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


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Then the presidents and satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel in relation to the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault; because he was faithful, and no error nor fault was found in him.


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


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Then these presidents and satraps rushed together to the king, and spake thus to him: King Darius, live forever!


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


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


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


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Then they came near and spake before the king concerning the royal decree: Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man who shall ask a petition of any god or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.


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Then answered they and said before the king, Daniel, who is of the sons of the captives of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree which thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.


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Then the king, when he heard these words, was much troubled, and set his heart to deliver him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him.


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Then these men assembled before the king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree or statute which the king establisheth may be changed.


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Then the king commanded that they should bring Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. And the king spake and said to Daniel, May thy God, whom thou servest continually, deliver thee!


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And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords, that nothing concerning Daniel might be changed.


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Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting, and suffered not the concubines to be brought to him; and his sleep went from him.


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And when he came to the den, he cried with a troubled voice to Daniel; and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, has thy God, whom thou servest continually, been able to deliver thee from the lions?


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


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


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And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones before they came to the bottom of the den.


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Then King Darius wrote to all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you!


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I make a decree, that in every government of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God that endureth forever, and whose kingdom shall not be destroyed, and whose dominion shall endure to the end.


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It is he that delivereth and rescueth, and worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.


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In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream, and visions of his head upon his bed. Then he wrote the dream, and related the sum of the matters.


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Daniel spake and said:—I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven burst forth upon the great sea.


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


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And behold, another beast, the second, like to a bear; and it stood up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and they spake thus to it: Arise, devour much flesh!


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


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


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


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I beheld, till thrones were placed, and an aged one seated himself, his garment white like snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne like a fiery flame, and its wheels like burning fire.


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A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him; thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the tribunal sat, and the books were opened.


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I beheld; and because of the great words which the horn spake, I beheld till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed and given to the burning flame.


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As to the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, for the duration of their lives had been appointed for a season and a time.


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


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


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


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Then shall the saints of the Most High receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even for ever and ever.


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Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth beast, which differed from all the others, exceedingly dreadful, whose teeth were of iron and his nails of brass, which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;


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and concerning the ten horns which were in his head, and the other which came up, and before which three fell,—even that horn which had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, and whose appearance was larger than that of his fellows.


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until the aged one came, and judgment was rendered to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints should possess the kingdom.


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He spake thus: The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom upon the earth, which shall differ from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.


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And the ten horns are ten kings, which shall arise out of this kingdom; and another shall arise after them; and he shall differ from the former, and shall subdue three kings.


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And he will speak great words against the Most High, and will harass the saints of the Most High, and will resolve to change times and laws; and they shall be given into his hand a time, and times, and half a time.


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But the tribunal shall sit, and his dominion shall be taken away, and consumed and destroyed forever.


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And the sovereignty and dominion and power over all kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.


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Here ended his words. As for me Daniel, my thoughts terrified me much, and my countenance changed; but I kept the matter in my heart.<pb/>


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


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And I saw in a vision, and when I saw, I was in Shushan, in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and was by the river Ulai.


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


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I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward, and no beast could stand before him, and none could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will and became great.


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And I gave heed, and behold, a he-goat came from the west, over the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.


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


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And I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged against him, and smote the ram, and broke in pieces his two horns; and there was no power in the ram to stand before him; and he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him; and none could deliver the ram out of his hand.


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And the he-goat became exceedingly great; but when he became strong the great horn was broken, and instead of it grew up four conspicuous ones toward the four winds of heaven.


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And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which became exceedingly great toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the beautiful land.


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And it exalted itself even to the host of heaven, and some of the host and of the stars it cast down to the ground, and stamped upon them.


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Yea, he magnified himself even to the Prince of the host, and the daily sacrifice did he take away from him, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.


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And a host was placed over the daily sacrifice with impiety, and it cast down truth to the ground, and it accomplished its purpose and prospered.


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And I heard a holy one speak; and another holy one said to the one that had spoken, To how long a time extendeth the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the impiety of the destroyer, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?


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And he said to me, To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.


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And it came to pass, that when I Daniel saw the vision, I sought for the meaning; and behold, there stood one before me having the appearance of a man.


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


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And he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face, and he said to me, Understand, O son of man! for this vision relateth to the time of the end.


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But when he spake to me, I sank senseless upon my face to the ground; but he touched me, and lifted me up where I had stood.


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And he said, Behold, I make known to thee what shall be in the latter time of the indignation; for [[the vision relateth]] to the time of the end.


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And as that was broken, and four arose in its place, four kingdoms shall arise out of the nation, but not with his power.


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And toward the end of their reign, when the transgressors have filled up the measure of their iniquities, a king shall arise of a fierce countenance, and cunning in artifices.


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And his power shall become mighty, but not by his own strength; and wonderfully will he destroy, and prosper, and accomplish his purposes, and he will destroy many, even the people of the holy ones.


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And through his cunning will he cause fraud to prosper in his hand, and he will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in the midst of security, and against the Prince of princes will he stand up; but he shall be broken without hand.


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And the vision of the evening and the morning, which was told thee, is true; but do thou seal up the vision, for it relates to many days.


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And I Daniel fainted, and was sick some days; then I rose up and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but no one explained it.<pb/>


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In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the race of the Medes, who became king over the realm of the Chaldaeans,


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in the first year of his reign, I Daniel attentively considered in the Books the number of the years, concerning which the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, that Jerusalem should remain in ruins till they were accomplished, namely, seventy years.


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And I set my face toward God, the Lord, and made prayers and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.


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And I prayed to Jehovah, my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and terrible God, who keepeth the covenant and mercy to them that love him and keep his commandments!


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We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and thy statutes.


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Neither have we hearkened to thy servants, the prophets, who spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.


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To thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to those that are near and to those that are far off through all the countries whither thou hast driven them because of their trespass which they have trespassed against thee.


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


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and have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants, the prophets.


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Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, and turned away, so as not to obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.


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And he hath fulfilled his word which he spake against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing great calamity upon us; for under the whole heaven hath it not been done as hath been done to Jerusalem.


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As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil came upon us. For we made not our prayer to Jehovah our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and give heed to thy truth.


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Therefore hath Jehovah our God kept his mind upon the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth; for we obeyed not his voice.


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And now, O Lord our God, that broughtest thy people forth from the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and madest thee a name such as it is at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.


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O Lord, according to all thy goodness, let thine anger and thy fury, I beseech thee, be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain! for because of our iniquities, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.


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


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O my God, incline thine ear, and hear! open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name! for we do not present our supplications before thee on account of our righteousness, but on account of thy great mercy.


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O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hearken and do! Defer not, for thine own sake, O my God! For thy city and thy people are called by thy name.


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


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yea, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the former vision, came, weary with running, and reached me about the time of the evening oblation.


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And he instructed me, and talked with me, and said: Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee understanding.


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At the beginning of thy supplication a word went forth, and I am come to show it thee; for thou art greatly beloved; therefore give heed to the word, and consider the vision.


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Seventy weeks are appointed for thy people, and for thy holy city, to complete the iniquity, and to fill up the measure of the sins, and to expiate the guilt, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal vision and prophet, and to anoint a holy of holies.


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Know, therefore, and understand! From the going forth of the word that Jerusalem should be restored and built till an anointed one, a prince, are seven weeks; and during sixty-two weeks it shall be restored and built with streets and moats, yet in troublous times.


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And after the sixty-two weeks shall an anointed one be cut off, and there shall not be to him [[a successor]]; and the city and the sanctuary shall be destroyed by the people of a prince that shall come, whose end will be as in a flood; and to the end shall be war, decreed desolations.


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And he will establish a covenant with many for one week, and during half a week he will cause sacrifice and oblation to cease, and upon the wing of abominations shall come the destroyer, until decreed destruction be poured out on the destroyer.<pb/>


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In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, was a revelation made to Daniel, who was also called Belteshazzar; and the revelation is true, and relateth to long warfare. And he gave heed to the revelation, and had understanding of the vision.


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I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, till three whole weeks were ended.


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


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I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man, clothed in linen garments, and his loins girded with gold of Uphaz.


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His body was like chrysolite, and his face had the appearance of lightning, and his eyes were as torches of fire, and his arms and his feet like the appearance of polished brass, and the sound of his words was as the shout of a multitude.


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And I Daniel alone saw the vision and the men who were with me saw not the vision; but a great terror fell upon them, and they fled to hide themselves.


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Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision; and there remained no strength in me, and my color was changed upon me into a deadly paleness, and I retained no strength.


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And I heard the sound of his words; and as I heard the sound of his words, I fell senseless upon my face, and my face toward the ground.


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And he said to me, Daniel, much-beloved man, give heed to the words which I speak to thee, and stand upright! for to thee am I now sent. And when he said this to me, I stood up trembling.


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Then said he to me, Fear not, Daniel! for from the first day that thou didst set thy mind to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come on account of thy words.


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But the prince of the kingdom of Persia stood up against me one and twenty days; but lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I was left there victorious with the kings of Persia.


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Now I am come to teach thee what shall befall thy people in the latter days; for the vision yet relates to distant days.


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And behold, one having the appearance of the sons of men touched my lips; then I opened my mouth and spake, and said to him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my pain came upon me, and I have no strength left.


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And how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? And now there remaineth no strength in me, neither is breath left in me.


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and said, Fear not, much-beloved man! peace be to thee! be strong, yea, be strong! And while he was speaking with me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.


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Then he said, Knowest thou wherefore I have come to thee? And now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia, and I will go forth, and behold, the prince of Greece will come.


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But I will show thee what is written in the book of truth. No one putteth forth his strength with me against them but Michael, your prince.<pb/>


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And now I will tell thee what is true. Behold, there shall arise yet three kings in Persia, and the fourth shall be far richer than they all; and, relying upon his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.


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But when he shall have arisen, his kingdom shall be broken in pieces, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor with the dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, and divided amongst others besides those.


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And the king of the South shall become strong; but one of his princes shall become stronger than he, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.


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And after some years they shall ally themselves with each other; and the daughter of the king of the South shall come to the king of the North, to make peace; but she shall not retain the power of giving aid; neither shall he stand, nor his aid; but she shall be given up, and they that caused her to go, and he that begat her, and he that received her in those times.


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But from a shoot of her roots shall one arise in his place, who shall come to an army, and shall come against the fortresses of the king of the North, and shall deal with them according to his pleasure, and prevail against them.


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And their gods, with their molten images, and their precious vessels of silver and of gold, shall he carry into captivity into Egypt; then shall he stand away for many years from the king of the North;


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and he shall come against the kingdom of the king of the South, but he shall return into his own land.


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But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of large forces; and one of them shall move onward, and overflow, and pass through, and shall again stir himself up to carry on the war even to his stronghold.


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Then shall the king of the South be enraged, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the North; and shall lead forth a great multitude, and the multitude shall be given into his hand.


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And the multitude shall be elated, and his heart shall be lifted up, and he shall cast down tens of thousands; but he shall not be strong.


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For the king of the North shall return and raise up against him a multitude greater than the former, and shall steadily come after certain years with a great army and with great riches.


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And in those times many will stand up against the king of the South; and violent men of thy people shall exalt themselves, so as to establish the vision, and shall fall.


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And the king of the North shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a fortified city; and the arms of the South shall not withstand, neither his chosen men, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.


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And he that cometh against him shall do according to his will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in the beautiful land, and destruction shall be in his hand.


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And he shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and shall make pacification with him; and he shall give him his daughter in marriage, to ruin his dominion. But it shall not succeed, neither shall it be for him.


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After this he shall turn his face to the isles, and shall take many; but a commander shall put an end to his scorn; nay, shall cause his scorn to return upon himself.


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Then shall he turn his face to the strongholds of his own land; and he shall stumble, and fall, and shall not be found.


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Then shall arise in his place one who shall send an exacter of tribute through the glory of his kingdom; but within few days shall he be destroyed, neither by anger nor by battle.


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And in his place shall arise a despised person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom; but in the midst of peace he shall come in and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.


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And the forces of a flood shall be overwhelmed before him, and shall be broken in pieces; and even the prince that is allied with him.


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For after making a league with him, he will practise deceit; for he will come up, and prevail with a small people.


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In the midst of security shall he come into the fattest provinces of the land, and he shall do what his fathers never did, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and riches; and he shall form his devices against the strongholds, even to a set time.


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And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South, with a great army; and the king of the South shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand, for they shall form devices against him.


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Even they that eat of his own food shall destroy him; and his army shall overflow, and many shall fall down slain.


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


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Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and he will set his heart against the holy covenant, and he will execute his purposes, and return to his own land.


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At the appointed time he shall again go against the South; but the second time it shall not be as at the first.


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For the Chittaean ships shall come against him, and he shall be discouraged, and return, and be enraged against the holy covenant, and execute his purposes; and he shall again have an understanding with them that forsake the holy covenant.


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And forces shall be raised by him, which shall pollute the sanctuary, the stronghold, and take away the daily sacrifice, and set up the abomination of the destroyer.


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And such as do wickedly against the covenant will he lead to apostasy by flatteries; but the people that know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.


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And they that have understanding among the people shall instruct many; but they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.


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And whilst they fall they shall receive a little help, and many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.


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And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purify, and cleanse, even to the time of the end, for it is yet at the time appointed.


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


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Neither will he regard the god of his fathers, nor the desire of women; nor will he regard any god, but he will magnify himself against all.


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But in their place will he honor the god of strongholds, even the god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and with silver, and with precious stones, and with jewels.


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And he shall do his will against fenced strongholds with a strange god; whoever acknowledge him, to them he will give great honor, and give them dominion over many, and divide the land amongst them for a reward.


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But at the time of the end shall the king of the South push at him, and the king of the North shall rush against him like a whirlwind with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and overflow them, and pass over them.


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He shall also enter into the beautiful land, and multitudes shall be overthrown; but these shall escape out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the sons of Ammon.


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And he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Lybians and Ethiopians shall be in his train.


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But tidings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him, and he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to take away many.


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And he shall pitch his palace-tents between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain; but he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.<pb/>


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And at that time shall Michael arise, the great prince that standeth up for the sons of thy people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that time; and at that time shall thy people be delivered, every one that is found written in the book.


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


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


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But thou, Daniel, shut up these words, and seal this book even to the time of the end. Many shall run eagerly through it, and much knowledge shall be gained.


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


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


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And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was upon the waters of the river, and he lifted up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him that liveth forever, that in a time, times, and a half, even when the dispersion of a portion of the holy people should be at an end, all these things should be fulfilled.


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


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And from the time when the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination of the destroyer set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.


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But go thou thy way even to the end; for thou shalt rest, and rise up to thy lot at the end of the days.


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The word of Jehovah, which came to Hoses, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.


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The beginning of the word of Jehovah by Hosea. Jehovah said to Hosea: Go, and take thee a wife of lewdness, and children of lewdness; for the land hath committed great lewdness; it is false to Jehovah.


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


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And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And God said to him, Call her name Unpitied; for I will no more have pity upon the house of Israel, but will surely take them away.


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


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Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured, or numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall it be said to them, Ye are the sons of the living God.


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Then shall the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel be gathered together, and shall appoint to themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land. For great shall be the day of Jezreel.<pb/>


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Contend ye with your mother, contend! For she is not my wife, Nor am I her husband; That she put away lewdness from her face, And adultery from her breasts, Lest I strip her naked, And expose her, as when she was born;


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For their mother hath been guilty of lewdness; She that bore them hath brought upon herself shame; For she said, I will go after my lovers, Who give me my food and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my strong drink.


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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, And I will enclose her with a wall, So that she shall not find her paths.


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When she followeth after her lovers, she shall not overtake them; When she seeketh them, she shall not find them. Then shall she say, I will go back to my former husband, For then it was better with me than now.


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For she did not consider that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, And multiplied silver unto her, And gold, of which they made images of Baal.


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Therefore will I take back my corn in its time, And my new wine in its season, And I will take away my wool and my flax, Which covered her nakedness.


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And now will I reveal her shame before the eyes of her lovers, And none shall deliver her out of my hand.


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And I will cause all her joy to cease; Her feasts, and new moons, and sabbaths, And all her festal days.


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I will destroy her vines, and her fig-trees, Of which she said, These are my hire, Which my lovers have given me; And I will make them a forest, And the wild beasts shall eat them.


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I will punish her for the days of the Baals, When she burned incense to them, And decked herself with her rings and her jewels, And went after her lovers, And forgot me, saith Jehovah.


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Therefore, behold, I will allure her, And will lead her to the desert, And will speak kindly to her;


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


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For I will take away the name of the Baals out of her mouth, And their name shall no more be uttered.


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At that time will I make for them a covenant With the beasts of the forest, and with the birds of heaven, And with the creeping things of the ground. The bow and the sword and the battle will I break from the land, And I will cause them to lie down in safety.


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I will betroth thee to me forever; Yea, I will betroth thee to me in righteousness, and in justice, And in kindness, and in tender love.


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And I will plant her for myself in the land; And I will have pity upon her that was called Unpitied; And I will say to them called Not-my-people, Thou art my people; And they shall say, Thou art my God.<pb/>


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And Jehovah said to me, Go again, love a woman that is loved by another, and is an adulteress; even as Jehovah loveth the sons of Israel, who turn themselves to other gods, and love raisin-cakes.


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And I said to her, Thou shalt wait for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be with any man; so will I also wait for thee.


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For the sons of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim.


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Afterward shall the sons of Israel return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king, and turn with fear to Jehovah and his goodness in future times.<pb/>


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Hear the word of Jehovah, ye sons of Israel! For Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; For there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.


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Perjury, and falsehood, and murder, And theft, and adultery have broken forth, And blood reacheth to blood.


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Therefore shall the land mourn, And every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, Together with the beasts of the forest, and the birds of heaven; Yea, even the fishes of the sea shall perish.


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Yet let no man rebuke, and let no man reprove; For thy people are like those that contend with the priest,


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Therefore shalt thou Fall by day, And the prophet shall fall with thee by night, And I will destroy thy mother.


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My people is destroyed for lack of knowledge; Since thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, so that thou shalt no more be my priest; Since thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.


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And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; I will punish them for their ways, And requite them for their doings.


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They shall eat and shall not be satisfied; They shall commit fornication, and shall not increase, For they have left off giving heed to Jehovah.


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My people ask counsel of their stocks, And their staff revealeth to them. For the spirit of fornication causeth them to err; Yea, they commit fornication, forsaking their God.


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On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, And on the hills they burn incense, Under the oak, and the poplar, and the terebinth, Because their shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters commit fornication, And your daughters-in-law commit adultery;


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I will not punish your daughters, when they commit fornication, Nor your daughters-in-law, when they commit adultery; For ye yourselves go aside with harlots, And sacrifice with prostitutes; Therefore the people that hath not understanding shall fall.


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Though thou play the harlot, O Israel, Yet let not Judah offend! Come ye not to Gilgal, Neither go ye up to Bethaven. And swear ye not, saying, As Jehovah liveth!


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For like a refractory heifer is Israel become refractory, Therefore will Jehovah feed them, like a lamb in a wide place.


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The wind hath bound them up with its wings, And they shall be brought to shame on account of their sacrifices.<pb/>


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Hear ye this, O ye priests, And hearken, O house of Israel, And give ear, O house of the king! For judgment is coming upon you, Because ye have been a snare at Mizpah, And an outspread net upon Tabor.


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I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from me; For thou committest fornication, O Ephraim, And Israel is defiled.


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They will not frame their doings To return to their God; For a spirit of fornication is within them, And they have no regard to Jehovah.


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The pride of Israel testifieth to his face; Therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.


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With their flocks and with their herds shall they go to seek Jehovah, And shall not find him; He hath withdrawn himself from them.


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They have been false to Jehovah, For they have begotten strange children; Now shall the new moon consume them with their possessions.


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Blow ye the trumpet in Gibeah, And the cornet in Ramah; Cry aloud at Bethaven! Look behind thee, O Benjamin!


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Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel do I make known what is sure.


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The princes of Judah are like them that remove the land mark; I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.


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When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his wound, Then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, And Judah sent to the hostile king; But he will not be able to heal you, Nor will he cure you of your wound.


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


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I will go back to my place, Till they have suffered for their sin, and seek my face! In their affliction they will seek me early.<pb/>


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“Come, and let us return to Jehovah! For he hath torn, and he will heal us; He hath smitten, and he will bind us up.


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After two days will he revive us, On the third day he will raise us up, And we shall live in his presence,


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Let us, therefore, know him; Let us ever strive to know Jehovah, His coming forth is sure as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter rain which watereth the earth.”


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O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? For your goodness is like the morning cloud, And like the early dew, which vanisheth away.


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Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth, And my judgments have gone forth like the light.


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But they, after the manner of men, have transgressed the covenant; Even therein have they dealt unfaithfully with me.


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As troops of robbers lying in wait for a man, so is the company of priests; They murder in the way to Shechem; Yea, they commit heinous wickedness.


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I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel; There Ephraim committeth fornication, Israel is polluted.


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When I was about to deliver my people from captivity, When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, And the wickedness of Samaria; For they practise fraud, And the thief entereth in, And the band of robbers spoileth without.


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And they think not in their hearts, That I remember all their wickedness. Now shall their doings encompass them; They are before my face.


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With their wickedness they gladden the king, And with their falsehoods the princes; All of them are adulterers;


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They are as an oven heated by the baker; He ceaseth to stir the fire, Until the dough which he hath kneaded be leavened.


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On the feast-day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine, And he stretcheth out his hand with revilers.


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For they make ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait; All night the baker sleepeth; In the morning it gloweth like a flaming fire.


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They all glow as an oven; They have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen; And none among them calleth upon me.


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Strangers have devoured his strength, And he knoweth it not; Yea, gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, Yet he knoweth it not.


