the houses [in] which they shall eat it.


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And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened [bread]. They shall eat it with [bitter] herbs.


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Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted [with] fire, its head with its legs, and with its inward parts.


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And it will be, when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it to you,


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you shall set apart to the LORD every one that opens the womb, and every first-born that comes of any animal which you have; the males [shall be] the LORD's.


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And every first-born of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. And all the first-born of man among your sons you shall redeem.


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And it shall be when your sons asks you in time to come, saying, What [is] this? you shall say to him, The LORD brought us out of Egypt by the strength of [His] hand, from the house of bondage.


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And it happened when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, the LORD killed all the first-born of the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that opens the womb, that are males. But all the first-born of my sons I redeem.


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And it shall be for a token upon your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes. For the LORD brought us out from Egypt by strength of [His] hand.


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And it happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not lead them [by] the way of the land of the Philistines although that [was] near. For God said, Lest the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.


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But God led the people around, [by] the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the sons of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.


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And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him. For he had strictly sworn the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall carry my bones away from here with you.


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Sanctify all the first-born to Me, whatever opens the womb among the sons of Israel, of man and of beast. It [is] Mine.


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And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the right away, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, to go by day and night.


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He did not take away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, [from] before the people.


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And Moses said to the people, Remember this day [in] which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. For the LORD brought you out from this place by the strength of His hand. There shall be no leavened bread eaten.


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And it shall be when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.


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Unleavened [bread] shall be eaten seven days. And there shall be no leavened [bread] seen with you, nor shall there be leaven seen with you in all your borders.


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And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out from Egypt.


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And it shall be a sign to you upon your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD's law may be in your mouth. For the Lord has brought you out of Egypt with a strong hand.


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And Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes. And, behold, the Egyptians marched after them. And they were very afraid. And the sons of Israel cried out to the LORD.


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And they said to Moses, Have you taken us away to die in the wilderness because [there were] no graves in Egypt? Why have you dealt this way with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?


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Did we not tell you this word in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, so that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.


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And Moses said to the people, Do not fear. Stand still and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will prepare for you this day. For the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them anymore.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Why do you cry to Me? Speak to the sons of Israel, that they go forward.


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But lift up your rod and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it. And the sons of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.


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And behold! I [am] about to harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. And I will get honor for Me upon Pharaoh, and upon all his army, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen.


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And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD when I have gotten honor for Me upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.


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And the Angel of God, the one who went before the camp of Israel, moved. And he went to the rear of them. And the pillar of the cloud went from in front of their face and it stood behind them.


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Speak to the sons of Israel that they turn and camp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon. You shall camp before [it], by the sea.


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And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. And it was a cloudy and dark night, but it gave light to the night, so that the one did not come near the other all night.


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And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. And the LORD caused the sea to recede by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.


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And the sons of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground. And the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.


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And the Egyptians pursued and went after them to the middle of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.


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And in the morning watch it happened that the LORD looked to the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the army of the Egyptians.


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And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them go heavily, so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.


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And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea. And the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared. And the Egyptians fled against it. And the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.


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And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. There did not remain so much as one of them.


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But the sons of Israel walked upon dry land in the middle of the sea. And the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.


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For Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, They [are] tangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.


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So the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.


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And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians. And the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD and His servant Moses.


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And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he will follow them. And I will be honored upon Pharaoh, and upon all his army, so that the Egyptians may know that I [am] the LORD. And they did so.


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And the king of Egypt was told that the people fled. And the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people. And they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?


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And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.


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And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he pursued the sons of Israel, and the sons of Israel went out with a high hand.


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But the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses [and] chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army. And they overtook them camping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon.


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Then the sons of Moses and Israel sang this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying, I will sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously; [the] horse and his rider He has thrown into the sea.


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Who [is] like You, O LORD, among the gods? Who [is] like You, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing wonders?


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You in Your mercy have led forth the people [which] You have redeemed. You have guided them in Your strength to Your holy habitation.


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Then the princes of Edom [were] terrified. Trembling seized upon the mighty men of Moab. All the people of Canaan shall melt away.


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Fear and dread shall fall upon them. By the greatness of Your arm they shall be still as a stone, until Your people pass over, O LORD; until the people [whom] You have purchased pass over.


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You shall bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, the place, O LORD, You have made for You to dwell in; the Sanctuary, O LORD, [which] Your hands have established.


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For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them. But the sons of Israel went on dry land in the middle of the sea.


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The LORD [is] my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will glorify Him, my father's God, and I will exalt Him.


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And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand. And all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.


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And Miriam answered them, Sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider He has thrown into the sea.


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And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.


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And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, because it [was] bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.


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And he cried to the LORD. And the LORD showed him a tree. And when he had cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a decree and a law for them, and there He tested them.


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And he said, If you will carefully listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in His sight, and will give ear to His commandments, and keep all His laws, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I [am] the LORD who heals you.


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And they came to Elim, where [there were] twelve wells of water, and seventy palm trees. And they camped there by the waters.


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Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has thrown into the sea; his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.


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Your right hand, O LORD, has become glorious in power. Your right hand, O LORD, has dashed the enemy in pieces.


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And in the greatness of Your excellency You have overthrown them that rose up against You. You sent forth Your wrath, consuming them like stubble.


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And with the blast of Your nostrils the waters were gathered together; the floods stood upright like a heap; the depths were curdled in the heart of the sea.


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The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them, I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.


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And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came into the wilderness of Sin, which [is] between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after] their departing out of the land of Egypt.


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And it happened as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, they turned toward the wilderness. And behold! The glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud!


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I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel. Speak to them, saying, You shall eat flesh at evening, and in the morning you shall be filled [with] bread. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD your God.


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And it happened at evening, the quails came up and covered the camp. And in the morning the dew lay all around the host.


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And when the layer of dew had gone up, behold, [there was] a small round thing upon the face of the wilderness, small as the hoar-frost upon the ground.


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And when the sons of Israel saw, they said each one to his brother, What [is] that? For they did not know what it [was]. And Moses said to them, This [is] the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.


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This [is] the thing which the LORD has commanded: Each man gather of it according to his eating, an omer for a head, according to the number of your souls. Each one shall take for those who [are] in his camp.


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And when they measured with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little lacked nothing. They gathered each one according to his eating.


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And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.


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But they did not listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning. And it became rotten [with] maggots, and stank. And Moses was angry with them.


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And they gathered it every morning, each man according to his eating. And when the sun became hot, it melted.


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And it happened, on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.


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And he said to them, This [is that] which the LORD has said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake [today], and boil what you will boil. And that which remains over, lay up for you to be kept until the morning.


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And they laid it up until the morning, as Moses said. And it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it.


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And Moses said, Eat that today. For today [is] a sabbath to the LORD. Today you shall not find it in the field.


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And it happened [some] of the people went out on the seventh day in order to gather. And they did not find [any].


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See, because the LORD has given you the sabbath, therefore He gives you the bread of two days on the sixth day. Each one stay in his place. Let not any one go out of his place on the seventh day.


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And the sons of Israel said to them, O that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.


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And the house of Israel called the name of it Manna. And it [was] like coriander seed, white. And the taste of it [was] like wafers with honey.


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And Moses said, This [is] the thing which the LORD has commanded: Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations, so that you may see the bread with which I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.


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And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put an omer full of manna in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.


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And the sons of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to a land in which people lived. They ate manna until they came into the borders of the land of Canaan.


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Then the LORD said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain amount every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not.


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And on the sixth day it shall happen, they shall prepare what they bring in. And it shall be twice as much as they gather day by day.


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And Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, At evening, then you shall know that the LORD has brought you out from the land of Egypt.


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And in the morning, then you shall see the glory of the LORD. For He hears your murmurings against the LORD. And what [are] we, that you murmur against us?


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And Moses said, You will see when the LORD shall give you flesh to eat in the evening and bread to the full in the morning, when the LORD hears your murmurings which you murmur against Him. And what are we? Your murmurings [are] not against us, but against the LORD.


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And Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, Come near before the LORD. For He has heard your murmurings.


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And all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the command of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim. And [there was] no water for the people to drink.


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And Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.


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And it happened when Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. And when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.


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But Moses' hands [became] heavy. And they took a stone and put [it] under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. And his hands were steady until the going of the sun.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Write this, a memorial in a book, and set [it] in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heavens.


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And he said, A hand [is] on the throne of the LORD; war is to the LORD with Amalek from generation to generation.


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And the people wrangled with Moses and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you wrangle with me? Why do you tempt the LORD?


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And the people thirsted there for water. And the people murmured against Moses and said, Why [is] this, [that] You brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?


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And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, What shall I do to this people? They are almost ready to stone me.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Go on in front of the people, and take with you the elders of Israel. And take your rod with which you struck the river, in your hand, and go.


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Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb. And you shall smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, so that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.


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And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the wrangling of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us or not?


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And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.


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When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt,


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And Jethro said, Blessed [be] the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.


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Now I know that Jehovah [is] greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they were proved against them.


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And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. And Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.


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And on the next day it happened that Moses sat to judge the people. And the people stood by Moses from the morning to the evening.


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And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What [is] this thing which you do to the people? Why do you sit alone by yourself, and all the people stand by you from morning to evening?


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When they have a matter, they come to me. And I judge between one and another, and I make known the statutes of God and His laws.


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You will surely wear away, both you and this people that [is] with you. For this thing [is] too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it alone.


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Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God will be with you. You be for the people toward God, that you may bring the causes to God.


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And you shall teach them ordinances and laws, and shall make them know the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.


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And you shall look out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness. And place [such] over them to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.


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And let them judge the people at all times. And it shall be, every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge. And make it easier for yourself, and they shall bear with you.


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If you will do this thing, and God command you, then you shall be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.


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And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.


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And they judged the people at all times. The hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.


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and her two sons, of which the name of the one [was] Gershom (for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land),


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and the name of the other [was] Eliezer (for the God of my father, my help, delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.)


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And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he camped at the mount of God.


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And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you, and your wife and her two sons with her.


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And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed down to him, and kissed him. And they asked each other of [their] welfare. And they came into the tent.


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And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and [how] the LORD delivered them.


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And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom He had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.


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In the third month when the sons of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on this day they came [to] the wilderness of Sinai.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes.


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And be ready for the third day. For the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai.


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And you shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves. Do not go up into the mountain, or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.


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There shall not be a hand to touch it, but that he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether beast or man, it shall not live. When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain.


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And Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people. And they washed their clothes.


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And it happened on the third day in the morning, that there [were] thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain. And the voice of the trumpet was exceedingly loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled.


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And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God. And they stood at the lower part of the mountain.


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And Mount Sinai was smoking, all of it, because the LORD came down upon it in fire. And the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.


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And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and became very strong, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.


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And they journeyed from Rephidim, and came [to] the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness. And Israel camped there in front of the mount.


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And the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Go down. Command the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.


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And let the priests also, who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.


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And Moses said to the LORD, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai. For You commanded us, saying, Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.


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And the LORD said to him, Away! You go down, and you shall come up, you and Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest He break forth upon them.


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And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, You shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the sons of Israel:


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You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself.


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And now if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure to Me above all the nations; for all the earth [is] Mine.


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And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These [are] the words which you shall speak to the sons of Israel.


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And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.


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And all the people answered together and said, All that the LORD has spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people to the LORD.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Lo, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever. And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.


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And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses. And she said, Because I took him out of the water.


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And it happened in those days, when Moses was grown, he went out to his brothers and looked upon their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.


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And he looked this way and that way, and when he did not see anyone, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.


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And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together. And he said to the guilty one, Why do you strike your neighbor?


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And he said, Who made you as a man, a ruler and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.


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And when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian. And [he] sat down by a well.


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And the priest of Midian [had] seven daughters. And they came and drew, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.


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And the shepherds came and drove them away. But Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.


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And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew for us and watered the flock.


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And the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw him, that he was beautiful, she hid him three months.


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And he said to his daughters, And where [is] he? Why then have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.


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And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom. For he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.


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And it happened after many days the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.


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And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.


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But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of papyrus for him, and daubed it with bitumen and with pitch, and put the child in it. And she laid [it] in the reeds by the river's edge.


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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river. And her maidens walked along by the riverside. And when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her slave-girl to bring it.


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And she opened [it], and she saw the child. And behold, a boy wept. And she had pity on him, and said, This [is] one of the Hebrews' sons.


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And his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call a woman, a nurse of the Hebrew women for you, that she may nurse the child for you?


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And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give your wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it.


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But the seventh day [is] the Sabbath of the LORD your God. You shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger within your gates.


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For [in] six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and sanctified it.


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Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God gives you.


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You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that [is] your neighbor's.


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And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw, they trembled, and stood afar off.


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And they said to Moses, You speak with us, and we will hear. But let not God speak with us, lest we die.


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I [am] the LORD your God, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.


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And Moses said to the people, Do not fear, for God has come to test you, and so that His fear may be before your faces, so that you may not sin.


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And the LORD said to Moses, So you shall say to the sons of Israel, You have seen that I have talked with you from the heavens.


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You shall make an altar of earth to Me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In all places where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you.


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And if you will make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stone. For if you lift up your tool upon it, you have defiled it.


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You shall not make to yourselves any graven image, or any likeness of [anything] that [is] in the heavens above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth.


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You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I the LORD your God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth [generation] of those that hate me,


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You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain. For the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes His name in vain.


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If he takes himself another [wife], her food, her clothing, and her duty of marriage shall not be lessened.


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And if a man does not lie in wait, but God delivers [him] into his hand, then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.


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But if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile, you shall take him from My altar, so that he may die.


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And he that steals a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.


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And if men strive together, and one strikes another with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he does not die, but keeps his bed;


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if he rises again and walks abroad upon his staff, then he that struck him shall be set free. Only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause [him] to be completely healed.


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If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years. And in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.


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And if a man strikes his servant, or his maidservant, with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.


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If men strive and strike a pregnant woman, so that her child comes out, and there is no injury, he shall surely be punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him. And he shall pay as the judges [say]


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And if a man strike the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, so that it perishes, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.


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And if he strikes out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.


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If an ox gores a man or woman so that they die, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten. But the owner of the ox [shall be] set free.


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But if the ox was apt to gore in time past, and his owner has been told, and he has not kept him in, but that he has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.


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If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he [was] married, then his wife shall go out with him.


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If there is laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is laid upon him.


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Whether he has gored a son, or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.


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If the ox shall gore a manservant or a maidservant, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.


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And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass falls in it,


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And in the event the ox of a man damages the ox of a neighbor, so that it dies, then they shall sell the living ox, and they shall divide the money of it. And they shall also divide the dead [ox].


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Or if it is known that the ox has been apt to gore in time past, and his owner has not kept him in, he shall surely pay ox for ox. And the dead shall be his own.


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If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.


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And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my sons. I do not want to go out free


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his master shall bring him to the judges. He shall also bring him to the door or to the door-post. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.


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If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no power to sell her to a strange nation, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.


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If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.


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If a man delivers to his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies, or is hurt, or driven away, no one seeing,


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an oath of the LORD shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand to his neighbor's goods. And the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make [it] good.


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If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was torn.


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And if a man borrows from his neighbor, and it is hurt, or dies, and the owner of it not with it, he shall surely make [it] good.


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And if a man lures a virgin who is not promised, and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.


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If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.


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And My wrath shall become hot, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your sons fatherless.


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If you lend money to one of My people who [is] poor beside you, you shall not be to him as a money-lender, neither shall you lay upon him interest.


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If you at all take your neighbor's clothing as a pledge, you shall deliver it to him by the time the sun goes down.


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For that [is] his covering only, it is his clothing for his skin. In what shall he sleep? And it will be, when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I [am] gracious.


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You shall not delay [to offer] the first of your ripe fruits and of your sap. You shall give the first-born of your sons to Me.


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If the sun is risen upon him, blood is due for him. He should repay in full. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.


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Likewise you shall do with your oxen [and] with your sheep; it shall be with its dam seven days. On the eighth day you shall give it to Me.


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And you shall be holy men to Me. Neither shall you eat flesh torn by beasts in the field. You shall throw it to the dogs.


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If the theft is certainly found in his hand alive, whether it is an ox, or an ass, or a sheep, he shall restore double.


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If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his animal, and shall feed in another man's field; he shall repay from the best of his own field, and the best of his own vineyard.


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If fire breaks out and catches in thorns, so that the stacks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field, is burned up, he who kindled the fire shall surely repay in full.


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If a man shall deliver to his neighbor silver or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, let him pay double.


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If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges, whether he has put his hand to his neighbor's goods.


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For every case of trespass, for ox, for ass, for sheep, for clothing, for any kind of lost thing, which [another] claims to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges. Whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double to his neighbor.


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You shall not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.


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But the seventh [year] you shall let it rest and lie still, so that the poor of your people may eat. And what they leave, the animals of the field shall eat. In the same way you shall deal with your vineyard [and] with your oliveyard.


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You shall do your work six days, and on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your ass may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.


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And be watchful in all that I have said to you. And make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth.


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You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened [Bread]. You shall eat unleavened [bread] seven days, as I commanded you, in the time appointed of the month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And no one shall appear before Me empty.


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Also the Feast of Harvest, the first-fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field. Also the Feast of Ingathering, in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field.


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You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until the morning.


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The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring [into] the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.


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You shall not follow a multitude to do evil. Neither shall you speak in a cause in order to follow many in order to wrest [judgment].


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Behold, I send an Angel before you, to keep you in the way, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.


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Be on guard before Him, and obey His voice. Do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions. For My name [is] in Him.


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But if you shall indeed obey His voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and a foe to your foes.


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For My Angel shall go before you and bring you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I will cut them off.


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You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them. And you shall not do according to their works. But you shall surely pull them down, and surely you shall smash their images.


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And you shall serve the LORD your God, and He shall bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.


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I will send My fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall come. And I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.


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And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.


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I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a waste, and the beast of the field multiply against you.


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By little and little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and inherit the land.


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And I will stretch your bounds from the Red Sea even to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.


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They shall not dwell in your land lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it surely will be a snare to you.


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If you see the ass of him who hates you lying under his burden, and would hold back from helping him, you shall surely help him.


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Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.


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Also you shall not oppress a stranger. For you know the heart of a stranger, since you were strangers in the land of Egypt.


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And He said to Moses, Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. And bow yourselves afar off.


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And they saw the God of Israel. And [there was] under His feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the heavens in clearness.


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And upon the nobles of the sons of Israel He did not lay his hands. Also they saw God, and ate and drank.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Come up to Me in the mountain, and be there. And I will give you tablets of stone, and the law, and commandments which I have written, so that you may teach them.


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And he said to the elders, You stay here for us until we come again to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur [are] with you. If any man has any matters to do, let him come to them.


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And the glory of the LORD abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.


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And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel.


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And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mountain. And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.


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And Moses alone shall come near the LORD, but they shall not come near. Neither shall the people go up with him.


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And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which the LORD has said, we will do.


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And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar below the mountain and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And he sent young men of the sons of Israel who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of bullocks to the LORD.


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And Moses took half of the blood, and put [it] in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.


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And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the ears of the people. And they said, All that the LORD has said we will do, and be obedient.


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And Moses took the blood and sprinkled [it] on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.


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And they shall make an ark [of] acacia-wood. Two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high.


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And you shall overlay it [with] pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and out, and shall make on it a crown of gold all around.


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And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and shall put [it] on its four feet. And two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.


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And you shall put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, so that the ark may be carried with them.


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And you shall make a mercy-seat [of] pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it.


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And you shall make two cherubs [of] gold; of beaten work you shall make them, in the two ends of the mercy-seat.


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And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end. From the mercy-seat you shall make the cherubs, on the two ends of it.


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Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring Me an offering. You shall take an offering from every man that gives it willingly with his heart.


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And the cherubs shall stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces each toward the other; toward the mercy-seat shall the cherubs' faces be.


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And you shall put the mercy-seat above, upon the ark. And in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.


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And I will meet with you there, and I will talk with you from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubs on the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give you in commandment to the sons of Israel.


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You shall also make a table [of] acacia-wood, its length two cubits, and its breadth a cubit, and its height a cubit and a half.


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And you shall make to it a border of a hand's breadth round about. And you shall make a golden crown to the border of it, all around.


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And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that [are] on the four feet of it.


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And you shall make the staves [of] acacia-wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.


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And you shall make its dishes, and its spoons, and its pitchers, and its sacrificial cups [with] which a drink-offering is made. You shall make them [of] pure gold.


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And you shall make a lampstand [of] pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of beaten work; its shaft, and its branches, its cups, its knobs, and its blossoms, shall be from it.


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And six branches shall come out of the sides of it-- three branches of the lampstand out of the one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side.


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Three almond-like cups on the one branch, [with] knob and blossom; and three almond-like cups on the one branch, [with] knob and blossom, so for the six branches, those going out of the lampstand.


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and a knob under two branches of it, and a knob under two branches of it, and a knob under two branches of it, according to the six branches, those going out of the lampstand.


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And you shall make the seven lamps of it. And one shall light the lamps of it, so that they may give light on its face.


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According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments of it, even so you shall make [it].


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And you shall make the tabernacle [with] ten curtains of fine twined bleached [linen], and blue, and purple, and scarlet. You shall make them with cherubs, of the work of a cunning workman.


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And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of one curtain, the last at the juncture, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that joins second.


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And you shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, so that it may be one.


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And the rest that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.


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And the cubit from this side, and the cubit from that side that remains in the length of the curtains of the tent shall be hung over the sides of the tabernacle, from this and from that side, to cover it.


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And you shall make a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of dugong skins.


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Ten cubits [shall be] the length of one board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.


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There [shall be] two pins in one board, each connected to its sister-piece. So you shall do for all the boards of the tabernacle.


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And you shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards-- two sockets under one board for its two pins, and two sockets under another board for its two pins.


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The length of one curtain [shall be] twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits. And every one of the curtains shall have one measure.


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and their forty sockets [of] silver, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.


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And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it to one ring. So it shall be for them both. They shall be for the two corners.


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And [there] shall be eight boards, and their sockets [of] silver, sixteen sockets, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.


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and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle; and five bars for the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.


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And you shall overlay the boards [with] gold, and you shall make their rings [of] gold, housings for the bars. And you shall overlay the bars with gold.


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The five curtains shall be coupled together, each to its sister. And five curtains shall be coupled together, each to its sister.


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And you shall rear up the tabernacle according to the pattern of it which was shown you in the mountain.


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And you shall make a veil [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached [linen] of embroidered work. It shall be made [with] cherubs.


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And you shall hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid [with] gold. Their hooks [shall be] of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.


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And you shall hang up the veil under the clasps, that you may bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil. And the veil shall divide for you between the holy [place] and the Holy of Holies.


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And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. And you shall put the table on the north side.


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And you shall make a screen for the door of the tent, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached [linen], worked with needlework.


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And you shall make five pillars of acacia-wood for the screen, and overlay them [with] gold; their hooks [shall be] of gold. And you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.


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And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of one curtain, from the end at the juncture; and so you shall do at the edge of the last curtain, at the second juncture.


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You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the end of the curtain which [is] at second juncture, the corresponding loops each to her sister.


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You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and you shall join the curtains each to her sister by the clasps. And it shall be one tabernacle.


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And you shall make curtains [of] goats' [hair] to be a tent over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains.