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The pride of Israel testifieth to his face; Yet do not they return to Jehovah their God, Nor seek him, for all this.


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When they go, I will spread my net over them; As birds of heaven will I bring them down. I will chastise them, as hath been proclaimed in their congregation.


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Woe to them, for they have wandered from me! Destruction upon them, for they have rebelled against me! Though I myself would redeem them, they speak falsely to me.


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They cry not to me from their heart, But howl upon their beds; For corn and wine they assemble themselves; They rebel against me.


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They return, but not to the Most High; They are like a deceitful bow; Their princes shall fall by the sword for the haughtiness of their tongues; This shall be their reproach in the land of Egypt.<pb/>


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Put the trumpet to thy mouth! Like an eagle cometh an enemy against the house of Jehovah, Because they have transgressed my covenant, And have rebelled against my law.


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They have set up kings, but not by me; They have made princes, and I knew it not. Of their silver and their gold have they made themselves idols, That they may be brought to destruction.


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An abomination is thy calf, O Samaria! Mine anger is kindled against them; How long will it be ere they can attain to purity!


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For from Israel it came; The workman made it, and it is no God; Yea, into fragments shall the calf of Samaria be broken.


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They have sown the wind, And they shall reap the whirlwind. They shall have no standing harvest; The ear shall yield no meal; If perchance it yield, strangers shall devour it.


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But though they hire among the nations, Soon will I gather the nations against them; Then shall they rest a little while from the burden of their king, and their princes!


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As to the sacrifices which they should offer me, they slay flesh and eat it; Jehovah hath no pleasure in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, And punish their sins; To Egypt shall they return.


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For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces, And Judah hath multiplied fenced cities; But I will send a fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces.<pb/>


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Rejoice not, O Israel, Exult not, like the nations! For thou committest fornication, forsaking thy God! Thou lovest hire on every corn-floor.


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They shall not dwell in the land of Jehovah; To Egypt shall Ephraim go back, And eat unclean things in Assyria.


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They shall pour out no offerings of wine to Jehovah, Nor shall their sacrifices please him; They shall be to them as the bread of mourners; All that eat thereof shall be polluted. Their bread shall be for their own hunger; It shall not come into the house of Jehovah.


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For, behold, they go forth from a wasted land; Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them; The precious places of their silver, Nettles shall possess them; Thorns shall spring up in their habitations.


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The days of visitation are come; The days of retribution are come— Israel shall know that the prophet was foolish, That the man of the spirit was mad— For the greatness of` thy iniquity, and thy great hatred.


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If Ephraim seek an answer from my God, The prophet is as the snare of the fowler in all his ways, A net in the house of his God.


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They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity; He will requite their sins.


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I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; As the early fruit on the fig-tree, at its first time of bearing, I saw your fathers. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to shame, And had abominable idols according to their love.


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The glory of Ephraim shall fly away as a bird; They shall not bring forth, nor bear in the womb, nor conceive;


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Yea, if they bring up children, I will utterly bereave them; Yea, woe to them when I depart from them!


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I have seen Ephraim planted, like Tyre, in a rich pasture, Yet shall Ephraim bring out his children to the murderer.


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All their wickedness is in Gilgal; Yea, there have I hated them for the wickedness of their doings; I will drive them from my house; I will love them no more; All their princes are revolters.


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Ephraim is smitten; Their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit; Yea, though they should beget children, I will destroy the beloved fruit of the womb.


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My God shall cast them away, Because they have not hearkened to him, And they shall be wanderers among the nations.<pb/>


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Israel is a luxuriant vine, That bringeth forth fruit; But according to the abundance of his fruit hath he abounded in altars; According to the goodness of his land hath he made goodly images.


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Their heart is divided; now shall they suffer for it; He will break down their altars, And destroy their images.


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They utter empty words, Swearing falsely, making covenants, And now judgment springeth up, as hemlock in the furrows of the field.


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For the calf of Bethaven shall the inhabitants of Samaria be in fear; Yea, its people shall grieve for it, And its priests shall tremble for it, Because its glory has departed from it.


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It shall be carried to Assyria, As a present to the hostile king. Ephraim shall be covered with confusion, And Israel shall be ashamed of his doings,


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


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More than in the days of Gibeah hast thou sinned, O Israel! There they stood; The battle in Gibeah against the sons of iniquity did not overtake them.


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Now will I chastise them according to my pleasure, And the nations shall be gathered together against them, When I shall bind them for their two iniquities.


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Ephraim is a trained heifer, that loveth to tread out the corn; But I will lay the yoke upon her fair neck; I will cause Ephraim to draw, Judah shall plough, Jacob shall harrow.


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Sow for yourselves to righteousness, and ye shall reap according to your piety; Break up your fallow ground; For it is a time to seek Jehovah, Till he come and rain righteousness upon you.


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Ye plough wickedness, ye shall reap injustice; Ye shall eat the fruit of falsehood. Because thou trustest in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men,


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There shall arise a tumult among thy people, And all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, As Shalman destroyed Betharbel in the day of battle, When the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.


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Such things shall Bethel bring upon you Because of your great wickedness. In the morning shall the king of Israel be destroyed.<pb/>


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But they turned away from those that called them. They sacrificed to images of Baal; They burned incense to idols.


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I drew them with human cords, with bands of love; I was to them as those who lift up the yoke from their jaws; I dealt gently with them, and gave them food.


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They shall no more go down to Egypt; For the Assyrian shall be their king, Because they refuse to return to me.


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The sword shall fall upon their cities, It shall consume their bars, and devour Because of their devices.


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For my people persevere in turning away from me; Though they are called to the Most High, None will exalt him.


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How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shall I abandon thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim? My heart is changed within me; Yea, my compassion is kindled.


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I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; For I am God, and not man, The Holy One in the midst of thee, And I will not come in anger.


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They shall walk after Jehovah, when he shall roar like a lion, When he shall roar, then shall their sons hasten from the west;


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They shall hasten as a bird from Egypt, And as a dove from the land of Assyria, And I will place them in their houses, saith Jehovah.


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Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, And the house of Israel with deceit; Judah also is inconstant toward God, Toward the holy and faithful one.<pb/>


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Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind; Every day he multiplieth falsehood and violence; They make a league with Assyria, And oil is carried into Egypt.


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Therefore Jehovah hath a controversy with Judah. And he will punish Jacob for his ways, And requite him according to his doings.


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Yea, he contended with the angel, and prevailed; He wept, and made supplication to him. At Bethel he found him, And there he spake with us.


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Yet Ephraim saith, Lo, I have become rich; I have found myself substance; In all my earnings can be found no transgression in which there is guilt.


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Yet I, Jehovah, have been thy God from the land of Egypt; I will again cause thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.


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I have also spoken to the prophets, And I have given many visions, And by the prophets I have used similitudes.


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Behold, Gilead is full of iniquity; Surely they have become corrupt; In Gilgal they sacrifice oxen, And their altars are like the heaps in the furrows of the field.


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Ephraim hath provoked his Lord most bitterly; Therefore will he leave his blood upon him, And recompense to him his reproach.<pb/>


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Once when Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel; But he offended through Baal, and died.


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And now they sin more and more, And have made to themselves molten images; Of their silver by their skill have they made idols; All of it is the work of artificers. They say concerning them, Whoever will sacrifice, let him kiss the calves!


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Therefore shall they be as the morning cloud, And as the early dew, which passeth away; As chaff driven with a whirlwind from the thrashing-floor, And as smoke from the chimney.


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Yet I, Jehovah, have been thy God from the land of Egypt, And thou hast known no God but me; Yea, there was no saviour besides me.


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As they were fed, so they were filled; They were filled, and their heart was lifted up; Therefore they forgot me.


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I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her whelps, And I will rend the caul of their heart, And there will I devour them as a lioness; The wild beast shall tear them.


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Where is now thy king? Let him save thee in all thy cities! And where thy judges, In regard to whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes!


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The pangs of a travailing woman shall come upon him; He is an unwise son, For else would he not tarry long in the place of the breaking forth of children.


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I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death; O death, where is thy plague? O grave, where is thy destruction? Repentance is hidden from mine eyes.


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Though he be fruitful among his brethren, An east wind shall come, A wind of Jehovah shall come up from the desert, And his spring shall become dry, And his fountain shall be dried up, And the treasure of all his pleasant vessels shall be spoiled.


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Samaria shall suffer for her guilt, For she hath rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword; Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, And their women with child shall be ripped up.<pb/>


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Take with you words, And return to Jehovah, saying, “Forgive all our iniquity, and receive us graciously, And we will render to thee the sacrifices of our lips!


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Assyria shall not help us; We will not ride on horses; And no more will we say to the work of our hands, Ye are our Gods! For from thee the fatherless obtaineth mercy.”


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His sprouts shall spread forth, And his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, And his fragrance as Lebanon.


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They that dwell under his shadow Shall revive as the corn; They shall shoot forth as the vine; Their name shall be like the wine of Lebanon.


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Ephraim shall say, What have I more to do with idols? I will hear him; I will care for him; I will be like a green cypress-tree; From me shall thy fruit be found.”


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Who is wise, that he may understand these things, Prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, And the righteous walk in them; But in them transgressors stumble.


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Hear this, ye old men; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land! Hath such a thing happened in your days, Or even in the days of your fathers?


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Tell ye your children of it, And let your children tell their children, And their children another generation!


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That which the gnawing-locust left hath the swarming-locust eaten, And that which the swarming-locust left hath the licking-locust eaten, And that which the licking-locust left hath the consuming-locust eaten.


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Awake, ye drunkards, and weep! Howl, all ye drinkers of wine, For the new wine, which is snatched from your mouths!


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For a nation hath come up on my land, Strong, and not to be numbered; Their teeth are the teeth of the lion; They have the jaw-teeth of the lioness.


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They have made my vine a desolation, And my fig-tree a broken branch; They have made it quite bare and cast it away; The branches thereof are made white.


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The flour-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; The priests, the servants of Jehovah mourn.


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The field is laid waste; The ground mourneth, For the corn is laid waste; The new wine is dried up; The oil languisheth.


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Lament, O ye husbandmen, Howl, O ye vine-dressers, For the wheat and the barley, For the harvest of the field hath perished!


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The vine is dried up, And the fig-tree languisheth; The pomegranate, the palm-tree, and the apple-tree,—All the trees of the field, are withered; Yea, joy is withered away from the sons of men.


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Gird yourselves with sackcloth and mourn, ye priests! Howl, ye ministers of the altar! Come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God, For the flour-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God!


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Appoint ye a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land Into the house of Jehovah, your God, And cry unto Jehovah!


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Alas, alas the day! For the day of Jehovah is near; Even as destruction from the Almighty doth it come.


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The seeds are rotten under their clods, The storehouses are laid desolate, the garners are destroyed; For the corn is withered.


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How do the beasts groan, How do the herds of oxen wander perplexed, Having no pasture! The flocks of sheep also are destroyed.


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To thee, O Jehovah, do I call, For a fire hath devoured the pastures of the desert, And a flame hath burned all the trees of the field!


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The beasts of the field, also, cry unto thee, For the streams of water are dried up, And a fire hath devoured the pastures of the desert!<pb/>


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Blow ye the trumpet in Zion; Sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble! For the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is near!


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A day of darkness, and gloominess, A day of clouds, and thick darkness. As the morning light spreadeth itself upon the mountains, There cometh a numerous people and a strong; Like them there have been none of old time, And after them there shall not be, Even to the years of many generations.


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A fire devoureth before them, And behind them a flame burneth; The land is as the garden of Eden before them. And behind them a desolate wilderness! Yea, nothing escapeth them.


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Like rattling chariots they leap on the tops of the mountains; Like the crackling flame of fire, which devoureth stubble; Like a mighty host set in battle array.


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They run like mighty men; They climb the wall like warriors; They march every one on his way; They change not their paths.


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One doth not thrust another; They march every one in his path, And though they rush among weapons, they are not wounded.


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They run through the city; They run upon the wall; They go up into the houses; They enter in at the windows, like a thief.


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The earth quaketh before them, And the heavens tremble; The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining.


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Jehovah uttereth his voice before his army; For very great is his host; Yea, it is mighty, executing his word; The day of Jehovah is great, and very terrible; Who shall be able to bear it?


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Yet even now, saith Jehovah, Turn ye to me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning!


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And rend your hearts, and not your garments, And turn to Jehovah your God, For he is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness, And repenteth of a threatened evil.


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Who knoweth but he will turn and repent, And leave a blessing behind him, Even a flour-offering and a drink-offering for Jehovah your God.


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Gather the people; appoint a congregation; Assemble the elders; Gather the children and the sucklings! Let the bridegroom come forth from his chamber, And the bride from her nuptial bed!


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Let the priests, the servants of Jehovah, Weep between the porch and the altar, And say, Spare thy people, O Jehovah, And give not thine inheritance to reproach, And to be a by-word to the nations! Why should they say among the nations, Where is their God?


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Yea, Jehovah will answer, and say to his people, Behold, I will send you corn, And new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; And I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.


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I will remove far from you the northern host, And I will drive it into a dry and desolate land; Its van toward the Eastern sea, And its rear toward the Western sea. And its scent shall come up, And its ill savor shall come up, Because it hath done great things.


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Fear not, O ye beasts of the field, For the pastures of the desert spring up, For the tree beareth its fruit; The fig-tree and the vine yield their strength!


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And, O ye sons of Zion, exult, And rejoice in Jehovah your God! For he giveth you the former rain in just measure, And causeth showers to come down upon you, Even the former rain, and the latter rain, as aforetime.


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And I will restore to you the years Which the swarming-locust hath eaten, The licking-locust, the consuming-locust, and the gnawing-locusts, My great army, which I sent among you.


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Ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, And praise the name of Jehovah your God, Who hath dealt wondrously with you; And my people shall never be put to shame.


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Ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, And that I am Jehovah, your God, and none else; And my people shall never be put to shame.


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And it shall come to pass afterward, That I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions.


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The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the day of Jehovah cometh, The great and the terrible day. Then whoever calleth on the name of Jehovah shall be delivered;


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For upon mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, shall be deliverance, As Jehovah hath spoken; And among the remnant, whom Jehovah shall call.<pb/>


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For behold, in those days and at that time, When I shall bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,


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I will assemble all the nations, And will bring them down it to the valley of Jehoshaphat, And there will I contend with them for my people and inheritance, Israel; Because they scattered them among the nations, And divided my land among themselves.


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Yea, they cast lots for my people, And gave a boy for a harlot, And sold a damsel for wine to drink.


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What have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Sidon, And all the borders of Philistia? Will ye retaliate on me? Or will ye do anything against me? Swiftly and speedily will I bring back your doings upon your own head.


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The sons also of Judah, and the sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the Grecians, That ye might remove them far from their border.


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Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, And I will return your injury upon your own head;


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I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, And they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation afar off; For Jehovah hath spoken it.


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Proclaim ye this among the nations: “Prepare war! Stir up the mighty ones! Let all the warriors draw near; let them come up!”


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Beat your ploughshares into swords, And your pruning-hooks into spears; Let the weak say, I am strong!


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Assemble yourselves and come, all ye nations round about; Gather yourselves together! Thither, O Jehovah, bring down thy mighty ones!


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Let the nations rise and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat! For there will I sit to judge all the nations around.


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Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; Come and tread, for the wine-press is full; The vats overflow; For their wickedness is great!


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The multitudes, the multitudes in the valley of judgment! For the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of judgment.


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Jehovah also will roar from Zion, And utter his voice from Jerusalem; The heavens and the earth shall shake. But Jehovah will be a refuge to his people! A strong-hold to the sons of Israel.


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Then shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, Dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain; And Jerusalem shall be holy; Strangers shall pass through her no more.


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In that day shall the mountains drop down new wine, And the hills shall flow with milk. And all the streams of Judah shall flow with water. A fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, That shall water the valley of Shittim.


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Egypt shall be a waste, And Edom a desolate wilderness, For their violence against the sons of Judah; For they shed innocent blood in their land.


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The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa, which he prophesied concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earth quake. He said:—


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Jehovah will roar from Zion, And utter his voice from Jerusalem; The habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, And the top of Carmel shall wither.


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Thus saith Jehovah; For three transgressions of Damascus, And for four, will I not turn away its punishment; For they thrashed Gilead with thrashing-wains of iron.


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I will also break the bar of Damascus, And I will destroy the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, And him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-Eden, And the people of Syria shall be led captive to Kir: Jehovah hath said it.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, And for four, I will not turn away its punishment; For they led captive all that fell into their hands, And delivered them up to Edom.


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And I will destroy the inhabitant from Ashdod, And him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon; And I will turn my hand against Ekron, And the residue of the Philistines shall perish. The Lord, Jehovah, hath said it.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, And for four, will I not turn away its punishment; Because they delivered up all their captives to Edom, And remembered not the brotherly covenant.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, And for four, will I not turn away his punishment; For he pursued his brother with the sword, And cast off all pity, And his anger tore perpetually; Yea, he kept his wrath forever.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, And for four, will I not turn away their punishment; For they ripped up the women with child of Gilead, That they might enlarge their border.


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But I will kindle a fire on the wall of Rabbah, Which shall devour her palaces, Amid the war-shout in the day of battle, In a whirlwind in the day of the storm.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, And for four, will I not turn away his punishment; For he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime!


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But I will send a fire on Moab, Which shall devour the palaces of Kirioth; And Moab shall die amid tumults, Amid the war-shout, and the sound of the trumpet.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, And for four, will I not turn away their punishment; For they have despised the law of Jehovah, And have not kept his statutes, And their idols have caused them to err, After which their fathers walked.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, will I not turn away their punishment. For they sell the righteous for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes;


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They pant for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And pervert the cause of the afflicted. The son and the father go in to the same damsel, To dishonor my holy name.


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They lay themselves down upon pledged garments Near every altar; And drink wine, procured by fines, In the house of their gods.


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Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them, Who were tall as the cedars, And strong as the oaks. I destroyed their fruit above, And their roots beneath.


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I brought you up from the land of Egypt, And led you in the desert forty years, That ye might possess the land of the Amorite.


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Of your sons also I raised up prophets, And of your young men Nazarites; Is it not even so, O ye sons of Israel? saith Jehovah.


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And flight shall fail the swift, And the strong shall not exert his strength, And the mighty shall not save his life,


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And he that handleth the bow shall not stand, And the swift of foot shall not save himself, And the horseman shall not escape with his life.


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He that is strong in heart among the mighty Shall, in that day, flee away naked, saith Jehovah.<pb/>


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Hear these words, which Jehovah speaketh against you, ye sons of Israel; Against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt!


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You only have I known of all the families of the earth; Therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities.


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Will the lion roar in the forest, When he seeth no prey? Will the young lion cry aloud from his den, If he have seized nothing?


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Can a bird fall into a snare upon the earth, Where none is set for him? Will a snare spring up from the ground, When it hath caught nothing?


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Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, And the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil upon a city, And Jehovah not have done it?


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Proclaim ye, in the palaces in Ashdod, And in the palaces in the land of Egypt, And say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria; Behold the great tumults in the midst of her, And the oppressions within her!


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For they have no care to do right, saith Jehovah; They treasure up rapine and robbery in their palaces.


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Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An enemy shall encompass the land. And shall bring down thy strength from thee, And thy palaces shall be plundered.


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Thus saith Jehovah: As the shepherd taketh out of the lion's mouth Two legs, or a portion of an ear, So shall the children of Israel be taken out, Who in Samaria sit in the corners of their sofas, And upon their damask couches.


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In the day when I punish the transgressions of Israel, Then will I punish the altars of Bethel; The horns of the altar shall be cut off, And fall to the ground.


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and I will smite the winter-house together with the summer-house, And the houses of ivory shall be destroyed, And the great houses shall be brought to the ground, saith Jehovah.<pb/>


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Hear these words, O ye kine of Bashan, That are on the mountain of Samaria; That oppress the poor; that crush the needy; That say to your master, Bring, and let us drink!


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The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by his holiness; Behold, the days shall come upon you When ye shall be taken away with hooks, And your residue with fishing-hooks.


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And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one right forward, And ye shall be thrown into a castle, saith Jehovah.


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Go, now, to Bethel, and transgress; At Gilgal multiply transgression! Bring your sacrifices every morning, And your tithes every three years!


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Burn a thank-offering from your extortions, And proclaim the free-will offerings; publish them abroad! For this is your delight, ye sons of Israel, Saith the Lord, Jehovah.


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I also have caused cleanness of teeth in all your cities, And want of bread in all your places; And yet ye have not returned to me, saith Jehovah.


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I also have withholden from you the rain three months before the harvest; I have caused it to rain upon one city, And upon another city have I not caused it to rain; One piece of ground hath been rained upon, And another, upon which I have not caused it to rain, hath withered.


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Two or three cities have gone to one city, To drink water, and have not been satisfied; And yet ye have not returned to me, saith Jehovah.


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I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; The locust hath devoured your many gardens, Your vineyards, your fig-trees, and your olive-trees; Yet have ye not returned to me, saith Jehovah.


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I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I have slain your young men with the sword, And your horses have I led into captivity; I have made the smell of your camps to come up into your nostrils; And yet ye have not returned to me, saith Jehovah.


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I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah; And ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning; And yet ye have not returned to me, saith Jehovah.


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Therefore thus will I deal with thee, O Israel! Yet since I will thus deal with thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel!


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For behold, he formed the mountains, and created the wind; He declareth to man what is his thought; He maketh the morning darkness, And walketh upon the high places of the earth; Jehovah, God of hosts, is his name.<pb/>


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She is fallen, she shall rise no more, The virgin of Israel! She is prostrate on her own ground, there is none to raise her up!


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For thus saith the Lord Jehovah; The city which sent out a thousand shall have a hundred left, And that which sent out a hundred shall have ten left, To the house of Israel.


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Seek not Bethel, And go not to Gilgal, And pass not over to Beersheba! For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity! And Bethel shall come to naught.


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Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live! Lest he rush like a fire on the house of Joseph, And it devour, and there be none to quench it in the house of Israel.


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Seek him, that made the Pleiades and Orion; That changeth death-like darkness into morning, And darkeneth day into night; That calleth up the waters of the sea, And poureth them out upon the face of the earth; Jehovah is his name!


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Since, then, ye trample upon the poor, And take from him presents of wheat, Though ye build houses of hewn stone, ye shall not dwell in them; Though ye plant pleasant vineyards, ye shall not drink their wine.


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For I know that your sins are many, And your transgressions manifold, Ye who afflict the righteous, and take a bribe, And oppress the poor in the gate!


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Seek ye good, and not evil, that ye may live; Then shall Jehovah, the God of hosts, be with you, as ye boast.


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Hate ye evil, and love good, And establish justice in the gate; It may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will have pity upon the remnant of Joseph.


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Thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: In all the streets shall there be wailing, And in all the highways shall they cry, Alas! alas! They shall call the husbandmen to mourning, And those who are skilful in lamentation to wailing,


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And in all vineyards shall be sounds of woe, For I will pass through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.


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Woe unto them that ask for the day of Jehovah! What is the day of Jehovah to you? It shall be darkness, and not light.


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As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or went into a house and leaned his hand on a wall, And a serpent bit him;


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So shall the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light, Even thick darkness, and no brightness in it.


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When ye offer me burnt-offerings and flour-offerings, I will not accept them; And upon the thank-offerings of your fatlings I will not look.


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But ye bore the tabernacle of your king, And the shrine of your images, The star of your god, which ye made for yourselves.


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Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, Saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts!<pb/>


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Woe to them that dwell at ease in Zion; That feel secure upon the mountain of Samaria; The honorable men of the chief of the nations, To whom the house of Israel resort!


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Pass over to Calneh, and see; And thence go to great Hamath; Then go down to Gath of the Philistines: Are they better than these kingdoms, Or is their border greater than your border?


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That lie upon beds of ivory, And stretch themselves upon their couches; That eat lambs from the flock, And calves from the stall;


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That drink wine in bowls, And anoint themselves with the most precious perfumes, But grieve not for the destruction of Joseph!


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Therefore now shall they go captive at the head of the captives; Yea, the shouting of them that stretch themselves upon their couches shall cease.


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The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob, And I hate his palaces; I will give up the city, and all that is therein.


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A man's relative, or a burner of the dead, shall take him up, To carry his bones out of the house, And he shall say to him that is in the innermost part of the house, Is there yet any one with thee? And he shall answer, No one! Then shall he say, Keep silence! For we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.


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For behold Jehovah hath commanded, And he will smite the great house with breaches, And the small house with clefts.


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Shall horses run upon rocks, Or will one plough rocks with oxen, That ye change justice into hemlock, And the fruit of equity into wormwood,


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Behold, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, I will raise against you a nation, That shall oppress you from Hamath Even to the brook of the desert.<pb/>


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The Lord Jehovah showed me this vision: Behold, he formed locusts In the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; Behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowing.


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And when they had devoured the grass of the land, Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob stand? For he is small!


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The Lord Jehovah also showed me this vision: Behold, the Lord Jehovah commanded the fire to execute judgment; And it devoured the great deep, And it devoured the fields.


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He also showed me this vision: Behold, the Lord stood upon a wall, built with a plumb-line, And in his hand was a plumb-line;


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And Jehovah said to me, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, A plumb-line. And the Lord said, Behold I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not spare them any more.


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The high places of Isaac shall be desolate, And the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, And I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.


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Then sent Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, To Jeroboam, the king of Israel, and said: Amos conspireth against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; The land is not able to bear all his words.


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For thus hath Amos said: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, And Israel shall surely be led captive from their own land.


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And Amaziah said to Amos, Go, thou seer! flee into the land of Judah! There eat thy bread, and there prophesy!


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Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: I was no prophet, nor the son of a prophet; I was a shepherd, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit.


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Now, therefore, hear the word of Jehovah: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, And speak no word against the house of Isaac!


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Therefore thus saith Jehovah: “Thy wife shall be put to shame in the city, And thy sons and daughters shall fall by the sword; Thy land shall be divided by the line, And thou shalt die in a polluted land, And Israel shall surely be led captive from his own land.”<pb/>


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And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of ripe fruits. Then said Jehovah to me, The destruction of my people Israel is ripe; I will not spare them any more.


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The songs of the palace shall be shrieks in that day, Saith the Lord Jehovah. There shall be many dead bodies in every place, And they shall be cast forth in silence.


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That say, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn, And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, Making the ephah small, and the shekel heavy, And falsifying the balances for deceit,


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That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the refuse of the wheat?


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Shall not the land tremble for this, And shall not all that dwell therein mourn? Shall not all of it rise in waves like a river, And be swept from its place, and overflowed, as by the river of Egypt!


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It shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, That I will cause the sun to go down at noon, And will darken the land in the clear day.


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I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, And baldness upon all heads. I will fill the land with mourning, as for an only son, And its end shall be as a day of bitter woe.


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Behold, the time cometh, saith the Lord Jehovah, That I will send a famine upon the land; Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the word of Jehovah.


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And men shall wander from sea to sea, And from the north even to the east shall they run to and fro, To seek an answer from Jehovah, and shall not find it.


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Who swear by the sin of Samaria, And say, By the life of thy God, O Dan! And, By the worship of Beersheba! They shall fall, and shall rise no more!<pb/>


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I saw the Lord standing by the altar; and he said: Smite the capital, so that the thresholds shall tremble! Break them in pieces upon the heads of all of them! And their residue will I slay with the sword. He that fleeth of them shall not flee from danger, And he that escapeth of them shall not escape into safety.


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Though they dig down to the under-world, Thence shall my hand take them; Though they climb up to heaven, Thence will I bring them down.


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Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, There will I search for them, and take them away; Though they hide themselves from mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, There will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.


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Though they go into captivity before their enemies, There will I command the sword, and it shall slay them; I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.


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For the Lord Jehovah of hosts Is he, that toucheth the earth, and it shall melt, And all that dwell therein shall mourn; All of it shall rise in waves like a river, And shall be overflowed, as by the river of Egypt;


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He that buildeth his upper rooms in the heavens, And foundeth his arch upon the earth,—That calleth the waters of the sea, And poureth them out upon the face of the earth,—Jehovah is his name.


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Are ye not as the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Did I not bring Israel from the land of Egypt, And the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?


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Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, And I will destroy it from the face of the earth; Yet will I not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.


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For, behold, I will command, And I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, As one sifteth corn with a sieve, And not a grain shall fall upon the ground.


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But all the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, Who say, Evil shall not approach, nor fall upon us.


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In that day I will raise up the fallen tabernacle of David, And I will close up the breaches thereof, And raise up its ruins, And I will build it, as in the days of old.


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That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the nations, which shall be called by my name. Thus saith Jehovah, who doeth this.


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Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, That the plougher shall draw near to the reaper, And the treader of grapes to the sower of the seed; And the mountains shall drop new wine, And all the hills shall melt.


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I will bring back the captives of my people Israel, And they shall build the desolate cities, and shall inhabit them; And they shall plant vineyards, and drink their wine; They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.


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I will plant them in their land, And they shall no more be rooted up from the land which I have given them, Saith Jehovah, thy God.


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The prophecy of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning Edom. We have heard a message from Jehovah, And an ambassador hath been sent among the nations “Arise ye, and let us rise up against her to war.”


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The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, Thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, Whose habitation is high, Who sayest in thine heart, “Who shall bring me down to the ground?”


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Though thou lift thyself up as the eagle, And though thou set thy nest among the stars, Thence will I bring thee down, saith Jehovah.


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If thieves had come upon thee, Or robbers by night, Would they not have ceased stealing when they had enough? How art thou utterly destroyed! If grape-gatherers had come upon thee, Would they not have left gleanings of the grapes?


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All thine allies have brought thee to the border; They that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; They that ate thy bread have spread a snare under thee; There is no understanding in thee.


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In that day, saith Jehovah, I will destroy the wise men from Edom, And understanding from the mount of Esau.


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For slaughter and for oppression of thy brother Jacob shall shame cover thee, And thou shalt be destroyed forever.


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In the day when thou stoodest over against him, In the day when strangers carried away captive his forces, And when foreigners entered his gates, And when they cast lots upon Jerusalem, Thou also wast as one of them.


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But thou shouldst not have looked with delight on the day of thy brother in the day of his calamity; Nor shouldst thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction, Nor have spoken haughtily in the day of his distress.


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Thou shouldst not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity, Nor have looked with delight on their affliction in the day of their calamity, Nor have laid hand on their substance in the day of their calamity,


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Nor have stood in the cross-way to cut off their fugitives, Nor have delivered up those that remained in the day of distress!


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For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: As thou hast done, so shall it be done to thee; Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.


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For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, So shall all the nations drink perpetually, Yea, they shall drink and swallow it down, And they shall be as though they had not been.


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But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and it shall be holy; And the house of Jacob shall regain their possessions.


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And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame, And the house of Esau stubble, And they shall kindle them and devour them. And there shall be none remaining of the house of Esau; For Jehovah hath spoken it.


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And they of the south shall possess the mountain of Esau, And they of the plain, the Philistines; And they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, And the fields of Samaria; And Benjamin shall possess Gilead.


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And the captives of this host of the sons of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites unto Sarepta, And the captives of Jerusalem which are at Sepharad shall possess the cities of the south.


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And saviors shall go up to mount Zion, To rule the mount of Esau. And the kingdom shall be Jehovah's.


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Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.


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But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish, and paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah.


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But Jehovah sent forth a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken in pieces.


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Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. And they cast forth the things that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah had gone down to the lower part of the ship, and he lay and was fast asleep.


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And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God! Perhaps God will think upon us, that we perish not.


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And they said one to another, come, and let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil is upon us! And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.


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Then said they to him, Tell us, we pray thee, on whose account this evil is upon us. What is thy business? And whence comest thou? What is thy country? And of what people art thou?


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And he said to them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Jehovah, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.


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Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, Wherefore hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of Jehovah, because he had told them.


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Then said they to him, What shall we do to thee, that the sea may be calm to us? For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.


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And he said to them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; and the sea shall be calm to you. For I know that because of me this great tempest is upon you.


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Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring the ship to the land; but they could not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.


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And they cried to Jehovah, and said, We beseech thee, O Jehovah, we beseech thee, let us not perish for the life of this man, and lay not upon us innocent blood! For thou, O Jehovah, hast done as it pleased thee.


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and said:— I cried by reason of my distress to Jehovah, And he heard me: Out of the depth of the under-world I cried, And thou didst hear my voice.


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Thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea, And the flood compassed me about; All thy billows and thy waves passed over me.


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The waters compassed me about, even to the life, The deep enclosed me round about; Sea-weeds were bound around my head;


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I sank down to the foundations of the mountains; The bars of the earth were about me forever; Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah, my God!


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When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah, And my prayer came to thee, To thy holy temple.


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But I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed; Salvation is from Jehovah.


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And Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was through God a great city, three days' journey in extent.


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And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.


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And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.


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For when the matter came to the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, and put off his mantle and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.


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And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water.


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But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God. Yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.


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And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way: and God repented of the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.<pb/>


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And he prayed to Jehovah and said, Ah! Jehovah, was not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? Therefore I made haste to flee to Tarshish. For I knew that thou art a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in mercy, and that thou repentest of a threatened evil.


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And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray thee, my life from me! for it is better for me to die than to live.


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Now Jonah had gone out of the city, and had sat on the east side of the city, and had made himself a booth there, and had sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.


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And God, Jehovah, appointed a gourd; and it grew up over Jonah to be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his distress. And Jonah was exceedingly glad of the gourd.


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But God appointed a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd so that it withered.


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And when the sun arose, God appointed a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, and he was faint, and he asked for himself death, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.


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And God said to Jonah, Is it right that thou shouldst be angry for the gourd? And he said, It is right that I should be angry even to death.


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And Jehovah said, Thou hast had pity on the gourd for which thou hast not labored, and which thou madest not to grow, which grew up in a night and perished in a night;


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and should not I spare Nineveh, the great city, wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many cattle?


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The word of Jehovah, which came to Micah, the Morasthite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah; which was revealed to him concerning Judah and Jerusalem.


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Hear, all ye nations, Give ear, O earth, and all that is therein! The Lord, Jehovah, appeareth as a witness against you, The Lord from his holy palace.


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Behold, Jehovah cometh forth from his dwelling-place; He cometh down, and advanceth upon the high places of the earth.


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The mountains melt under him, And the valleys cleave asunder, Like wax before the fire, Like waters poured down a steep place.


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For the transgression of Jacob is all this, And for the sin of the house of Israel. Where is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not at Samaria? And where are the high places of Judah? Are they not at Jerusalem?


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Therefore will I make Samaria a heap of stones in the field, A place for the planting of a vineyard; I will pour down her stones into the valley, And lay bare her foundations.


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All her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, And all the hire of her harlotry shall be burned with fire, And all her idols will I destroy. For from the hire of a harlot did she gather her ornaments, And to the hire of a harlot shall they return.


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Therefore I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked; I will wail like the jackal, And mourn like the ostrich.


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For her wound is mortal; It extendeth to Judah; It reacheth to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.


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Pass on, thou inhabitant of Saphir, naked and in shame! The inhabitant of Zaanan no more goeth out; The grief of Beth-Azel denieth you an abode.


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The inhabitant of Maroth mourneth for his goods, For evil came down from Jehovah to the gates of Jerusalem.


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Bind the chariot to the courser, O inhabitant of Lachish! Thou wast the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; In thee were found the transgressions of Israel.


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Therefore shalt thou resign the possession of Moresheth of Gath; The houses of Achzib shall disappoint the kings of Israel.


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A possessor will I bring to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah; The glory of Israel shall flee to Adullam.


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Make thyself bald, cut off thy locks, for the children of thy love; Enlarge thy baldness like the eagle; For they have gone from thee into captivity.<pb/>


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Woe to them that devise iniquity, And contrive evil upon their beds; When the morning is light, they practise it, Because it is in the power of their hand.


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They covet fields, and take them by violence; Houses, and take them from their owners. They defraud a man of his house; Yea, a man of his inheritance.


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Therefore, thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this race do I meditate evil. From which ye shall not remove your necks, nor lift up your heads; For it shall be a time of evil.


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In that day shall this song be uttered concerning thee. And this sad lamentation be made: “We are utterly laid waste; He hath changed the portion of my people; How hath he torn it from me! He hath taken away and distributed our fields.”


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Behold, thou shalt have no one henceforth Who shall draw out a line for a portion, In the congregation of Jehovah.


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“Prophesy not,” [[say they,]] “O ye that prophesy!” If they prophesy not concerning these things, The shame will not depart.


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O ye that are called the house of Jacob, Is the spirit of Jehovah impatient? Are these his doings? Are not my words kind to him that walketh uprightly?


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But long since hath my people risen against me, as an enemy; Ye strip the mantle from the garment of those that pass by securely, as men returning from war.


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The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant abodes; Ye deprive their children forever of the glory which I gave them.


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Arise and depart; This land is not your rest! On account of its pollution shall it be wasted, And given to utter destruction.


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If a man follow wind, and invent falsehood, and say, “I will prophesy to thee of wine and strong drink!” He will be the prophet for this people.


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Yet will I fully gather thee, O Jacob, I will surely assemble the residue of Israel! I will put them together like sheep in a fold; Like a flock in their fold shall they be in a tumult on account of the multitude of men.


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He that forceth a way goeth before them; They force their way, and pass through the gate, And go forth by it; And their king goeth before them, Even Jehovah at the head of them.<pb/>


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I also said: Hear, O ye heads of Jacob, And ye leaders of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to administer justice?


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But ye hate what is good, and love what is evil; Ye tear from men their skin, Yea, their flesh from their bones;


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Ye devour the flesh of my people, And strip them of their skin, And break their bones, And cut them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh for the caldron?


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Then shall they cry to Jehovah, But he will not hear them; Yea, at that time will he hide his face from them, Because they have done iniquity.


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Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets, who deceive my people, Who, while they bite with their teeth, proclaim peace, But who, if one fill not their mouths, prepare war against him:


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Therefore shall night come upon you, so that ye shall have no vision, And darkness, so that ye shall not divine; The sun shall go down upon the prophets, And the day shall be dark to them.


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Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded, So that all of them shall hide their faces, Because there is no answer from God.


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But I am full of power, even of the spirit of Jehovah; Full of uprightness and courage, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.


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O hear this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, And ye leaders of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice, And pervert all equity,


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Her heads judge for reward, And her priests teach for hire, And her prophets divine for money, And yet they lean upon Jehovah, saying, “Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil can come upon us.”


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Therefore because of you shall Zion be ploughed as a field, And Jerusalem become heaps of stones, And the mountain of the temple like the heights of a forest.<pb/>


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But it shall come to pass in the last days That the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be established at the head of the mountains, And exalted above the hills; And the nations shall flow to it.


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And many nations shall go, saying, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, To the house of the God of Jacob, That he may teach us his ways, And that we may walk in his paths!” For from Zion shall go forth a law, And the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.


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He shall be a judge of many nations, And an umpire of many kingdoms afar off. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, And their spears into pruning-hooks; Nation shall not lift up the sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more.


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But they shall sit every one under his vine, And under his fig-tree, And none shall make them afraid; The mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken it.


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Though all the nations walk every one in the name of its God, Yet will we walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.


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In that day, saith Jehovah, I will gather the halting, And the far scattered I will assemble, And those whom I have afflicted.


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I will make the halting a remnant, And the far scattered a strong nation; And Jehovah shall reign over them in mount Zion, Henceforth, even forever.


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And thou, O tower of the flock, O hill of the daughter of Zion, to thee it shall come, To thee shall come the former dominion, Even the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.


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And now why dost thou cry aloud? Is there no king within thee? Have thy counsellors perished, That pangs have taken hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?


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Yea, writhe, and be in anguish, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail! For now shalt thou go forth from the city, and dwell in the field; Thou shalt go even to Babylon; Yet there shalt thou be delivered. Jehovah will redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.


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Now many nations gather themselves against thee, Who say, Let her be polluted, And let our eyes gaze upon Zion!


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But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, And understand not his purposes; For he gathereth them as sheaves into the thrashing-floor.


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Arise and thrash, O daughter of Zion! For I will make thy horns iron, And thy hoofs brass; Thou shalt beat in pieces many nations, And thou shalt devote their spoils to Jehovah, Their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.<pb/>


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Yet now gather yourselves in troops, O people of troops! They lay siege against us; With a rod they smite the cheek of the judge of Israel.


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But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, Who art small to be among the thousands of Judah, Out of thee shall he come forth for me to be ruler in Israel, Whose origin is from the ancient age, from the days of old!


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But He [[Jehovah]] shall deliver them up, Until she that bringeth forth hath brought forth; Then shall the residue of his brethren return to the children of Israel.


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He shall stand and rule in the strength of Jehovah, In the majesty of Jehovah, his God; And they shall dwell in security, For he shall be great even to the ends of the earth.


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And he shall be peace. When the Assyrian shall come into our land, To trample upon our palaces, Then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, And eight leaders of the people,


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And they shall devour the land of Assyria with the sword, The land of Nimrod within her gates. Thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, And treadeth in our borders.


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The residue of Jacob shall be in the midst of many nations As the dew which cometh from Jehovah, As drops of rain upon the grass, Which tarrieth not for man, Nor waiteth for the sons of men.


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The residue of Jacob shall be among the nations, In the midst of many kingdoms, As a lion among the beasts of the forest, As a young lion among flocks of sheep, Who, when he assaulteth, treadeth down and teareth, and none can deliver.


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It shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah, That I will destroy thy horses from the midst of thee, And I will consume thy chariots;


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I will destroy thy graven images and thy statues from the midst of thee, And thou shalt no more bow down to the work of thine hands;


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And I will execute vengeance in anger and in fury Upon the nations which have not hearkened to me.<pb/>


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Hear ye what Jehovah saith! Arise, contend thou before the mountains, And let the hills hear thy voice!


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Hear, O ye mountains, the controversy of Jehovah! Hear, ye strong foundations of the earth! For Jehovah hath a controversy with his people; He contendeth with Israel.


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I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, And from the house of bondage I redeemed thee; I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, to go before thee.


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O my people, remember what Balak the king of Moab devised. And what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him, What happened from Shittim to Gilgal, That ye may know the mercies of Jehovah.”


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Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, And bow myself before the most high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old?


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Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for the sin of my soul, The fruit of my body for my transgression?


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He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; What doth Jehovah require of thee, But to do justly, and to love mercy, And to walk humbly before thy God?


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The voice of Jehovah crieth to the city, And the man of wisdom will discern thee; Hear ye the rod, and who hath threatened it!


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Are there not yet in the houses of the unrighteous the treasures of iniquity, And the scanty measure, which is abominable?


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For her rich men are full of violence, And her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.


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Thou shalt eat and not be satisfied, And hunger shall be within thee. Thou shalt remove, but shalt not save, And what thou savest will I give up to the sword.


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Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; Thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil, And the grapes, but shalt not drink the wine.


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For ye keep the statutes of Omri, And all the works of the house of Ahab, And walk in their devices; Therefore will I make thee a desolation, And thine inhabitants a derision; And ye shall bear the reproach of my people.<pb/>


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Woe is me! I live where the summer fruits are gathered, And the vintage is gleaned; There is no cluster to eat; I long for the first-ripe fig.


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The good man is perished from the land, And there is none upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Every one hunteth his brother with a net.


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Their hands are diligent for evil; The prince asketh a bribe, And the judge decideth for money! The great man giveth judgment according to his desire; They conspire to pervert justice.