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The length of one curtain [shall be] thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits, one measure to the eleven curtains.


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And you shall join five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. And you shall double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.


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And you shall make an altar of acacia-wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad. The altar shall be square. And the height of it [shall be] three cubits.


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And the twenty pillars of it, and their twenty sockets, [shall be] of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.


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And so for the north side in length, hangings of a hundred cubits long. And its twenty pillars and their twenty sockets shall be [of] bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands [of] silver.


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And [for] the breadth of the court on the west side [shall be] hangings of fifty cubits. Their pillars [shall be] ten, and their sockets ten.


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The hangings of one side [of the gate shall be] fifteen cubits. Their pillars shall be three, and their sockets three;


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And for the gate of the court [shall be] a screen of twenty cubits, [of] blue and purple and scarlet, and fine twined bleached [linen], worked with needlework; their pillars four, and their sockets four.


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All the pillars around the court [shall be] banded [with] silver; their hooks silver, and their sockets [of] bronze.


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The length of the court [shall be] a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits [of] everywhere, and the height five cubits of fine twined bleached [linen], and their sockets bronze.


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All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service of it, and all the pins of it, and all the pins of the court, [shall be] bronze.


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And you shall make the horns of it upon the four corners of it. Its horns shall be of the same, and you shall overlay it [with] bronze.


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And you shall command the sons of Israel that they bring you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always


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in the tabernacle of the congregation, outside the veil which [is] before the testimony. Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD. [It shall be] a statute forever to their generations on behalf of the sons of Israel.


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And you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pans. All the vessels of it you shall make [of] bronze.


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And you shall make for it a grate of network [of] bronze. And upon the net you shall make four bronze rings in the four corners of it.


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And you shall put it under the ledge of the altar beneath, so that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.


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And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to carry it.


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You shall make it hollow [with] boards; as it was shown you in the mountain, so shall they make [it].


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And you shall make the court of the tabernacle. For the south side southward there [shall be] hangings for the court [of] fine twined bleached [linen], of a hundred cubits long for one side.


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And you shall take to yourself Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, so that he may minister to Me in the priest's office: Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.


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Six of their names [shall be] on one stone, and six of the remaining names on the other stone, according to their birth.


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With the work of an engraver in stone, [like] the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall make them to be set [in] settings of gold.


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And you shall put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod [for] stones of memorial to the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.


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and two chains [of] pure gold at the ends. You shall make them [of] woven work, a work of cord, and fasten the woven chains to the plaited work.


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And you shall make the breast-pocket of judgment with embroidered work. After the work of the ephod you shall make it; [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached [linen], you shall make it.


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And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones. The first row shall be a sardius, topaz, and carbuncle in the row.


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And the fourth row: a chrysolite, and an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be set in gold in their fillings.


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And the stones shall be with the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, [like] the engravings of a signet. They shall be each one with his name according to the twelve tribes.


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And you shall make upon the breast-pocket two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breast-pocket.


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And the two ends of the two cords you shall fasten on the two plaitings, and put [them] on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod before it.


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And you shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them upon the two ends of the breast-pocket in the border of it, which is in the side of the ephod inward.


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And you shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the front of it, near its joining, above the band of the ephod.


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And they shall bind the breast-pocket by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that [it] may be above the band of the ephod, and so that the breast-pocket may not be loosed from the ephod.


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And Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breast-pocket of judgment upon his heart, when he goes in to the holy [place], for a memorial before the LORD continually.


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And you shall speak to all the wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, so that he may minister to Me in the priest's office.


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And you shall put in the breast-pocket of judgment the Urim and the Thummim. And they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the LORD. And Aaron shall bear the judgment of the sons of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.


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And there shall be a hole in the top of it, in its middle; a binding shall be all around its mouth, of woven work. It shall be like the mouth of a corselet; it may not be torn.


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And on its hem you shall make pomegranates [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, all around its hem. And bells of gold [shall be] amidst them all around.


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There shall be a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe all around.


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And it shall be on Aaron to serve. And his sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy [place] before the LORD, and when he comes out, so that he will not die.


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And you shall make a plate [of] pure gold, and carve on it, [like] the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH.


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And you shall put it on a blue lace, so that it may be on the miter; on the front of the miter it shall be.


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And it shall be on Aaron's forehead, so that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things which will sanctify the sons of Israel in all their holy gifts. And it shall always be on his forehead, so that they may be accepted before the LORD.


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And you shall weave the tunic [of] bleached [linen], and you shall make the miter of bleached [linen], and you shall make the girdle of needlework.


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And these [are] the garments which they shall make: a breast-pocket, and an ephod, and a robe, and an embroidered coat, a miter, and a girdle. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, so that he may minister to Me in the priest's office.


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And you shall make tunics for Aaron's sons, and you shall make for them girdles, and turbans you shall make for them, for glory and for beauty.


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And you shall clothe Aaron your brother [with] them, and his sons with him. And you shall anoint them, and you shall consecrate them, and you shall sanctify them, so that they may minister to Me in the priest's office.


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And you shall make them linen breeches to cover the naked flesh; from the loins even to the thighs they shall reach.


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And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in to the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy [place]; so that they do not bear iniquity, and die. [It shall be a statute forever to him and his seed after him.


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And they shall make the ephod [of] gold, blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined bleached [linen], skilled work.


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It shall have the two shoulder-pieces of it joined at the two edges of it. And so it shall be joined together.


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And the embroidered girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work of it: [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached [linen].


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And this [is] the thing that you shall do to them, to sanctify them to minister to Me in the priest's office. Take one bull, the son of the herd, and two rams without blemish,


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And you shall cause a bull to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bull.


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And you shall take of the blood of the bull, and put [it] on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.


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And you shall take all the fat that covers the inward parts, and the lobe on the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat on them, and burn [them] upon the altar.


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But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It [is] a sin offering.


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And you shall also take one ram. And Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.


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And you shall cut the ram in pieces, and you shall wash its inward parts and its legs, and put [them] with its pieces and with its head.


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And you shall burn the whole ram upon the altar. It [is] a burnt offering to the LORD. It [is] a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to the LORD.


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And you shall take the other ram. And Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.


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and unleavened [bread], and cakes unleavened mixed with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil. You shall make them [of] wheat flour.


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Then you shall kill the ram, and take of its blood, and put [it] upon the tip of the ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar all around.


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And you shall take of the blood on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him. And he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.


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Also you shall take from the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the inward parts, and the lobe on the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right shoulder, for it is a ram of consecration;


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and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened [bread] that [is] before the LORD.


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And you shall put all in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and shall wave them [for] a wave offering before the LORD.


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And you shall take them from their hands, and burn [them] upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor before the LORD. It is an offering made by fire to the LORD.


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And you shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration and wave it [for] a wave offering before the LORD. And it shall be your portion.


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And you shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is lifted from the ram of the consecration, from what [is] Aaron's, and from what is for his sons.


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And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute forever from the sons of Israel. For it [is] a heave offering. And it shall be a heave offering from the sons of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their heave offering to the LORD.


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And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed in them and consecrated in them.


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And you shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.


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The one of his sons that is priest in his place shall put them on seven days, when he comes into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy [place].


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And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that [is] in the basket, [by] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And they shall eat those things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them. But a stranger shall not eat because they [are] holy.


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And if any of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remains until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it [is] holy.


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And so you shall do to Aaron and to his sons according to all things which I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.


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And you shall offer every day a bull, a sin offering for atonement. And you shall cleanse the altar when you have made an atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.


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You shall make an atonement for the altar seven days, and sanctify it. And it shall be a most holy altar. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.


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And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall wash them with water.


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And with the one lamb a tenth part of flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin [of] wine, a drink offering.


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And you shall offer the other lamb at evening; you shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the LORD.


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[This shall be] a burnt offering forever throughout your generations, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD, where I will meet you, to speak there to you.


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And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar. I will also sanctify both Aaron and his sons to minister to Me in the priest's office.


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And they shall know that I [am] the LORD their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt so that I may dwell among them. I [am] the LORD their God.


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And you shall take the garments, and clothe Aaron with the tunic, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breast-pocket, and bind it to him with the band of the ephod.


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And you shall gird them [with] girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind turbans on them. And the priest's office shall be theirs for an everlasting statute. And you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.


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And Moses kept the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back side of the desert. And he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.


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And now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.


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And Moses said to God, Who [am] I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the sons of Israel out of Egypt?


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And He said, I will be with you. And this [shall be] the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this mountain.


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And Moses said to God, Behold, [when] I come to the sons of Israel, and shall say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they shall say to me, What [is] His name? What shall I say to them?


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And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. And He said, So you shall say to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.


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And God said to Moses again, You shall say this to the sons of Israel, Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This [is My name forever, and this [is] My title from generation to generation.


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Go, and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, Jehovah the God of your fathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I have surely visited you and [have seen what] is done to you in Egypt.


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And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.


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And they shall listen to your voice. And you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt. And you shall say to him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has met with us. And now let us go, we beseech you, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.


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And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a thorn bush. And he looked. And behold! The thorn bush burned with fire! And the thorn bush [was] not burned up.


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And I will stretch out My hand and smite Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in the midst of it. And after that he will let you go.


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And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. And it shall be that when you go, you shall not go empty.


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But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her that stays in her house, jewels of silver and jewels of gold and clothing. And you shall put [them] upon your sons and upon your daughters. And you shall plunder the Egyptians.


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And Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the thorn bush is not burned up.


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And the LORD saw that he had turned aside to see. God called to him out of the midst of the thorn bush, and said, Moses! Moses! And he said, Here I [am].


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And He said, Do not come near here. Put off your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand [is] holy ground.


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And He said, I [am] the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.


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And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people who [are] in Egypt; I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows.


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And I am coming down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, to bring them up out of that land, to a good land, a large land, to a land flowing [with] milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites and the Jebusites.


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And now behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me. And I have also seen the oppression [with] which the Egyptians oppress them.


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And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offerings of atonement. He shall make atonement on it once in the year throughout your generations. It [is] most holy to the LORD.


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When you count the sons of Israel, of those who are to be counted, then they shall each man give a ransom for his soul to the LORD when [you] number them, so that there may be no plague among them when you number them.


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They shall give this, every one that passes among those who are counted, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel [is] twenty gerahs); a half shekel [shall be] the offering of the LORD.


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Everyone that passes among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to the LORD.


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The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than half a shekel, when [they] give an offering to the LORD to make an atonement for your souls.


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And you shall take the atonement silver of the sons of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, so that it may be a memorial to the sons of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.


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You shall also make a laver [of] bronze and its foot also of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar. And you shall put water in it,


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A cubit [shall be] its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square. And two cubits [shall be] the height of it, its horns from itself.


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When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash [with] water so that they do not die. Or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the LORD,


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they shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they do not die. And it shall be a statute forever to them, to him and to his seed throughout their generations.


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Take also to you principal spices, five hundred [shekels] of pure myrrh, and half as much of sweet cinnamon, even two hundred and fifty [shekels], and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,


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And you shall make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the perfumer. It shall be a holy anointing oil.


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And you shall overlay it [with] pure gold, its top, and its sides all around, and its horns. And you shall make to it a crown of gold all around.


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And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them, so that [they] may minister to Me in the priest's office.


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And you shall speak to the sons of Israel saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.


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It shall not be poured upon man's flesh, neither shall you make [any other] like it, according to the way it is made. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you.


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Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts [any] of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Take to yourself sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense, a part of each one.


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And you shall make it a perfume, an incense according to the art of the perfumer, salted, pure [and] holy.


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And you shall beat [some] of it very small, and put it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.


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And the perfume which you shall make, you shall not make any for yourselves according to the way it is made. It shall be holy to you for the LORD.


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And you shall make two golden rings to it under the crown of it, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides of it you shall make it. And they shall be housings for the staves to bear it with.


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And you shall put it before the veil that [is] by the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy-seat that is beside the testimony, where I will meet with you.


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And when Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.


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You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meal offering. Neither shall you pour drink offering on it.


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and the woven garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office,


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and the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy [place]. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do.


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Speak also to the sons of Israel, saying, Truly you shall keep My sabbaths. For it [is] a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, to know that I [am] the LORD who sanctifies you.


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You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it [is] holy to you. Everyone that defiles it shall surely be put to death. For whoever does [any] work in it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.


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Six days may work be done, but on the seventh [is] the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does [any] work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.


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Therefore the sons of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, [for] an everlasting covenant.


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It [is] a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested, and was refreshed.


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And He gave to Moses, when He had made an end of speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written by the finger of God.


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And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all workmanship,


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And behold, I have given to him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in the hearts of all the wise-hearted, so that they may make all that I have commanded you:


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the tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy-seat that [is] upon it, and all the vessels of the tabernacle,


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and the table and its vessels, and the pure lampstand with all its vessels, and the altar of incense,


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And the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, and the people gathered themselves to Aaron. And they said to him, Up! Make us gods who shall go before us. For this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.


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And now leave Me alone, so that My wrath may become hot against them and so that I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.


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And Moses prayed to the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why does Your wrath become hot against Your people whom You have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?


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Why should the Egyptians speak and say, He brought them out for harm, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and be moved to pity as to this evil against Your people.


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Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit [it] forever.


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And Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the testimony [were] in his hand. The tablets were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other.


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And the tablets [were] the work of God, and the writing [was] the writing of God. It [was] engraved on the tablets.


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And Joshua heard the voice of the people in their shouting. And he said to Moses, A sound of war in the camp!


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And he said, [It is] not a sound of a cry of victory, nor a sound of the cry of defeat. I [am] hearing the sound of singing.


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And it happened, as he came near to the camp and saw the calf and dances, the anger of Moses became hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them at the bottom of the mountain.


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And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden earrings which [are] in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring [them] to me.


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And he took the calf which they had made and burned [it] in the fire, and ground [it] to powder, and dropped [it] upon the water, and made the sons of Israel drink [of it].


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And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you, that you have brought so great a sin upon them?


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And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord become hot. You know the people, that they [are set] on mischief.


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For they said to me, Make us gods who shall go before us. For this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.


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And I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let them break [it] off. And they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and there came out this calf.


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And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had made them naked to [their] shame among their enemies,)


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then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, Who [is] on the LORD's side? [Come] to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves to him.


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And he said to them, Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Each man put his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and kill each one his brother, and each one his neighbor, and each one his kindred.


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And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.


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For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, since each one [has been] against his son, and against his brother, and in order to give you a blessing today.


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And all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought [them] to Aaron.


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And it happened on the next day, Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the LORD. Perhaps I shall make an atonement for your sin.


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And Moses returned to the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.


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And now will You forgive their sin! And if not, I pray You, blot me out of Your book which You have written.


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And now go, lead the people to [the place] of which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you. And in the day of My visitation I will visit their sin upon them.


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And he took [them] from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool. And he made it a molten calf. And they said, These [are] your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


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And when Aaron saw, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation and said, Tomorrow [is] a feast to Jehovah.


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And they rose up early on the next day and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Go! Get down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, are corrupted.


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They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made them a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These [are] your gods, O Israel, who have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Come, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To your seed I will give it.


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And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand [at] the tabernacle door. And all the people rose up and worshiped, each man in his tent door.


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And the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he turned again to the camp. But his servant, Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the middle of the tabernacle.


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And Moses said to the LORD, Behold, You say to me, Bring up this people. And You have not told me whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.


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Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found grace in Your sight, make me see now Your ways, that I may know You, that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation [is] Your people.


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For in what shall it be known that I and Your people have found grace in Your sight? [Is it] not in that You go with us? So we shall be separated, I and Your people, from all the people that [are] upon the face of the earth.


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And the LORD said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken. For you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.


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And He said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.


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And I will send an angel before you. And I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite;


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And it will be, while My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.


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to a land flowing [with] milk and honey. For I will not go up in the midst of you, for you [are] a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way.


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And the LORD had said to Moses, Say to the sons of Israel, You [are] a stiff-necked people. I will come up into the midst of you in a moment, and I will consume you. And now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do with you.


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And Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it outside the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of the congregation. And it happened, everyone who sought the LORD went out to the tabernacle of the congregation, which was] outside the camp.


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And it happened as Moses went out to the tabernacle, all the people rose up, and each man stood [at] his tent door and looked after Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle.


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And it happened as Moses went into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended and stood [at] the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD spoke with Moses.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Cut out two tablets of stone like the first. And I will write upon the tablets the words that were in the first tablets which you broke.


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And He said, Behold! I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. And all the people in whose midst you [are] shall see the work of the LORD, for it is] an awesome thing that I will do with you.


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Observe that which I command you this day. Behold! I drive out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.


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Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the people of the land where you go, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you.


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lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and call you, and you eat of his sacrifice;


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and lest you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods and make your sons go whoring after their gods.


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You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened [Bread]. You shall eat unleavened [bread] seven days, as I commanded you, in the time of the month Abib. For in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.


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And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me in the top of the mountain.


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But the firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the first-born of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before Me empty.


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You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.


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And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.


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For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders. Neither shall any man desire your land when you shall go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.


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You shall not slaughter the blood of My sacrifice on leavened [bread]. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to the morning.


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The first of the first-fruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Write these words for yourself; for on the mouth of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.


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And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread, nor drank water. And He wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.


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And it happened as Moses was going down from the mountain of Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony being in Moses' hand as he went down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face had become luminous through His speaking with him.


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And no man shall come up with you, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mountain. Also do not let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.


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And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face had become luminous. And they were afraid to come near him.


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And Moses called to them. And Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them.


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And afterward all the sons of Israel came near. And he commanded them all that the LORD had spoken with him in Mount Sinai.


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But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he took the veil off until he came out. And he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel that which he was commanded.


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And the sons of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face had become luminous. And Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.


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And he cut out two tablets of stone like the first. And Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tablets of stone.


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And the LORD passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah! Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,


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keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and who will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of fathers on the sons, and on the sons of sons, to the third and to the fourth generation.


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And he said, If now I have found grace in Your sight, O LORD, I pray You, let my Lord go among us. For it [is] a stiff-necked people. And pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your inheritance.


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And Moses gathered all the congregation of the sons of Israel together and said to them, These [are] the words which the LORD has commanded, to do them.


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the tabernacle, its tent, its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets.


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and the incense altar, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging of the door at the entering in of the tabernacle.


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And make the altar of burnt offering, with its bronze grate, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base,


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the hangings of the court, its pillars and their sockets, and the hanging, for the door of the court,


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the woven garments to do service in the holy [place], the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.


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Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does work in it shall be put to death.


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And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom His spirit made willing. They brought the LORD's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all His service, and for the holy garments.


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And the men came in together with the women, as many as were willing-hearted, bringing bracelets and earrings, and rings and ornaments, all jewels of gold. And everyone who offered waved a wave offering of gold to the LORD.


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And everyone [with] whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and bleached [linen], and goats' [hair], and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.


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Everyone lifting up an offering of silver and bronze brought the LORD's offering. And everyone with whom was found acacia-wood for any work of the service, brought [it].


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And every wise-hearted woman spun with her hands. And they brought spun yarn, blue, and purple, scarlet, and bleached [linen].


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The sons of Israel brought a willing offering to the LORD, every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all kinds of work which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.


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And Moses said to the sons of Israel, See, the LORD has called the son of Uri the son of Hur, by the name Bezaleel, of the tribe of Judah.


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And He has filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of work,


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And He has put in his heart that he may teach, he and Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.


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He has filled them [with] wisdom of heart to work all kinds of work; of the smith, and of the skillful worker, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in bleached linen], and of the weaver, of those who do any work, and of those who work out artful work.


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And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD commanded. He said,


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Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Whoever [is] of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD: gold, and silver, and bronze,


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And Bezaleel and Aholiab shall work with everyone wise of heart to whom the LORD has given wisdom and intelligence, to know how to do every work of the service of the sanctuary, concerning all which the LORD had commanded.


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And he coupled the five curtains to one another, and he coupled [the other] five curtains to one another.


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And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made loops in the outermost side, in the coupling of the second curtain.


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He made fifty loops in one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which [was] in the coupling of the second. The loops held one to another.


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And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps. And it became one tabernacle.


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The length of one curtain [was] thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of one curtain. The eleven curtains were of one size.


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And he made fifty loops on the outermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and he made fifty loops upon the edge of the curtains which coupled the second.


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And he made a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed red, and a covering [of] dugong skins above.


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And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise-hearted man in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come, to do the work.


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By two pins the one board was connected, one to another. So he made for all the boards of the tabernacle.


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And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two pins, and two sockets under another board for its two pins.


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and their forty sockets were of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.


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And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head of it, to one ring. So he did to both of them in both the corners.


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And they received all the offerings from Moses, the offering which the sons of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it. And they still brought to him free offerings every morning.


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And there were eight boards. And their sockets [were] sixteen sockets of silver, two sockets under every board.


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and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the westward sides.


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And he overlaid the boards [with] gold, and made their rings [of] gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars [with] gold.


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And he made a veil [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached [linen]. He made it the work of an artisan, with cherubs.


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And he made for it four pillars [of] acacia. And he overlaid them [with] gold. Their hooks [were of] gold, and he cast four sockets of silver for them.


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And he made a screen for the tabernacle door, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached [linen], of needlework;


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and the five pillars of it, and their hooks. And he overlaid their capitals and their fillets [with] gold, but their five sockets [were of] bronze.


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And all the wise men who worked all the work of the sanctuary came, every man from his work which they made.


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And they spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough [for] the service of the work which the LORD commanded to make.


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And Moses commanded, and they caused it to be known throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. And the people were kept from bringing.


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And every wise-hearted one among them that worked the work of the tabernacle, made ten curtains [of] fine twined bleached [linen], and blue, and purple, and scarlet. He made them with cherubs of skillful work.


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The length of one curtain [was] twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain was four cubits. The curtains were all of one size.


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And Bezaleel made the ark [of] acacia-wood: two cubits and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.


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Also he made for it a border all around, of a hand's breadth. And he made a crown of gold for the border of it all around.


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And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that [were] in the four feet of it.


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And he made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes and its spoons, and its bowls, and its pitchers by which a drink offering is made, [of] pure gold.


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And he made the lampstand [of] pure gold. He made the lampstand [of] beaten work; its shaft and its branch, its cups, its knobs, and its blossoms, were of the same.


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And six branches went out of the sides of it; three branches of the lampstand out of the one side of it, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it.


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Three almond-like cups [were] on the one branch, a knob and a blossom; and three almond-like cups on the one branch, a knob and a blossom. So throughout the six branches going out of the lampstand.


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And a knob was under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, to the six branches going out of it.


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And he made the incense altar [of] acacia-wood. Its length was a cubit, and its breadth a cubit, square. And its height was two cubits. Its horns were of the same.


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And he overlaid it [with] pure gold, the top of it and the sides of it all around, and the horns of it. Also he made for it a crown of gold all around.


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And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown of it, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides of it, to be places for the staves to bear it with.


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And he cast four rings of gold for it, for the corners of it, even two rings on the one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.


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And he made the mercy-seat [of] pure gold. Two cubits and a half long, and one cubit and a half wide.


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one cherub here at one end, and one cherub there at the [other] end. He made the cherubs out of the mercy-seat on the two ends of it.


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And the cherubs were spreading out [their] wings above, covering the mercy-seat [with] their wings, their faces each toward the other. The faces of the cherubs were toward the mercy-seat.