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The best of them is like a brier; The most upright of them is sharper than a thorn-hedge. The day of recompense, announced by thy watchmen, cometh; Then shall come their perplexity.


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Trust ye not in a friend! Put no confidence in a guide! From her that lieth in thy bosom Keep the doors of thy mouth!


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For the son dishonoreth his father, The daughter riseth up against her mother, And the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; The inmates of a man's house are his foes.


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Rejoice not over me, O my enemy! Though I have fallen, I shall arise; Though I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be my light.


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I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, Because I have sinned against him, Until he maintain my cause, and execute judgment for me, Until he bring me to the light, And I behold his mercy.


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She that is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her, That said to me, Where is Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes shall gaze upon her; Soon shall she be trodden down, as the mire of the streets.


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In that day shall they come to thee From Assyria, and the cities of Egypt, And from Egypt to the river, From sea to sea, from mountain to mountain.


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Feed thy people with thy crook, The flock of thine inheritance, That dwell solitarily in the forest in the midst of Carmel! Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.


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The nations shall see, and be ashamed of all their might: They shall lay their hands upon their mouths; Their ears shall be deaf.


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They shall lick the dust like the serpent; Like the creeping things of the earth, they shall come trembling from their strongholds; To Jehovah our God shall they come with awe, And shall fear on account of thee.


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Who is a God like thee, that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by transgression, In the remnant of his inheritance? He retaineth not his anger forever, For he delighteth in mercy.


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He will again have compassion on us, He will blot out our iniquities; Yea, thou wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.


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Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob, And mercy to Abraham, Which thou swarest to our fathers from the days of old.


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Jehovah is a jealous God, and an avenger; Jehovah is an avenger, and full of wrath! Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, And keepeth indignation for his enemies!


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Jehovah is slow to anger, but great in power; He will by no means clear the guilty; Jehovah cometh in the whirlwind and the storm, And the clouds are the dust of his feet.


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He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, And drieth up all the rivers. Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, And the flower of Lebanon languisheth.


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The mountains tremble before him, And the hills melt; The earth is moved at his presence, Yea, the world and all that dwell therein.


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Who can stand before his indignation, And who can abide before the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, And the rocks are cast down by him!


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But with an overwhelming flood will he make a full end of her place, And darkness shall pursue his enemies.


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What do ye meditate against Jehovah? He will make a full end; Not the second time shall the calamity come.


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For while they are entangled like thorns, And like those that are drunk with wine, They shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.


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Thus saith Jehovah: Though they be flourishing, and likewise many, Yet shall they be cut down, and pass away; I have afflicted thee, but I will afflict thee no more.


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And concerning thee hath Jehovah given command, That thy name shall no more be sown. From the house of thy god I will cut off the graven image and the molten image; I will make thy grave; for thou hast become vile!


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Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, That publisheth peace! Keep, O Judah, thy feasts, perform thy vows! For no more shall the destroyer pass through thee; He is utterly consumed.<pb/>


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The ravager cometh up against thee, [[O Nineveh!]] Guard the fortress; watch the way; Gird up the loins; confirm the strength.


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For Jehovah restoreth the glory of Jacob, As the glory of Israel; For the wasters have wasted them, And destroyed their branches.


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The shields of his mighty men are red; His warriors are clothed in crimson; His chariots glitter with the fire of steel in the day of his preparation, And the spears are brandished.


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The chariots rave in the streets; They run to and fro in the broad ways; Their appearance is like torches; They run like lightnings.


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He calleth for his mighty men; They stumble on their way; They hasten to the wall; But the mantelet is prepared,


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Huzzab is uncovered; she is carried away captive, Her maidservants sigh with the voice of doves, And smite their breasts.


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Nineveh was like a pool full of water of old; Yet shall they flee away; Stand! stand! shall they cry; But none shall look back.


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Seize the silver; seize the gold; There is no end to the treasures; There is abundance of all precious furniture.


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She hath become void, and empty, and desolate; The heart melteth, and the knees smite together; Pangs are in all their loins, And the faces of all gather blackness.


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Where now is the dwelling of the lions, And the feeding-place of the young lions, Where the lion and the lioness walked, And the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?


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The lion tore in pieces for his whelps, And strangled for his lionesses, And filled his dens with prey, And his lairs with ravin.


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Behold! I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, And I will burn thy chariots into smoke, And the sword shall devour thy young lions. And I will cut off thy prey from the earth, And the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.<pb/>


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[[Hark!]] The noise of the whip! The noise of the rattling of the wheels, And of the prancing horses, And of the bounding chariots!


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The horseman lifteth up the flame of the sword, And the lightning of the spear; There is a multitude of the slain; heaps of dead bodies; There is no end to the carcasses; they stumble over the carcasses.


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It is because of the many whoredoms of the harlot, The graceful beauty, the mistress of enchantments, That sold nations by her whoredoms, And kingdoms by her enchantments.


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Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of host, And I will lift up thy trail over thy face, And I will show the nations thy nakedness, And the kingdoms thy shame.


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And all that see thee shall flee from thee, And shall say, “Nineveh is laid waste; Who will bemoan her? Whence shall I seek comforters for thee?”


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Art thou better than No-Ammon, That dwelt by the rivers, That had the waters round about her, Whose fortress was the sea, And whose wall was from the waters?


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Yet was she carried away; she went into captivity; Her children were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; For her honorable men they cast lots, And all her great men were bound in chains.


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Thou also shalt drink to the full; Thou, too, shalt be hidden; Thou shalt seek a refuge from the enemy!


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All thy strong-holds shall be like fig-trees with the first ripe figs; If they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.


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Behold, thy people shall be women in the midst of thee; The gates of thy land shall be set wide open to thine enemies; The fire shall devour thy bars.


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Draw thee water for the siege, Fortify thy strongholds. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar; Repair the brick-kiln!


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Then shall the fire devour thee; The sword shall cut thee off, It shall devour thee like the locust; Though thou art increased like the locusts, Though thou art increased like the thick locusts.


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Thy merchants have been more numerous than the stars of heaven; The locusts spread themselves and fly away.


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Thy princes are like locusts, And thy captains like swarms of locusts, Which encamp in the hedges in the time of cold; But when the sun ariseth, they flee away, And the place is not known where they are.


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Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria! Thy nobles take their rest, Thy people are scattered on the mountains, and none gathereth them.


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Thy bruise is incurable; Thy wound is mortal. All that hear of thee shall clap their hands over thee; For upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?


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How long, O Jehovah, do I cry, and thou dost not hear! How long do I complain to thee of violence, and thou dost not save!


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Why dost thou suffer me to see iniquity, And why dost thou look upon wickedness? For spoiling and violence are before me; There is contention, and strife exalteth itself.


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Therefore the law faileth, And judgment is not pronounced according to truth; For the wicked encompasseth the righteous, Therefore wrong judgment is pronounced.


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Behold ye among the nations, and look! Yea, wonder, and be astonished! For I do a work in your days Which ye will not believe though it be told you.


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For behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, A fierce and swift people, Which go over the breadth of the earth, To take possession of dwelling-places that are not their own.


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Their horses are swifter than leopards, And fiercer than evening wolves. Their horsemen leap proudly; Their horsemen come from far; They fly like an eagle, hastening to devour.


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All of them come for violence; The multitude of their faces is directed forwards, And they gather captives as sand.


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They also scoff at kings, And princes are to them a laughing-stock; They deride every stronghold, For they heap up earth and take it.


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Then their spirit is uplifted, and they transgress, and become guilty; This their strength is made their god.


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Art thou not from everlasting, O Jehovah, my God, my Holy One? We shall not die! Thou, O Jehovah, hast appointed them for judgment; Thou, O Rock, hast ordained them for chastisement.


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Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, And canst not look on wickedness; Why then dost thou look on transgressors, And art silent, when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he?


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They take up all of them with the hook, They catch them in their net, And gather them in their drag; Therefore they rejoice and exult.


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Therefore they sacrifice to their net, And burn incense to their drag; Because by them their portion is fat, And their food plenteous.


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I will stand on my watch-tower, And set myself on the bulwark, And watch to see what he will say to me, And what I shall answer to my expostulation.


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And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, That he may run that readeth it.


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For the vision is yet for an appointed time, But it hasteneth to the end; it shall not deceive; If it tarry, wait for it; For it shall surely come; it shall not long delay.


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Behold, the soul of him that is puffed up shall not be at ease; But the just shall live by his faithfulness.


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Behold, the man of wine is outrageous; The proud man remaineth not at rest; He enlargeth his desire as the grave; He is as death, and cannot be satisfied; He gathereth to himself all the nations, And collecteth to himself all the kingdoms.


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Shall not all of them utter a song against him, Yea, songs of reproach and derision concerning him? And say, Woe to him that heapeth up that which belongeth not to him! For how long a time? That ladeth himself with goods taken in pledge!


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Shall not they suddenly rise up that will oppress thee, And awake, that will harass thee? Yea, thou shalt be their booty.


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Because thou hast plundered many kingdoms, All the residue of the nations shall plunder thee: For the blood of men, and for violence against the land, Against the city and all its inhabitants.


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Woe to him that procureth unjust gain for his house, That he may set his nest on high, That he may be delivered from the evil hand!


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Thou hast devised shame for thine house; By destroying many nations, thou hast brought ruin upon thyself.


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Behold, it is determined by Jehovah of hosts, That nations shall labor for the fire, And kingdoms weary themselves for naught.


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For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, As the waters cover the sea.


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Woe to him who giveth his neighbor drink; Who poureth out the strong wine, and maketh him drunken, That he may look upon his nakedness!


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Thou shalt be filled with shame instead of glory; Drink thou also, and show thy foreskin! To thee shall come the cup in the right hand of Jehovah, And foul shame shall be upon thy glory.


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For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee, And the destruction of the beasts which made them afraid, On account of the blood of men, and violence against the land, Against the city and all its inhabitants.


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What profiteth the graven image, When the maker hath graven it? Or the molten image, and the teacher of lies, That the artificer trusteth in his work, When he maketh dumb idols?


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Woe to him who saith to the wood, Awake! To the dumb stone, Arise! Will it teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, And there is no breath within it.


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O Jehovah, I have heard thy words, and tremble. O Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make it known, In wrath remember mercy!


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God cometh from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran; His glory covereth the heavens, And the earth is full of his praise.


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His brightness is as the light; Rays stream forth from his hand, And there is the hiding-place of his power.


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He standeth, and measureth the earth; He beholdeth, and maketh the nations tremble; The everlasting mountains are broken asunder; The eternal hills sink down; The eternal paths are trodden by him.


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Is the anger of Jehovah kindled against the rivers, Is thy wrath against the rivers, Is thy indignation against the floods, That thou ridest on with thy horses, Upon thy chariots of victory?


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Thy bow is made bare; Curses are the arrows of thy word; Thou causest rivers to break forth from the earth.


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The mountains see thee and tremble; The flood of waters overflows; The deep uttereth his voice, And lifteth up his hands on high.


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The sun and the moon remain in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows which fly, At the brightness of the lightning of thy spear.


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Thou goest forth for the deliverance of thy people, For the deliverance of thine anointed. Thou smitest the head of the house of the wicked; Thou destroyest the foundation even to the neck.


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Thou piercest with his own spears the chief of his captains, Who rushed like a whirlwind to scatter us; Who exulted, as if they should devour the distressed in a hiding-place.


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I have heard, and my heart trembleth; My lips quiver at the voice; Rottenness entereth into my bones, and my knees tremble, That I must wait in silence for the day of trouble, When the invader shall come up against my people!


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For the fig-tree shall not blossom, And there shall be no fruit upon the vine; The produce of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food. The flocks shall he cut off from the folds, And there shall be no herd in the stalls.


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The Lord Jehovah is my strength; He will make my feet like the hind's, And cause me to walk upon my high places. “To the leader of the music on my stringed instruments.”


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The word of Jehovah, which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.


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I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of heaven, and the fishes of the sea, And the stumbling-blocks with the wicked; And I will cut off man from the face of the land, saith Jehovah.


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I will stretch out my hand over Judah, And over all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, And I will cut off from this place the residue of Baal, The name of the idol-sacrificers with the priests,


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And those who bow themselves on the house-tops to the host of heaven, And those who bow themselves and swear by Jehovah, And also swear by their idol,


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Be silent before the Lord Jehovah! For the day of Jehovah is near; For Jehovah hath prepared a sacrifice; He hath appointed his guests.


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And in the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah it shall come to pass That I will punish the princes and the sons of the king, And all that are clothed with foreign apparel.


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In that day also will I punish all that leap over the threshold, That fill the houses of their master with violence and deceit.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah, That there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish-gate, And of a howling from the other part of the city, And of great destruction from the hills.


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Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh! For all the trafficking people are cut down; All they that bear silver are destroyed.


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And it shall come to pass at that time, That I will search Jerusalem with lamps, And I will punish the men that are settled on their lees; That say in their hearts, “Jehovah doeth neither good nor evil.”


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Their substance shall become a spoil, And their houses a desolation; They shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; And shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.


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The day of Jehovah is near, the great day; It is near, and hasteth greatly; The day of Jehovah shall resound; Bitterly shall the mighty man cry for help.


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That day is a day of wrath, A day of distress and anguish, A day of destruction and desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness,


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And I will distress the men, so that they shall walk like the blind, Because they have sinned against Jehovah. And their blood shall be poured out as dust, And their flesh as dung.


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Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah, But by the fire of his indignation shall the whole land be devoured; For destruction, and that a speedy one, will he bring Upon all that dwell in the land.<pb/>


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Before the decree bring forth, Before the day come upon you like chaff; Before the fierce anger of Jehovah come upon you, Before the day of the anger of Jehovah come upon you.


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Seek ye Jehovah, all ye lowly of the land, Ye, who obey his commands! Seek righteousness; seek lowliness; It may be that ye shall be hid in the day of the anger of Jehovah.


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For Gaza shall be forsaken, And Askelon a desolation; Ashdod shall be driven out at noonday, And Ekron shall be rooted up.


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Woe to the inhabitants of the sea-coasts, the nation of the Cherethites! This is the word of Jehovah against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.”


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The coast shall be for the residue of the house of Judah; Thereon shall they feed; In the houses of Askelon shall they lie down in the evening; For Jehovah their God will look upon them, and bring back their captives.


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I have heard the reproach of Moab, And the revilings of the sons of Ammon, With which they have reproached my people, And exalted themselves against their borders.


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Therefore, as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, And the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, A possession for thorns, and a pit for salt, and a perpetual desolation. The residue of my people shall spoil them, And the remainder of my nation shall possess them.


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This shall come upon them for their pride, Because they have uttered reproaches, and exalted themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.


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Jehovah will be terrible against them; For he will destroy all the gods of the earth; And before him shall worship, every one from his place, All the islands of the nations.


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He will also stretch out his hand against the North, And destroy Assyria, And make Nineveh a desolation, Even dry like a desert.


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And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, Yea, all the tribes of wild beasts; The pelican and the hedgehog shall lodge in the capitals of her pillars; A cry shall resound in the window; Desolation shall be upon the threshold; For her cedar-work shall be laid bare.


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This is the rejoicing city that dwelt in security, That said in her heart, “I, and none besides me!” Now is she become a desolation, a resting-place for wild beasts! Every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.<pb/>


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She listeneth to no voice, She receiveth not admonition; She trusteth not in Jehovah, She draweth not near to her God.


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Her princes within her are roaring lions; Her judges are evening wolves; They reserve nothing for the morning.


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Her prophets are vainglorious, Men of treachery; Her priests pollute the sanctuary, They violate the law.


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But Jehovah is just in the midst of her; He doeth no iniquity. Every morning bringeth he his righteousness to light; he faileth not; Yet the wicked knoweth not shame.


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I have cut off nations; their towers are destroyed; I have laid waste their streets so that none passeth through; Their cities are made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.


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Then I said, “Surely thou wilt fear me; thou wilt receive admonition, That thy habitation may not be cut off, As I have commanded concerning thee.” But they were diligent to commit iniquity In all their doings.


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Therefore wait for me, saith Jehovah. Until the day when I rise up to the prey. For my purpose is to gather the nations, to assemble the kingdoms, To pour upon them my indignation, Even all the heat of my wrath. For with the fire of mine anger shall all the earth be devoured.


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Then will I again bestow upon the nations pure lips, So that they shall all of them call upon the name of Jehovah, And serve him with one consent.


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From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia My suppliants, the sons of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering.


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In that day thou shalt not be ashamed For all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me; For I will take away from the midst of thee thy proud exulters, And thou shalt no more exalt thyself upon my holy mountain.


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The residue of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak falsehood; Neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth; Therefore shall they feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.


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Sing, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all thy heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!


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Jehovah hath taken away thy punishments; He hath removed thine enemies. The king of Israel, Jehovah, is in the midst of thee; Thou shalt see evil no more.


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Jehovah thy God will be in the midst of thee; The mighty one will save thee. He will rejoice over thee with gladness; He will pardon thee in his love; He will exult over thee with singing.


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I will gather them that mourn, far from the solemn assembly, They were far from thee; the reproach was a burden upon thee.


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Behold, at that time I will destroy all that afflict thee; And I will save the halting, and gather the scattered, And I will make them a praise and a name In every land where they have been put to shame.


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At that time I will bring you back, And at that time I will gather you; For I will make you a name and a praise among all the nations of the earth, When I bring back your captives before your eyes, saith Jehovah.


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In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high-priest, saying,


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: This people saith, The time is not yet come, the time that the house of Jehovah should be built.


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Ye sow much, and bring in little; Ye eat, but are not full; Ye drink, but are not satisfied; Ye clothe yourselves, but are not warmed; And he that earneth wages earneth them for a purse with holes.


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Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house, That I may have pleasure therein, And be glorified, saith Jehovah.


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Ye look for much, and lo, it cometh to little; And when ye bring it home, I blow it away; And why? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house which lieth waste, While ye run every one to his own house.


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And I have called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains; And upon the corn, and the new wine, and the oil; Upon that which the ground bringeth forth, And upon men, and upon cattle, And upon all the labor of the hands.


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Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high-priest, and all the remnant of people, hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him; and the people feared before Jehovah.


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Then spake Haggai, the messenger of Jehovah, by a message from Jehovah to the people, saying, I am with you, saith Jehovah.


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And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high-priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of people, so that they came and executed work upon the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God,


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In the seventh month, on the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by the prophet Haggai, saying:


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Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high-priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying:—


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Who is there left among you, That saw this house In its former glory? And what do ye see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?


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Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith Jehovah; And be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high-priest; And be strong, O all ye people of the land, saith Jehovah, and work! For I am with you, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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This is the covenant which I made with you when ye came out of Egypt, And my spirit remaineth among you: Fear ye not!


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For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet once more, in a short time, I will shake the heavens and the earth, The sea and the dry land.


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I will shake all the nations, And here shall come the precious things of all the nations; And I will fill this house with glory, Saith Jehovah of hosts.


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Greater shall be the glory of this latter house than of the former, Saith Jehovah of hosts; And in this place will I give peace, Saith Jehovah of hosts.


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On the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,


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If a man carry holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.


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Then said Haggai, If a man unclean by a dead body touch any of these things, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.


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Then answered Haggai and said:— So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith Jehovah; And so is all the work of their hands; And that which they offer there is unclean.


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And now, I pray you, consider [[how it hath gone with you]] From that day and upward, From the time before one stone was laid upon another in the temple of Jehovah.


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Since that time one hath come to a heap of twenty measures, And there were but ten; One hath come to a vat to draw out fifty vessels from the wine-press, And there were but twenty;


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I have smitten you with blasting, with mildew, and with hail, Even all the works of your hands; Yet none among you hath turned to me, saith Jehovah.


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Consider, I pray you, From that day and upward, From the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, From the day when the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was laid, Consider ye!


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Is there yet seed in the barn? Yea, as yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not borne. But from this day will I bless you.


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And the word of Jehovah came the second time to Haggai, on the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,


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And I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms, And I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, And I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them, And the horses and their riders shall come down, One by the sword of the other.


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In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will take thee, O Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, my servant, saith Jehovah, And keep thee as a signet-ring; For thee have I chosen, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah to Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying:—


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But say thou to them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Turn ye to me, saith Jehovah of hosts, And I will turn to you, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings! But they did not hear, nor hearken to me, saith Jehovah.


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But my words and my statutes, Which I commanded my servants, the prophets, Did they not overtake your fathers? And they returned and said, Even as Jehovah of hosts thought To do to us according to our ways, and according to doings, So hath he done to us.


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On the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah to Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying:


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I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding upon a red horse; and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the deep valley, and behind him were other horses, red, fox-colored, and white.


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Then I said, What are these, my lord? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show thee what these are.


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And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said, These are they whom Jehovah hath sent to go to and fro through the earth.


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And they answered the angel of Jehovah that stood among the myrtle-trees, and said, We have gone to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the earth is still and at rest.


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Then the angel of Jehovah answered, and said, O Jehovah of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?


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And the angel who talked with me said to me: Proclaim thou and say, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with great jealousy,


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And with great anger am I angry with the nations that are at ease; For I was but a little displeased, And they helped forward the affliction.


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Therefore thus saith Jehovah: I return to Jerusalem with mercies; My house shall be built in it, Saith Jehovah of hosts, And a measuring-line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem.


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Proclaim yet and say, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: My cities shall yet overflow with prosperity, And Jehovah will yet comfort Zion, And will yet choose Jerusalem.


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And I said to the angel that talked with me, What mean these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.


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Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; and now these are come to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.<pb/>


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Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.


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and said to him, Run, speak to that young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls On account of the multitude of men and of cattle within her.


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Ho! ho! flee ye out of the land of the North, saith Jehovah; For toward the four winds of heaven have I scattered you abroad, saith Jehovah.


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For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: For glory hath he sent me to the nations which plundered you; (For he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.)


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For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, And they shall be a spoil to those that served them; And ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me.


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Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For, behold, I will come, And I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah;


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And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, And shall be my people; And I will dwell in the midst of thee; And thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me to thee.


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And he showed me Joshua, the high-priest, standing before the angel of Jehovah, and the adversary standing at his right hand, to accuse him.


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And Jehovah said to the adversary:— Jehovah rebuke thee, thou adversary, Even Jehovah, who hath chosen Jerusalem, rebuke thee! Is not this man a brand plucked out of the fire?


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And he [[the angel]] spake and said to them [[the angels]] that stood before him, saying, Take off the filthy garments from him. And to him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and will clothe thee with goodly apparel.


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And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head! And they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of Jehovah stood by.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, And if thou wilt keep my charge, Then thou shalt also rule my house, And shalt also keep my courts, And I will give thee guides among these that stand by.


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Hear now, O Joshua, high-priest, Thou and thy companions, who sit before thee! For they are men that are signs. For, behold, I will cause to come my servant, the Branch.


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For, behold, the stone which I have laid before Joshua, Upon this one stone shall be seven eyes; Behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith Jehovah of hosts; And I will remove the iniquity of this land in one day.


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In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, Shall ye invite every one his neighbor Under the vine and under the fig-tree.<pb/>


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and said to me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold, a chandelier all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps upon it, and seven pipes to the seven lamps which are upon the top of it;


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Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, Knowest thou not what these mean? And I said, No, my lord.


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Then he answered and spake to me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying:— Not by might, nor by power, But by my spirit, Saith Jehovah of hosts.


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What art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain! And he shall bring forth the corner-stone amid shoutings, [[The people crying,]] “Grace, grace be to it!”


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The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands shall finish it. And thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me to you.


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For who hath despised the day of small things? With joy shall the plummet be seen in the hand of Zerubbabel by those seven; they are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth.


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Then I spake and said to him, What mean these two olive-trees, upon the right side of the chandelier and upon the left side thereof?


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And I spake the second time, and said to him, What mean these two olive-branches, which are by the side of the two golden tubes which empty the golden oil out of themselves?


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And he said to me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.


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Then said he to me:— This is the curse that goeth forth Over the Face of the whole land; For every one who stealeth shall be cut off from hence, according to it, And every one who sweareth falsely shall be cut off from hence, according to it.


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I will bring it forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, And it shall enter into the house of the thief, And into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; And it shall abide in his house, And shall consume it, with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.


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Then the angel who talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what this is which goeth forth.


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And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which goeth forth. He said, moreover, This is their image through all the land.


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And he said, This is the Wickedness. And he cast her into the ephah, and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.


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Then lifted I up mine eyes and looked, and behold, there came forth two women, and wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and heaven.


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And I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.


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And the angel answered and said to me, These are the four Winds of heaven, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.


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The black horses, which are thereto, go forth into the north country, and the white go forth after them; and the spotted go forth into the south country.


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And the red ones went forth, and sought to go, even to walk to and fro through the earth. And he said, Go, walk ye to and fro through the earth! So they walked to and fro through the earth.


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Then he cried to me, and spake to me, saying, Behold, these that go forth toward the land of the North shall execute my wrath against the land of the North.


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Take from those of the captivity, from Heldai, from Tobijah, and from Jedaiah, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah, whither they are come from Babylon;


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take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it upon the head of Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high-priest,


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and speak to him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts:— Behold a man whose name is the Branch, He shall spring up from his place, And he shall build the temple of Jehovah.


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He shall build the temple of Jehovah, And he shall bear the majesty, And sit and rule upon his throne, And be a priest upon his throne, And the counsel of peace shall be between them both.


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And the crown shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen, the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Jehovah.


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And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of Jehovah; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah, your God.<pb/>


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And it came to pass, in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of Jehovah came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;


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when they had sent to the house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before Jehovah,


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and to speak to the priests that were in the house of Jehovah of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”


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Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast for me, even for me?


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Are not these the words which Jehovah proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities round about her, and when the South and the Plain were inhabited?


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Thus spake Jehovah of hosts, saying, Judge true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother.


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And the widow, and the orphan, and the stranger, and the poor, oppress not, and meditate not evil against one another in your heart.


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yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, that they might not hear the law, and the words which Jehovah of hosts sent through his spirit by the former prophets. Therefore came great anger from Jehovah of hosts.


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And as he called and they would not hear, so they called and I would not hear, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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And I scattered them as with a whirlwind among all the nations, which they knew not. And the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through, nor returned; and thus the beautiful land was made a desolation.<pb/>


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I have been jealous for Zion with great jealousy, And with great wrath have I been jealous for her.


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Thus saith Jehovah: I have returned to Zion, And I will dwell in Jerusalem; And Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth, And the mountain of Jehovah of hosts the holy mountain.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell In the streets of Jerusalem, Every one with his staff in his hand for great age.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If it be difficult in the eyes Of the residue of this people in these days, Is it therefore difficult in my eyes, Saith Jehovah of hosts?


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will save my people From the land of the rising, and from the land of the setting sun.


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And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in Jerusalem; And they shall be my people, And I will be their God, In truth and in righteousness.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Let your hands be strong, Ye that hear in these days These words by the mouth of the prophets, Who were in the day when the foundation of the house of Jehovah of hosts was laid, The temple, that it might be built.


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For before these days There was no recompense for men, Nor was there any recompense for beasts; Nor to him that went out, nor to him that came in, was there security from the enemy; For I set all men one against another.


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For the seed shall be prosperous; The vine shall yield its fruit, And the earth shall yield her increase, And the heavens shall yield their dew; And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these.


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And it shall be, that as ye were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, So will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing. Fear not; let your hands be strong!


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For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: As I thought to do you evil, When your fathers provoked me to anger, Saith Jehovah of hosts, And I repented not,


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So have I again thought in these days To do good to Jerusalem, And to the house of Judah. Fear ye not!


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These are the things which ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; Judge according to truth, and for peace in your gates;


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And meditate not evil against one another in your hearts, And love not a false oath! For all these are things which I hate, saith Jehovah.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth month, And the fast of the seventh month, and the fast of the tenth month, Shall be to the house of Judah for joy and gladness, And cheerful festivals. But love ye truth and peace!


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: It shall yet come to pass, that many nations shall come, And the inhabitants of many cities;


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And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, “Let us go speedily to pray before Jehovah, And to seek Jehovah of hosts! I will go also!”


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Then shall come many nations and mighty kingdoms, To seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem, And to pray before Jehovah.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days shall ten men of all languages of the nations take hold, They shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, Saying, “We will go with you, For we have heard that God is with you.”<pb/>


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The prophecy of the word of Jehovah is against the land of Hadrach, And upon Damascus shall it come down, For the eye of Jehovah is over man, And over all the tribes of Israel,


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Though Tyre hath built her a fortress, And hath heaped up silver as dust, And fine gold as the mire of the streets,


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Behold, the Lord will cast her out, And will smite her power into the sea, And she shall be devoured by fire.


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Askelon shall see it and fear, Gaza also shall see and tremble, And Ekron, because her expectation shall be put to shame. The king shall perish from Gaza, And Askelon shall not be inhabited.


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And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, And his abominations from between his teeth; And even he shall be left for our God, And he shall be as a governor in Judah, And Ekron as a Jebusite.


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And I will encamp about my house, as a garrison, Against him that passeth by and him that returneth, And no oppressor shall pass through them any more; For now have I seen with my own eyes.


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Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion, Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, thy king cometh to thee; He is just and victorious, Mild, and riding upon an ass, Even upon a colt, the foal of an ass.


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And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, And the horse from Jerusalem; And the battle-bow shall be cut off. And he shall speak peace to the nations; And his dominion shall be from sea to sea, And from the river to the ends of the earth.


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As for thee also, on account of thy blood-sealed covenant, I will set thy prisoners free from the pit wherein is no water.


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Return ye to the strong-hold, ye prisoners of hope! Even this day do I declare it: I will restore double unto thee.


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For I will bend Judah as a bow for myself; As a bow will I extend Ephraim to the utmost; And I will raise up thy sons, O Zion, Against thy sons, O Greece, And make thee as the sword of a mighty man.


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And Jehovah shall be seen over them. And his arrow shall go forth as lightning; And the Lord Jehovah shall blow the trumpet, And shall go forth with whirlwinds of the South.


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Jehovah of hosts shall defend them; And they shall devour, and trample under feet the sling-stones, And they shall drink, and shout as through wine, And they shall be filled like a bowl, like the corners of the altar.


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And Jehovah, their God, shall save them in that day; He will save his people as a flock; For they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifting themselves up in his land.


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How great shall be their prosperity, and how great their beauty! Corn shall make the young men thrive, and new wire the maidens.<pb/>


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Ask ye of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain! It is Jehovah that maketh the lightning; And he will give you abundant showers, To every one the herb of the field.


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For the teraphim speak falsehood, And the diviners see a lie, And the dreams speak falsehood; Vain are their consolations. Therefore they wander as a flock; They are in distress, because there is no shepherd.


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My anger is kindled against the shepherds, And the bucks will I punish; For Jehovah of hosts will visit his flock, the house of Judah, And make them as his goodly horse in battle.


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From him shall come forth the corner-stone, From him the nail, From him the battle-bow; From him shall every leader come forth.


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And they shall be as mighty men, Who tread down their enemies in battle as the mire of the streets, And they shall fight, because Jehovah is with them, So that the riders on horses shall be confounded.


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And I will strengthen the house of Judah, And give victory to the house of Joseph, And I will set them in their dwellings, because I have compassion upon them; And they shall be as though I had not cast them off; For I am Jehovah, their God, and I will hear them.


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And Ephraim shall be as a mighty man, And their heart shall rejoice, as through wine; And their sons shall see it and rejoice, Their hearts shall rejoice in Jehovah.


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I will whistle for them, and will gather them; for I have redeemed them; And they shall increase as they increased before.


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Though I scatter them among the nations, Yet in far countries will they remember me; And they shall live with their children, and shall return.


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And I will bring them back from the land of Egypt, And from Assyria will I gather them; And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and of Lebanon, And there shall not be room enough for them.


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And he shall pass through the sea of distress, And he shall smite the sea of waves, And all the depths of the river shall be dried up; And the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, And the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.


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Howl, O cypress, for the cedar falleth! For the lofty ones are destroyed! Howl, O ye oaks of Bashan, For the high forest is come down!


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Hark! the voice of the howling of the shepherds, Because their glory is destroyed! The voice of the roaring of young lions, Because the pride of Jordan is destroyed!


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Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty, And which they who sell say, “Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich!” And whose shepherds spare them not.


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For I will no longer spare The inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; But, behold, I will deliver the men Every one into the hand of his neighbor, And into the hand of his king; And they shall smite the land, And I will not deliver out of their hand.


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So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly a miserable flock. And I took to me two crooks; the one I called Favor, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.


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Then I said, I will not feed you; that which dieth, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat the flesh of one another.


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And I took my staff Favor, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the nations.


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And it was broken in that day; and so the poor of the flock, who had regard to me, knew that it was the word of Jehovah.


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Then I said to them, If it seem good in your eyes, give me my wages; if not, keep them. And they weighed for my wages thirty shekels of silver.


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And Jehovah said to me, Cast it into the treasury, the goodly price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver, and cast them into the house of Jehovah, into the treasury.


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For lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land Who shall not care for those that are perishing, Nor seek that which is gone astray, Nor heal that which is wounded, Nor support that which cannot go; But he shall eat the flesh of the fat, And consume it even to the hoofs.


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Woe to the foolish shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword is upon his arm, and upon his right eye; His arm shall surely be withered, And his right eye shall surely be darkened!<pb/>


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The prophecy of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus saith Jehovah, who stretched out the heavens, And laid the foundation of the earth, And formed the spirit of man within him:


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Behold, I make Jerusalem a cup of giddiness to all the nations round about, And for Judah also shall it be In the siege against Jerusalem.


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And in that day will I make Jerusalem A burdensome stone for all nations; All that lift it up shall tear themselves, And all the nations of the earth shall gather themselves together against it.


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In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with amazement, And his rider with madness; I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, And every horse of the nations will I smite with blindness.


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Then shall the leaders of Judah say in their heart, “Strong are the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Through Jehovah of hosts, their God.”


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In that day will I make the leaders of Judah Like a fire-pan among wood, And like a torch of fire in a sheaf, And they shall devour, on the right hand and on the left, All the nations round about. And Jerusalem shall again dwell in her own place at Jerusalem.


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Jehovah will also save the tents of Judah first, That the glory of the house of David, And the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, May not magnify itself against Judah.


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In that day shall Jehovah defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, And he that is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, And the house of David shall be as God, As the angel of Jehovah before them.


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And it shall come to pass in that day That I will seek to destroy all the nations Which come against Jerusalem.


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Then will I pour upon the house of David, And upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, A spirit of supplication, and of prayer; And they shall look to me whom they pierced, And they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, And shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.


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In that day the mourning shall be great in Jerusalem, As the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo.


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And the land shall mourn, every family apart; The family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; The family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;


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The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; The family of the house of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;


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In that day there shall be a fountain opened To the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for uncleanness.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, Saith Jehovah of hosts, That I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, And they shall no more be remembered; And the prophets also, and the impure spirit, Will I cause to pass out of the land.


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And it shall come to pass, when any one shall yet prophesy, That his father and mother shall say to him, Even they that begat him, “Thou shalt not live; For thou hast spoken falsehood in the name of Jehovah.” And his father and mother that begat him shall pierce him through when he prophesieth.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophet shall be ashamed Every one of his vision when he prophesieth; Neither shall they wear a garment of hair, to deceive.


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But each shall say, “I am no prophet; I am a man that tilleth the ground; For a man hath purchased me from my youth.”


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And when one shall say to him, “What are these wounds in thy hands?” He shall answer, “Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.”


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Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, Even against the man who is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts! Smite the shepherd, and let the sheep be scattered! I will also turn my hand against the lambs.


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And it shall come to pass in all the land, saith Jehovah, That two parts therein shall be cut off and die; But the third part shall be left therein.


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And I will bring the third part through the fire, And will refine them, as silver is refined, And will try them, as gold is tried; They shall call upon me, and I will hear them; I will say, “It is my people.” And they shall say, “Jehovah is our God.”<pb/>


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For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; And the city shall be taken, And the houses shall be rifled, And the women shall be ravished; And half of the city shall go forth into captivity, And the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.


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Then shall Jehovah go forth, And fight against those nations, As he once fought in the day of battle.


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And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, Which is before Jerusalem on the east; And the Mount of Olives shall be cloven in the middle of it, eastward and westward, Into a very great valley; And half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, And half of it toward the south.


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And ye shall flee through the valley of my mountains, For the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal; Yea, ye shall flee, as ye fled before the earthquake In the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. And Jehovah, my God, will come, And all his holy ones with him.


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And there shall be one day, (Known to Jehovah is it,) It shall be neither day nor night; But at the time of evening there shall be light.


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And it shall come to pass in that day That living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, Half of them toward the eastern sea, And half of them toward the western sea; In summer and in winter shall they be.


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The whole land shall be turned into a plain, From Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem; And the city shall be exalted and inhabited in her place, From the gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, And to the corner gate, And from the tower of Hananeel to the king's wine-presses.


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Men shall dwell therein, And there shall be no more destruction; But Jerusalem shall dwell securely.


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And this shall be the plague With which Jehovah will smite all the nations Which warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, And their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, And their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, That there shall be a great tumult among them from Jehovah; And they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, And his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.


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And Judah also shall fight against Jerusalem; But the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together, Gold and silver and apparel in great abundance.


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And so shall be the plague of the horse, Of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, And of every beast which shall be in those camps, Even as this plague.


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And it shall be, that every one that is left Of all the nations which come against Jerusalem, Even they shall go up, from year to year, To worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, And to keep the feast of tabernacles.


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And it shall be that whoso will not go up, Of the families of the earth, to Jerusalem, To worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, Upon them shall be no rain.


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And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, Then not for them shall there be water. The plague shall come upon them With which Jehovah shall smite the nations Which go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.


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This shall be the punishment of Egypt, And the punishment of all the nations That come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.


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In that day, upon the bells of the horses Shall be written, “Holy to Jehovah.” And the pots in the house of Jehovah Shall be as the bowls before the altar.


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And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah Shall be holy to Jehovah of hosts; And all that sacrifice shall come, And shall take of them, and seethe therein. And there shall be no more a trader In the house of Jehovah of hosts, in that day.


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I have loved you, saith Jehovah. But ye say, “Wherein hast thou loved us?” Was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith Jehovah? Yet I loved Jacob,


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And Esau I hated; And I made his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance to be habitations of the desert.


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Although Edom say, “We are ruined, Yet will we build again the desolate places.” Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They may build, but I will throw down; And men shall call them “The impious land, The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation forever.”


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A son honoreth his father, And a servant his master; If I, then, be a father, where is mine honor? And if I be a master, where is my fear? Saith Jehovah of hosts to you, ye priests that despise my name. Ye say, “Wherein do we despise thy name?”


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Ye bring polluted food to mine altar. And ye say, “Wherein do we pollute thee?” In that ye say, “The table of Jehovah is contemptible.”


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(1:7A) For when ye bring the blind for sacrifice, [[ye say,]] “It is not evil.” (1:8) And when ye offer the lame and the sick, [[Ye say,]] “It is not evil.” Offer it, then, to thy governor; Will he be pleased with thee, Or have regard to thee? Saith Jehovah of hosts.


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And now, I pray you, beseech God to be gracious unto us! Since such things are done by you, Will he have regard to you, Saith Jehovah of hosts?


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O that some one of you would close the doors, That ye might not kindle the fire upon mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, Neither will I accept an offering at your hand.


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For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same My name shall be great among the nations. And in every place shall incense be offered to my name, And a pure offering; For my name shall be great among the nations, Saith Jehovah of hosts.


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But ye profane it, In that ye say, “The table of Jehovah is polluted, And what is offered thereon, even its food, is contemptible.”


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Ye say also, “Behold, what weariness!” And ye snuff at it, Saith Jehovah of hosts; And ye bring that which is plundered, and lame, and sick, And present it for an offering; Shall I accept it at your hand? Saith Jehovah.


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Cursed be the deceiver, Who hath in his flock a male, And yet voweth and sacrificeth to Jehovah that which is marred; For I am a great king, saith Jehovah of hosts; And my name is terrible among the nations.<pb/>


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If ye will not hearken, If ye will not lay it to heart, To give glory to my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will send a curse upon you, And I will curse your blessings; Yea, I have cursed them already, Because ye do not lay it to heart.


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Behold, I will rebuke your seed, And I will scatter dung in your faces, The dung of your solemn feasts, And ye shall be carried to it.


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And ye shall know that I have sent to you this commandment, That my covenant may remain with Levi, Saith Jehovah of hosts.


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My covenant was with him for life and peace, Which I gave to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, And was afraid before my name.


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The law of truth was in his mouth, And unrighteousness was not found in his lips; He walked with me in truth and equity, And turned many away from iniquity.


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For the lips of the priest should keep knowledge, And men should seek the law from his mouth; For he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.


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But ye have departed from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble at the law, And ye have made void the covenant with Levi, Saith Jehovah of hosts.


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Therefore will I also make you Despicable and base before all the people; According as ye have not kept my ways. But have had respect to persons in the law.


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Have we not all one Father? Hath not one God created us? Why should we deal treacherously one against another, And profane the covenant made with our fathers?


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Judah hath dealt treacherously, And an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah hath profaned the holy people of Jehovah, which he loveth, And hath married the daughter of a strange god.


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Jehovah will cut off the man that doeth this, Him that waketh and him that answereth, from the tents of Jacob, And him that bringeth an offering to Jehovah of hosts.


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And this also ye do: Ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, With weeping and with groans, So that he no more hath regard to the offering, Nor receiveth it with good-will from your hand.


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Yet ye say, “Wherefore?” It is because Jehovah has been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, Against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully, Although she was thy companion and thy covenanted wife.


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But did not He make one only? And yet had he a residue of the spirit; And wherefore one? He sought a godly race. Therefore take heed to your spirit, And be not unfaithful to the wife of thy youth!


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For I hate him that putteth away, Saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, And him that covereth his garment with violence, Saith Jehovah of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and be not unfaithful.


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Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words; Yet ye say, “Wherein have we wearied him?” In that ye say, “Every one of them that do evil Is good in the sight of Jehovah, And in them he hath delight”; Or, “Where is the God of judgment?”<pb/>


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Behold, I will send my messenger, And he shall prepare the way before me; And the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; And the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, Behold, he shall come, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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But who shall abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appeareth? For he shall be like the fire of the refiner, And like the soap of the fuller.


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And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, And he shall purify the sons of Levi, And shall refine them as gold and silver, That, being holy to Jehovah, they may bring an offering in righteousness.


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Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasing to Jehovah, As in the days of old, And as in former years.


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And I will come near to you to judgment; And I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, and against adulterers, and against false swearers, And against those who defraud the hireling of his hire, And oppress the widow and the fatherless, And turn aside the stranger from his right, And fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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From the days of your fathers have ye turned aside from my statutes, And have not kept them; Return to me, and I will return to you, Saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, “Wherein shall we return?”


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Shall a man rob God, That ye have robbed me? But ye say, “Wherein have we robbed thee?” In tithes and offerings.


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Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, That there be food in my house; And try me now in this, Saith Jehovah of hosts, Whether I will not open to you the windows of heaven, And pour out upon you a blessing, until there is none left.


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And I will rebuke for you the devourer, And he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, Nor shall your vine be barren in the field, Saith Jehovah of hosts.