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And he made the altar of burnt offering [of] acacia-wood. Its length [was] five cubits, and its breadth five cubits, square; and its height three cubits.


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Their pillars were twenty, and their bronze sockets twenty. The hooks of the pillar and their bands [were of] silver.


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And for the north side, a hundred by the cubit, their pillars twenty, and their twenty sockets bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.


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And for the west side [were] hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.


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The hangings of the one side [were] fifteen cubits, and their pillars three, and their sockets three.


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And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, [were] hangings of fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three.


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And the sockets for the pillars were [of] bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were [of] silver. And the overlaying of their capitals was [of] silver. And all the pillars of the court were banded with silver.


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And the screen for the gate of the court [was] needlework: blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached [linen]. And it was twenty cubits long, and the height and the width five cubits, to match the hangings of the court.


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And the pillars [were] four, and their bronze sockets four; their hooks silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their bands silver.


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This is the sum of the tabernacle, of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the command of Moses, [for] the service of the Levites by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.


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And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.


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And with him [was] Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and bleached [linen].


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All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And the silver from those numbered of the congregation [was] a hundred talents, and seventeen hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;


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a bekah for every man, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand, five hundred fifty [men].


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And the sockets of the sanctuary were cast of the hundred talents of silver, and the sockets of the veil also, a hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.


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And he made hooks for the pillars out of the seventeen hundred seventy-five shekels, and overlaid their capitals and joined them.


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And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, the flesh-hooks, and the fire-pans. All the vessels of it he made [of] bronze.


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and with it he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the bronze altar, and the bronze grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,


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and the sockets of the court all around, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court all around [bronze].


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And he made a bronze grate of network for the altar, under the compass of it, beneath to the middle of it.


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And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it with. He made it hollow [with] boards.


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And he made the laver [of] bronze, and its base bronze, out of the mirrors of serving women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And he made the court. On the south side southward the hangings of the court [were of] fine twined bleached [linen], a hundred cubits.


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And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary. And they made the holy garments for Aaron, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And they set four rows of stones in it. One row was a ruby, a topaz, and a carbuncle, the first row.


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And the fourth row: a chrysolite, an agate, and a jasper; set in plaited work of gold in their settings.


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And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, [like] the engravings of a signet, every one with its name according to the twelve tribes.


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And they made two plaitings [of] gold and two gold rings. And they put the two rings on the two ends of the breast-pocket.


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And the two ends of the two cords were fastened in the two plaitings. And they put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, on its front.


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And they made two rings of gold. And they put [them] on the two ends of the breast-pocket, on its border, on the side of the ephod inward.


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And they made two golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the front of it, near the other coupling of it, above to the band of the ephod.


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And they bound the breast-pocket by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it might be above the band of the ephod, and so that the breast-pocket might not be loosened from the ephod, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And the opening in the middle of the robe [was] like the opening of a corselet, with a band around the opening, so that it might not tear.


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And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined bleached [linen].


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And they made bells [of] pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hems of the robe, all around, between the pomegranates:


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a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe to minister [in], even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And [they made] a miter of bleached [linen], and the headdress of the caps [of] bleached [linen], and linen breeches [of] fine twined bleached [linen],


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and a girdle [of] fine twined bleached [linen], and blue, and purple, and scarlet, [of] needlework, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And they beat the gold into thin plates, and cut threads to work [it] into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the bleached [linen], the work of an artisan.


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And they made the plate of the holy crown [of] pure gold, and wrote upon it an inscription of the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.


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And they tied a lace of blue to it, in order to fasten [it] on high upon the miter, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation was finished. And the sons of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses. So they did.


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And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets,


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and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of dugong skins, and the veil of the covering,


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the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels of it, and the oil for light,


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and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the tabernacle door,


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They made shoulder-pieces for it, to couple [it] together. It was coupled together by the two edges.


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the curtains of the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the court gate, its cords, and its pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle for the tent of the congregation,


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the woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office.


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And Moses looked upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it. As the LORD commanded, even so they had done it. And Moses blessed them.


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And its fastening band which [was] on it, was of it, according to its work; gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached [linen], even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And they made stones of onyx set [in] plaited work of gold, engraved as signets are engraved, with the names of the sons of Israel.


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And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, stones for a memorial to the sons of Israel, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he made the breast-pocket a work [of] an artisan, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined bleached [linen];


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it was square. They made the breast-pocket double. Its length [was] a span, and its breadth a span, doubled.


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And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me nor listen to my voice. For they will say, The LORD has not appeared to you.


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And Moses said to the LORD, O my Lord, I [am] not a man of words now, nor since You have spoken to Your servant, but I [am] slow of speech and of a slow tongue.


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And the LORD said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the LORD?


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And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses. And He said, Do I not know Aaron the Levite, your brother that he can speak well? And also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. And when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.


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And you shall speak to him, and you shall put words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.


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And it will be, he shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be for a mouth to you. And you shall be to him a god.


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And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Please let me go and return to my brothers who [are] in Egypt and see if they [are] still alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.


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And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, Go! Return to Egypt, for all the men who sought your life are dead.


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And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.


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And the LORD said to Moses, When you go to return into Egypt, see that you do all those wonders which I have put in your hand before Pharaoh; but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.


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And I say to you, Let My son go, that he may serve Me. And if you refuse to let him go, behold, I [am] going to kill your son, your first-born.


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And Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and threw [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband you [are] to me.


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And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.


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And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him.


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And He said, Throw it on the ground. And he threw it on the ground. And it became a serpent. And Moses ran from it.


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And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.


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And the people believed. And when they heard that the LORD had visited the sons of Israel, and that He had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed and worshiped.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Put forth your hand and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand, --


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so that they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.


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And the LORD said to him again, Now put your hand in your bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom. And when he took it out, behold, his hand [was] as leprous as snow.


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And He said, Put your hand into your bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again. And he brought it out of his bosom, and behold, it was turned again like his [other] flesh.


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And it will be, if they will not believe you, neither listen to the voice of the first sign, then they will believe the voice of the latter sign.


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And also it will be, if they will not believe these two signs, neither listen to your voice, then you shall take from the water of the river and pour [it] upon the dry land. And the water which you take out of the river shall become blood on the dry land.


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And you shall anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar. And it shall be a most holy altar.


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And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.


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And you shall put the holy garments on Aaron, and anoint him and sanctify him, so that he may minister to Me in the priest's office.


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And you shall anoint them, even as you anointed their father, so that they may minister to Me in the priest's office. For their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood for their generations.


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And it will be in the first month in the second year, on the first of the month, the tabernacle was reared up.


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And Moses reared up the tabernacle and fastened its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and reared up its pillars.


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And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent above upon it, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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You shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation on the first day of the first month.


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And he took and placed the Testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy-seat on the ark from above.


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And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the covering, and covered the Ark of Testimony, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside the veil.


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And he put the lampstand in the tent of the congregation across from the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.


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And he put the altar of burnt offering [by] the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered on it the burnt offering and the food offering, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, for washing.


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When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near the altar, they washed, even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And he reared up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the court gate. And Moses finished the work.


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And the cloud covered the tabernacle of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.


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And Moses was not able to enter into the tabernacle of the congregation because the cloud stayed on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.


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And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel journeyed on in all their journeys.


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For the cloud of the LORD [was] upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, in all their journeys.


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And you shall bring the table in, and set in order its arrangement. And you shall bring the lampstand in and light the lamps of it.


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And you shall set the altar of gold for the incense in front of the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.


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And you shall set the altar of the burnt offering in front of the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.


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And you shall set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shall put water in it.


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And you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle, and all in it, and shall sanctify it and all the vessels of it. And it shall be holy.


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And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, Thus says Jehovah, God of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.


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And the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out. And they spoke to the people, saying, So says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.


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And the taskmasters hurried [them], saying, Finish your works, the thing of a day, just as when there was straw.


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And the overseers of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten. [And they] demanded, Why have you not completed your task in making brick, both yesterday and today, as you did before?


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And the overseers of the sons of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why do you deal so with your servants?


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There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, Make bricks! And behold, your servants [are] beaten, but the fault is in your own people.


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But he said, You [are] idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, Let us go, let us sacrifice to the LORD.


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Therefore go now [and] work, for there shall be no straw given to you; yet you shall deliver the number of bricks.


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And the overseers of the sons of Israel saw themselves in affliction, after it was said, You shall not take away from your bricks of your daily task.


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And Pharaoh said, Who [is] Jehovah, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, neither will I let Israel go.


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And they said to them, The LORD look upon you and judge, because you have made our smell to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hands to kill us.


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And Moses returned to the LORD, and said, Lord, why have You treated this people ill? Why then have you sent me?


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For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done evil to this people. Neither have You delivered Your people at all.


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And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go, we pray you, three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest He fall upon us with plague or with the sword.


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And the king of Egypt said to them, Moses and Aaron, Why do you keep the people from their work? Get to your burdens!


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And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now [are] many, and you make them rest from their burdens.


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You shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.


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And you shall lay upon them the number of bricks which they have made before now. You shall not take away from it. For they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go sacrifice to our God.


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Let more work be laid upon the men, and let them labor in it. And do not let them regard vain words.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand he shall let them go, and with a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.


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And Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh hear me, since I have lips that are not circumcised?


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And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the sons of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.


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These [were] the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These [were] the families of Reuben.


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And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanitess. These [were] the families of Simeon.


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And these [were] the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi [were] a hundred and thirty-seven years.


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And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath [were] a hundred and thirty-three years.


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And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These [were] the families of Levi according to their generations.


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And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, for his wife. And she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram [were] a hundred and thirty-seven years.


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And Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, for his wife. And she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.


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And the sons of Korah [were] Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These [were] the families of the Korahites.


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And Aaron's son Eleazar took his wife of the daughters of Putiel. And she bore him Phinehas. These [were] the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.


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It [was] Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.


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These [were] the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt. It was Moses and Aaron.


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the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, I [am] the LORD. You speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.


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And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob [as] God Almighty. But I was not known to them [by] the name JEHOVAH.


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And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I [am] of uncircumcised lips, and how [shall] Pharaoh listen to me?


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And I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers.


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And I have also heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, those whom the Egyptians are keeping in bondage. And I have remembered My covenant.


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Therefore say to the sons of Israel, I [am] Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rescue you out of their bondage. And I will redeem you with a stretched-out arm, and with great judgments.


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And I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.


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And I will bring you in to the land concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And I will give it to you for a heritage. I [am] the LORD!


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And Moses said so to the sons of Israel. But they did not listen to Moses through shortness of spirit and through cruel bondage.


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And the LORD said to Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh. And Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.


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And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh. And they did so, as the LORD had commanded. And Aaron threw down his rod in front of Pharaoh and in front of his servants, and it became a snake.


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Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers. And they, the priests of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts.


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You go to Pharaoh in the morning. Lo, he goes out to the water. And you shall stand by the river's brink until he comes. And you shall take in your hand the rod which was turned to a snake.


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And you shall say to him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Let My people go so that they may serve Me in the wilderness. And, behold, until now you would not hear.


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Thus says the LORD, In this you shall know that I [am] the LORD. Behold! I will smite with the rod that [is] in my hand upon the waters in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.


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And the fish in the river shall die, and the river shall stink. And the Egyptians shall hate to drink of the water of the river.


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And the LORD spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your rod, and stretch out your hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their canals, and upon their pools, and upon every reservoir of their waters, [that] they may become blood. And blood shall be throughout all the land of Egypt, both in wooden and in stone [vessels].


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You shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, he will send the sons of Israel out of his land.


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And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded. And he lifted up the rod and struck the waters that [were] in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants. And all the waters in the river were turned to blood.


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And the fish in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river. And there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And the priests of Egypt did so with their secret arts. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said.


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And all the Egyptians dug all around the river for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the river.


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But Pharaoh shall not listen to you, and I will lay My hand upon Egypt, and bring My armies, My people the sons of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.


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And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt, and bring out the sons of Israel from among them.


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And Moses [was] eighty years old, and Aaron [was] eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.


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When Pharaoh shall speak to you saying, Give a miracle for yourselves, you shall say to Aaron, Take your rod, and throw [it] in front of Pharaoh. It shall become a snake.


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And the LORD spoke to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and say to him: Thus says the LORD, Let my people go so that they may serve Me.


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And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, It shall be according to your word, so that you may know that [there is] none like the LORD our God.


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And the frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only.


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And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh. And Moses cried to the LORD because of the frogs which He had brought against Pharaoh.


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And the LORD did according to the word of Moses. And the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.


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But Pharaoh saw that [there] was relief, and he hardened his heart, and did not listen to them, even as the LORD had said.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Say to Aaron: Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the land, so that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And they did so. For Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and struck the dust of the earth. And it became lice in man and in beast. All the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.


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And the priests did so with their secret arts to bring forth lice, but they could not. So there were lice upon man and upon beast.


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And the priests said to Pharaoh, This [is] the finger of God. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Lo, he comes forth to the water. And say to him, Thus says the LORD: Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.


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And if you will not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms [of flies] on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your house. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms [of flies], and also the ground on which they [are].


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And in that day I will cut off the land of Goshen, in which My people live, so that no swarms [of flies] shall be there, so that you may know that I [am] Jehovah in the midst of the earth.


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And the LORD did so. And teeming swarms [of flies] came into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt. The land was destroyed because of the swarms.


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And Moses said, It is not right to do so, for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God. Lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?


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We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as He shall command us.


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And Pharaoh said, I will let you go so that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness. Only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.


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And Moses said, Behold, I will go out from you, and I will pray to the LORD that the swarms [of flies] may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow. But do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.


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And the river shall bring forth frogs plentifully, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and upon your bed, and into the house of your servants, and upon your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.


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And the LORD did according to the word of Moses. And He removed the swarms from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained not one.


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And the LORD spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron: Stretch out your hand with your rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.


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And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.


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And Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Pray to the LORD that He may take away the frogs from me and from my people. And I will let the people go, so that they may sacrifice to the LORD.


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And Moses said to Pharaoh, Glory over me! When shall I pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, so [that] they may remain in the river only?


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And the LORD said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and tell him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: Let My people go so that they may serve Me.


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And they took ashes of the furnace and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky, and it became a boil breaking forth [with] sores upon man and upon beast.


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And the priests could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boil was upon the priests and upon all the Egyptians.


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And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, even as the LORD had spoken to Moses.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, So says the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.


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For I [am] going to send at this time all My plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants, and upon your people, so that you may know that [there is] none like Me in all the earth.


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For now I will stretch out My hand, that I may strike you and your people with plagues, and you shall be cut off from the earth.


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Behold! Tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, [such as] has not been in Egypt since the foundation of it even until now!


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And now send out, gather your cattle, and all that you have in the field. Upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.


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He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle to flee into the houses.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch forth your hand toward heaven, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.


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And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heavens. And the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire came down to the ground. And the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.


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And [there] was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.


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And the hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that [was] in the field, both man and beast. And the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.


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And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned [this] time. Jehovah [is] righteous, and I and my people are wicked.


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Pray to the LORD, [for it is] enough. Let there be no mighty thunderings and hail. And I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.


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And Moses said to him, as soon as I go out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to the LORD. The thunder shall stop, and the hail will not be any more, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD's.


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behold, the hand of the LORD is upon your cattle in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep, a very grievous plague.


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And the flax and the barley [were] stricken, for the barley was in the head, and the flax was in bud.


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And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to the LORD. And the thunder and hail stopped, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.


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And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned still more and hardened his heart, he and his servants.


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And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the sons of Israel go, even as the LORD had spoken by Moses.


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And the LORD shall separate between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. And there shall nothing die of all [that belongs] to the sons of Israel.


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And the LORD did that thing on the next day, and all the cattle of Egypt died. But of the cattle of the sons of Israel, not one died.


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And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.


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And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, Take to yourselves handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.


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And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth [with] sores upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.


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There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job. And that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God and turned aside from evil.


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Have You not made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.


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And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he has [is] in your power. Only do not lay your hand upon him. And Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.


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And a day came when his sons and his daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house.


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


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And the Sabeans fell [on] and took them away. Yea, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.


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While he [was] still speaking, there also came [another] and said, The fire of God has fallen from the heavens and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and destroyed them. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.


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While he [was] still speaking, there also came [another] and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands and swooped down upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and have killed the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.


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While he [was] still speaking, there also came another and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house.


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And, behold, a great wind came from the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.


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And he said, I came naked out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed [be] the name of the LORD.


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And his possessions were seven thousand sheep and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.


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And his sons went and feasted in the house of each one on his day. And they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.


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And when they had gone around the day of feasting, Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings [according to] the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. So Job did always.


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And a day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD. And Satan also came among them.


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And the LORD said to Satan, From where do you come? Then Satan answered the LORD and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.


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And the LORD said to Satan, Have you set your heart against My servant Job, because [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil?


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My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on my self; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.


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If I am wicked, woe to me; and [if] I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, [being] filled with shame, and looking on my affliction.


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You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your anger on me; changes and warfare [are] against me.


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Why then have You brought me from the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me!


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a land of obscurity, the darkness of the shadow of death, without any order, and the shining [is] as darkness.


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Is [it] good to You that You should press down, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked?


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Remember, I beseech You, that You have formed me as the clay; and will You bring me into the dust again?


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surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; yea, you shall be steadfast and shall not fear;


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And [your] lifetime shall be clearer than the noonday; though [there be] darkness, you shall be as the morning.


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And you shall be safe, because there is hope; yea, you shall look around [you], and you shall take your rest in safety.


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But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no escape, and their hope [shall be like] the giving up of the spirit.


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and would tell you the secrets of His wisdom, that sound wisdom [is] manifold? Know therefore that God forgets for you [some] of your iniquity.


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Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up; also He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.


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He gives greatness to the nations, and destroys them. He spreads out the nations, and leads them away.


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He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the land, and causes them to wander in a wilderness [where there is] no path.


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But I have understanding as well as you; I do not fall [short] of you; yes, who does not know such things as these?


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I [am] a laughing-stock to his friends; who calls on God, and He answers him; the just, the upright one [is] a mockery;


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a flaming brand despised in the thoughts of him who feels secure; [it is] ready for those with slipping feet.


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The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God [are] secure, in whatever God brings to their hand.


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But now ask the animals, and they shall teach you; and the birds of the air, and they shall tell you;


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You put my feet also in the stocks, and look closely to all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.


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so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens [are] no more, they shall not awake, nor be awakened out of their sleep.


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Who will grant [that] You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me?


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The waters wear away the stones; the outpouring of it washes the dust of the earth; and You cause the hope of man to perish.


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For his days [are] fixed, the number of his months [is] with You, and You have set his bounds so that he cannot pass;


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For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease.


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What [is] man, that he should be clean? And [what is he] born of a woman that he should be righteous?


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And he lives [in] cut off cities, [in] houses where none [are] living, which are ready [to become] heaps.


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He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth hold out, nor shall he stretch out his gain on the earth.


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He shall not escape from darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and at the breath of his mouth he shall turn away.


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They have gaped on me with their mouth; and have scornfully beaten me on the cheek; they gather themselves against me.


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I was at ease, but He has broken me in pieces; yea, [He has] also taken [me] by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark.


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His archers hem me in; He splits my inward parts, and does not spare; He pours out my gall on the ground.


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I also could speak as you [do]; if your soul were in my soul's place. I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.


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And You have plucked me, for it is a witness, and my failure rises up against me, and it answers to my face.


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His anger has torn and hated [me]; He gnashes on me with His teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes at me;


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He tears himself in his anger; [shall] the earth [be] forsaken for you? And shall the rock be moved out of its place?


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Those who dwell in my house, and my slave-girls, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.


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whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not a stranger's; [though] My heart be exhausted in my bosom.


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Fear for yourselves because of the sword; for wrath [brings] the punishments of the sword, so that you may know [there is] a judgment.


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And it happened that a day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD. And Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.


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But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish ones speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.


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And Job's three friends heard [of] all this evil that had come upon him, and they each one came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had met together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.


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And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and did not know him, they lifted up their voice and wept. And each one tore his robe, and [they] sprinkled dust upon their heads toward Heaven.


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And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights. And no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that [his] grief was very great.


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And the LORD said to Satan, From where do you come? And Satan answered the LORD and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.


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And the LORD said unto Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil? And still he is keeping hold of his integrity, although you moved Me against him to destroy him without cause.


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


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But indeed put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse You to Your face.


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And Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.


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giving back his gain, and he will not eat. As to the wealth of his trading, even he shall not enjoy [it].


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It shall happen at the filling of his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of His wrath on him, and He shall rain on him while he is eating.


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All darkness [shall be] hidden in his secret places; a fire not blown shall consume him; those left in his tent shall be broken.


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He flies away like a dream, and shall not be found, and shall be chased away like a vision of the night.


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How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their trouble comes on them! He shares out pains in His anger;


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And the clods of the valley shall be sweet to him and every man shall draw after him, as [there is] no numbering of those before him.


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If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up; you shall put away injustice far from your tents.


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You shall also order a thing, and it shall be fulfilled to you; and the light shall shine on your ways.


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[Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous, or gain [to Him] that you make your ways perfect?


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For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.


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nor have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.


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on the left hand, where He works, but I cannot behold Him. He turns to the right, but I do not see [Him].


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Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God does not charge foolishness.


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And the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a covering on [his] face.


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In the dark they dig through houses [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.


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For the morning [is] to them like the shadow of death; for they know the terrors of the shadow of death.


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He [is] swift on the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.


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The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and injustice shall be broken like a tree.


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They are lifted up for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are gathered in like all [others], and are cut off like the heads of the ears of grain.


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Behold, [like] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey. The wilderness [yields] food for them and for [their] children.


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Lo, these [are] the edges of His ways; but what a whisper of a word we hear of Him! And the thunder of His power who can understand?


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This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of cruel men [which] they shall receive from the Almighty.


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If his sons are multiplied, [the] sword [is] for them; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.


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I hold fast by my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart shall not shame me [any] of my days.


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And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom! And to depart from evil [is] understanding!


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He sets an end to darkness, and to every extremity He searches out the stones of darkness and the shadow of death.


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He opens a shaft far from the visitor; they are forgotten by [man's] foot; they hang far away from men, they swing to and fro.


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I smiled kindly on them [when] they did not believe; and they did not make the light of my face fall.


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I chose out their way, and sat as chief; and I lived like a king in the army, as one [who] comforts the mourners.


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For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest


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For the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come to me.


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Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it. Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it.


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


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Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none. Let it not see the eyelids of the dawn.


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But now those younger laugh at me, whose fathers I would have refused to set with the dogs of my flock.


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Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me, they have also thrown off the bridle before me.


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By the great force [of my disease] my clothing is exposed; it binds me about like the mouth of my coat.


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Also, what [profit] for me [was] the strength of their hands, [for] full vigor had perished from them?


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They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, [which was] before waste and ruin,


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then let me tremble before a great multitude, and be terrified by the scorn of families; [and] I will be silent [and] not go out the door.


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Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my mark. Let the Almighty answer me, and my Accuser write an indictment.


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If my step has turned out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any blot has held fast to my hands;


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And burned the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. His wrath burned against Job, because he had justified himself rather than God.


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


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When Elihu saw that there [was] no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.


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And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I [am] young, and you [are] very old; therefore I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion.


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If there is a messenger for him, a mediator, one among a thousand, to declare for man his uprightness,


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then He is gracious to him and says, Deliver him from going down to the Pit; for I have found a ransom.


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he shall pray to God, and He will be gracious to Him; and he shall see His face with joy, for He will restore to man his righteousness.


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He will observe to men, and say, I have sinned and perverted righteousness; and it was not equally repaid to me,


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Therefore listen to me, O man of heart; far be it from God to commit iniquity; and from the Almighty, to do wrong.


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[How much less to Him who] does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor? For all of them [are] the work of His hands.


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


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And He gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hides [His] face, who can behold Him? And [it may be] against a nation and a man together;


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Must He repay because you rejected [it]? For you must choose, and not I; therefore speak what you know.


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For he adds rebellion to his sins; he claps [his] hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.


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who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?


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If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or [if] your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?


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If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in blessedness, and their years in pleasures.


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And He also would have lured you from the mouth of distress [to] a wide place not cramped; and the setting of your table [would be] full of fatness.


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For [beware] wrath, that He not lure you with [His] scorn; then a great ransom cannot turn you aside.


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[If] your cry for help is set in order, then [it will] not [be]. in distress, but with all the forces of strength.


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He withdraws not His eyes from the righteous, but [they are] like kings on the throne; yes, [He] causes them to sit forever, and they are very high.


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and it is turned around by His guidance, so that they may do whatever He commands them on the face of the world in the earth.


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The Almighty, whom we cannot find out, [is] exalted in power; and to judgment and overflowing righteousness He does no violence.


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After it a voice roars; He thunders with the voice of His majesty, and He will not hold them when His voice is heard.


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For He says to the snow, Fall [on] the earth; also to the shower of rain, and to the shower of [heavy] rains in its strength.


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Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Can you observe the calving of deer?


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He swallows the ground with quivering and rage; and he does not stand still at the sound of the trumpet.


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When the trumpet [sounds], he says, Aha! And he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.


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Their young ones are strong, they multiply with grain; they go forth and do not return to them again.


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


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It stood still, but I could not tell the form of it. An image [was] before my eyes; silence; then I heard a voice,


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How much less [in] those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [who] are crushed before the moth?


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Behold, though a flood presses, he does not run away; he feels safe even if Jordan swells up to his mouth.


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And the LORD turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Also the LORD added to Job all that [had been his], to double.


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And came to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had known him before. And they ate bread with him in his house, and consoled him and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought on him. Each one also gave him a piece of money, and each one a ring of gold.


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And the LORD blessed the latter [days] of Job more than the beginning. For he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.


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


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And in all the land there [were] not found women as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.


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


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Who [is] he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken what I did not understand; [things] too wonderful for me; yea, I did not know.


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And it happened after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job [has].


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And now take to yourselves seven young bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. And My servant Job will pray for you. Surely I will lift up his face so as not to do with you [according to your] foolishness, in that you have not spoken of Me what is right, like My servant Job.


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And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, [and] Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the LORD commanded them. The LORD also accepted the face of Job.


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Behold, blessed [is] the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.


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You shall be hidden from the whip of the tongue; neither shall you be afraid of robbery when it comes.


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For you [shall be] in covenant with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.


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And you shall know that your tent [is in] peace; and you shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.


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And [you] shall know that your seed [will be] numerous, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.


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His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, nor [is there] any to deliver [them].


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Their harvest the hungry eats, and takes it even out of the thorns; and the snare swallows up their wealth.


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And it is yet my comfort; yea, I would rejoice in pain, though He did not spare me; for I have not hidden the words of the Holy One.


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For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, their fury [is] drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.


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


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I have sinned. What shall I do to You, O Watcher of men? Why have You set me as a target for You, so that I am a burden to myself?


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And why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust, and You shall seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not be.


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When I lie down, I say, When shall I rise? But the night is long, and I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.


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He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, but it shall not endure.


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if you [were] pure and upright, surely now He would awake for you, and make the dwelling-place of your righteousness blessed.


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If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me; [though] I [am] perfect, He shall declare me perverse.


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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges; if it [is] not [He], then who [is] it?


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For [He is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer Him, [that] we should come together in judgment;


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[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened [himself] against Him and been blessed;


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Blessed [is] the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of the scornful.


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And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivulets of water that brings forth its fruit in its seasons, and its leaf shall not wither, and all which he does shall be blessed.


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Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.


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You have seen [it]; for You behold mischief and vexation, to repay [it] with Your hand. The poor commits [himself] to You; You are the Helper of the fatherless.


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LORD, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart, You will cause Your ear to hear,


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The wicked in [his] pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the plans that they have imagined.


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His ways are always perverted; Your judgments [are] high, out of his sight. [As for] all his enemies, he puffs at them.


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He sits in the hiding-places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the poor.


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He lies in wait secretly, like a lion in his den. He lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.


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Know that the LORD, He [is] God. He has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.


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Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, [and] into His courts with praise; be thankful to Him, [and] bless His name.


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I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.


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I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I have hated the work of those who turn aside; it shall not hold on to me.


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[Whoever] secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.


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My eyes [shall be] on the faithful of the land, so that they may dwell with me; he who walks in a perfect way, he shall serve Me.


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[He] who works falsely shall not dwell within my house; he who tells lies shall not stay in my sight.


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I will early destroy all the wicked of the land, so that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.


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A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come to You.


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This shall be written for the generation to come; and the people who shall be created shall praise the LORD.


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Hide not Your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; bow down Your ear to me; in the day I call, answer me quickly.


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I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days; Your years [are] through the generation of generations.


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They shall perish, but You shall endure; yea, all of them shall become old like a garment; like a robe You shall change them, and they shall be changed;


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But the mercy of the LORD [is] from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness [is] to sons of sons;


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Bless the LORD, O angels of His, who excel in strength, who do His command, listening to the voice of His word.


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He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for the service of man, to bring forth food out of the earth,


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and wine cheers the heart of man, and oil makes his face shine, and bread sustains the heart of man.


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O LORD, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your riches.


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This [is] the great and wide sea, in which [are] creeping things without number, both small and great animals.


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You hide Your face, they [are] troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.


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He lays the beams [of] His upper rooms in the waters. He sets the clouds [as] His chariots; He walks on the wings of the wind;


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Let the sinners perish from the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Praise the LORD!


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They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which You have founded for them.


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You have set a bound that they may not pass over, so that they do not turn again to cover the earth.


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He also brought them out with silver and gold; and there [was] not one feeble person among their tribes.


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And He said that He would destroy them, if Moses His chosen had not stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, so that He should not destroy [them].


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and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was defiled with blood.


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and He remembered [His] covenant for them, and was moved to pity, according to the multitude of His mercies.


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Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to Your holy name [and] to triumph in Your praise.


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Blessed [is] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting; and let all the people say, Amen. Praise the LORD!


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that I may see the good of Your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, to glory with Your inheritance.


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Our fathers did not understand Your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, but rebelled at the sea, even at the Red Sea.


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And He rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up; so He led them through the depths, [as] through the wilderness.


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They mount up to the heavens, they go down again [to] the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble.


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and gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.


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And let them exalt Him in the congregation of the people, and praise Him in the gathering of the elders.


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He also blesses them, so that they are multiplied greatly; and does not allow their cattle to become few.


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Oh that men would praise the LORD [for] His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the sons of man!


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A Song, A Psalm of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and I will give praise, even [with] my glory.


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God has spoken in His holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and I will measure out the valley of Succoth.


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Gilead [is] Mine; Manasseh [is] Mine and Ephraim [is] the strength [of] My head; Judah [is] My lawgiver;


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Let the money-lender lay a snare for all that [is] his; and let strangers take the fruit of his labor.


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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered to the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.


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because he did not remember to do mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and sought to kill the broken-hearted.


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Yea, he loved cursing, so let it come to him; he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.


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As he clothed himself with cursing, as with his robe, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.


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for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they spoke against me [with] a lying tongue.


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But You, Lord Jehovah, deal kindly with me for Your name's sake; because Your mercy [is] good, deliver me.


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Let my foes be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own shame, as with a cloak.


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To the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David. I put my trust in the LORD; how can you say to me, Flee [like] a bird to the mountains;


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for lo, the wicked bend [their] bow; they make ready their arrow on the string, so that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.


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The LORD [is] in His holy temple; the LORD's throne [is] in Heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids examine the children of men.


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On the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and a horrible tempest [shall be] the portion of their cup.


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A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand until I place Your enemies as Your footstool.


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Your people [shall be] willing in the day of Your power, in holy adornment from the womb of the morning: You [have] the dew of Your youth.


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He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill them with dead bodies; He shall shatter heads over much of the earth.


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Praise the LORD! I will praise the LORD with all [my] heart, in the council of the upright, and of the congregation.


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The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom; all practicing them [have] good understanding; His praise stands forever.


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He sent redemption to His people; He has commanded His covenant forever; holy and awesome [is] His name.


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The wicked shall see and be vexed; he shall gnash with his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.


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To the upright there arises light in the darkness; [he is] gracious and full of pity and righteousness.


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He has scattered abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness [endures] forever; his horn shall be lifted up with honor.


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Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name give glory, for Your mercy [and] for Your truth's sake.


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The LORD has been mindful of us; He will bless [us]; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron.


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they have hands, but they do not handle; they have feet, but they do not walk; they do not mutter through their throat.


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O LORD, truly I [am] Your servant; I [am] Your servant, and the son of Your handmaid; You have loosed my bonds.


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The sorrows of death hemmed me in, and the pains of hell took hold on me; I found trouble and sorrow.


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For His merciful kindness is great toward us; and the truth of the LORD [endures] forever. Praise the LORD!


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They surround me like bees; they are put out like the fire of thorns; for in the name of the LORD I will cut them off.


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The voice of rejoicing and salvation [is] in the tents of the righteous; the right hand of the LORD does mighty things.


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Therefore I count all [Your] commandments concerning all things to be right; I hate every false way.


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Your word [is] true from the beginning; and every one of Your righteous judgments [endures] forever.


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And I will lift up my hands to Your commandments which I have loved; and I will think on Your statutes.


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JOD. Your hands have made me and formed me; give me understanding so that I may learn Your commandments.


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I beseech You, let Your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to Your word to Your servant.


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Let the proud be ashamed; for they perverted my cause with lying; I will think on Your commandments.


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To the Chief Musician, on eight. A Psalm of David. Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the sons of men.


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For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says the LORD. I will set in safety, he pants for it.


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The words of the LORD [are] pure words, [like] silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.


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where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, to the testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.


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Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] to the hand of their masters; as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait on the LORD our God, until He shall have mercy on us.


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Our soul is exceedingly filled [with] the contempt of those who are at ease, with the scorn of the proud.


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Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.


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A Song of degrees. They who trust in the LORD [shall be] like Mount Zion; it is not shaken, but remains forever.


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As the mountains [are] all around Jerusalem, so the LORD [is] all around His people from this time and forever.


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For the rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity.


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And those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity; peace [shall be] on Israel.


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Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue [with] singing; then they said among the nations, The LORD has done great [things] with them.


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[He who] goes forth and weeps, bearing [precious] seed, shall [doubtless] come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with him].


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A Song of degrees for Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.


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[It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; [for] so He gives His beloved sleep.


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Blessed [is] the man who has his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.


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Your wife [shall be] like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your sons [shall be] like olive plants around your table.


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The LORD shall bless you out of Zion; and you shall see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.


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And those who pass by have never said, The blessing of the LORD [be] on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long will You forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?


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How long shall I take counsel in my heart [having] sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall my enemy be lifted up over me?


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Let Israel hope in the LORD; for with the LORD [there is] mercy, and with Him [is] plentiful redemption.


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A Song of degrees; of David. O LORD, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes lofty; nor have I walked in great things, nor in things too wondrous for me.


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Surely I have behaved and have quieted my soul, as one weaned by its mother; my soul on me [is] like one weaned.


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The LORD has sworn to David [in] truth; He will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body I will set on the throne for you.


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If your sons will keep My covenant and My testimonies which I shall teach them, their sons shall also sit on your throne forever.


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A Song of degrees; of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brothers to dwell together in unity!


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[It is] like the precious ointment on the head that ran down on the beard, Aaron's beard, that went down to the mouth of his garments;


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like the dew of Hermon that came down on the mountains of Zion; for there the LORD commanded the blessing, life forevermore.


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A Song of degrees. Behold, bless the LORD, all servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD.


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Every thing the LORD pleased, He did in the heavens and in earth, and in the seas and all deep places.


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He causes the vapors to rise from the end of the earth; He makes lightnings for the rain; He brings wind out of His storehouses.


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For there our captors demanded a song from us; and our plunderers [demanded] gladness, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.


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If I do not remember you, let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth; if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.


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Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Make [it] bare! Make [it] bare, even to the foundation of [it]!


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O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one! Blessed [is] he who will repay to [you] your reward which you rewarded to us.


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I will worship toward Your holy temple, and praise Your name for Your loving-kindness and for Your truth's sake; for You have magnified Your word above all Your name.


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If I walk in the midst of trouble, You will give me life; You shall stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand shall save me.


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The LORD will perfect [His work] in me; Your mercy, O LORD, [endures] forever; do not forsake the work of Your own hands.


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Yea, the darkness does not hide from You; but the night shines as the day; as [is] the darkness, so is the light to You.


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I will praise You; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made; Your works [are] marvelous and my soul knows [it] very well.


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My bones were not hidden from You when I was made in secret [and] skillfully formed in the lowest parts of the earth.


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Your eyes saw my embryo; and in Your book all [my members] were written, the days they were formed, and not one [was] among them.


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O LORD, do I not hate those who hate You? And am I [not] grieved with those who rise up against You?


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To the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David. The fool has said in his heart, [There is] no God! They acted corruptly; they have done abominable works, [there is] none who does good.


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The LORD looked down from Heaven on the sons of men, to see if there were any who understood [and] sought God.


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Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people [as] they eat bread? They have not called on the LORD.


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Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Zion? When the LORD brings back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.


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To the Chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man; keep me from the violent man,


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Let burning coals fall on them; let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, so that they do not rise up again.


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Do not let an evil speaker be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow [him].


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O LORD, keep me from the hands of the wicked; keep me from the violent man who purposed to trip up my steps.


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The proud have hidden cords and a trap for me; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set snares for me. Selah.


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O LORD, do not grant the desires of the wicked; do not help his wicked plans, [lest] they praise themselves. Selah.


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Let my prayer be set forth before You [as] incense, [and] the lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.


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Let not my heart turn aside to [any] evil thing, to practice wicked works with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their delicacies.


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Let the righteous strike me; [it shall be] a kindness; and let him correct me, [it is] oil on my head, let not my head refuse [it]; for still my prayer also [shall be] against their wickedness.


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An Instruction of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried to the LORD [with] my voice; with my voice I prayed to the LORD.


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When my spirit fainted within me, then You knew my path. In the way [in] which I walked they have secretly laid a snare for me.


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I looked on [my] right hand, and I watched, but no one recognized me; escape was lost to me; no man cared for my soul.


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Bring my soul out of prison that I may praise Your name; the righteous shall gather around me; for You shall reward me.


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A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer O LORD; give ear to my supplications; in Your faithfulness [and] in Your righteousness answer me.


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Teach me to do Your will; for You [are] my God; Your Spirit [is] good; lead me into the land of uprightness.


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O LORD, for Your name's sake enliven me; for Your righteousness' sake, bring my soul out of trouble.


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And out of Your mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul; for I [am] Your servant.


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For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has beaten my life down to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, as those long dead.


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Hear me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails; do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the Pit.


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Cause me to hear Your loving-kindness in the morning, for I do trust in You; cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You.


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A Psalm of David. Blessed [is] the LORD my Rock, who teaches My hands for war, my fingers for battle.


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Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of foreigners' sons, because their mouth has spoken vanity, and their right [hand is] a right hand of falsehood;


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so that our sons [may be] like plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters [may be] like corner-stones, polished like a palace building;


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and our storehouses [may be] full, furnishing kind to kind; and our flocks may breed thousands and ten thousands outside;


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[He is] my goodness and my fortress; my high tower and my deliverer; my shield and [He] in whom I trust; who humbles my people under me.


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Send Your hand from above; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of a foreigner's sons;


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My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD; and let all flesh bless His holy name forever and ever.


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who carries out judgment for the mistreated; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD lets the prisoners loose;


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the Lord opens [the eyes of] the blind; the LORD raises those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous;


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the LORD preserves the strangers; He relieves the orphan and widow, but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.


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Praise the LORD; for [it is] good to sing praises to our God; for praise [is] delightful [and] becoming.


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who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow [on] the mountains.


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let them praise the name of the LORD; for His name alone is excellent; His glory [is] above the earth and heavens.


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He also lifts up the horn of His people, the praise of all His saints, even of the sons of Israel, a people near to Him. Praise the LORD!


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[he] does not backbite with his tongue, nor do evil to his neighbor, nor take up a reproach against his neighbor;


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in whose eyes the reprobate is despised, but he honors those who fear the LORD; [he] has sworn to his hurt, and does not change it;


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[he] has not put out his money at interest, nor has he taken a bribe against the innocent. He who does these [things] shall not be moved forever.


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You will make Me know the way of life; in Your presence [is] fullness of joys. At Your right hand [are] pleasures forevermore.


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Their sorrows shall be multiplied [who] run after another [god]. I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood; and I will not take their names on my lips.


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A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD; listen to my cry; Give ear to my prayer, [for it is] not in lips of deceit.


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from men by Your hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in [this] life, and whose belly You fill with Your treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and will leave their riches to their babes.


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[As for] me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with Your image.


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You have proved my heart; You have visited [me] in the night; You have tried me, and You will find nothing; my thoughts do not pass beyond my mouth.


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Concerning the works of men, by the words of Your lips, I am kept [from] the paths of the destroyer.


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Set out Your wonderful loving-kindness, O Savior of those seeking refuge [in You], by Your right hand, from those who rise up against [me].


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To the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul; and he said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.


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He made darkness His secret place, His pavilion around Him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.


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The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave forth His voice; hailstones and coals of fire.


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Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.


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The LORD [is] my strength, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock; I will trust in Him; [He is] my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.


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The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.


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And the LORD has returned to me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.


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With the merciful, You will show Yourself merciful; with an upright man You will show Yourself upright;


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[As for] God, His way [is] perfect; the Word of the LORD [is] tried; He [is] a shield to all those who trust in Him.


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You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; and Your right hand has held me up, and Your gentleness has made me great.


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For You have girded me with strength for the battle; You have humbled under me those who rose up against me.


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You have delivered Me from the strivings of the people; You have made Me the head of the nations; a people [whom] I have not known shall serve Me.


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He delivers me from my enemies; yea, You lift me up above those who rise up against me; You have delivered me from the violent man.


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magnifying the salvations to His king, and working mercy to His anointed, to David, and to his seed forevermore.


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In my distress I called on the LORD, and I cried to my God; He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry came before Him, into His ears.


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Then the earth shook and trembled; and the foundations of the hills moved and were shaken, because He was angry.


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the expanse proclaims His handiwork.


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and keep Your servant back from presumptuous [sins]; do not let them rule over me; then I shall be upright, and I shall be innocent of great transgression.


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Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.


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Their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun,


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going forth from the end of the heavens, and its course [is] to their ends. And there is nothing hid from its heat.


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The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making the simple wise.


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The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart; the commandments of the LORD [are] pure, giving light to the eyes.


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The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether,


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Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish [from] the way, when His wrath is kindled in but a little time. Blessed [are] all who put their trust in Him.


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The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers plot together, against the LORD and against His anointed, [saying],


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I will declare the decree of the LORD. He has said to Me, You [are] My Son; today I have begotten You.


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Ask of Me, and I shall give the nations [for] Your inheritance; and the uttermost parts of the earth for Your possession.


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. May the LORD hear you in the day of trouble, the name of the God of Jacob set you on high,


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We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up banners; may the LORD fulfill all your prayers.


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Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He will hear him from His holy Heaven with the saving strengths of His right hand.


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The king shall rejoice in Your strength, O LORD; and in Your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!


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For You shall make them turn the back; You shall make ready [Your arrows] on Your strings against their faces.


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For You have made him most blessed forever; You have rejoiced him in the gladness in Your holy face.


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You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of Your presence; the LORD will swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire shall devour them.


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To the Chief Musician, on the deer of the dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me, and [are] far from my deliverance, [and from] the words of my groaning?


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I am poured out like water, and all My bones are spread apart; My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of My bowels.


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and You have brought Me into the dust of death. For dogs have circled around Me; the band of spoilers have hemmed Me in, piercers of My hands and My feet.


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You who fear the LORD, praise Him; all of you, the seed of Jacob, glorify Him; and fear Him all the seed of Israel.


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For He has not despised nor hated the affliction of the afflicted; and He has not hidden His face from him, but when he cried to Him, He heard.


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My praise [shall be] of You in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before the ones who fear Him.


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The meek shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD shall praise Him; your heart shall live forever.


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All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD; and all the families of the nations shall worship before You.


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All the fat [ones] on the earth shall eat and worship; all those who go down to the dust shall bow before Him; and none can keep alive his own soul.


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They shall come, and shall declare His righteousness to a people that shall [yet] be born, that He has done [this].


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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You [are] with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.


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You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.


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Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.


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A Psalm of David. The earth [is] the LORD's, and the fullness of it; the world, and those who dwell in it.


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He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, and has not sworn deceitfully.


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


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


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Lead me in Your truth, and teach me; for You [are] the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day long.


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Do not remember the sins of my youth, or my rebellings; according to Your mercy remember me for Your goodness' sake, O LORD.


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A Psalm of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my truthfulness. I have trusted also in the LORD; I shall not slide.


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A Psalm of David. The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?


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Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and he that breathes out cruelty.


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[I would have] fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.


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Though an army should camp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise against me, in this I am trusting.


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One [thing] I have desired from the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to pray in His temple.


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For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His shelter, in the secrecy of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me up on a rock.


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And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies, my encirclers; and I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle. I will sing; yea, I will sing praises to the LORD.


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Hide not Your face from me. Turn not Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.


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A Psalm of David. I will cry to You, O LORD; my Rock, do not be deaf to me, lest, [if] You be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.


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Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, yet evil [is] in their hearts.


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Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their practices, give them according to the work of their hands; give them what they deserve.


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Because they do not pay attention to the works of the LORD and to the work of His hands, He shall destroy them and never build them up.


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The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song I will praise Him.


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The voice of the LORD [is] on the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD [is] above many waters.


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The voice of the LORD causes the does to calve, and uncovers the forests; and in His temple all of it [is] saying, Glory!


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A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O Lord, how my foes have increased! Many [are] the ones who rise up against me.


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Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God; for You have struck all my enemies [on] the cheekbone. You have broken the teeth of the ungodly.


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A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the House of David. I will praise You, O LORD; for You have lifted me up, and have not allowed my foes to rejoice over me.


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You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have torn off my sackcloth, and have clothed me [with] gladness,


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so that [my] glory may sing praise to You, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever.


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O LORD, You have brought up my soul from the grave; You have kept me alive, so that I should not go down to the Pit.


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For His anger [is only] a moment; in His favor [is] life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy [comes] in the morning.


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O LORD, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong; You hid Your face, [and] I was troubled.