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Your words have been bold against me, saith Jehovah; Yet ye say, “What have we spoken against thee?”


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Ye have said, “It is a vain thing to serve God”; And, “What profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, And that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?


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Therefore we call the proud happy; Yea, they that do wickedness are built up; Yea, they tempt God, and are delivered.”


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Then they that feared Jehovah spake to one another, And Jehovah gave ear and heard; And a book of remembrance was written before him, For them that feared Jehovah, And that thought upon his name.


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And they shall be to me, saith Jehovah of hosts, In the day which I appoint, as my own possession; And I will spare them, As a father spareth his own son that serveth him.


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Then shall ye return and see What is the difference between the righteous and the wicked, Between him who serveth God And him who serveth him not.<pb/>


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For, behold, the day cometh, which shall burn as an oven; Then shall all the proud, And all that do wickedness, be stubble; And the day that cometh shall burn them up, Saith Jehovah of hosts; It shall leave them neither root nor branch.


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But for you that fear my name Shall the sun of salvation arise With healing under his wings. And ye shall go forth and leap for joy, Like calves of the stall.


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And ye shall tread down the wicked; For they shall be as dust under the soles of your feet In the day which I appoint, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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Remember ye the law of Moses, my servant, Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, My statutes and precepts!


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Behold, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, Before the day of Jehovah come, The great and terrible day.


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He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, And the heart of the children to their fathers, That I may not come And smite the land with a curse.


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So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the removal to Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the removal to Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.


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Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this manner. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit.


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Then Joseph her husband, being righteous, and not willing to expose her to shame, purposed to put her away privately.


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But while he thought on these things, lo! an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, fear not to take to thee Mary thy wife; for that which is conceived in her is by the Holy Spirit.


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And she will bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he will save his people from their sins.


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“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel;” that is, when interpreted, God-is with-us.


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Then Joseph, on waking up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took to him his wife;


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Now when Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, lo! there came magians from the East to Jerusalem,


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“And thou Bethlehem, land of Judah, art by no means least among the princes of Judah; for out of thee shall come a ruler, who shall feed my people Israel.”


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And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search carefully for the child; and when ye have found him, bring me word, that I also may go and do him homage.


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When they had heard the king, they departed. And lo! the star, which they had seen in the East, went before them, till it came and stood over where the child was.


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and when they had come into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and did homage to him; and opening their treasures, they presented him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.


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And having been warned by God in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.


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And when they had gone, lo! an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and remain there until I speak to thee; for Herod will seek the child, to destroy him.


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Then Herod, when he saw that he had been deceived by the magians, was greatly enraged; and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had ascertained from the magians.


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“A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping, and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they were no more.”


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saying, Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel; for they who sought the child's life are dead.


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But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judaea in the place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither; and being warned by God in a dream, he withdrew into the parts of Galilee,


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For this is he that was spoken of through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths!”


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And John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.


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But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he said to them, Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?


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and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.


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And already is the axe lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that beareth not good fruit is to be cut down, and cast into the fire.


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I indeed baptize you in water, for repentance; but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to bear; he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire.


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His winnowing-shovel is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.


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And Jesus answering said to him, Suffer it now; for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him.


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And Jesus, as soon as he was baptized, went up from the water; and, lo! the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God, descending like a dove, coming upon him.


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And lo! a voice from the heavens, saying, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”<pb/>


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And the tempter came and said to him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.


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But he answered and said, It is written, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.”


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and saith to him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down; for it is written, “He will give his angels charge concerning thee; and in their hands they will bear thee up, that thou mayst not dash thy foot against a stone.”


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Again, the Devil taketh him m an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory;


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Then saith Jesus to him, Be gone, Satan! for it is written, “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”


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And leaving Nazara, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, on the shore of the lake, in the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali;


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“The land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the lake beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,


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the people that sat in darkness, saw a great light; and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light arose.”


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And while walking by the lake of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the lake; for they were fishers.


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And going on from thence, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.


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And he went round the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.


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And his fame went forth into all Syria; and they brought to him all that were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were possessed by demons, and lunatics, and those who were struck with palsy; and he healed them.


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And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain; and when he had sat down, his disciples came to him.


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Blessed are ye, when men revile you, and persecute you, and say every thing that is bad against you, falsely, for my sake.


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Rejoice, and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in heaven; for so did they persecute the prophets that were before you.


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Ye are the salt of the earth. But if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall itself be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot by men.


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nor do men light a lamp, and put it under the bushel, but on the lamp-stand; and it giveth light to all that are in the house.


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In like manner let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.


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For truly do I say to you, Not till heaven and earth pass away, shall one jot or one tittle pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled.


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Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, will be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.


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For I say to you, Unless your righteousness shall exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye will not enter the kingdom of heaven.


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Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, “Thou shalt not kill; and whoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the Judges.”


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But I say to you, that whoever is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the Judges; and whoever shall say to his brother, Simpleton! shall be in danger of the Council; and whoever shall say, Fool! shall be in danger of hell-fire.


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Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath aught against thee,


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leave there thy gift before the altar, and go away; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.


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Agree with thine adversary at law quickly, while thou art on the road with him; lest the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.


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But I say to you, that whoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.


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And if thy right eye cause thee to offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee that one of thy members should perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell.


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And if thy right hand cause thee to offend, cut it off, and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee that one of thy members should perish, than that thy whole body should go away into hell.


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But I say to you, that whoever putteth away his wife, unless it be on account of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery; and whoever shall marry her when put away, committeth adultery.


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Again ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, “Thou shalt not swear falsely, but shalt perform to the Lord thine oaths.”


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But I say to you, that ye resist not the evil-doer; but whoever smiteth thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also;


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that ye may become sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.


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But take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen by them; otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.


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Therefore when thou doest alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Truly do I say to you, They have received their reward.


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And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites are; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Truly do I say to you, They have received their reward.


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But do thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and, when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will reward thee.


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But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do; for they think that they shall be heard for the multitude of their words.


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Be not ye therefore like them; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.


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Moreover, when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance; for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly do I say to you, They have received their reward.


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that thou appear not to men to be fasting, but to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will reward thee.


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Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where the moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;


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but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumeth, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.


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but if thine eye be disordered, thy whole body will be in darkness. If then the light that is within thee is darkness, how great that darkness!


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No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate one, and love the other; or else he will cleave to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.


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Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?


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Behold the birds of the air, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much greater value than they?


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And why are ye anxious about raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin;


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And if God so clothes the herbage of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into an oven, will he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?


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Therefore be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we he clothed?


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For after all these things do the gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.


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For with what judgment ye judge, ye will be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it will be measured to you.


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And why dost thou look at the mote that is in thy brother's eye, and not perceive the beam in thine own eye?


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Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me take the mote out of thine eye; when, lo! the beam is in thine own eye?


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Hypocrite! first cast the beam out of thine own eye; and then wilt thou see clearly to take the mote out of thy brother's eye.


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Give not that which is holy to dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine; lest they trample them under their feet, and turn upon you and rend you.


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For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, the door will be opened.


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If ye then, though evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him!


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All things, then, whatever ye would that men should do to you, do ye also so to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.


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Enter in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction; and many are they who go in thereat.


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Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.


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Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.


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Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in thy name, and in thy name cast out demons, and in thy name work many miracles?


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Every one then that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened to a wise man, who built his house upon a rock;


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and the rain descended, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not; for it was founded upon a rock.


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And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand;


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and the rain descended, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell; and great was its fall.


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And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching.


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And lo! there came a leper and bowed down before him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst cleanse me.


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And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.


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And Jesus saith to him, See thou tell no one; but go, show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.


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But the centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof; but only command with a word, and my servant will be made well.


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For even I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me; and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.


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When Jesus heard this, he marveled, and said to those who followed, Truly do I say to you, Not even in Israel have I found such faith.


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And I say to you, that many will come from the east and the west, and recline at table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.


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But the sons of the kingdom will go out into the outer darkness; there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.


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And Jesus said to the centurion, Go thy way; as thou hast believed, so be it done to thee. And the servant was made well in that hour.


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And when evening came, they brought to him many that were possessed by demons; and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were sick;


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that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He himself took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”


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And Jesus saith to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have lodging-places; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.


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And, lo! a great tempest arose on the lake, so that the boat was almost covered by the waves; but he was sleeping.


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And he saith to them, Why are ye fearful, ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the waves; and there was a great calm.


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And the men marveled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the waves obey him?


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And when he had come to the other side, into the country of the Gadarenes, there met him two men possessed by demons, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass by that way.


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And lo! they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Son of God? Didst thou come here to torment us before the time?


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And he said to them, Go. And they came out, and went into the swine. And lo! the whole herd rushed down the steep into the lake, and perished in the waters.


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And the herdsmen fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, and what had happened to the men possessed by demons.


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And lo! the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they besought him to depart from their borders.<pb/>


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And lo! they brought to him a man that was palsied, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the palsied man, Be of good cheer, son; thy sins are forgiven.


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But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority on earth to forgive sins,—then he saith to the palsied man,—Arise, take up thy bed, and go to thy house.


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And when the multitudes saw it, they were struck with fear, and gave glory to God, who had given such power to men.


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And as Jesus passed on from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the custom-house; and he saith to him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.


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And it came to pass, as he was reclining at table in the house, lo! many publicans and sinners came and reclined with Jesus and his disciples.


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And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why doth your teacher eat with the publicans and sinners?


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But go ye and learn what this meaneth: “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.” For I came not to call righteous men, but sinners.


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Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast, and thy disciples fast not?


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And Jesus said to them, Can the companions of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then will they fast.


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No one putteth a patch of undressed cloth on an old garment; for the piece that filleth in teareth away from the garment, and a worse rent is made.


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Nor do men put new wine into old skins; else the skins burst, and the wine runneth out, and the skins are spoilt. But they put new wine into new skins, and both are preserved together.


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While he was thus speaking to them, lo! a certain ruler came in and bowed down before him, saying, My daughter just now died; but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she will live.


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And, lo! a woman, who had had an issue of blood for twelve years, came up behind, and touched the fringe of his garment.


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And he turned round, and seeing her, said, Be of good cheer, daughter; thy faith hath made thee well. And the woman was made well from that hour.


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And as Jesus passed on from thence, two blind men followed him, crying out and saying, Have pity on us, Son of David!


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And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus saith to them, Do ye believe that I am able to do this? They say to him, Yea, Lord.


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And when the demon was cash out, the dumb man spoke. And the multitudes marveled, saying, Never was the like seen in Israel.


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And Jesus went round all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease.


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And seeing the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered about, as sheep having no shepherd.


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And he called to him his twelve disciples, and gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every sickness and every disease.


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Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;


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These twelve Jesus sent forth, when he had charged them, saying, Go not away to gentiles, and enter not any city of the Samaritans;


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nor bag for the journey, nor two coats, nor sandals, nor a staff. For the laborer is worthy of his living.


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And into whatever city or town ye enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye leave the place.


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And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.


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And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye go out of that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.


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Truly do I say to you, It will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.


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Lo! I send you forth as sheep into the midst of wolves. Be therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.


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But beware of men. For they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;


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and ye will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, that ye may bear testimony to them and to the gentiles.


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But when they deliver you up, be not anxious as to how or What ye shall speak; for it will be given you in that hour what ye shall speak.


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And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will rise up against their parent, and put them to death;


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And when they persecute you in one city, flee to another. For truly do I say to you, Ye will not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of man hath come.


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It is enough for the disciple to be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they so call those of his household!


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Fear them not therefore. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hid, that will not be known.


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What I say to you in darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim ye upon the housetops.


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And fear not those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.


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Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall to the ground without your Father.


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Every one therefore who shall acknowledge me before men, him will I also acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven.


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For I came to set a man at variance with his father, and a daughter with her mother, and a bride with her mother-in-law;


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He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me;


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He that receiveth a prophet because he is a prophet, will receive a prophet's reward, and he that receiveth a righteous man because he is a righteous man, will receive a righteous man's reward.


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And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of his charge to his twelve disciples, that he departed thence, to teach and to preach in their cities.


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The blind receive sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and to the poor good tidings are brought;


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And, as these were going, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? the reeds shaken by the wind?


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But why did ye go out? to see a man clothed in soft raiment? Lo! they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.


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For this is he of whom it is written: “Lo! I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.”


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Truly do I say to you, Among those born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist. But he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.


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The Son of man came eating and drinking; and they say, Behold, a glutton and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! But wisdom is justified by her works.


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Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.


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And thou, Capernaum! shalt thou be exalted to heaven? Thou shalt be brought down to the underworld; for if the miracles which were done in thee had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.


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At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that, though thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, thou didst reveal them to babes.


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All things were delivered to me by my Father; and no one knoweth the Son but the Father; nor doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it is the will of the Son to reveal him.


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Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest for your souls.


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At that time Jesus went on the sabbath through the grain-fields; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of grain, and to eat.


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But the Pharisees, seeing it, said to him, Lo! thy disciples are doing that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath.


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how he went into the house of God, and they ate the show-bread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but for the priests alone?


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But if ye had known what this meaneth, “I desire mercy and not sacrifice,” ye would not have condemned the guiltless.


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And, lo! there was a man having a withered hand. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath? that they might accuse him.


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And he said to them, Who of you that owneth one sheep, if it fall into a pit on the sabbath, will not lay hold of it, and lift it out?


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Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored sound as the other.


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“Behold my servant, whom I chose; my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased; I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will declare judgment to the nations.


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A bruised reed he will not break, and smoking flax he will not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.


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Then was brought to him one possessed by a demon, blind and dumb; and he healed him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw.


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And he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and no city or house divided against itself will stand.


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And if I cast out the demons through Beelzebul, through whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore shall they be judges of you.


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But if I cast out the demons through the Spirit of God, then hath the kingdom of God already come to you.


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Therefore I say to you, All manner of sin and evil-speaking will be forgiven to men; but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.


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And whoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaketh against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this world, or in the world to come.


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Either say that the tree is good, and its fruit good; or say that the tree is bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. Brood of vipers!


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How can ye, evil as ye are, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.


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The good man, from his good treasure, bringeth out good things; and the evil man, from his evil treasure, bringeth out evil things.


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And I say to you, that for every idle word that men shall speak, they will give account in the day of judgment.


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Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, we wish to see a sign from thee.


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But he answered and said to them, A wicked and adulterous generation is seeking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet.


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For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


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The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, lo! something more than Jonah is here.


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The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and lo! something more than Solomon is here.


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But when the unclean spirit is gone out from a man, it goeth through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth it not.


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Then it saith, I will return to my house whence I came out. And on coming, it findeth it empty, and swept, and put in order.


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While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, lo! his mother and his brothers were standing without, seeking to speak with him.


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And one said to him, Behold, thy mother and thy brothers are standing without, seeking to speak with thee.


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and great multitudes were gathered together to him, so that he went into a boat, and sat down; and all the multitude stood on the beach.


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And others fell upon rocky places, where they had not much earth; and they sprung up immediately, because they had no depth of earth.


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And others fell upon good ground; and yielded fruit, some a hundred fold, some Sixty, some thirty fold.


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He answered and said, Because to you it hath been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it hath not been given.


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For whoever hath, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever hath not, from him will be taken away even what he hath.


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Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, nor understand.


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And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, “Ye will hear indeed, and not understand; and ye will see indeed, and not perceive.


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For this people's heart hath become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn from their ways, and I should heal them.”


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Truly do I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which ye see, and did not see them; and to hear the things which ye hear, and did not hear them.


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When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, the Evil One cometh, and snatcheth away that which was sown in his heart; this man is what was sown by the wayside.


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And what was sown on the rocky places, this is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy,


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but, having no root within him, endureth only for a time; and when tribulation or persecution ariseth on account of the word, he immediately falleth away.


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And what was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.


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And what was sown on the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who also beareth fruit, and yieldeth, one a hundred fold, another sixty, another thirty fold.


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Another parable he put forth to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.


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So the servants of the householder came and said to him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath it tares?


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He said to them, An enemy did this. The servants say to him, Dost thou wish then that we go and gather them up?


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Let both grow together until the harvest; and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles, to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.


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Another parable he put forth to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard, which a man took and sowed in his field.


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Which is the least indeed of all seeds; but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.


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Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.


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All these things Jesus spoke to the multitudes in parables, and without a parable he spoke nothing to them;


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that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet Isaiah, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation [[of the world]].”


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Then he sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.


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The field is the world; the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; but the tares are the sons of the Evil One;


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the enemy that sowed them is the Devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.


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The Son of man will send forth his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those who do iniquity,


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Then will the righteous shine forth as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears, let him hear.


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The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hid in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy thereof he goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.


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Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net, cast into the sea, and bringing together fish of every kind;


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which, when it was full, they drew upon the beach, and sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but threw the bad away.


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And he said to them, Thus then every scribe, instructed for the kingdom of heaven, is like a householder, who bringeth out from his storehouse things new and old.


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And having come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and the miracles?


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Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas?


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And they took offence at him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.


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and said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he hath risen from the dead, and therefore do these powers work in him.


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For Herod had seized John, and bound him, and put him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.


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And the king was sorry; but on account of his oaths, and of those at table with him, he ordered it to be given,


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When Jesus heard of it, he withdrew thence in a boat into a desert place apart; and the multitudes hearing of it followed him on foot from the cities.


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And when he came forth he saw a great multitude; and he was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick.


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And when it was evening, the disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and it is now late; send the multitudes away therefore, that they may go to the villages and buy themselves victuals.


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And bidding the multitudes to lie down on the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and, looking up to heaven, he blessed; and having broken the loaves he gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.


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And they all ate, and were filled. And they took up of the fragments that remained, twelve baskets full.


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and he constrained the disciples to get into the boat, and to go before him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.


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And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain apart to pray. And when evening came, he was there alone.


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And seeing him walking on the lake, they were dismayed, saying, It is a spectre; and they cried out for fear.


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And Jesus immediately stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and said to him, Thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt?


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And the men of that place, when they saw who he was, sent out into all that country round, and brought to him all the diseased,


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and besought him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched were made well.<pb/>


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Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.


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But he answered and said to them, Why do ye too transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?


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For God commanded, saying, “Honor thy father and thy mother;” and, “He that curseth father or mother, let him surely die.”


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But ye say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, Whatever thou mightst receive in aid from me is a gift [[to God]],


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he shall not honor his father or his mother. Thus have ye made void the law of God for the sake of your tradition.


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Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.


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Then come the disciples, and say to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard that saying?


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Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a ditch.


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Do ye not understand, that whatever entereth the mouth goeth into the stomach, and is cast out into the drain?


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For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, blasphemies.


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And, lo! a woman of Canaan came out from those borders, and cried out, saying, Have compassion on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is grievously afflicted with a demon.


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But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying Send her away, for she is crying out after us.


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But he answering said, It is not allowable to take the children's bread, and throw it to the little dogs.


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And she said, Yea, Lord; for the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.


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Then Jesus answering said to her, O woman, great is thy faith; be it done to thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was cured from that hour.


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And departing thence, Jesus came near the lake of Galilee; and going up the mountain, he sat down there.


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And great multitudes came to him, having with them those who were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others; and they laid them down at his feet, and he healed them;


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so that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed sound, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they gave glory to the God of Israel.


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And Jesus having called his disciples to him, said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have remained with me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest they faint on the road.


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And the disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in a wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?


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he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and broke, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.


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And they all ate, and were filled; and they took up of the fragments that remained, seven baskets full.


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Then he sent away the multitudes, and went on board the boat, and came into the borders of Magadan.<pb/>


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And in the morning, A storm today! for the sky is red and lowering. Ye know how to judge of the face of the sky, and can ye not discern the signs of the times?


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A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and no sign will be given to it, but the sign of Jonah. And he left them and went away.


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And Jesus knowing it, said, Why are ye reasoning among yourselves, ye of little faith, because ye took no bread?


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Do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?


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How is it that ye do not understand, that I spoke not to you of loaves? But [[I said]] Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


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Then they understood, that he did not bid them beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


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And Jesus, having come into the region of Caesarea Philippi, asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of man is?


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And they said, Some, John the Baptist; but some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.


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And Jesus answering said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonah; for flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.


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And I on my part say to thee, that thou art Peter, a rock, and on this rock will I build my church, and the gates of the underworld shall not prevail against it.


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I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever thou shalt bind on earth will be bound in heaven; and whatever thou shalt loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.


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From that time Jesus began to show to his disciples, that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and rise again on the third day.


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Then Peter, taking him aside, began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord! This shall not be to thee.


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But he turned and said to Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan! thou art my stumbling-block; for thy thoughts are not on the things of God, but on those of men.


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Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one chooseth to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.


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For whoever chooseth to save his life will lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake will find it.


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For what will a man be profited, if be gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?


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For the Son of man is to come in the glory of his Father, with his angels; and then will he render to every one according to his works.


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Truly do I say to you, There are some of those standing here who will not taste of death, till they have seen the Son of man coming in his kingdom.<pb/>


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And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and leadeth them up into a high mountain apart.


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And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun; and his garments became white as the light.


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And Peter answering said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here; if thou wilt, I will make here three tents; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.


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While he was yet speaking, lo! a bright cloud overshadowed them; and lo! a voice out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; hear him.”


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And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell what hath been seen to no one, until the Son of man hath risen from the dead.


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But I say to you, that Elijah hath already come, and they knew him not, but did with him whatever they would. So also is the Son of man to suffer by them.


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Lord, have compassion on my son; for he is a lunatic, and is sorely afflicted; for he often falleth into the fire, and often into the water.


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Then Jesus answering said, Unbelieving and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him hither to me.


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And he said to them, Because of your want of faith. For truly do I say to you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it will remove; and nothing will be impossible to you.


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And while they were together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,


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and they will put him to death; and on the third day he will rise again. And they were greatly grieved.