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What profit [is] in my blood, in going down to the pit? Shall the dust praise You? Shall it tell of Your truth?


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. In You, O LORD, I put my trust; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in Your righteousness.


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For my life is ending with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones have wasted away.


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I was a reproach among all my foes, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my friends; those who saw me outside fled from me.


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For I have heard the slander of many; fear [is] on every side; because of their plottings together against me, they planned to take away my life.


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My times [are] in Your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.


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Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called on You; Let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in the grave.


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Let the lying lips be put to silence; [the lips] which speak proudly against the righteous, with pride and scorn.


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How great [is] Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You; You have worked for those who trust in You before the sons of men!


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You shall hide them in the secrecy of Your presence from the pride of man; You shall hide them in a shelter away from the strife of tongues.


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For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before Your eyes; surely You heard the voice of my cries, when I cried to You.


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O love the LORD, all you saints of His; the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.


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I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy; for You have looked on my affliction; You have known my soul in troubles;


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Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble; my eye has become old with grief, my soul and my belly.


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A Psalm of David. A Contemplation. Blessed [is] the man whose transgression [is] forgiven, whose sin [is] covered.


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Blessed [is] the man to whom the LORD does not charge iniquity, and in whose spirit there [is] no guile.


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For by day and by night Your hand [was] heavy on me; my sap is turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.


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I confessed my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, I will confess my transgression to the LORD; and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.


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For this let every godly one pray to You, in a time when You may be found; surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near him.


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You [are] my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall circle [me] with songs of deliverance. Selah.


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I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you, My eye [shall be] on you.


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Be not like the horse, [or] like the mule, who have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, so [that] they do not come near you.


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A Psalm of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise always [shall be] in my mouth.


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A Psalm of David. Strive, O LORD, with those who strive with me; fight against those who fight against me.


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All my bones shall say, O LORD, who [is] like You, who delivers the poor from those stronger than he; yea, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?


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But when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fastings; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.


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As a friend, as to my brother, I walked; as one who mourns for a mother, I was bowed down, mourning.


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But in my stumbling they rejoiced, and gathered themselves; the defamers gathered themselves against me, and I knew not; they tore and were not silent,


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Let not those who are my lying enemies rejoice over me, those who hate me without cause wink [with] the eye.


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Let those who delight in my justification shout and rejoice; and they shall say without ceasing, The Lord be magnified, delighting in the peace of His servant.


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Also draw out the spear and the lance against those who pursue me; say to my soul, I [am] your salvation.


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Let them be humbled and put to shame, those who seek after my soul; let them be turned back and be brought to blushing, those who plot evil to me.


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For without cause they have spread their net for me [in] a pit-net; without cause they have dug for my soul.


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Let destruction come upon him, he will not know; and let his net which he has concealed catch him, let him fall in it, into destruction.


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. [The oracle] utters transgression to the wicked within my heart. [There is] no fear of God before his eyes.


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O continue Your loving-kindness to those who know You, and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.


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Your righteousness [is] like the great mountains; Your judgments [are] a great deep; O LORD, You keep man and beast.


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How precious [is] Your loving-kindness, O God! And the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of Your wing.


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They shall be satisfied with the fatness of Your house; and You shall make them drink of the river of Your pleasures.


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A Psalm of David. Do not fret yourself with evil doers; and do not be envious against the workers of iniquity.


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[It is] but a little while, and the wicked shall not be; yea, you shall search his place, and he shall not be.


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The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who walk uprightly.


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But the wicked shall pass, and the enemies of the LORD [shall be] like the beauty of pastures; they are consumed, like smoke they perish.


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I have been young, and am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging bread.


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For the LORD loves judgment and does not forsake His saints; they are kept forever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.


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Wait on the LORD, and keep His way, and He shall lift you up to inherit the earth; when the wicked are cut off, you shall see [it].


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But the salvation of the righteous [is] from the LORD; [He is] their strength in the time of trouble.


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And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them; He shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in Him.


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Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of him who practices wickedness.


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A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath; neither chasten me in Your fury.


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And those who seek my life lay snares [for me]; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and utter deceits all the day long.


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For I said, [Hear me], lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.


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To the Chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways so that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked [are] before me.


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You correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, and you make his desires vanish away like a moth. Surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.


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Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears; for I [am] a stranger with You, a pilgrim, as all my fathers [were].


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Behold, You have made my days [as] a handbreadth, and my age [is] as nothing before You. Surely every man standing [is] altogether vanity. Selah.


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Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.


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To the Chief Musician, for stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness; You gave room to me in trouble; have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.


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O sons of men, [how long] will you turn My glory into shame? Will you love vanity and seek after a lie? Selah.


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You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time [that] their grain and their wine increased.


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and He bowed down to me, and heard my cry.


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I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not hidden Your loving-kindness and Your truth from the great congregation.


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Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O LORD; let Your loving-kindness and Your truth always watch over me.


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For evils without number have hemmed me in; my sins have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.


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Let them be ashamed and humbled together, those who seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame, those who wish me evil.


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Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You, and the ones loving your salvation always say, Let the LORD be magnified.


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But I [am] poor and needy; the LORD will care for me; You [are] my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not wait.


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He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, [and] set my feet on a rock, and gave sureness to my steps.


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And He has put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God; many shall see [it] and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.


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Blessed [is] the man who makes the LORD his trust and does not turn to the proud, nor to those who turn aside [to] a lie.


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O LORD my God, many things You have done, Your wonderful works and Your thoughts [which] [are] toward us; they cannot be set in order to You; I will declare and speak, for they are more than can be numbered.


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Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened; burnt offering and sin offering You have not asked.


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I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo, I have not kept back My lips, O LORD, You know.


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed [is] he who acts wisely toward the poor; the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.


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The LORD will watch over him and keep him alive; [and] he shall be blessed on the earth; and You will not deliver him to the soul of his enemies.


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And when he comes to see [me], he speaks vanity; his heart gathers iniquity to itself; he goes out and speaks of it.


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To the Chief Musician. A contemplation; for the sons of Korah. As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God.


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[As] with a sword in my bones, my enemies shame me; while they say daily to me, Where [is] your God?


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Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you moan within me? Hope in God; for I still praise Him, the salvation of my face, and my God.


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When I remember these [things], I pour out my soul on me; for I had gone with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping the feast.


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Why are you cast down, O my soul, and moan within me? Hope in God; for I shall praise Him [for] the salvation of His face.


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O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember You from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermons, from mount Mizar.


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Deep calls to deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and Your billows have gone over me.


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The LORD will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song [shall be] with me, my prayer to the God of my life.


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I will say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the cruelty of the enemy?


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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.


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For You [are] the God of my strength; why do You cast me off? Why do I go mourning under the affliction of the enemy?


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Oh send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill, and to Your tabernacles.


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Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; yea, on the harp I will praise You, O God, my God.


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To the Chief Musician. For the sons of Korah, a contemplation. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work which You did in their days, in the days of old.


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You drove out the nations [with] Your hand, and planted them; You brought evil on peoples and cast them out.


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For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but [it was] Your right hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.


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Through You we will push our enemies; through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.


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To the Chief Musician. Concerning the Lilies, for the sons of Korah, a contemplation; A Song of Loves. My heart is overflowing [with] a good matter; I speak of my works to the King; my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.


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Listen, O daughter, and look; and bow down your ear; and forget your own people and your father's house.


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And the daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift; even the rich among the peoples shall stroke your face.


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She shall be brought to the king in clothing of needlework; the virgins, her companions after her, shall be brought to You.


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I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore the people shall praise You forever and ever.


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You are the fairest of the sons of men; grace is poured into Your lips; therefore God has blessed You forever.


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And ride prosperously [in] Your majesty, because of truth and meekness [and] righteousness; and Your right hand shall teach You fearful things.


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You love righteousness, and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows.


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All Your garments [smell] of myrrh, and aloes [and] cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad.


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Kings' daughters [are] among Your precious ones; on Your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.


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To the Chief Musician. For the sons of Korah. A Song For the Virgins. God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.


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Be still, and know that I [am] God! I will be praised among the nations, I will be praised in the earth.


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Therefore we will not fear when the earth changes, and when mountains [are] slipping into the heart of the seas.


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[There is] a river, its channels gladden the city of God glad, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the Most High.


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God [is] in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God shall help her at the turning of the morning.


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who makes wars to cease to the ends of the earth; He breaks the bow, and cuts the spear in two; He burns the chariots in the fire.


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Clap your hand, all you peoples; shout to God with the voice of triumph.


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The rulers of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth [are] God's; He is lifted up on high.


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A Song and Psalm for the Sons of Korah. Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His holiness.


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According to Your name, O God, so [is] Your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness; let mount Zion rejoice!


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Set your heart on its ramparts, pass between its strongholds; so that you may tell [it] to the coming generation.


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Beautiful on high, the joy of the whole earth, [is] mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.


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as we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; give ear, all inhabitants of the world;


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For he sees wise men die; likewise the fool and the animal-like ones perish, and leave their wealth to others.


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Their inward [thought is that] their houses shall [go on] forever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call [their] lands after their own names.


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Like sheep they are appointed to the grave; death shall reign [for] them; and the upright shall have the rule over them in the morning; and their form [is] for rotting; the grave [is] their home.


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To the Chief Musician, for flutes. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my meditation.


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Hold them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.


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But let all who put their trust in You rejoice; let them always shout for joy, because You defend them. And let those who love Your name be joyful in You.


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My voice You shall hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning I will direct [my prayer] to You, and I will look up.


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But I, in the abundance of Your grace, I will come [into] Your house; I will worship in Your fear toward Your holy temple.


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Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness, because of my enemies; make Your way straight before my face.


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For [there is] no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is wickedness; their throat [is] an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.


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A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to [its] going down.


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But to the wicked, God says, What [is it] to you, to declare My statutes, and to take up My covenant in your mouth?


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When you saw a thief, then you were pleased to be with him, and you [have taken] part with adulterers.


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These [things] you have done, and I have kept silence; you thought [that] I was like yourself, [but] I will rebuke you, and set in order before your eyes.


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Our God comes, and He is not silent; a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very stormy all around Him.


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.


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Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood, O God, O God of my salvation, [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.


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The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.


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Then shall You be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering; then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.


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Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done evil in Your sight; that You might be justified when You speak, [and] be clear when You judge.


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Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden [part] You shall make me to know wisdom.


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To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God [endures forever.


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God will likewise destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of [your] tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.


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Behold, the man [who] did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, he was strong in his wickedness.


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But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.


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I will praise You forever, because You have done [it]; and I will wait [on] Your name; for [it is] good before Your saints.


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To the Chief Musician on Mahalath. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, [There is] no God. They acted corruptly, and have worked out abominable wickedness; [there is] not one doing good.


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God looked down from Heaven on the sons of mankind to see if [any] was discerning, who was seeking God.


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Every one has turned away; they have altogether become filthy; not one is doing good, no, not even one.


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Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people [as] they eat bread; they have not called on God.


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There they dreaded [with] dread, [where] no dread was; for God has scattered the bones of him who camps against you; you have put [them] to shame because God rejects them.


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Who will give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When God brings back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.


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To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself among us? Save me, O God, by Your name, and judge me by Your strength.


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For strangers have risen up against me, and cruel men seek after my soul; they have not set God before them. Selah.


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To the Chief Musician. For stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Yourself from my cry.


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For [it is] not an enemy [who] reviled me; then I could have borne [it]; [it is] not one who hates me [who] magnified [himself] against me; or I would hide myself from him;


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Let desolation take hold on them, [and] let them go down alive [into] hell; for evils [are] among them in their dwellings.


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He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle [that was] against me; for there were many with me.


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God shall hear and answer them, even He who is enthroned of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they do not fear God.


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The butterings of his mouth [were] forked, but war [was] in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they [were] drawn swords.


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But You, O God, will bring them down into the pit of ruin; bloody and deceitful men shall not [live] half their days; but I will trust in You.


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from the voice of the enemy, from the oppression of the wicked, for they shake trouble over me, and in wrath they hate me.


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To the Chief Musician. Concerning the silent dove-- those far off. Of David, a secret treasure--when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up; fighting daily, he presses me down.


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For You have delivered my soul from death; [have You] not [kept] my feet from falling, [so that] I may walk before God in the light of the living?


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To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me; for my soul trusts in You; yea, in the shadow of Your wings I will make my hiding-place, until [these] great troubles pass by.


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He shall send from Heaven, and save me [from] the scorn of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth His mercy and His truth.


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My soul [is] among lions; I lie [among] those on fire, the sons of men whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.


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They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; [they have] dug a pit before me, they have fallen into it. Selah.


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To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David. Will you indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?


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The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.


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And man shall say, Truly, [there is] a reward for the righteous; truly, [there is] a God judging in the earth.


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Let them melt away like waters; they run off to them; he bends his arrows, [let them be] as though [they were] cut off.


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[Let them be] as a snail goes [into] melting; [as] a miscarriage of a woman, they do not see the sun.


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To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; defend me from those who rise up against me.


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Do not kill them, lest my people forget; scatter them by Your power and bring them down, O LORD our shield.


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[For] the sin of their mouth [is] the word of their lips, even let them be taken in their pride; and for cursing and the lying [which] they speak.


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Consume [them] in wrath; consume, so that they may not be; and let them know that God rules in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah.


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But I will sing of Your power; yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning; for You have been my strong tower and hiding-place in the day of my trouble.


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For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.


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And You, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the nations; do not be merciful to any plotting evil. Selah.


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To the Chief Musician, for eight-stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in Your anger, nor chasten me in the heat of Your fury.


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Let all my enemies be ashamed and exceedingly troubled; let them turn back [and] be ashamed in a moment.


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To the Chief Musician. On the Lily of Testimony. A secret treasure of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram of Zobah, when Joab returned and struck twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. O God, You have cast us off, You have scattered us, You were angry; take us back.


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God has spoken in His holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth.


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Gilead [is] Mine, and Manasseh [is] Mine; and Ephraim [is] the strength of My head, Judah [is] My lawgiver;


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To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.


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To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. Only to God is my soul in silence; from Him [comes] my salvation.


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Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart [on] them.


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How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You will shatter him, all of you; you shall be like a bowing wall and a tottering fence.


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Surely they have plotted to cast [him] down from his great height; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse in their heart. Selah.


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Trust in Him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before Him; God [is] a hiding-place for us. Selah.


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Surely the sons of men [are] vanity; the sons of men [are] a lie; they go up in the scales; they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.


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A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You [are] my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;


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But the king shall rejoice in God; everyone who swears by Him shall glory; but the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped.


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My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise [You] with joyful lips,


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; guard my life from fear of the enemy.


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The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in Him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.


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so that they may shoot at the blameless one from a lurking place; suddenly they shoot at him, and fear not.


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They encourage themselves [in] an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?


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They search out injustice, [saying], We have finished hiding a hidden plot. Yea, the inward part of man and [the] heart [are] deep.


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And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall in wisdom think of His doing.


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm and Song of David. To You silence is praise, O God, in Zion; and to You is a vow paid.


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You fill its terraces with water; You deepen its furrows; You make it soft with showers; You bless the sprouting of it.


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The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with grain; they shout for joy and sing.


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Blessed [is] the [one] whom You choose, and cause to come near You. He shall dwell [in] Your courts; we shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, of Your holy temple.


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[By] awesome things in righteousness You will answer us, O God of our salvation; who are the hope of all the ends of the earth and the sea, of [those] far away.


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And the inhabitants of the furthermost places are afraid of Your signs; You make the beginning of the morning and the evening rejoice.


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You visit the earth and water it; You greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; You provide their grain, for in this way You have prepared it.


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You have allowed men to ride at our head; we have gone through fire and through water, but You have brought us out to plenty.


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I will offer to You burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.


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Say to God, How awesome [are] Your works! Through the greatness of Your power, Your enemies pretend obedience to You.


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He rules by His power forever; His eyes behold the nations; let not the rebels lift themselves up. Selah.


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To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. May God be merciful to us, and bless us, and cause His face to shine on us. Selah.


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O let the nations be glad and sing for joy; for You shall judge the peoples righteously and govern the nations on earth. Selah.


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. A Song. Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered; also let those who hate Him flee before Him.


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When you lie among the sheepfolds, the wings of a dove [are] covered with silver, and its pinions with the shimmer of gold.


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Why do you gaze in envy, O mountain range, [at the] mountain God has chosen for His resting place? Yes, the LORD will dwell [in it] forever.


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The chariots of God [are] myriads, thousands of thousands; the Lord [is] among them, in Sinai, in the holy place.


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You have gone up on high; You have led captivity captive; You have received gifts for men, yes, [for] the rebellious also, that [You] might dwell among them, O Jehovah God.


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As smoke is driven away, You drive [them] away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish in the presence of God.


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Yea, God shall wound the head of His enemies, [and] the hairy crown of him who walks on in his guilt.


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The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan; I will bring back [My people] from the depths of the sea;


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The singers went before, then the musicians came; among [them were] the virgins playing the timbrels.


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There [is] little Benjamin [with] their ruler, the leaders of Judah and their multitude, the leaders of Zebulun, and the leaders of Naphtali.


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Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the herd of bulls, with the calves of the peoples, trampling down with the pieces of silver. He scatters the people [who] delight in war.


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O God, You [are] overwhelming out of Your holy places; the God of Israel [is] He who gives strength and powers to the people. Blessed [is] God.


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Sing to God, sing praises to His name; praise Him who rides on the heavens by His name JEHOVAH, and rejoice before Him.


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God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry [land].


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The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God; Sinai itself [was moved] at the presence of God, the God of Israel.


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To the Chief Musician. Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God! for the waters have come in on [my] soul.


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But [as for] me, my prayer [is] to You, O LORD, [in] a pleasing time; O God, in the multitude of Your mercy hear me, in the truth of Your salvation.


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Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.


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Do not let the flood of waters overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth on me.


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Hear me, O LORD, for Your loving-kindness [is] good; turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.


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I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.


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Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked [for some] to mourn with me, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.


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For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah; so that they may dwell there, and possess it.


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They who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they who would destroy me are mighty, my lying enemies. Then I restored [what] I did not take away.


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Do not let those who wait on You, O LORD God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake; let not the ones who seek You be ashamed for my sake, O God of Israel,


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For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen on Me.


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A song of David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. O LORD my God, in You I put my trust; save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me,


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Behold, he labors in pain with iniquity, and he has conceived mischief, and has brought forth falsehood.


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I will praise the LORD according to His righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.


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let the enemy persecute my soul and take [it]; yea, let him trample down my life on the earth and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.


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Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; lift up Yourself because of the rage of my enemies, and awake for me [to] the judgment which You have commanded.


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The LORD shall judge the people; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity on me.


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


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. [Make haste], O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.


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Let them be ashamed and turned pale, those who seek after my soul; let them be turned backward and blush, those who desire my hurt.


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Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; and let those who love Your salvation say without ending, Let God be magnified.


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But I [am] poor and needy; make haste to me, O God; You [are] my help and my deliverer; O LORD, wait no longer!


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Let them be ashamed; let those who are enemies of my soul be consumed; let them be covered [with] reproach and dishonor, those who seek my hurt.


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My mouth shall show forth Your righteousness [and] Your salvation all the day; for I do not know how many they are.


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And now when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not leave me; until I have declared Your strength to [this] generation, and Your power to everyone who is to come.


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And Your righteousness, O God, [is] very high, who have done great things. O God, who [is] like You,


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who has shown me great and evil distresses; You will turn [me]; You will make me live. You will turn me from the depths of the earth, You will bring me up.


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I will also praise You with a harp. O my God, I will sing Your truth; to You I will sing with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.


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My tongue also shall muse on Your righteousness all the day long; for those who seek my evil have turned pale, they are brought to shame.


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Be a rock of refuge for me, to which I may always go; You have commanded to save me; for You [are] my Rock and my Fortress.


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Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel [man].


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On You I have rested from the womb; You are He who took me out of my mother's bowels; my praise always [shall be] of You.


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The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.


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He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence; and their blood shall be precious in His sight.


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And He shall live, and to Him shall be given the gold of Sheba; and prayer shall always be made for Him; He shall bless Him all the day long.


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There shall be a fullness of grain in the earth on the top of the mountains; its fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and [they] of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.


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His name shall endure forever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun; and [men] shall be blessed in Him; all nations shall call Him blessed.


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And blessed [be] His glorious name forever; and all the earth is filled [with] His glory! Amen and Amen.


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He shall judge the poor of the people; He shall save the children of the needy, and shall crush in pieces the cruel one.


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For lo, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all who go lusting away from You.


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And I, [it is] good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the LORD God, to declare all Your works.


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An Instruction of Asaph. O God, have You cast [us] off forever? Will Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?


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You cracked open the heads of leviathan, and gave him to [be food] to the people living in the wilderness.


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Do not deliver the soul of Your turtle dove to the multitude; forget not the congregation of Your poor forever.


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Remember Your congregation, [which] You have purchased of old, the rod of Your inheritance which You have redeemed; this mount Zion in [which] You have dwelt.


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Forget not the voice of Your enemies; the noise of those who rise up against You keeps on increasing.


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Lift up Your feet to the never-ending ruins, even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.


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They have cast fire into Your sanctuary; they have defiled the dwelling-place of Your name to the ground.


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They said in their hearts, Together let us rage against them; they have burned up all God's meeting-places in the land.


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We did not see our signs; [there is] no prophet any more; neither [is there] among us any who knows how long.


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To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. To You, O God, we have given thanks, to You we have given thanks; for Your name is near, Your wonderful works declared.


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Also I will cut off all the horns of the wicked; [but] the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.


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For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a cup, and the wine is red; it is fully mixed; and He pours out from it; but the dregs of it, all the wicked of the earth shall drain its dregs [and] drink.


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To the Chief Musician. For stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. God [is] known in Judah, His name is great in Israel.


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The stouthearted have been stripped; they slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands.


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To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cried to God with my voice, to God [is] my voice; and He gave ear to me.


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The voice of Your thunder [was] in the sky; the lightnings lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.


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In the day of my trouble I sought the LORD; my hand was poured in the night, and ceased not; my soul refused to be comforted.


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An instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, [to] my law; bow down your ears to the words of my mouth.


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He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan.


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Behold! He struck the rock so that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can He also give bread? Can He provide flesh for His people?


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Therefore the LORD heard, and was made furious; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel,


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But He, full of pity, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy [them]; yea, many times He turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath.


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We will not hide [them] from their sons, showing to the generations to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He has done.


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For He set up a testimony in Jacob, and ordered a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should teach them to their sons;


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He made a way to His anger; He did not save their soul from death, but gave their life over to the plague,


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He also cast out the nations before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.


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but they turned back, and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceiving bow.


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For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.


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so that the generation to come might know; sons shall be born, and they shall arise [and] tell their sons,


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so that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments;


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from following the ewes great with young He brought him to feed Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.


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And he fed them according to the pureness of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.


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and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation [that] did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful with God.


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A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.


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Why should the nations say, Where [is] their God? Let Him be known among the nations before our eyes [by] the revenging of the blood of Your servants [which is] shed.


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Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, leave a remnant of those who are to die,


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and give to our neighbors their curse sevenfold into their bosom, the curse with which they have cursed You, O Lord.


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Then we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture, will give You thanks forever; we will show forth Your praise to all generations.