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And when they had come to Capernaum, those who received the half-shekel came to Peter, and said, Doth not your teacher pay the half-shekel?


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He saith, Yes. And when he had come into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? Of whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes? Of their own sons, or of strangers?


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and said, Truly do I say to you, Unless ye are changed, and become as children, ye will not enter the kingdom of heaven.


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But whoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe in me to fall away, it were better for him to have a great millstone hung round his neck, and be swallowed up in the depth of the sea.


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Woe to the world because of stumbling-blocks! For it must needs be that stumbling-blocks come; but woe to the man through whom the stumbling-block cometh!


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And if thy hand or thy foot is causing thee to fall, cut it off, and cast it from thee; it is better for thee to enter into life maimed or lame, than having two hands, or two feet, to be cast into the everlasting fire.


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And if thine eye is causing thee to fall, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell-fire.


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Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, that their angels in heaven continually behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.


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What think ye? if a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them hath gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety-nine upon the mountains, and go and seek that which hath gone astray?


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And if it happen that he find it, truly do I say to you, he rejoiceth over it more than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.


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Thus it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.


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Moreover, if thy brother sin, go and reprove him between thee and him alone. If he listen to thee, thou hast gained thy brother;


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but if he do not listen, take with thee one or two more; that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.


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And if he disregard them, tell the matter to the church; but if he disregard the church also, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican.


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Truly do I say to you, Whatever ye shall bind on earth will be bound in heaven; and whatever ye shall loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.


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Again, I say to you, that if two of you shall agree on earth concerning any thing that they shall ask, it will be done for them by my Father o who is in heaven.


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Then came Peter, and said to him, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?


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But as he was unable to pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.


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Then that servant fell down and did obeisance to him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.


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But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him a hundred denaries; and he laid hold of him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay what thou owest.


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His fellow-servant then fell down and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee.


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Then his fellow-servants, seeing what was done, were greatly grieved; and went and told their lord all that had been done.


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Then his lord, having called him, saith to him, Thou wicked servant! All that debt I forgave thee because thou didst beseech me;


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And his lord was enraged, and delivered him to the inflicters of punishment, till he should pay all that was due to him.


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And it came to pass, that when Jesus had ended these sayings, he removed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judaea, beyond the Jordan.


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And the Pharisees came to him, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?


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And he answering said, Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning, made them male and female?


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And He said: “For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.”


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So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God joined together, let not man put asunder.


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They say to him, Why then did Moses ordain that a man may give his wife a writing of divorcement, and put her away?


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He saith to them, Moses, on account of your hardness of heart, allowed you m put away your wives; but in the beginning it was not so.


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And I say to you, Whoever putteth away his wife, except for fornication, and marrieth another, committeth adultery.


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For there are eunuchs, who were so born from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs, who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs, who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.


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Then there were brought to him children, that be might lay his hands on them, and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.


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But Jesus said to them, Suffer the children, and forbid them not to come to me; for to such belongeth the kingdom of heaven.


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And lo! one came to him and said, Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have everlasting life?


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And he said to him, Why dost thou ask me concerning what is good? There is but one who is good. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.


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Jesus said to him, If thou wilt be perfect, go, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.


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Then Jesus said to his disciples, Truly do I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.


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And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.


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But Jesus, fixing his eyes on them, said, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.


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And Jesus said to them, Truly do I say to you, that, in the renovation when the Son of man sitteth on the throne of his glory, ye who have followed me shall also yourselves sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And every one who hath left brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, or houses, for the sake of my name, will receive many fold more, and will inherit everlasting life.


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For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.


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and said to them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatever is right, I will give you. And they went.


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And going out about the eleventh hour, he found others standing, and saith to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?


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And when evening came, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their pay, beginning with the last, and going on to the first.


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But when the first came, they supposed that they should receive more; and they too received each a denary.


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saying, These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day.


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But he answering said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst not thou agree with me for a denary?


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and will deliver him up to the gentiles to mock, and scourge, and crucify; and on the third day he will rise again.


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Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, falling down before him, and asking a certain thing of him.


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And he said to her, What is thy wish? She saith to him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left, in thy kingdom.


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But Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink the cup which I am to drink? They say to him, We can.


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He saith to them, Ye will indeed drink my cup; but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give, but it will be given to those for whom it hath been prepared by my Father.


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And lo! two blind men, who were sitting by the way-side, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, Have pity on us, Son of David!


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“Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy king cometh to thee, meek, and riding on an ass, and on a colt the foal of a beast of burden.”


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And the multitudes that went before him, and that followed, were crying out, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heavens!


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and said to them, It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer; but ye make it a den of robbers.”


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and said to him, Dost thou hear what these say? But Jesus saith to them, Yea; did ye never read, “From the mouth of babes and sucklings thou didst prepare praise”?


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And seeing one fig-tree by the road-side, he went up to it, and found nothing on it, but leaves only; and he saith to it, Let there be no fruit from thee hencefoward for ever. And immediately the fig-tree withered.


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And Jesus answering said to them, I also will ask you one question; which if ye answer me, I too will tell you by what authority I do these things.


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The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven, or from men? And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven, he will say to us, Why then did ye not believe him?


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And they answered Jesus and said, We do not know. And he said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.


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And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive his fruits.


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But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.


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They say to him, He will bring those wicked men to a miserable end, and will let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, who will render him the fruits in their season.


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Jesus saith to them, Did ye never read in the Scriptures, “The stone which the builders rejected, the same hath become the corner-stone; from the Lord did this come, and it is marvelous in our eyes?”


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and sent forth his servants to call to the feast those who had been invited; and they would not come.


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And the king was enraged; and sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.


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So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all, as many as they found, both bad and good; and the bride-chamber was fully furnished with guests.


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and he saith to him, Friend, how camest thou in here, not having a wedding garment? And he was struck dumb.


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Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.


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And they send out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and thou carest for no one; for thou regardest not the person of men.


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They say, Caesar's. Then saith he to them, Render then to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.


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saying, Teacher, Moses said, “If a man die having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.”


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“I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob”? He is not a God of the dead, but of the living.


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And no one was able to answer him a word; nor durst any one from that day question him any more.<pb/>


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All, therefore, whatever they bid you, do and observe; but do not according to their works; for they say, and do not.


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They bind heavy burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders, and will not themselves move them with a finger.


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But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites I because ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for ye go not in yourselves, nor suffer those who are entering to go in.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, ye make him two-fold mole a son of hell than yourselves.


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Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whoever sweareth by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever sweareth by the gold of the temple, is bound.


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And, Whoever sweareth by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, is bound.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithes of the mint, and the dill, and the cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the Law, justice, and mercy, and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave those undone.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and the platter, but within they are full of robbery and licentiousness.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whited sepulchres, which outwardly indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.


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Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,


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and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.


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Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;


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that on you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye slew, between the temple and the altar.


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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!


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For I say to you, Ye will not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.<pb/>


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And Jesus went out, and was going from the temple; and his disciples came to him, to show him the buildings of the temple.


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And he answering said to them, See ye not all these? Truly do I say to you, There will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.


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And as he was sitting upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? and what will be the signs of thy coming, and of the end of the world?


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And ye are to hear of wars, and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled; for these things must come to pass; but not yet is the end.


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For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines and earthquakes in divers places.


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Then will they deliver you up to distress, and will kill you; and ye will be hated by all nations on account of my name.


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And these glad tidings of the kingdom will be published throughout the whole world for a testimony to all the nations; and then will come the end.


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When, therefore, ye see the abomination of desolation, spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (let him that readeth understand,)


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For there will then be great distress, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor shall ever be.


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And were not those days to shortened, no flesh would be saved; but, for the sake of the chosen, these days will be shortened.


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For there will rise up false Christs, and false prophets, and will show great signs and wonders, so that, if possible, even the chosen will be deceived.


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If therefore they say to you, Lo! he is in the wilderness; go not forth; lo! he is in the private chambers; believe them not.


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For as the lightning cometh from the east, and shineth even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of man.


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And immediately after the distress of those days will the sun be darkened, and the moon will not give her light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.


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And then will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and will see the Son of man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.


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And he will send forth his angels with a great trumpet, and they will gather his chosen from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.


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And from the fig-tree learn its parable. When its branch hath now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know that summer is near.


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But that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.


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For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,


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and knew not, until the flood came, and took them all away, so also will be the coming of the Son of man.


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But be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.


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Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord placed over his household, to give them their food in due season?


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the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for it, and at an hour when he is not aware;


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and will cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites; there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.<pb/>


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Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.


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But the wise answered, saying, Perhaps there will not be enough for us and you; go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.


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And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.


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For it will be as when a man going abroad called his own servants, and intrusted to them his property;


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and to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his ability, and went abroad.


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He that had received the five talents went immediately and traded with the same, and gained five talents more.


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And he that had received the five talents came and brought five talents more, saying, Lord, thou intrustedst to me five talents; see, I have gained five talents more.


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His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant! thou hast been faithful over a little, I will place thee in charge of much; enter into the joy of thy lord.


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He also that had received the two talents came and said, Lord, thou intrustedst to me two talents; see, I have gained two talents more.


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Then he also that had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee to be a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering where thou didst not scatter seed;


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But his lord answered and said to him, Wicked and slothful servant! Didst thou know that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did not scatter seed?


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Thou oughtest then to have put my money with the money-dealers, and on my coming I should have received mine own with interest.


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For to every one that hath will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him that hath not, even that which he hath will be taken away.


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And cast out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness; there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.


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And when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he sit on the throne of his glory,


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and before him will be gathered all the nations; and he will separate men one from another, as a shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats;


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Then will the king say to those on his right hand, Come, ye blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.


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For I was hungry, and ye gave me food; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;


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Then will the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?


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And the king will answer and say to them, Truly do I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye did it to me.


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Then will he say also to those on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the everlasting fire, which is prepared for the Devil and his angels.


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I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.


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Then will they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee?


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Then will he answer them, saying, Truly do I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.


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Ye know that after two days cometh the passover; and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified.


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Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the court of the palace of the high-priest, named Caiaphas;


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there came to him a woman having an alabaster bottle of very costly ointment, and poured it on his head while he was reclining at table.


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And Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, Why do ye trouble the woman? For she hath done a good deed to me.


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Truly do I say to you, Wherever these glad tidings shall be published in the whole world, this too which she hath done will be told for a memorial of her.


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and said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him up to you? And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.


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And on the first of the days of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where wilt thou that we make ready for thee to eat the passover?


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And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say to him, The Teacher saith, My time is at hand; I keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.


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The Son of man indeed goeth away, as it hath been written concerning him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Well were it for that man if he had not been born.


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And, as they were eating, Jesus took a loaf, and having blessed, broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.


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And I say to you, I shall not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.


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Then Jesus saith to them, This night will all of you fall away from me; for it is written, “I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.”


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Jesus said to him, Truly do I say to thee, that this night, before a cock crows, thou wilt thrice deny me.


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Peter saith to him, Even if I must die with thee, I will not deny thee. And so said all the disciples.


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Then Jesus cometh with them to a place called Gethsemane, and saith to the disciples, Sit here, while I go yonder and pray.


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And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to he sorrowful and full of anguish.


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Then he saith to them, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.


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And he came a little nearer, and fell on his face, praying and saying, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me! nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt.


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And he cometh to the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, Is it so that ye could not watch with me one hour?


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Watch, and pray that ye enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.


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Again he went away a second time, and prayed, saying, My Father, if this [[cup]] cannot pass away from me, but I must drink it, thy will be done!


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Then he cometh to the disciples, and saith to them, Sleep on, and take your rest! Lo! the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is delivered up into the hands of sinners.


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And while he was yet speaking, lo! Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.


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And Jesus said to him, Friend, for what hast thou come! Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and seized him.


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And, lo! one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high-priest, and cut off his ear.


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Then Jesus saith to him, Put back thy sword into its place; for all they that take the sword will perish by the sword.


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Dost thou think that I cannot pray to my Father, and he will now give me more than twelve legions of angels?


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In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, Ye have come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to take me; I sat daily teaching in the temple, and ye did not lay hands on me.


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But all this hath been done, that the Scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.


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And they who seized Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high-priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.


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But Peter followed him at a distance, as far as to the court of the high-priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the officers to see the end.


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And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;


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and said, This man affirmed, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it within three days.


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And the high-priest arose, and said to him, Dost thou make no answer to what these men testify against thee?


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But Jesus was silent. And the high-priest answering said to him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God.


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Jesus saith to him, I am. Moreover I say to you, Henceforth ye will see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.


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Then the high-priest rent his garments, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? See! ye have now heard the blasphemy.


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Now Peter was sitting outside in the court. And a maid-servant came to him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus the Galilaean.


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And when he had gone out into the porch, another woman saw him, and said to those who were there, This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.


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And shortly after, they who were standing by came and said to Peter, Surely thou too art one of them; for thy speech betrayeth thee.


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And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, who had said, Before a cock crows, thou wilt thrice deny me. And he went out, and wept bitterly.<pb/>


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And when it was morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people consulted together against Jesus, to put him to death.


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Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,


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And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and withdrew; and went away and hanged himself.


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And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are the price of blood.


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And they consulted together, and bought with them the potter's field, for a burial-place for strangers.


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Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was priced, whom they of the sons of Israel priced,


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And Jesus stood before the governor; and the governor questioned him, saying, Art thou the king of the Jews? And Jesus said, I am.


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When therefore they were assembled, Pilate said to them, Whom will ye that I release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?


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And while he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that righteous man; for I have suffered much this day in a dream because of him.


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But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and to destroy Jesus.


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And the governor answering said to them, Which of the two will ye that I release to you? And they said, Barabbas.


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Pilate saith to them, What then shall I do with Jesus, who is called Christ? They all say, Let him be crucified.


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And he said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.


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And when Pilate saw that it availed nothing, but that rather a tumult was arising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of this blood; see ye to it.


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Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's palace, and gathered to him the whole band.


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And having platted a crown of thorns, they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, king of the Jews!


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And after they had made sport of him, they took off the robe from him, and put on him his own garments, and led him away to crucify him.


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And as they were going out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, whom they compelled to carry his cross.


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And they set up over his head the charge against him in writing: “This is Jesus the king of the Jews.”


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and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it up in three days, save thyself, if thou art the Son of God, and come down from the cross.


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He saved others, cannot he save himself? He is the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him.


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And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?


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And one of them immediately ran and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink.


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And, lo! the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth, quaked, and the rocks were rent,


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And the centurion and they who with him were watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and what was taking place, were exceedingly afraid, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.


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And many women were there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, rendering services to him;


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among whom was Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.


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And at evening there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who was himself also a disciple of Jesus.


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and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, went away.


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And on the next day, that following the day of the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,


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Command therefore that the sepulchre be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him away, and say to the people, He hath risen from the dead; and the last error will be worse than the first.


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And the sabbath being over, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to view the sepulchre.


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And, lo! there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon it.


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And the angel answering said to the women, Fear ye not; for I know that ye are seeking Jesus, who was crucified.


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And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he hath risen from the dead, and, lo! he is going before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him. Lo! I have told you.


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And lo! Jesus met them, saying, All hail! And they went up, and laid hold of his feet, and knelt down before him.


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Then Jesus saith to them, Be not afraid; go, tell my brethren to depart into Galilee, and there they shall see me.


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And as they were going, lo! some of the guard came into the city, and told the chief priests all that had taken place.


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And having assembled with the elders, and taken counsel together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,


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So they took the money, and did as they were taught. And this story hath been commonly reported among the Jews to this day.


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Go, and make all nations my disciples, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;


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teaching them to observe all things, whatever I have commanded you. And, lo! I am with you always, unto the end of the world.


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as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Lo! I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way;”


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John the Baptizer appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.


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And there went out to him all the country of Judaea, and all they of Jerusalem and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.


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And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a leathern girdle about his loins, and he ate locusts and wild honey.


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And he preached, saying, There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loose.


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And it came to pass that in those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.


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And immediately on coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens parted, and the Spirit descending as a dove upon him.


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And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.


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And as he was passing along by the lake of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon dragging a net in the lake; for they were fishers.


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And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the boat mending the nets;


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and immediately he called them. And leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, they went after him.


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And they were astonished at his teaching; for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.


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saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Thou hast come to destroy us; we know who thou art, the Holy One of God.


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And they were all amazed, so that they questioned each other, saying, What is this? New teaching with authority; even the unclean spirits doth he command, and they obey him!


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And having come out of the synagogue, they immediately entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.


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And he went to her, and took her by the hand, and raised her up; and the fever left her, and she waited on them.


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And in the evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all that were sick, and those who were possessed by demons;


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And he healed many that were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and he suffered not the demons to speak, because they knew him.


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And he saith to them, Let us go elsewhere into the neighboring towns, that I may preach there also; for, for this I came forth.


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And there cometh a leper to him beseeching him, and kneeling down, saying to him, If thou wilt, thou canst cleanse me.


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And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith, I will; be thou cleansed.


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saying to him, See that thou say nothing to any one; but go, show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.


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And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, even at the door; and he was speaking the word to them.


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And not being able to bring him to him on account of the crowd, they took off the roof where he was; and when they had broken an opening, they let down the bed whereon the palsied man lay.


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And Jesus immediately perceiving in his spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, saith to them, Why do ye reason thus in your hearts?


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Which is easier? to say to the palsied man, Thy sins are forgiven? or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed and go?


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And he arose, and immediately took up the bed and went forth before them all; so that they were all amazed, and gave glory to God, saying, We never saw it thus.


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And passing along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the custom-house; and he saith to him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.


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And it happened that he was reclining at table in his house; and many publicans and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many, and scribes of the Pharisees were also following him.


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And when they saw that he was eating with the publicans and sinners, they said to his disciples, Doth he eat and drink with publicans and sinners?


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And Jesus hearing it, saith to them, They who are well do not need a physician, but they who are sick. I came not to call righteous men, but sinners.


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And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting; and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, and thy disciples fast not?


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And Jesus said to them, Can the companions of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.


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And no one putteth new wine into old skins; for the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and the skins.


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And it came to pass, that he was going through the grain-fields on the sabbath, and his disciples began, as they went along, to pluck the ears of grain.


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how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high-priest, and ate the show-bread, which it is lawful for none but the priests to eat, and gave also to those who were with him?


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And he saith to them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they were silent.


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And looking round on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith to the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and his hand was restored.


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And the Pharisees went forth, and immediately had a consultation with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.


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And Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake; and a great multitude from Galilee, and from Judaea followed;


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and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond the Jordan, and the people about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they heard what great things he was doing, came to him.


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And he gave direction to his disciples, that a boat should be in readiness for him because of the multitude, that they might not throng him.


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And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried out, saying, Thou art the Son of God.


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and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, that is, Sons of thunder;


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and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon of Cana,


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And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebul; and, He casteth out the demons through the prince of the demons.


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And a multitude was sitting about him; and they say to him, Lo! thy mother and thy brothers and thy sisters are without, seeking for thee.


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And again he began to teach by the shore of the lake; and there was gathered to him a very great multitude, so that he went into a boat, and sat down in it upon the lake; and all the multitude was by the lake on the land.


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And it came to pass, as he sowed some seeds fell by the way-side; and the birds came and devoured them.


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And others fell on rocky ground, where they had not much earth; and they sprung up immediately, because they had no depth of earth.


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And others fell on good ground, and shooting up and growing yielded fruit; and bore as much as thirty, and sixty, and a hundred fold.


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hat seeing they may see, and not perceive, and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest they should turn, and be forgiven.


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And these are they by the wayside, those where the word is sown, and when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in them.


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and have no root in themselves, but endure only for a time; then, when affliction or persecution ariseth on account of the word, they immediately fall away.


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but the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.


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And these are they who are sown on the good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it; and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundred fold.


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And he said to them, Is a lamp brought to be put under the bushel, or under the bed, and not to be set on the lamp-stand?


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For there is nothing secret, unless to be made known; nor was any thing hidden, but that it should come to light.


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And he said to them, Take heed what ye hear. With what measure ye mete, it will be measured to you, and more will be added to you.


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For he that hath, to him will be given; and he that hath not, from him will be taken away even what he hath.


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For the earth brings forth fruit of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.


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But when the fruit puts itself forth, immediately he sends out the sickle, because the harvest is come.


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And he said, To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? or under what comparison shall we set it forth?


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It is like a grain of mustard, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth;


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and when it is sown, it grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts forth great branches, so that the birds of the air can lodge under its shade.


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But without a parable he did not speak to them; but in private he explained all things to his own disciples.


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And on the same day, when the evening was come, he saith to them, Let us pass over to the other side.


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And leaving the multitude, they take him with them, as he was, in the boat; and there were also other boats with him.


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And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves heat into the boat, so that it was already filling.


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And he was in the stern, asleep on the pillow; and they awake him, and say to him, Teacher, carest thou not that we are perishing?


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And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said to the waves, Peace! be still! And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.


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And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the waves obey him?<pb/>


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because he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been snapped asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces; and no one could master him;


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and continually, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself, with stones.


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and cried out with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, do not torment me.


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And he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits coming out, entered into the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep into the lake, about two thousand, and were drowned in the lake.


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And they that fed them fled, and told the news in the city and in the country. And they came to see what had been done.


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And they come to Jesus, and see him who had been possessed by demons, sitting, clothed, and in his right mind,—him who had had the legion; and they were afraid.


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And they who saw it told them how it befell him that was possessed by the demons, and concerning the swine.


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And when he was going on board the boat, he that had been possessed by the demons besought him that be might be with him.


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And he did not permit him, but said to him, Go to thy house to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and that he hath had compassion on thee.


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And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him; and all wondered.


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And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the ether side, a great multitude gathered about him; and he was by the lake.