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They have given the dead bodies of Your servants [as] food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.


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Pour out Your wrath on the nations who have not known You, and on the kingdoms who have not called on Your name.


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O do not remember against us our former sins; let Your tender mercies meet us quickly; for we are brought very low.


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Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; and deliver us, and atone for our sins, for Your name's sake.


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To the Chief Musician, on the harp. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah our Lord, how excellent [is] Your name in all the earth! [You] have set Your glory above the heavens!


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Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings You have ordained strength, because of ones] vexing You, to cause the enemy and the avenger to cease.


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When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established;


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the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and [all that] pass through the paths of the seas.


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To the Chief Musician. A Testimony Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock; You dwelling between the cherubs, shine forth.


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and the vineyard which Your right hand has planted, and the Son [that] You make strong for Yourself.


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Let Your hand be on the Man of Your right hand, on the Son of man [whom] You have made strong for Yourself.


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To the Chief Musician. On Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob.


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I [am] the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.


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The haters of the LORD would have been found liars to Him, and their time would have lasted forever.


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And He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat; and [with] honey out of the rock I would have satisfied you.


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This He ordained in Joseph [for] a testimony, when He went out over the land of Egypt; I heard a language I understood not.


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You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.


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They neither know nor will understand; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.


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so that [men] may know that Your name is JEHOVAH, that You alone [are] the Most High over all the earth.


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They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a nation, so that the name Israel may be remembered no more.


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To the Chief Musician. On Gittith. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How lovely [are] Your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!


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For a day in Your courts [is] better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.


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For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield; the LORD will give grace and glory; no good [thing] will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.


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My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh shout for joy to the living God.


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Even the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young, Your altars, O LORD of hosts, my king and my God.


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Passing through the valley of weeping, they will make it a fountain; the early rain also covers [it with] blessings.


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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. O LORD, You have been gracious to Your land; You have brought back the captivity of Jacob.


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I will hear what God the LORD will speak; for He will speak peace to His people, and to His saints; but let them not turn again to folly.


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O God, the proud have risen against me, and the company of violent [men] have sought after my life, and have not set You before them.


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Oh turn to me, and have mercy on me; give Your strength to Your servant, and save the son of Your handmaid.


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Show me a token for good, so that they who hate me may see and be ashamed; because You, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.


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All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name.


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I will mention Rahab and Babylon to those who know me; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this [man] was born there.


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And to Zion it shall be said, [This] man and [that] man was born in her; and the Highest shall establish her.


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A Song. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. On Mahalath, to make humble. A Poem of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before You.


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free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom You remember no more; and by Your hand they are cut off.


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You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them. [I am] shut up, and I cannot go out.


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My eye mourns because of affliction; O LORD, I have called daily on You; I have stretched out my hands to You.


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A Poem of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness to all generations.


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You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; You have scattered Your enemies with Your strong arm.


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Justice and judgment [are] the foundation of Your throne; mercy and truth shall go before Your face.


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Blessed [is] the people that knows the joyful sound; they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of Your face.


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Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one, and You said, I have laid help on a mighty one; I have lifted up a chosen one out of the people.


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For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; You shall establish Your faithfulness in the heavens.


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But I will not completely take My loving-kindness from him, and I will not be false in My faithfulness.


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And the heavens shall praise Your wonders, O LORD, Your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.


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Remember, Lord, the scorn of Your servants; [how] I bear in my bosom the insult of all the mighty people,


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[with] which Your enemies have cursed, O LORD; [with] which they have cursed the footsteps of Your anointed.


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To the Chief Musician. To die for the Son. A Psalm of David. I will praise [You], O LORD, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works.


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And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; for You, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.


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Have mercy on me, O LORD; see my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,


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so that I may declare all Your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion; I will rejoice in Your salvation.


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The nations have sunk down in the pit [that] they made; their foot is caught in the net which they hid.


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The LORD is known. He has executed judgment; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. A meditation. Selah.


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You have rebuked the heathen, You have destroyed the wicked, You have put out their name forever and ever.


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The desolations of the enemy have come to an end forever, and You have destroyed the cities; their memorial has perished with them.


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The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by strength they [are] fourscore years, yet their pride [is] labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.


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And let the beauty of the LORD our God be on us; and establish the work of our hands on us; yea, the work of our hands, establish it.


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Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You [are] God.


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For a thousand years in Your sight [are] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.


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You carry them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep; in the morning [they are] like grass which grows up.


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Because He has set His love on Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set Him on high, because He has known My name.


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He shall call on Me, and I will answer Him; I [will be] with Him in trouble; I will deliver Him, and honor Him.


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He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall trust. His truth [shall be your] shield, and buckler.


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A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; it shall not come near you.


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A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. [It is] good to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;


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Also my eye shall see [my desire] on my enemies, and my ears shall hear the wicked who rise up against me.


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When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity blossom, [it is] that they shall be destroyed forever;


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For, lo, Your enemies, O LORD; for lo, Your enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.


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The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength. He clothed Himself and the world is established; it shall not be shaken.


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The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voices; the floods lift up their waves.


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Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?


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And He will bring on them their own iniquity, and He will cut them off in their evil. The LORD our God shall cut them off.


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For forty years I was grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people who go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways;


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For He [is] our God, and we [are] the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. Today if you will hear His voice,


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Say among the nations, the LORD reigns; and the world shall be established; it shall not be moved; He shall judge the peoples in uprightness.


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before the LORD; for He comes, for He comes to judge the earth; He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His truth.


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You who love the LORD, hate evil; He keeps the souls of His saints; He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.


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Clouds and darkness [are] all around Him; righteousness and judgment [are] the foundation of His throne.


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The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the LORD of the whole earth.


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All those who serve graven images [are] ashamed, those who boast themselves in idols; all gods bow down before Him.


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A Psalm. O sing to the LORD a new song; for He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have saved for Him.


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The LORD has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has unveiled to the eyes of the nations.


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He has remembered His mercy and His truth toward the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our GOD.


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before the LORD; for He comes to judge the earth; with righteousness He shall judge the world, and the peoples in uprightness.


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The king's strength also loved judgment; You established uprightness; You worked judgment and righteousness in Jacob.


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Moses and Aaron [were] among His priests, and Samuel among those who called on His name; they called on the LORD, and He answered them.


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He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar; they kept His testimonies and the ordinance [that] He gave them.


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You answered them, O LORD our God; You were a God who forgave them, though You take vengeance for their deeds.


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If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause;


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she cries in the chief place of gathering, in the openings of the gates; in the city she utters her words, [saying],


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How long will you love simplicity, simple ones? And will scorners delight in their scorning? And will fools hate knowledge?


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when your fear comes as a wasting away, and your ruin comes like a tempest when trouble and pain come upon you.


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Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me;


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The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son [is] the sorrow of his mother.


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In the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found; but a rod [is] for the back of him who is without understanding.


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The LORD will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry; but He casts away the desire of the wicked.


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When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; and when the wicked are destroyed, [there is] singing.


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By the blessing of the upright the city is lifted up, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.


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One going with slander is a revealer of secrets, but the faithful of spirit keeps the matter hidden.


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They who are of a perverse heart [are] hateful to the LORD, but the upright in the way [are] His delight.


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[Though] hand [join] in hand, the wicked shall not be innocent; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.


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There is one who scatters and yet increases; but one who withholds just due [comes] only to poverty.


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He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind; and the fool [shall be] servant to the wise in heart.


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The righteousness of the perfect shall make his way right, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.


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A hypocrite corrupts [his] neighbor with [his] mouth; but through knowledge the just shall be delivered.


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A righteous one understands the soul of his animal; but the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.


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A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of [his] mouth, and the reward of a man's hands shall be given to him.


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A woman of virtue [is] a crown to her husband, but she who causes shame [is] like rottenness in his bones.


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The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.


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A man shall be praised according to his wisdom, but he who is of a perverse heart shall be despised.


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Poverty and shame [shall be to] him who refuses instruction, but he who listens to correction shall be honored.


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From the fruit of [his] mouth a man shall eat good, but the soul of the treacherous [eats] violence.


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A good [man] leaves an inheritance to his sons' sons, and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.


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The soul of the sluggard desires and [has] nothing; but the soul of the hard worker shall be made fat.


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In the multitude of people [is] the king's honor, but in the lack of people [is] the ruin of the prince.


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[He who is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding, but [he who is] hasty of spirit exalts folly.


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The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.


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The thoughts of the wicked [are] very hateful to the LORD, but the words of the pure [are] pleasant words.


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The sacrifice of the wicked [is] a hateful thing to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright [is] His delight.


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[It is] a hateful thing for kings to commit wickedness; for the throne [is] established by righteousness.


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How much better [it is] to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver!


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He who is slow to anger [is] better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit is better than he who takes a city.


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Everyone proud in heart [is] hateful to the LORD; though hand [join] in hand, he shall not be unpunished.


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Better [is] a dry piece of bread, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices [with] fighting.


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The beginning of strife [is like] letting out water; therefore leave off fighting, before it breaks out.


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He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, even both of them [are] hateful to the LORD.


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A wise servant shall have rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brothers.


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Wisdom [is] before him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool [are] in the ends of the earth.


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Even a fool, when he [is] silent, is counted wise, and he who shuts his lips [is counted as] a man of understanding.


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A brother offended [is like] a strong city; and [their] disagreements [are] like the bars of a fortress.


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A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; he shall be satisfied with the product of his lips.


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Better [is] the poor who walks in his integrity than he who [is] perverse in his lips, and is a fool.


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Strike a scorner, and the simple will beware; reprove one who has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.


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He who assaults his father [and] chases away his mother [is] a son who causes shame and brings reproach.


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All the brothers of the poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him? He pursues [them] with words, yet they [are] lacking.


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The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion; whoever stirs him up to anger sins against his own soul.


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The king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD [as] the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He will.


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When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.


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The righteous wisely considers the house of the wicked; [but God] overthrows the wicked for [their] wickedness.


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The sacrifice of the wicked [is] hateful to God; how much more [when] he brings it with a wicked mind?


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The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenty; but the thoughts of everyone [who is] hasty only to poverty.


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[It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than [with] a quarrelsome woman and to share a house.


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A [good] name [is] rather to be chosen than great riches; [and] loving favor rather than silver or gold.


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He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only [to come] to poverty.


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that I might make you know the sureness of the words of truth; to return the words of truth to those who send to you?


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Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before unknown [men].


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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice; and he who fathers a wise [child] shall have joy from him.


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Who [has] woe? Who has sorrow? Who [has] fighting? Who [has] babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?


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Do not look upon the wine when it is red, [when] it gives its color in the cup, [when] it goes down smoothly


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Yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as one who lies upon the top of a mast,


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[saying], They struck me; I was not sick; they beat me, [but] I did not know it. When I awaken, I will add [more]. I will seek it again.


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Will your eyes fly on it? And [it] is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies [into] the heavens like an eagle.


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for as he thinks in his heart, so [is] he; Eat and drink, he says to you, but his heart [is] not with you.


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if you say, Behold, we did not know; does not He who searches the heart consider it? And the Keeper of your soul, does He know? And He repays to a man according to his works?


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so [shall] the knowledge of wisdom [be] to your soul; when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your hope shall not be cut off.


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He who says to the wicked, You [are] righteous; the people shall curse him [and] nations shall abhor him.


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Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house.


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Do not `say, I will do so to him as he has done to me; I will give to the man according to his work.


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and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, [and] nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.


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Like cold snow in the time of harvest, [so is] a faithful messenger to his senders; [for] he makes return [to] his master's soul.


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Have you found honey? Eat [only] as much as is enough for you, lest you be filled with it and vomit it.


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[As] he who takes away a garment in cold weather, [as] vinegar upon niter, [so is] he who sings songs to a heavy heart.


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[It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than with a quarreling woman and to share a house.


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for [it is] better that it should be said to you, Come up here, than that you should be put lower in the presence of a noble whom your eyes have seen.


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Do not go forth quickly to fight, lest [you know not] what to do in the end of it, when your neighbor has put you to shame.


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He who passes by enraging himself over strife not his own [is like] one who takes a dog by the ears,


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Your own friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake them; nor go to your brother's house in the day of your trouble; better [is] a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.


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He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.


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Though you should pound a fool in a bowl with a bar in the midst of wheat, his foolishness will not depart from him.


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And [you shall have] goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and a living for your young women.


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Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of one's friend by advice from the heart.


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Whoever causes the righteous man to go astray in an evil way, he himself shall fall into his own pit; but the upright shall inherit good.


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He who covers his sins shall not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves [them] shall have mercy.


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A ruler lacking understanding even adds oppressions; he who hates unjust gain shall prolong [his] days.


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A man who is pressed down with the blood of a soul shall flee to the pit; do not let them uphold him.


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He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he pursuing vanities shall have poverty enough.


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Because of the transgression of a land, many [are] its rulers; but [it is] prolonged by a man of discernment who knows [right].


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A faithful man shall overflow with blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent.


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Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, [It is] no sin he [shall be] a companion to a destroyer.


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He who is of a proud heart stirs up fighting; but he who puts his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.


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Better [is] the poor who walks in his uprightness than he who [is] perverse [in his] ways, though he [is] rich.


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He who increases his wealth by interest and unjust gain, [he shall] gather it for him who will pity the poor.


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A man who hardens [his] neck [when] reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.


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An unjust man [is] a hateful thing to the just; and [he who is] upright in the way [is] hateful to the wicked.


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she [is] more precious than rubies; and all the things you can desire are not to be compared with her.


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Do not say to your neighbor, Go and come back again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it beside you:


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Let not mercy and truth forsake you; tie them around your neck; write them upon the tablet of your heart;


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The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the prophecy: The man spoke to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal, saying,


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[There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their own filth.


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[There is] a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.


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The leech [has] two daughters, [crying], Give, give! Three things are never satisfied, yea, four things never say, Enough!


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The grave; and the barren womb, the earth not filled [with] water, and the fire, have not said, Enough.


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The eye [that] mocks at [his] father and despises to obey [his] mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.


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the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the middle of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.


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Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no evil.


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If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have thought evil, [lay your] hand on your mouth.


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Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; so the forcing of wrath brings forth fighting.


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Who has gone up [to] Heaven and has come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in [His] garments? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is] His name, and what [is] His Son's name? Surely you know.


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remove far from me vanity and a lying word; give me neither poverty or riches; tear for me my portion of bread,


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lest I be full and deceive, and say, Who [is] the LORD? Or lest I be poor, and steal, and violate the name of my God.


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She also rises while [it is] still night, and gives food to her household, and a share to her young women.


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She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household [are] clothed [with] scarlet.


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[It is] not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes [to lust] for strong drink;


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For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause [some] to fall.


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He also taught me, and said to me, Let your heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments and live.


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[Like] the loving deer and pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be ravished always with her love.


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When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and [when] you awake, it shall talk [with] you.


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For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life;


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For by means of a harlot [a man comes] to a piece of bread; and another man's wife will hunt for the precious life.


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My son, do this now, and deliver yourself when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself and make your friend sure.


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Whoever commits adultery [with] a woman lacks understanding; he [who] does it destroys his own soul.


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He goes after her immediately, like an ox goes to the slaughter, or like a fool to the correction of the stocks;


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until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare and does not know that it [is] for his soul.


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For wisdom [is] better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.


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The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil; I hate pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the wicked mouth.


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My fruit [is] better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and what I give [is better than] choice silver.


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when He gave to the sea its limit that the waters should not pass His command; when He appointed the foundations of the earth;


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The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding.


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One rebuking a scorner gets shame to himself; and one rebuking a wicked one [gets] himself a blemish.


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Is there a thing [of] which it may be said, See, this [is] new? It has already been in days of old, which were before us.


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[There is] no memory of former [things], and also no memory] of after [things] which shall be; for neither shall be a remembrance of them with those who will be at the afterwards.


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And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all which is done under the heavens. [It is] a sad task God has given to the sons of men to be humbled by it.


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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.


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I spoke within my own heart, saying, Lo, I have become great and have gathered more wisdom than all that have been before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart has seen much of wisdom and knowledge.


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And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I know that this also [is] vexation of spirit.


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The wind goes toward the south, and it turns around to the north; it whirls around continually; and the wind returns on its circuits.


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All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; to the place from where the rivers come, there they return again.


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All things [are] full of labor; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.


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That which has been [is] that which shall be; and that which has been done [is] that which shall be done; and [there is] nothing new under the sun.


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As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink [and] ferment; [so] a little folly [is more] rare than wisdom and] than honor.


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If the iron is blunt, and he does not whet the edge, then he must put more strength to [it]. But wisdom [is] profitable to direct.


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The beginning of the words of his mouth [is] foolishness; and the end of his talk [is] wicked madness.


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A fool also makes many words; a man knows not what they shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?


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Blessed [are] you, O land, when your king [is] the son of nobles, and your leaders eat in [due] time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!


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Do not curse a king, no, not in your thought; and do not curse the rich in your bedroom; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.


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If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place; for yielding quiets great sinners.


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Therefore remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for childhood and prime of life [are] vanity.


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If the clouds are full of rain, they empty on the earth; and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.


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As you do not know what [is] the way of the spirit, as how the bones [grow] in the pregnant woman's womb; even so you do not know the works of God who makes all.


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In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; for you do not know what shall be blessed, either this or that, or whether they both [shall be] fruitful in the same way.


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but if a man lives many years, [and] rejoices in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes [is] vanity.


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Rejoice, in your youth, young man; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these [things] God will bring you into judgment.


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Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them.


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The words of the wise [are] like goads; yes, their collected words are like nails driven home; they [are] given from one Shepherd.


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And further, by these, my son, be warned: The making of many books has no end, and much study [is] a weariness of the flesh.


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Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God, and keep His commandments. For this [is] the whole [duty] of man.


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For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it is] good, or whether evil.


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So long as the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are darkened, or the clouds return after rain,


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in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men, are bowed, and the grinders cease because there are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,


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and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and you shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music are silenced;


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also they are afraid of the high place, and terrors along the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;


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or ever the silver cord is not loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern;


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And more than that, the preacher [was] wise; he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he listened, and looked, and set in order many proverbs.


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I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore consider and behold goodness; this also [is] vanity.


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And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I did not withhold my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor, and this was my part of all my labor.


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Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit; and [there is] no profit under the sun.


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And I turned to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what [can] the man [do] who comes after the king, when they have already done it?


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The wise man's eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walks in darkness; and I also knew that one event happens to all of them.


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Then I said in my heart, As it happens to the fool, [so] it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? And I said in my heart that this also [is] vanity.


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For [there is] no memory of the wise [more than] of the fool forever, since that which is now shall all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise die above the fool!


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Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun [is] sad to me; for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.


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Yes, I hated all my labor which I had done under the sun; that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.


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And who knows [whether] he shall be wise or a fool? Yet he shall have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and acted wisely under the sun. This [is] also vanity.


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When there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and with success; yet to a man who has not labored in it, he shall leave it [for] his share. This also is vanity and a great evil.


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For what has man from all his labor, and from the troubling of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?


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For all his days [are] sorrows, and his labor sadness; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This [is] also vanity.


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Is it not good that he should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his labor? This I also saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.


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For [God] gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy to a man who [is] good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives labor, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to [him who is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.


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I sought in my heart to drag my flesh with wine, yet leading my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see where the good for the sons of men might be, what they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.


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I bought slaves and slave women, and sons of the house were mine; also livestock, a herd and a great flock were mine, above all that were before me in Jerusalem.


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I also gathered silver and gold to myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got men singers and women singers for myself, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and very many wives.


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I was great and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me.


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He has made everything beautiful in His time; also He has set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.


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And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it [is] the gift of God.


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I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God does [it] so that they fear before Him.


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That which has been is now; and that which [is] to be has already been; and God requires that which is past.


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And again I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness [was] there; and the place of righteousness, that wickedness [was] there.


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I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked; for [there is] a time there for every purpose and for every work.


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I said in my heart concerning the matter of sons of men, that God might reveal them, and that they might see that they themselves [are] beasts.


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For that which happens [to] the sons of men also happens to beasts even one thing [happens] to them. As this [one] dies, so that [one] dies; yea, they all [have] one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast; for all [is] vanity.


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Therefore I have seen that [there is] nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?


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a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;


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So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there [was] power, but they had no comforter.


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For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him [who is] alone when he falls, for he does not have another to help him.


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[There is] no end of all the people, of all who have been before them; they also who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.


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Yea, better than both [is he] who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.


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Again, I considered all labor, and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.


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There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and [he says, For whom do I labor and take good from my soul? This [is] also vanity. Yes, it [is] an evil business.


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Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they do not know that they are doing evil.


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He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves abundance not with] gain. This [is] also vanity.


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When the good thing increases, those who eat it increase; then what profit [is it] to its owners, except to see [it] with their eyes?


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The sleep of a laboring man [is] sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.


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There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for their owners to their hurt.


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As he came forth from his mother's womb naked, he shall return to go as he came. And from his labor he may not carry anything that may go in his hand.


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And this also [is] a sore evil, [that] in all, as he came, so shall he go; and what profit does he have who has labored for the wind?


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Behold that which I have seen. [it is] good and right for one to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he labors under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him; for it [is] his portion.


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Also every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this [is] the gift of God.


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Do not be rash [with] your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to say a word before God. For God [is] in Heaven, and you [are] on earth; therefore let your words be few.


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For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God answers [him] in the joy of his heart.


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When you vow a vow to God, do not wait to pay it. For He has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you have vowed.


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Do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; do not say before the angel that it [was] an error. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?


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If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He [who is] higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.


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That which has been [is] named already, and it is known that he [is] man. And he is not able to contend with Him who is mightier than he.


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For who knows what [is] good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?


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a man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it. This [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.


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If a man fathers a hundred, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also is for him no burial; I say, a miscarriage [is] better than he.


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For what [has] the wise more than the fool? What [gain has] the poor who knows [how] to walk before the living?


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Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.


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Do not say, Why was [it] that the former days were better than these? For you do not ask wisely in regard to this.


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For wisdom [is] a defense, and money [is] a defense; but the excellency of knowledge [is] that wisdom gives life to those who have it.


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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity take note [that] God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.


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All [things] I have seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just one who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked one who prolongs [life] in his wickedness.


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[It is] good that you should take hold of this; yea, also from this do not withdraw your hand; for he who fears God shall come forth from all of them.


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[It is] better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that [is] the end of all men; and the living will lay [it] to his heart.


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I set my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason [of things], and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness;


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and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart [is] snares and nets, and her hands [like] bands. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.


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which my soul still sought, but I find not: one man among a thousand I have found, but a woman among all those I have not found.


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Lo, this only I have found, that God has made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions.


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The heart of the wise [is] in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools [is] in the house of laughter.


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For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool; this also [is] vanity.


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Better [is] the end of a thing than the beginning of it; the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.


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Who [is] as the wise? And who knows the meaning of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.


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And so I saw the wicked buried, and they came and went from the holy place. And they were forgotten in the city, [these] things that they had done. This [is] also vanity.


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Because sentence [against] an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.


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Though a sinner does evil a hundred [times], and his [days] be made longer, yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.


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But it shall not be well with the wicked, nor shall he make [his] days longer like a shadow; because he does not fear before God.


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There is a vanity which is done on the earth: There are just ones to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked ones to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also [is vanity.


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Then I praised gladness, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be glad; for that shall go with him of his labor for the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.


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When I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth; for neither day nor night do men see sleep with their eyes.


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Then I looked at all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun; because though a man labors to seek [it] out, yet he shall not find it. Yea, further, though a wise one speaks of knowing, yet he shall not be able to find [it].


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Do not be hasty to leave his presence. Do not take a stand in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him.


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Whoever keeps the command shall feel no evil thing; and a wise man's heart knows both time and judgment.


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[There is] no man who has power over the spirit to keep the spirit; nor power in the day of death; and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; nor shall wickedness deliver its owners.


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All this I have seen, and I gave my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is] a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.


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For all this I took to heart, even to make all this clear, that the righteous and the wise and their works [are] in the hand of God. No man knows either love or hatred [by] all [that is] before them.


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Whatever your hand finds to do, do [it] with all your might; for [there is] no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.


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I returned and saw under the sun that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all.


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For man also does not know his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.


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[There was] a little city, and few men in it; and a great king came against it and besieged it, and built huge bulwarks against it.


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And a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that poor man.


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And I said, Wisdom [is] better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard.


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All [happens] alike to all; [there is] one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him who sacrifices, and to him who does not sacrifice. As [is] the good, so is the sinner. He who swears is as [he] who fears an oath.


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This [is] an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event to all. Yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.


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For whoever is chosen, to all those living, there is hope; for a living dog [is] better than a dead lion.


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For the living know that they shall die; but the dead do not know anything, nor do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.


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Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; nor do they any longer have a part forever in all that is done under the sun.


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Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now is pleased with your works.


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Look [on] life with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. For that [is] your share in [this life, and in your labor which you labor under the sun.


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For Your ointments have a lovely fragrance; Your name is [as] oil poured out; therefore the virgins love You.


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Draw me, we will run after You, The King has brought me into his chambers; we will be glad and rejoice in You, we will remember Your love more than wine; the upright love You.


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I [am] black, but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.


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Do not look on me, that I [am] black, that the sun has looked on me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; [but] my vineyard I have not kept.


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Tell me, [You] whom my soul loves, where do You feed, where do You lie down at noon? For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of Your companions?


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If you know not, most beautiful among women, go in the footsteps of the flock; and feed your kids beside the shepherds' tents.


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the flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land;


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the fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines [with] the tender grape give a [good] smell. Arise, My love, My beautiful one, and come away.


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O My dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let Me see your face, let Me hear your voice; for your voice [is] sweet, and your face [is] beautiful.


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Until when does the day blow, and the shadows flee away? Turn, my Beloved, and be like a gazelle, or a young deer, the stag, on the mountains of Bether.


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As the apple among the trees of the wood, so [is] my Beloved among the sons. I sat down under His shadow with great delight, and His fruit [was] sweet to my taste.


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I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the does of the field, do not stir up or awake [my] Love until He please.


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My Beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, [He] stands behind our wall, He looks forth at the windows, peering from the lattice.


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He made its poles [of] silver, its back gold, its seat of purple, its middle was paved [with] love by the daughters of Jerusalem.


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Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon with the crown [with] which his mother crowned him on his wedding day, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.


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I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the broad ways; I will seek [Him] whom my soul loves. I sought Him, but I did not find Him.


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But a little while after I passed from them, I found [Him] whom my soul loves. I held Him and would not let Him go, until I had brought Him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who conceived me.


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I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the does of the field, do not stir up nor awake [my] love until it pleases.


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Who [is] this coming up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, from all the merchant's powders?


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They all hold swords, instructed in war; each man has his sword on his thigh because of fear in the night.


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Behold, you [are] beautiful, My love. Behold, you [are] beautiful; your eyes [are] like doves' from behind your veil; your hair [is] like a flock of goats that appear from Mount Gilead.


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How fair is your love, My sister, [My] spouse! How [much] better [is] your love than wine, and the smell of your ointments than all spices!


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Your lips, [My] spouse, drop like the honeycomb; honey and milk [are] under your tongue; and the smell of your garments [is] like the smell of Lebanon.


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spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices;


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Awake, O north [wind]; and come, south [wind]; blow on my garden, so [that] the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His garden and eat His pleasant fruits.


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Your teeth [are] like a flock of shorn [sheep], which came up from the washing; they all are bearing twins and not one [is] barren among them.


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Your lips [are] like a cord of scarlet, and your speech [is] becoming; your temples [are] like a piece of pomegranate behind your veil.


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Your neck [is] like the tower of David built for an armory, on which there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.


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Until when the day blows, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.


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Come with Me from Lebanon, [My] spouse; with Me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.


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You have ravished My heart, My sister, [My] spouse; you have ravished My heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.


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I have come into My garden, My sister, [My] spouse; I have gathered My myrrh with My spice; I have eaten My honeycomb with My honey; I have drunk My wine with My milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O Beloved.


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His cheeks [are] like a bed of spices, a raised bed of aromatic herbs. His lips [are as] lilies dropping flowing myrrh.


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His hands [are like] rings of gold filled with jewels; His body an ivory plate overlaid with sapphires.


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His legs [are like] pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold; His face [is like] Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.


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His mouth [is] most sweet; yes, He [is] altogether lovely. This [is] my Beloved, and this [is] my Friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.


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I sleep, but my heart is awake. [It is] the sound of my Beloved that knocks, [saying], Open to Me, My sister, My love, My dove, My undefiled; for My head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.


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I rose up to open to my Beloved; and my hands dripped [with] myrrh, and my fingers flowing [with] myrrh on the handles of the bolt.


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I opened to my Beloved, but my Beloved had left. He passed on. My soul went out when He spoke; I sought Him, but I could not find Him. I called Him, but He did not answer me.


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The watchmen who went about the city found me [and] struck me; they wounded me. The keepers of the wall lifted my veil from me.


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I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my Beloved, what do you tell Him? That I [am] sick [with] love.


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What [is] your Beloved more than [another] beloved, most beautiful among women? What [is] your Beloved more than [another] beloved, that you adjure us so?


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Where has your Beloved gone, most beautiful among women? Where has your Beloved turned? For we seek Him along with you.


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Who [is] she who looks forth like the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, awesome [armies] with banners?


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I went down into the garden of nuts to see the greenery of the valley, to see whether the vine flowered [and] the pomegranates budded.


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Return, return, O Shulamite! Return, return, that we may look on you. What will you see in the Shulamite? As it were the dance of two camps.


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My Beloved has gone down to His garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens and to gather lilies.


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O my love, you [are] as beautiful as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as inspiring as an army with banners.


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Turn away your eyes from Me, for they have overcome Me; your hair [is] like a flock of goats that appears from Gilead.


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Your teeth [are] like a flock of ewes which go up from the washing; they all [are] bearing twins, and a barren one [is] not among them.


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But My dove, My undefiled is one [alone]. She [is] the [only] one of her mother. She [is] the choice of her who bore her. The daughters saw [her] and blessed her; the queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.


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How beautiful [are] your feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! The curves of your thighs [are] like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.


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Let us rise up early to the vineyards; let us see [if] the vine flowers, whether the tender grape appears, and the pomegranates bud forth; there I will give You my loves.


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The love-apples give a scent, and over our doors [are] all pleasant [fruits], new and old, which I have laid up for You, O my Beloved.


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Your navel [is like] a round goblet, which never lacks mixed wine; your belly [is like] a heap of wheat set about with lilies.


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Your neck [is like] a tower of ivory; your eyes [like] the fish-pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Beth-rabbim; your nose [is like] the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.


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Your head on you [is like] Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple cloth; the King [is] held captive in its tresses.


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I said, I will go up in the palm tree, I will take hold of its stalk. And please let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose like apples;


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and the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my Beloved, that goes [down] smoothly for My Beloved, flowing softly [over] the lips of sleeping ones.


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Who could give You to me [as] my brother, who sucked my mother's breasts? [When] I find You outside, I would kiss You; yea, they would not despise me.


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Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; everyone for its fruit was to bring a thousand of silver.


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My vineyard, which [is] mine, [is] before me; you, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and for the keepers of its fruit, two hundred.


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I would lead You, [and] bring You into my mother's house. You would instruct me; I would cause You to drink spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.


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I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, why should you stir up or awaken [my] Love until it pleases?


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Who [is] this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her Beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree; there your mother travailed with you; there she travailed and bore you.


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Set me as a seal on Your heart, as a seal on Your arm; for love [is] strong as death. Jealousy [is] cruel as the grave; its flames [are] flames of fire, a flame of Jehovah.


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Many waters cannot quench love, nor will the rivers overflow it. If [a] man would give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be scorned.


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We have a little sister, and she has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?


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If she [is] a wall, we will build on her a palace of silver; and if she [is] a door, we will enclose her [with] boards of cedar.


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The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah.


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To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says the LORD; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in [the blood of] bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats.


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Bring no more vain sacrifice; incense is an abomination to Me; the new moon and sabbath, the going to meeting; I cannot endure evil and the assembly!


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Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; they are a trouble to Me; I am weary to bear [them].


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And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.


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Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil;


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Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD; though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool.


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Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken, I have nursed and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against Me.


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but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured [with] the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.


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How has the faithful city become a harlot? [It was] full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.


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your rulers [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.


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And the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, the mighty One of Israel, says, Alas! I will ease Myself of My foes, and avenge Myself of My enemies.


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And I will turn back My hand on you, and purge away your dross as with lye, and take away all your alloy.


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And I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning; afterwards you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.


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And the downfall of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together; and those who forsake the LORD [shall be] consumed.


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For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be ashamed for the gardens which you have chosen.


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The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; [but] Israel does not know; My people do not understand.


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And the strong shall be like tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall put [them] out.


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Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy [with] iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who corrupt! They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger; they have gone away backward.


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Why should you be stricken any more? You will revolt more and more; the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.


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From the sole of the foot even to the head [there is] no soundness in it; [only] a wound and a stripe and a fresh blow; they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with oil.


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Your land [is] wasted, your cities burned with fire. Strangers devour your land right before your eyes, and [it is] wasted, as overthrown by strangers.


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And the daughter of Zion is left a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.


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Except the LORD of hosts had left us a very small remnant, we would be as Sodom; we would be like Gomorrah.


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As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, and their graven images [more than] Jerusalem's and Samaria's;


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And it will be, when the Lord has broken off all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks.


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For he says, By the strength of my hand I have done [it], and by my wisdom; for I am wise. And I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the people like a strong man.


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And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people; and as one gathers eggs [that are] left, I have gathered all the earth; and there was none who moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.


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Shall the axe boast itself against him who chops with it? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who moves it? As [if] the rod [could] wave those who lift [itself] up! As [if] a staff could raise [what is] not wood!


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Therefore the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones; and under his glory [He] shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.


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And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and His holy One as a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.


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And it shall burn up the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a sick one faints.


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to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to steal the right from the poor of My people, that widows may be their prey, and they rob the orphans!


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And it shall be in that day, the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob, shall never again lean on him who struck them; but truly lean on Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel.


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For though Your people Israel are like the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant of them shall return; the full end which is decreed shall overflow [with] righteousness.


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Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah of hosts, O my people who dwell [in] Zion, do not fear Assyria. He shall strike you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, in the way of Egypt.


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And Jehovah of hosts shall stir up a whip on him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and [as] His rod was on the sea, so shall He lift it up in the way of Egypt.


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And it shall be, in that day his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.


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they have gone over the passage; they have bedded down at Geba; Ramah is afraid, Gibeah of Saul has fled.


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And what will you do in the day of judgment and in destruction, of ruin when] it comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?


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Yet [he] shall remain in Nob today; [he] shall shake his hand [against] the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.


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Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror; and the lofty ones [shall be] cut down, and the proud shall be humbled.


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Surely they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. In all this His hand is not turned away, but His hand [is] stretched out still.


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I will send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath. I will command him to take the plunder, and to strip off the spoil, and to trample them like the mud of the streets.


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Yet he does not plan this, nor does his heart think so. For [it is] in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations.


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And in that day there shall be the Root of Jesse standing for a banner of the people; to Him the nations shall seek; and His resting place shall be glorious.


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And it shall be in that day, the Lord shall again set His hand, the second time, to recover the remnant of His people that remains, from Assyria and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Ethiopia, and from Persia, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the coasts of the sea.


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And He shall lift up a banner for the nations, and shall gather the outcasts of Israel and gather together the scattered ones of Judah from the four corners of the earth.


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And the envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the foes of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not trouble Ephraim.


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But they shall fly on the shoulders of the Philistines to the west; they shall spoil the sons of the east together; they shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab; and the sons of Ammon shall obey them.


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And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with His scorching wind He shall shake His hand over the River, and shall strike it into seven streams, and make one tread [it] with shoes.


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And there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people, those left from Assyria; as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.


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And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest on Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.


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And He is made to breathe in the fear of the LORD. And He shall not judge according to the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears.


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But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and shall decide with uprightness for the meek of the earth. And He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.


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Also the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the cub lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.


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And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.


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And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.


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They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.


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And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise You; though You were angry with me, turn away Your anger, and You shall comfort me.


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Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; He also has become my salvation.


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And in that day you shall say, Praise the LORD! Call on His name; declare His doings among the people, make mention that His name is exalted.


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For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not reflect its light.


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And I will visit evil on the world, and their iniquity on the wicked. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the pride of tyrants.


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So I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall move out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of His fierce anger.


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And it shall be as a driven gazelle, and as a sheep that no man takes up; each man shall look to his own people, and each one flee into his own land.


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Everyone who is found shall be thrust through; and everyone who is joined [to them] shall fall by the sword.


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And their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be robbed, and their wives raped.


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Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not value silver; and they shall not delight in gold.


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And bows shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not pity sons.


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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the majestic beauty of the Chaldees, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.


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Lift up a banner on a bare mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, so that they may go into the gates of the nobles.


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It shall never be inhabited forever, nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation; nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there; nor shall the shepherds make their [flocks] lie down there.


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But the wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and he-goats shall dance there.


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And hyenas shall cry along with his widows, and jackals in palaces of delight. Yea, her time is coming near, and her days shall not be prolonged.


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I have commanded My holy ones, I have also called My mighty ones for anger, those who rejoice in My highness.


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The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together; Jehovah of hosts gathers an army for the battle.


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They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens, the LORD and the weapons of His indignation, to destroy all the land.


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and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. They shall be in pain like a woman who travails. They shall be amazed at one another, their faces [like] flames.


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Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel and [with] wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land waste; and He shall destroy its sinners out of it.


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For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel and set them in their own land; and the stranger shall be joined with them, and they shall cling to the house of Jacob.


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Your pride is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of your harps. The maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you.


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How you are fallen from the heavens, O shining star, son of the morning! [How] you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!


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For you have said in your heart, I will go up [to] the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north.


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Those who see you shall stare and closely watch you, [saying], Is this the man who made the earth to tremble; who shook kingdoms;


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[who] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; [who] did not open the house for his prisoners?


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But you are cast out of your grave [like] a hateful branch, [and like] the clothing of those who are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trampled under foot.


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And the peoples shall take them and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for slaves and slave girls. And they shall be captives of their captors; and they shall rule over their oppressors.


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You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you ruined your land [and] killed your people; the seed of evildoers shall never be famous.


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Prepare slaughter for his sons, because of the iniquity of their fathers, so that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world [with] cities.


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For I will rise up against them, says Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, and son, and grandson, says the LORD.


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I will also make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the broom of ruin, says the LORD of hosts.


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The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so it shall come to pass; and as I have purposed, it shall stand;


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to break Assyria in My land, and on My mountains, trample him under foot. Then his yoke shall be removed from them, and his burden shall be taken off their shoulders.


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This [is] the purpose that [is] purposed on all the earth; and this [is] the hand that [is] stretched out on all the nations.


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For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who shall reverse [it]? And His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?


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Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod of your striking is broken. For a viper comes forth from the root of a snake, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery flying serpent.


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And it shall be in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage which was pressed on you,


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And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and he shall slay your remnant.


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Howl, O gate! Cry, O city! O Philistia, all of you, [are] melted away; for from the north a smoke comes, and no straggler in his ranks.


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What shall [one] then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of His people shall trust in it.


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you shall take up this song against the king of Babylon and say, How the exacter, the gold gatherer has ceased!


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who struck peoples in wrath, a blow without turning away, ruling the nations in anger, a persecution without restraint.


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Yea, the fir trees rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you have fallen, no woodcutter will come up against us.


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Hell from below is moved for you, to meet [you] at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, all the he-goats of the earth. It has raised from their thrones all the kings of the nations.


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The burden of Moab. Because in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste; it is cut off; because in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste; it is cut off.


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One has gone up to the house, even to Dibon, the high places, to weep. Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba; baldness [shall be] on all their heads, every beard cut off.


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In the streets they shall clothe themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, everyone shall howl, melting in tears.


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And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh; their voice shall be heard as far as Jahaz. So the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life is broken to him.


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My heart shall cry to Moab; his fugitives [flee] to Zoar, a heifer of three years. He goes up the ascent to Luhith with weeping; for [in] the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of ruin.


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For the waters of Nimrim are desolation; for the hay has dried up and the grass fails, there is no green thing.


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Therefore one made up the remainder and their store; over the torrent of the willows they shall carry them.


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For the cry has gone around the border of Moab, its howling even to Eglaim; yea, its howling even to Beer-elim.


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For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will put on Dimon more things for the escaped ones of Moab, a lion, even for the remnant of the land.


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Send the lamb to the ruler of the land from the rock of the desert to the mount of the daughter of Zion.


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And gladness and joy are gathered out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there is no singing and no shouting. The treader shall tread out no wine in the presses; I have made their shouting to cease.


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And it shall be when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, he shall come to his sacred place to pray; but he shall not be able.


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But now the LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be abased with all that great host and the remnant few; small, not mighty.


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For it shall be as a fleeing bird cast out of the nest, the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.


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Take counsel, do judgment; make your shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; do not betray the fugitive.


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Let my outcasts dwell with you, Moab; be a shelter to them from the face of the destroyer; for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.


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And in mercy the throne shall be established; and [he] shall sit on it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment, and speeding righteousness.


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We have heard of the pride of Moab; very proud; even of his vanity, and his pride, and his rage; not so [are] his babblings.


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So Moab shall howl for Moab, everyone shall howl. All of it shall howl for the foundations of Kir-hareseth; surely [they are] stricken.


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For Heshbon's fields droop, the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have crushed its choice plants, they have come to Jazer, they wander [in] the desert; her branches are stretched out, they have crossed the sea.


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On account of this I will weep with the weeping of Jazer, the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for the shouting has fallen on your fruit and on your harvest.


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The burden against Damascus: Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a heap of ruins.


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Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the Rock of your strength, therefore you shall plant pleasant plants and shall sow it a fresh shoot.


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In the day of your planting you fence it in; and in the morning you make your seed sprout. [But] the harvest [shall be] a heap in that day of grief and dying pain.


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Woe [to] the multitude of many people, [who] make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations who make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!


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The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters; but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.


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At evening time, behold, terror! Before the morning, he [is] not! This [is] the lot of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.


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The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken; now they are for flocks; they shall lie down, and no one terrifies them.


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And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the rest of Syria. They shall be as the glory of the sons of Israel, says the LORD of hosts.


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And it shall be in that day, the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.


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And it shall be as reaping of the harvest grain, and his arm reaps the ears. And it shall be as he who gathers ears in the Valley of the Giants.


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Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two [or] three ripe olives in the top of the uppermost branch, four [or] five in the fruit-tree branches of it, says Jehovah, God of hosts.


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In that day a man shall look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.


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And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor respect that which his fingers have made, either the Asherahs or the images.


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In that day his strong cities shall be like a forsaken branch, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the sons of Israel; and it will become a ruin.


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which sends ambassadors by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters, [saying], Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a terrifying people from it and onwards; a mighty nation and trampling down, whose land the rivers have divided!


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All people of the world and dwellers on the earth, you will see as one lifts up a banner on the peaks. And you will hear as the blowing of a trumpet.


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For so the LORD said to me, I will take My rest, and I will look on in My dwelling place, like a clear heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.


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For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away [and] cut down the branches.


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They shall be left together to the birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the birds shall summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter on them.


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In that time shall be brought to the LORD of hosts the present from a terrifying, a tall and smooth people, from it and onward; a mighty and trampling nation whose land the rivers have divided, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, Mount Zion.


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The burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud and comes into Egypt. And the idols of Egypt shall tremble at His presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in its midst.


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Surely the rulers of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How do you say to Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?


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Where [are] they? Where [are] your wise men? And let them tell you now, and let them know what Jehovah of hosts has planned against Egypt.


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The rulers of Zoan have become fools, the rulers of Noph are deceived; they have also caused Egypt to go astray, the chief of her tribes.


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The LORD has mixed a perverse spirit in its midst; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all its work, like a drunkard staggers in his vomit.


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In that day Egypt shall be like women; and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He shakes over it.


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And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt; everyone who mentions it shall be afraid toward it, because of the purpose of Jehovah of hosts, which He has purposed against it.


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In that day five cities in the land of Egypt shall speak the language of Canaan and swear to Jehovah of hosts; one shall be called the City of Ruin.


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In that day there shall be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to the LORD.


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And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and they shall fight each man against his brother, and each against his neighbor; city against city, kingdom against kingdom.


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And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and He shall send them a deliverer, and a great one, and will deliver them.


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And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and Egypt shall know the LORD in that day, and shall offer sacrifice and offering; and vow a vow to the LORD, and repay.


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And the LORD shall strike Egypt; He shall strike and heal; and they shall return to the LORD, and He shall hear them and shall heal them.


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In that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria shall come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and Egypt shall serve with Assyria.


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In that day Israel shall be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land;


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whom Jehovah of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed [be] My people Egypt, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.


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And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy its wisdom. And they shall seek to idols, and to the enchanters, and to the mediums, and to the future-tellers.


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And I will shut up Egypt into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, The LORD of hosts.


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And rivers shall be fouled; the Nile of Egypt will languish and dry up; the reed and the rush shall decay.


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Bare places shall be at the Nile, by the mouth of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile shall dry up, driven away, and be no [more].


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The fishermen also shall mourn, and all who drop a hook into the Nile shall wail, and those who spread nets on the waters shall droop.


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The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.


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For the day of the LORD of hosts [shall be] on every proud and lofty one, and on every lifted up one; and he [shall be] brought low,


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And the pride of man shall be bowed down, and the loftiness of men shall be made low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.


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And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth for fear of the LORD and for the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth terribly.


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And it shall be, in the last days the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow into it.


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In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;


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to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD and for the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth terribly.


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And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For out of Zion shall go out the Law, and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem.


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And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.


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For You have forsaken Your people the house of Jacob, because they have become full from the east, and [are] fortune-tellers like the Philistines. And they clap their [hands] with the children of strangers.


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And their land is full of silver and gold. [There is] no end of their treasures and their land is full of horses; nor an end of their chariots.


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And their land is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.


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In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and fought against Ashdod and took it;


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at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and take the sackcloth off your loins, and take your shoe off your foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.


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And the LORD said, Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years, a sign and wonder on Egypt and on Ethiopia;


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so shall the king of Assyria lead away Egypt's prisoners, and the Ethiopian exiles, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with uncovered buttocks, [to] the shame of Egypt.


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And he who lives in this coast shall say in that day, Behold, this [has become] of our hope [to] which we fled for help there, to be delivered from before the king of Assyria; and, How shall we escape?


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The burden against the desert of the sea: As tempests in the south pass, it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.


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O my threshing, and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard of Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.


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The burden against Dumah: [He] calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?


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The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night; if you will inquire, inquire, and come again.


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The burden against Arabia: You shall stay in the forest of Arabia, O traveling companies of Dedanites.


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The people of the land of Tema brought water to him who was thirsty; [they went] before him who fled with their bread.


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For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the press of war.


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For so has the LORD said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;


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and the rest of the number of archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be cut down; for Jehovah, God of Israel, has spoken.


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A harsh vision is revealed to me; the deceiver deceives, and the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media! I have caused all her sighing to cease.


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Therefore my loins are filled [with] pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a woman who travails; I was bowed down from hearing; I was troubled from seeing.


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And he saw a chariot [with] a pair of horsemen, a chariot of an ass, and a chariot of a camel. And let him listen, very attentively.


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And he cried, A lion! My lord, without ceasing, I stand on the watchtower by day, and I am stationed at my post all the nights.


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And, behold, here comes a chariot of a man, a pair of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon has fallen, has fallen! And all the graven images of her gods He has smashed to the ground.


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And you have counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you have broken down the houses to fortify the wall.


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You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool; but you have not looked to its Maker, nor saw Him who formed it long ago.


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And in that day the LORD of hosts called to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.


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Then, lo, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!


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And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you until you die, says the Lord Jehovah of hosts.


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So says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, Go, go up to this treasurer, to Shebna who [is] over the house. Say,


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What is to you here? And who is here to you, that you have carved out a tomb for yourself here, [as] one who cuts himself out a tomb on high, who cuts out a home for himself in a rock?


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Whirling, He will whirl you [like] a ball into a large country; there you shall die, and there are the chariots of your glory, the shame of your lord's house.


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Crashings fill the noisy city, the joyous city Your slain ones [are] not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.


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and I will clothe him with your robe, and will fasten your girdle on him, and I will give your authority into his hand. And he shall be a father to the people of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.


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And the key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.


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And I will fasten him [as] a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.


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And they shall hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the offshoots, all small vessels, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of jars.


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In that day, says the LORD of hosts, the nail that is fastened in the sure place shall be removed, and be cut down, and fall. And the burden that [was] on it shall be cut off. The LORD has spoken.


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All your rulers fled together; they were bound without the bow; all found in you are bound together; they have fled from afar.


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Therefore I said, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly; do not hurry to comfort me because of the ruin of the daughter of my people.


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For [it is] a day of trouble, and of trampling down, and of doubt by Jehovah of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountain.


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And it happened, your choicest valleys were full of chariots; and the horsemen surely set in order at the gate.


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And he removed Judah's covering, and you looked in that day to the armor of the house of the forest.


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You have seen also the breaks in the city of David, that they are many; and you gathered the waters of the lower pool.


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The burden against Tyre: Howl, ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.


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He stretched out His hand over the sea; He shook kingdoms. The LORD has made a decree against the merchant [city], to destroy its forts.


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And He said, You shall rejoice no more, O crushed one, virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Chittim; also there you shall have no rest.


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Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This people did not exist. Assyria founded it for those who live in the desert. They set up their siege-towers; they stripped its palaces. They made it a ruin.


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And in that day Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will be as the song of a harlot to Tyre.


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Take a harp, go about the city, O harlot who has been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs so that you may be remembered.


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And it will be, after the end of seventy years the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.


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And her goods and her wages shall be holiness to the LORD. It shall not be treasured nor laid up, for her goods shall be for those who dwell before the LORD, to eat enough, and for a choice covering.


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And by great waters, the seed of Sihor and the harvest of the river Nile [was] her revenue; and she a mart of nations.


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Be ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the strength of the sea, saying, I have not travailed nor brought forth. I have not nourished young men [nor] raised up virgins.


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Who has purposed this against Tyre, the crowning [city], whose merchants are rulers, whose merchants are the weighty of the earth?


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The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory [and] to bring into contempt all the weighty of the earth.


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Behold, the LORD empties the land and makes it bare, and distorts its face, and scatters its inhabitants.


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For so it is in the midst of the land among the people, [it shall be] like the shaking of an olive tree and as gleanings when the grape harvest is completed.


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They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.


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Therefore glorify the LORD in the flames, the name of the Lord Jehovah of Israel in the coasts of the sea.


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From the ends of the earth we have heard songs, glory to the righteous. But I said, Leanness to me! Leanness to me! Woe to me! Deceivers deceive, even perfidy. Deceivers deceive!


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And it shall be, he who flees from the sound of dread shall fall into the pit. And he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth quake.


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The earth is breaking, breaking! The earth is crashing, crashing! The earth is tottering, tottering!


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And as [it is] with the people, so it shall be with the priest; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the handmaid, so it is with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.


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Like a drunkard the earth is staggering, staggering! And it rocks to and fro like a tree-hut! And its sins heavy on it; and it shall fall and not rise again.


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And it shall be in that day, the LORD shall punish the host of the high place on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth.


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And they shall be gathered, [as] prisoners are gathered in a dungeon. And they shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days they shall be judged.


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Then the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when Jehovah of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, in Jerusalem, and gloriously before His elders.


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The earth mourns [and] languishes; the world droops [and] languishes; the proud people of the earth droop.


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And the land is defiled under its people; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and have broken the everlasting covenant.


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Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and they who dwell in it are deserted; therefore the people of the earth are burned, and few men left.


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The gladness of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends; the joy of the harp ceases.


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O LORD, You [are] my God; I will exalt You, I will praise Your name; for You have done a wonder; Counsels from afar; faithful faithfulness.


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For the hand of the LORD shall rest in this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled under Him, even as straw [is] trampled in the water of a dung pit.


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And He shall spread out His hands in their midst, as he who swims strokes to swim. And He shall bring down their pride with the skill of His hands.


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And the fortress of the high fort of your walls [He will] lay low, bring to the ground, to the dust.


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For You have made a heap from a city; a fortified city into a ruin; a citadel of foreigners to be no city; it shall never be built.


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For You are a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the fearful ones [is] like a storm [against] the wall.


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You shalt bring down the noise of foreigners, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of cloud. The shouting of the terrifying ones shall be brought low.


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And in this mountain the LORD of hosts shall make a feast of fat things for all the people, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of refined wine on the lees.


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And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering which covers all people, and the veil that is woven over all nations.


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He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from all faces. And He shall take away from all the earth the rebuke of His people. For the LORD has spoken.


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And one shall say in that day, Lo, this [is] our God. We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This [is] the LORD; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.


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In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; He sets up salvation [as our] walls and banks.


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Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.


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LORD, Your hand is lifted up, they will not see; but they shall see and be ashamed for [their] envy toward Your people. Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.


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O Jehovah our God, lords besides You have had the rule over us; [but] by You only will we make mention of Your name.


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Dead ones do not live; departed spirits do not rise. Therefore You have visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.


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You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You have extended all the ends of the land.


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As a woman with child draws near to bear, she is in pain [and] cries out in her pangs; so have we been in Your sight, O LORD.


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We conceived; we have been in pain, we gave birth [to] wind. We have not brought about any salvation in the earth; nor have the people of the world fallen.


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Your dead ones shall live, [together with] my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew [is as] the dew of lights, and the earth shall cast out the dead.


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Come, my people, enter into your rooms and shut your doors around you; hide for a little moment, until the fury has passed by.


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For behold, the LORD comes out of His place to punish the people of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also shall reveal her blood, and shall no more cover her dead.


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For He brings down those who dwell on high; He lays low the lofty city; He lays it low, even to the ground; He brings it to the dust.


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Yea, [in] the way of Your judgments, O LORD, we awaited You; for Your name and for Your memory [is] the desire of [our] soul.


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[With] my soul I desired You in the night; yea, [with] my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments [are] in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.


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In that day the LORD with His great and fierce and strong sword shall punish the sea-monster, the darting serpent, the sea-monster, that twisting serpent; and He shall kill the monster in the sea.


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Yet the fortified city [shall be] wasted, and the dwelling forsaken and left like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down and eat up its branches.


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When its branches are dried up, they shall be broken off; the women come [and] set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore His Maker will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will not favor them.


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And it shall be, in that day the LORD shall thresh from the stream of the river Euphrates to the torrent of Egypt, and you shall be gathered one by one, O sons of Israel.


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And it shall be, in that day the great ram's horn shall be blown, and those perishing in the land of Assyria shall come, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt shall come and shall worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.


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Fury [is] not in Me; who would set the briers [and] thorns against Me in battle? I would step through it; I would burn it at once.


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Or let them take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace with Me.


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He shall cause those who come from Jacob to take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world [with] fruit.


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Has He stricken him, as He struck those who struck Him? Is He slain according to the slaughter of the slain by Him?


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By driving her away, you will contend with her; by sending her away, You punished her. He takes away by His rough wind, in the day of the east wind.


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By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in pieces, the Asherahs and sun-pillars shall not stand up.


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Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower which is on the head of the fat valleys of those who are overcome with wine!


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For precept [must be] on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little;


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To whom He said, This [is] the rest; cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing. Yet they were not willing to hear.


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But the Word of the LORD was to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken and snared and taken.


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Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we have made a vision with hell; when the overwhelming rod shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood,


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therefore so says the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I place in Zion a Stone for a foundation, a tried Stone, a precious Cornerstone, a sure Foundation; he who believes shall not hurry.


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Also I will lay judgment to the line, and righteousness to the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.


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And your covenant with death shall be wiped out, and your vision with hell shall not stand; when the overwhelming rod shall pass through, then you shall be beaten down by it.


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From the time that it goes out it shall take you; for morning by morning it shall pass over, by day and by night; and it shall be only a terror to understand the message.


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Behold, the Lord is a mighty and strong one, like a hailstorm, a destroying storm; like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, He casts down to the earth with the hand.


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For the bed is shorter than one can stretch himself on, and the cover is narrower than one can wrap himself in.


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For the LORD shall rise up as [in] Mount Perazim; He shall be angry as in the valley of Gibeon, so that He may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, His strange act.


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So then do not be mockers, lest your bands be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts that a full end is decreed on all the earth.


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When he has made the face of it level, does he not cast out the dill and scatter the cummin, and throw in the choice wheat and the chosen barley and the spelt [in] its border?


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For the dill is not threshed with a threshing instrument, nor is a cart wheel turned on cummin; but the dill is beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod.


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Bread grain is crushed, but not always does one thresh it [with] threshing. And he drives the wheel of his cart; and his horses do not beat it small.


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This also comes out from the LORD of hosts, [who] is wonderful in wisdom, making sound wisdom great.


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and the glorious beauty, on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as the first-ripe fruit before the summer; which the beholder of it swallows up while it is yet in his hand.


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In that day the LORD of hosts shall be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the rest of His people,


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and for a spirit of judgment to him who sits in judgment, and for strength to those who turn back the battle to the gate.


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But they also have sinned through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way. The priest and the prophet have sinned through drink; they are swallowed up by wine; they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.


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Whom shall He teach knowledge? And whom shall He make to understand doctrine? [Those] weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts.


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Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! Add year to year; let them kill their sacrifices.


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For the LORD has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes; He has covered the prophets and your heads, the seers.


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And the vision of all has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to one who knows books saying, Please read this; and he says, I cannot, for it is sealed.


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And the book is delivered to him who does not know books, saying, Please read this; and he says, I do not know books.


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And the LORD said, Because this people draw near [Me] with their mouth, and with their lips honor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the command of men;


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therefore, behold, I will go on doing among this people, a wonder, even a wonder. For the wisdom of their wise ones shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hidden.


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Woe [to] those who go deep to hide [their] purpose from the LORD! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? And who knows us?


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O your perversity! Shall the former be counted as the potter's clay; for shall the work say of him who made it, He did not make me? Or shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, He had no understanding?


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[Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be counted as a forest?


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And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of their gloom and darkness.


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And the meek shall increase joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.


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Then I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow; and it shall be to me as Ariel.


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For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is destroyed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off;


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those who make a man guilty by a word, and lay a trap for the reprover in the gate, and turn aside the just for a worthless thing.


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Therefore so says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, nor shall his face now become pale.


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But when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst, they shall sanctify My name, and sanctify the Holy one of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.


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And I will camp against you all around, and will lay siege against you with a mount, and I will raise forts against you.


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And you shall be brought down; you shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust, and your voice shall be like a spiritist, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.


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And the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones [shall be] as chaff that passes away; yea, it shall be at an instant, suddenly.


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You shall be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake and great noise, with storm and whirlwind, and the flame of devouring fire.


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And the multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, shall be like a dream of a night vision.


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It shall even be as when a hungry one dreams, and behold, he eats, but he wakes and his soul is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, [he is] faint and his soul is longing. So shall it be with the multitude of all the nations who fight against mount Zion.


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Stand still and wonder! Blind your eyes and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not [with] strong drink.


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For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water,


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[As for] my people, children [are] their taskmasters, and women rule over them. Oh my people, your rulers cause [you] to go astray and destroy the way of your paths.


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The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their kings; for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses.


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What do you mean? You crush My people and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.


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And the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are proud, and have walked with stretched out necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing [as] they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;


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therefore the LORD will strike with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their secret parts naked.


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In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of ankle-bracelets, and the headbands, and the crescents,


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the headdresses, and the leg ornaments, and the sashes, and the houses of the soul, and the amulets;


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And it shall be, instead of sweet smell, there shall be an odor of decay; and instead of a sash, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a wrapping of sackcloth; burning instead of beauty.


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the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the adviser, and the skilled worker, and the expert charmer.


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And the people shall be crushed, every man by another, and every man by his neighbor; the boy shall act proudly against the old man, and the low against the honorable.


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When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, [saying], You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand;


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in that day he shall swear, saying, I will not be a healer; there [is] no bread nor a cloak in my house. You shall not make me a ruler of the people.


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For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah has fallen; because their tongue and their doings [are] against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.


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The look of their faces witnesses against them; and they declare their sin like Sodom. They do not hide [it]! Woe to their soul! For they have rewarded evil to themselves.


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Woe [to] the rebellious sons, says the LORD, who make advice, but not of Me; and who cover with a covering, but not of My Spirit, that they add sin to sin;


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who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy falsehood;


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go out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.


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Therefore so says the Holy One of Israel, Because you have despised this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rest on them;


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therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.


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And He shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that [is] broken in pieces. He shall have no pity, so that there shall not be found in the breaking of it a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest you shall be saved; and in quietness and hope shall be your strength. And you were not willing.


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But you said, No; for we will flee on a horse. Therefore you shall flee. And [you said], We will ride on the swift; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.


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One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five you [shall flee], until you are left as a pole on the top of a mountain, and as a sign on a hill.


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And so the LORD waits to be gracious to you. And therefore He is exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD [is] a God of judgment; blessed [are] all those who wait for Him.


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For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more; He will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When He hears it, He will answer you.


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those who set out to go down [to] Egypt and have not asked at My mouth; to take refuge in the strength of Pharaoh and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!


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And the LORD gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction; yet your teachers shall not be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers.


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And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This [is] the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left.


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You shall also defile the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away like a menstruous cloth. You shall say to it, Get away.


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Then He shall give the rain [for] your seed, with which you sow the ground. And the bread of the produce of the earth also shall be fat and plentiful. In that day your cattle shall feed in large pastures.


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Also the oxen and the young asses that plow the ground shall eat clean fodder, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.


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And there shall be on every high mountain, and on every high hill, rivers, streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.


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And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the break of His people and heals the stroke of their wound.


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Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far, burning [with] His anger, and uplifting [of smoke]; His lips are full of fury, and His tongue like a devouring fire.


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And like an overflowing stream, His breath shall reach to the middle of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity. And a bridle [will be] in the jaws of the people, causing [them] to go astray.


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You shall have a song, as in the keeping of a holy feast night; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.


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Therefore the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt shall be [your] curse.


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And the LORD shall cause His glorious voice to be heard, and the bringing down of His arm shall be seen with raging anger and flame of a devouring fire, cloudburst and storm and hailstones.


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And [in] every place which the ordained staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay on him, [it] shall be with tambourines and harps; in battles of shaking He will fight with them.


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For Tophet [is] ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared. He has made [it] deep and large. He makes great [with] fire and wood. The breath of the LORD kindles it, like a torrent of brimstone.


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They were all ashamed of a people who could not profit them, nor be a help nor gain, but a shame and also a reproach.


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The burden concerning the beasts of the south. Into the land of trouble and woe. The lioness and the lion [are] from them; the viper, and the fiery flying serpent. They carry their riches on the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people [that] cannot profit.


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For Egypt helps vainly, and worthlessly. So I have cried concerning this, Their strength [is] to sit still.


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Now go, write it before them in a tablet, and note it in a book, so that it may be for the time to come forever and ever,


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that this [is] a rebellious people, lying sons. They are sons who will not hear the law of the LORD;


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Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and lean on horses and trust in chariots, because [it is] great; and in horsemen, because they are so very strong, but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor do they seek the LORD!


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Yet He also [is] wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back His words, but will arise against the house of evil-doers and against the help of those who work iniquity.


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And Egypt [is] a man, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not Spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out His hand, both he who helps shall fall, and he who is helped shall fall down, and they shall all cease together.


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For so has the LORD spoken to me: As the lion roars, even the young lion on his prey when a multitude of shepherds are gathered against him, [he] will not be afraid of their voice, nor fret himself because of their noise. So Jehovah of hosts shall come down to fight for Mount Zion, and on its hill.


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As birds flying, so the LORD of hosts will defend Jerusalem; also defending, He will deliver [it]; and passing over He will preserve [it].


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For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your hands have made [for] you, a sin.


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Then Assyria shall fall with the sword, not of [great] man; and the sword, not of [lowly] man, shall devour him. For he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become forced labor.


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And he shall pass over to his stronghold for fear, and his rulers shall be afraid of the banner, says the LORD, whose fire [is] in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem.


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Many days and years you shall be troubled, careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.


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Tremble, women at ease; be troubled, careless ones; strip yourselves and make yourselves bare, and bind [sackcloth] on your loins.


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On the land of my people shall come up thorns [and] briers; yea, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city;


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because the palace shall be deserted, the multitude of the city shall be forsaken; instead the mound and tower shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks


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until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is thought to be a forest.


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And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the work of righteousness shall be quietness and hope forever.


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And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a shelter from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.


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And the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of those who stutter shall be ready to speak plainly.


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For the fool will speak folly, and his heart work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy and to speak error against the LORD, to make the soul of the hungry empty, and he will take away the drink of the thirsty.


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Also the weapons of the fool [are] evil; he thinks of wicked ways to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.


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Woe [to] the destroyer, and you who [have] not been destroyed; and betrayer, and they have not betrayed you. When you stop destroying, you shall be destroyed. When you stop betraying, they shall betray you.


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And the people shall be [like] the burnings of lime; [like] thorns cut up, they shall be burned in the. fire.


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The sinners in Zion are afraid; terror has surprised profane ones. Who among us shall dwell [with] the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?


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He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from holding bribes, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;


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He shall dwell on high; his refuge [shall be] the strongholds of rocks; bread [shall be] given him; his waters shall be sure.


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Your heart shall dwell on terror. Where [is] the scribe? Where [is] the one weighing? Where [is] the one counting the towers?


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You shall not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than you can understand; of a foreign tongue that no one understands.


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O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for You; be their arm in the mornings; our salvation also in the time of trouble.


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Look on Zion, the city of our holy meetings; your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet home, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be removed, nor shall any of its cords be broken.


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But there the glorious LORD [will be] to us a place of broad rivers [and] streams, in which no galley with oars shall go, nor shall mighty ship pass by it.


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Your ropes are loosened, they do not hold the base of the mast; they could not spread the sail. Then the prey of a great spoil shall be divided; the lame take the prey.


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At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of Yourself the nations were scattered.


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And your spoil shall be gathered [as] the stripping locust gathers; as the running to and fro of locusts he shall run on them.


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And He will be the security of your times, [and] strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD [is] his treasure.


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The highways lie waste, the traveler ceases. He has broken the covenant. He has despised the cities. He cared for no man.


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The earth mourns [and] droops. Lebanon is ashamed; Sharon withers like a wilderness; Bashan and Carmel are shaken out.


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Come near, nations, to hear; and, you people, listen; let the earth hear, and its fullness; the world, and its offspring.


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It shall not be put out night or day; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none passes through it forever [and] forever.


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But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also, and the raven, shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out on it the line of shame, and the stones of emptiness.


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They shall call its nobles [to] the kingdom, but none [shall be] there, and all her rulers shall be nothing.


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And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it shall be a home of jackals [and] a court for ostriches.


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The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the howling beasts; and the shaggy goat shall cry to his fellow. The screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.


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There the snake shall nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow; there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.


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Seek out of the book of the LORD, and read; not one of these shall fail, none shall lack its mate; for My mouth has commanded, and His Spirit has gathered them.


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And He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has divided it to them by line; they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.


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For the anger of the LORD [is] on all nations, and His fury on all their armies. He has completely destroyed them, He has delivered them to the slaughter.


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Also their dead shall be thrown out, and their stink shall come up out of their dead bodies, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.


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And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled like a scroll; and all their host shall droop, as a leaf falls off from the vine, and as the falling from the fig tree.


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For My sword bathed in the heavens. Behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of My curse for judgment.


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The sword of the LORD is filled with blood; it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.


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And the wild oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.


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And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust to brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.


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The wilderness and the desert shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the crocus.


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And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy on their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.


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It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even [with] joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the honor of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD [and] the majesty of our God.


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Say to those of a hasty heart, Be strong, fear not; behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, with the full dealing of God. He will come and save you.


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Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; for in the wilderness waters shall break out, and streams in the desert.


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And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land shall become springs of water in the home of jackals, in its lair, and a place for the reed and rush.


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And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The Way of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it. But He [shall be] with them; the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err [in it].


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No lion shall be there, nor [any] beast of prey shall go up on it; it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there.


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And it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.


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Have I now come up without Jehovah against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.


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And Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the chief of the cupbearers, Please speak to your servants [in] Aramaic, for we understand [it]. But do not speak to us [in] Jewish in the ears of the people on the wall.


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But the chief of the cupbearers said, Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall? that they may eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?


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Then the chief of the cupbearers stood and cried with a loud voice [in] Jewish, and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.


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Nor let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us; this city shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of Assyria.


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Do not listen to Hezekiah; for so says the king of Assyria, Make a blessing with me by a present, and come out to me; and let everyone eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters [of] his own cistern,


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until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.


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[Let] not Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?


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Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim? And when have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?


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And the king of Assyria sent the chief of the cupbearers from Lachish to Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the Fuller's Field.


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Who among all the gods of these lands that have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?


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But they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the king's command, saying, Do not answer him.


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Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah [with their] clothes torn and told him the words of the chief of the cupbearers.


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Then Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Asaph's son Joah, the recorder, came out to him.


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And the chief of the cupbearers said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, So says the great king, the king of Assyria, What hope [is] this in which you trust?


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I say, [Are] only words of the lips wisdom and strength for war? Now, in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?


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Lo, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; on which, [if] a man lean on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.