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And there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,


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and besought him much, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death; I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be saved and live.


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and had undergone much at the hands of many physicians, and spent all that she had, and was not at all benefited, but rather grew worse,


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And immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she perceived in her body that she was cured of her plague.


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And Jesus immediately perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, turned round in the crowed, and said, Who touched my garments?


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And his disciples said to him, Thou seest the multitude pressing on thee, and dost thou say, Who touched me?


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And he said to her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee well; go in peace, and be recovered from thy plague.


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And they come to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he seeth a tumult, and people weeping and wailing greatly.


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And going in, he saith to them, Why do ye make this confusion and weeping? The child is not dead, but is sleeping.


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And they laughed him to scorn. But putting them all out, he taketh the father of the child, and the mother, and those who were with him, and entereth where the child was.


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And taking hold of the hand of the child, he saith to her, Talitha, kum; which is, when interpreted, Damsel, I say to thee, arise!


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And immediately the damsel arose and walked; for she was twelve years old. And immediately they were greatly astonished.


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And when the sabbath was come, he began to teach in the synagogue. And most people when they heard him were astonished, saying, Whence hath this man these things? And what is the wisdom which is given him? And how is it that such miracles are wrought by his hands?


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Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judah, and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they took offence at him.


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And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and among his own kindred, and in his own house.


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And he could not do any miracle there, except that he laid his hand upon a few sick persons, and cured them.


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And he calleth to him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over the unclean spirits;


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and commanded them that they should take nothing for the way but a staff only; no bread, no bag, no money in their girdle;


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And whatever place shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye go thence, shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony to them.


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And king Herod heard of him (for his name was spread abroad), and he said, John the Baptizer hath risen from the dead, and therefore do these powers work in him. But others said, It is Elijah.


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For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and was regardful of him; and on hearing him, was in much anxiety, and listened to him gladly.


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and the daughter of Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those at table with him; and the king said to the damsel, Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.


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And she went out and said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptizer.


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And she came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, saying, I desire that thou wilt give me immediately on a platter the head of John the Baptist.


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And the king was exceedingly sorry; but on account of his oaths, and of those at table with him, he would not refuse her.


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And the king immediately sent one of his guards, and ordered his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in the prison,


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And he saith to them, Come ye by yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while. For there were many coming and going; and they had no leisure, even to eat.


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And many saw them departing, and knew them, and ran together on foot thither from all the cities, and arrived before them.


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And when he came forth, he saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion for them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.


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send them away, that they may go into the surrounding fields and villages, and buy themselves something to eat.


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But he answering said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they say to him, Shall we go and buy two hundred denaries' worth of bread, and give them to eat?


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He saith to them, How many loaves have ye? Go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.


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And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven and blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples to set before them; and the two fishes he divided among them all.


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And he immediately constrained his disciples to get into the boat, and to go before to the other side to Bethsaida, while he sent the multitude away.


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And when he saw them toiling hard in rowing, for the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he cometh to them, walking upon the lake. And he would have passed by them;


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For they all saw him, and were terrified. But he immediately spoke with them, and saith to them, Be of good cheer; it is I, be not afraid.


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And he went up to them into the boat, and the wind ceased. And they were exceedingly astonished, beyond measure.


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ran through all that region, and began to carry about on beds those that were sick to the place where they heard he was.


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And wherever he entered into villages or cities or the open country, they laid the sick in the market-places, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.<pb/>


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and on coming from the marketplace, unless they bathe, they do not eat; and there are many other things which they have received to hold, the dipping of cups, and pitchers, and brazen vessels;)


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then the Pharisees and scribes ask him, Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with defiled hands?


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And he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “This people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.


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And he said to them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition!


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But ye say, If a man say to his father or mother, Whatever thou mightst receive in aid from me is Corban, that is, a gift to God, [[he is not bound by the command. Thus]]


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making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have handed down; and many such things ye do.


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Nothing that entereth into a man from without can defile him; but the things that come out of him are what defile a man.


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And he saith to them, Are ye too so without discernment? Do ye not understand that whatever thing from without entereth into a man, cannot defile him?


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because it entereth not into his heart, but into the stomach; and goeth out into the drain, which cleanseth all kinds of food.


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thefts, murders, adulteries, covetousness, iniquities, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.


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And rising up, he departed thence into the borders of Tyre; and entering into a house, he desired that no one should know it; but he could not escape notice.


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But a woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, immediately hearing of him, came in, and fell at his feet.


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The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast out the demon from her daughter.


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And he said to her, Let the children be filled first; for it is not well to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs.


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But she answered, and saith to him, Yea, Lord; even the little dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.


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And again leaving the borders of Tyre, he came through Sidon to the lake of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis.


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And they bring to him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech, and beseech him to lay his hand upon him.


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And taking him aside from the multitude, he put his fingers into his ears, and having spit, touched his tongue;


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And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well; he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.<pb/>


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I have compassion on the multitude, because they have remained with me now three days, and they have nothing to eat.


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And if I send them away fasting to their houses, they will faint on the road; and some of them have come from altar.


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And his disciples answered him, Whence can ally one satisfy these men with bread here in a wilderness?


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And he ordered the multitude to lie down on the ground; and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and broke, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they set them before the multitude.


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And the Pharisees came out, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, trying him.


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And sighing deeply in his spirit, he saith, Why doth this generation seek for a sign? Truly do I say to you, A sign will not he given to this generation.


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And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and the leaven of Herod.


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And knowing it, he saith to them, Why are ye reasoning, because ye have no bread? Do ye not yet perceive nor understand? Have ye your mind still blinded?


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when I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, and how many baskets full of fragments ye took up? They say to him, Twelve.


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When also the seven among the four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did ye take up? And they say, Seven.


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And taking the blind man by the hand, he led him out of the village; and spitting on his eyes, and putting his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.


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Then he again put his hands on his eyes, and he saw clearly, and was restored, and saw all things distinctly.


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And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, saying to them, Who do men say that I am?


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And they answered him, saying, John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others, One of the prophets.


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And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days rise again;


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But he turning about and looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter, and saith, Get thee behind me, Satan! for thy thoughts are not on the things of God, but on those of men.


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And calling the multitude to him with his disciples also, he said to them, Whoever chooseth to follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.


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For whoever chooseth to save his life, will lose it; but whoever shall lose his life for the sake of me and of the glad tidings, will save it.


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And he said to them, Truly do I say to you, There are some of those standing here who will not taste of death, till they have seen that the kingdom of God hath come with power.


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And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter and James and John, and leadeth them up into a high mountain apart by themselves; and he was transfigured before them.


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And Peter answering saith to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tents, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.


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And there came a cloud overshadowing them; and a voice came out of the cloud, This is my beloved Son; hear him.


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And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them to give no account of what they had seen to any one, till the Son of man should have risen from the dead.


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And they asked him, saying, How is it that the Pharisees and scribes say that Elijah must come first?


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And he said to them, Elijah cometh first, and restoreth all things. And how hath it been written of the Son of man? that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.


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And immediately the whole multitude on seeing him was struck with awe, and running to him, saluted him.


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And one of the multitude answered him, Teacher, I have brought to thee my son, who hath a dumb spirit.


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And wherever it seizeth hold of him, it throweth him down; and he foameth and gnasheth his teeth; and he pineth away. And I spoke to thy disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.


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He answereth and saith to them, O unbelieving generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.


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and it hath often cast him both into fire, and into water, to destroy him; but if thou art able to do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.


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And Jesus seeing that the multitude came running together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, Dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.


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And uttering a cry, and convulsing him much, it came out of him. And he became as one dead; so that very many said, He is dead.


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And when he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast it out?


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And they came to Capernaum; and having come into the house, he asked them, About what were ye disputing on the road?


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And sitting down, he called the twelve, and saith to them, If any one desire to be first, he will be last of all, and servant of all.


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John said to him, Teacher, we saw one casting out demons in thy name who followeth not us; and we forbade him, because he did not follow us.


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And whoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe to fall away, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung round his neck, and be cast into the sea.


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And if thy hand cause thee to fall away, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having the two hands to go away into hell, into the fire that is unquenchable.


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And if thy foot is causing thee to fall away, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into life lame, than having the two feet to be cast into hell.


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And if thine eye is causing thee to fall away, pluck it out; it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell,


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And departing thence, he cometh into the borders of Judaea, and to the other side of the Jordan; and multitudes again come together to him; and, as he was wont, he again taught them.


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And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him whether it was lawful for a man to put away his wife, trying him.


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And he saith to them, Whoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery against her.


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And they brought children to him, that he might touch them; and the disciples rebuked those that brought them.


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But Jesus seeing it was much displeased, and said to them, Suffer the children to come to me; forbid them not; for to such belongeth the kingdom of God.


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Thou knowest the commandments, “Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor thy father and thy mother.”


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And Jesus looking at him, loved him, and said to him, One thing thou lackest; go, sell whatever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.


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who will not receive a hundredfold in the time that now is, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come everlasting life.


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And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was leading the way; and they were amazed, and they that followed were afraid. And again taking the twelve aside, he began to tell them what things were about to befall him:


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and they will mock him, and spit upon him, and scourge him, and put him to death; and after three days he will rise again.


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And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to him, saying to him, Teacher, we would that thou shouldst do for us whatever we shall ask thee.


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And they said to him, Grant to us that we may sit, one on thy right hand and one on thy left, in thy glory.


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but to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give, but it will be given to those for whom it hath been prepared.


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And they come to Jericho; and as he was going out of Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the wayside.


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And hearing that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, Son of David, Jesus, have pity on me!


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And Jesus stopped, and said, Call him. And they call the blind man, saying to him, Be of good courage, rise, he calleth thee.


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And Jesus answering said to him, What dost thou wish me to do for thee? The blind man said to him, My master, to restore my sight.


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And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, Hosanna! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord!


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And he entered Jerusalem, and the temple; and having looked round on all things, the evening being now come, he went out to Bethany, with the twelve.


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and seeing a fig-tree afar off having leaves, he went to see whether he might find anything on it; and on coming to it he found nothing but leaves; for the season of figs had not come.


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And he taught, and said to them, Is it not written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but ye have made it a den of robbers.”


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And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven, he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?


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And have ye not read this scripture: “The stone which the builders rejected, the same hath become the cornerstone;


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And they sought to seize him, but feared the multitude; for they knew that he spoke the parable against them. And they left him, and went away.


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And they come and say to him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and carest for no one; for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?


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Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, seeing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why are ye trying me? Bring me a denary, that I may see it.


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And they brought one. And he saith to them, Whose is this image and inscription? And they said to him, Caesar's.


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And Jesus said to them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marveled at him exceedingly.


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Teacher, Moses wrote to us, “If a man's brother die, and leave a wife and no child, his brother shall take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.”


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In the resurrection, when they have risen, of which of them will she be wife? for the seven had her for a wife.


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Jesus said to them, Do ye not err on this account, that ye know not the Scriptures, nor the power of God?


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For when they have risen from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels in heaven.


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And concerning the dead, that they are raised, have ye not read in the book of Moses, at the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob”?


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And one of the scribes came up, having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which commandment is first of all?


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and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.”


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The second is this: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” There is no other commandment greater than these.


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And the scribe said to him, In truth, Teacher, thou hast well said, that He is one, and that there is no other but he;


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and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self, is more than all the whole burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.


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And Jesus, perceiving that he answered wisely, said to him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And after this no one dared to question him.


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And Jesus answered and said, while he was teaching in the temple, How is it that the scribes say, that the Christ is David's son?


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David himself said in the Holy Spirit, “The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.”


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David himself calleth him lord; and how can he be his son? And the great multitude heard him gladly.


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And he said in his teaching, Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and love salutations in the markets,


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who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers. These will receive a far greater condemnation.


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And he sat over against the treasury, and was beholding how the people cast money into the treasury. And many that were rich were casting in much.


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And he called to him his disciples, and said to them, Truly do I say to you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than all those who are casting into the treasury.


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For they all threw in of their abundance; but she out of her penury threw in all that she had, her whole living.<pb/>


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And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith to him, Teacher, see! what stones, and what buildings!


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And Jesus said to him, Seest thou these great buildings? There will not be left one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.


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And as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,


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Tell us, when will these things be? and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?


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And when ye hear of wars, and rumors of wars, be not troubled; they must come to pass; but not yet is the end.


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For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in divers places; there will be famines. These things are the beginning of travail-pains.


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But do ye take heed to yourselves; they will deliver you up to councils, and ye will be taken into synagogues and beaten; and ye will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.


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And when they lead you away to deliver you up, be not anxious beforehand as to what ye shall speak; but whatever shall be given you in that hour, that speak; for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit.


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And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will rise up against parents, and put them to death.


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But when ye see the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not,—let him that readeth understand,—then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains;


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For those days will be a time of distress, such as hath not been from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, nor shall be.


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And if the Lord had not shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen whom he chose, he shortened the days.


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For false Christs and false prophets will rise up, and will do signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the chosen.


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But in those days, after that distress, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give her light;


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And then will he send forth the angels, and will gather the chosen ones from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.


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As a man going abroad, having left his house and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, also commanded the porter to watch,


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so also watch ye; for ye know not when the master of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning;


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And two days after was the passover, and the feast of unleavened bread; and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by craft, and put him to death.


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And when he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, there came a woman having an alabaster bottle of ointment of pure spikenard, very precious; and breaking the bottle, she poured it on his head.


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And there were some that were much displeased, [[and said]] among themselves, Why is this waste of the ointment made?


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For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor. And they chid her harshly.


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For the poor ye have always with you, and whenever ye will, ye can do good to them; but me ye have not always.


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And truly do I say to you, Wherever the glad tidings shall be published throughout the whole world, this too which she hath done will be told for a memorial of her.


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And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, that he might deliver him up to them.


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And they when they heard it were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought a good opportunity to deliver him up.


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And on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, when they used to kill the passover, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou that we go and make ready for thee to eat the passover?


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And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith to them, Go into the city, and there will meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water; follow him;


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and wherever he goeth in, say to the master of the house, The Teacher saith, Where is my guest-chamber, where I may eat the passover with my disciples?


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And the disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had told them; and they made ready the passover.


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And as they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, Truly do I say to you, that one of you will betray me,—one that is eating with me.


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For the Son of man indeed goeth away, as it hath been written concerning him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Well were it for that man if he had not been born.


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And as they were eating, he took a loaf, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them, and said, Take; this is my body.


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Truly do I say to you, I shall not drink hereafter of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.


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And Jesus saith to them, Ye will all fall away from me; for it is written, “I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.”


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And Jesus saith to him, Truly do I say to thee, that even thou, to-day, on this night, before a cock crow twice, wilt thrice deny me.


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But he spoke the more vehemently: If I must die with thee, I will not deny thee. And so also said they all.


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And he taketh with him Peter and James and John; and began to be in great consternation and anguish.


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And going on a little farther, he fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it was possible, the hour might pass from him.


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And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee! take away this cup from me. But not what I will, but what thou wilt.


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And he cometh and findeth them sleeping; and he saith to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? Couldst not thou watch one hour?


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And returning, he found them again sleeping, for their eyes were heavy; and they knew not what to answer him.


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And he cometh the third time, and saith to them, Sleep on, and take your rest! It is enough! the hour is come: lo! the Son of man is delivered up into the hands of sinners.


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And immediately, while he was yet speaking, cometh Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and elders.


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And his betrayer had given them a signal, saying, Whomever I shall kiss, he is the man; seize him, and lead him away securely.


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And one of those who stood by drew his sword, and smote the servant of the high-priest, and cut off his ear.


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And Jesus answering said to them, Ye have come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs, to take me.


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I was daily with you in the temple, teaching, and ye did not lay hands on me; but [[thus it is]], that the Scriptures may be fulfilled.


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And there followed him a certain young man having a linen cloth wrapped round his naked body; and they laid hold of him.


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And they led Jesus away to the high-priest; and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes come together.


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And Peter followed him afar off, even into the court of the palace of the high-priest, and was sitting with the officers, and warming himself at the fire.


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And the chief priests and the whole council sought for testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death; and they found none.


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We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another not made with hands.


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And the high-priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Dost thou make no answer to what these men testify against thee?


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But he was silent, and answered nothing. Again the high-priest asked him, and saith to him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?


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And Jesus said, I am; and ye will see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.


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Ye have heard the blasphemy; what think ye? And they all condemned him as deserving the punishment of death.


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And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face and buffet him, and say to him, Prophesy! And the officers, with blows, took him in charge.


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and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, Thou too wast with the Nazarene, Jesus.


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But he denied, saying, I do not know nor understand what thou sayest. And he went out into the fore-court; and a cock crew.


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And the maid-servant, seeing him, began again to say to those who were standing by, This is one of them.


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And he denied it again. And shortly after, those who were standing by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them; for thou art a Galilaean.


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And immediately a cock crew a second time. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus had said to him, Before a cock crows twice, thou wilt thrice deny me. And when he thought thereon, he wept.<pb/>


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And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests, having held a consultation with the elders and the scribes, and the whole council, bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.


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And Pilate asked him again, Dost thou make no answer? See what things they are testifying against thee!


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And there was one named Barabbas, who lay bound with insurgents who had committed murder in the insurrection.


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And Pilate answering again said to them, What then would ye have me do with him whom ye call the king of the Jews?


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And Pilate, wishing to satisfy the multitude, released to them Barabbas; and, when he had scourged Jesus, delivered him up to be crucified.


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And the soldiers led him away into the court, which is the Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.


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And after they had made sport of him, they stripped him of the purple robe, and put his own garments on him. And they lead him out to crucify him.


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And they compel one Simon a Cyrenaean, who was passing by, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.


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And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ha! thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it up in three days,


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In like manner also the chief priests, with the scribes, making sport among themselves, said, He saved others, cannot he save himself?


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Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him were reviling him.


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And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani? which is, when interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?


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And one ran and filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, Hold! Let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.


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And the centurion who stood over against him, seeing that he so expired, said, Truly this man was the Son of God.


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There were also women looking on from a distance; among whom was Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;


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who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and rendered him their services; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.


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Joseph of Arimathaea, an honorable councilor, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, came, and boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.


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And Pilate wondered that he was already dead; and calling to him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been long dead.


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And having bought fine linen, he took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a tomb which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone to the door of the tomb.


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And when the sabbath was past, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.


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And they entered the tomb, and saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.


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But he saith to them, Be not affrighted; ye seek Jesus the Nazarene who was crucified; he hath risen; he is not here; behold the place where they laid him.


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But go, tell his disciples and Peter, that he is going before you into Galilee; there ye will see him, as he said to you.


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And they went out, and fled from the tomb; for trembling and amazement had seized them, and they said nothing to any one; for they were terrified.


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{The remaining twelve verses, according to Tischendorf and others, made originally no part of Mark's Gospel. As the passage was added very early, however, since it is referred to by Irenaeus in the latter part of the second century, it is here given, as an appendix.} [[And having risen early, on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons.


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After this, he manifested himself in another form to two of them as they walked, going into the country.


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Afterward he manifested himself to the eleven themselves, as they were reclining at table, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen.


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And these signs will accompany believers: In my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;


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they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.


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So then, the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down on the right hand of God;


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and they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs which followed it.]]


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Inasmuch as many have undertaken to arrange a narrative of those things which are fully believed among us,


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even as they were delivered to us by those who were eye-witnesses from the beginning and became ministers of the word,


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it seemed good to me also, having accurately traced up all things from the first, to write to thee a connected account, most excellent Theophilus,


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There was in the days of Herod, king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zachariah, of the course of Abijah; and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.


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And they were both righteous in the sight of God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.


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according to the custom of the priesthood the lot fell to him to go into the temple of the Lord and burn the incense.


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But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zachariah; for thy prayer was heard, and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name John.


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For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and will drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit from his very birth.


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And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.


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And Zachariah said to the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife is far advanced in years.


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And the angel answering said to him, I am Gabriel, who stand in the presence of God; and I was sent to speak to thee, and to tell thee these glad tidings.


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And lo! thou shalt be silent, and not able to speak, until the day when these things shall come to pass, because thou didst not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their season.


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And on coming out, he was not able to speak to them; and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple; and he was beckoning to them, and remained speechless.


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And it came to pass, when the days of his ministration were completed, that he returned to his house.


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Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me to take away my reproach among men.


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to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.


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He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of David his father;


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And the angel answering said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Most High will overshadow thee; wherefore the holy one that is to be born will be called the Son of God.


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And lo! Elizabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who is called barren.


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And Mary said, Lo, the handmaid of the Lord! May it be to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.


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And it came to pass, when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,


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and cried out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women; and blessed is the fruit of thy womb!


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For lo! as soon as the voice of thy salutation came to my ears, the babe leaped in my womb in exultation.


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And blessed is she who hath believed that there will be an accomplishment of those things which were told her from the Lord.


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for he hath looked upon the low estate of his handmaiden. For lo! from this time all generations will call me blessed;


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And her neighbors and her kinsfolk heard that the Lord had showed great mercy toward her; and they rejoiced with her.


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And it came to pass that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they were about to call him Zachariah, after the name of his father.


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And fear came on all that dwelt around them; and all these things were talked of throughout the whole of the hill-country of Judaea.


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And all that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What then will this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.


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to grant to us, that being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we might worship him without fear,


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And thou, child, shalt be called a prophet of the Most High; for thou shalt go in advance before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,


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to give light to those sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.


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And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit; and was in the deserts till the day of his manifestation to Israel.<pb/>


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And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be registered.


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And Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city of Nazareth into Judaea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,


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And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swathing-clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.


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And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, and keeping watch over their flock by night.


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And an angel of the Lord came to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were in great fear.


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And the angel said to them, Fear not; for lo! I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to the whole people;


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And this shall be the sign to you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swathing-clothes, [[lying]] in a manger.


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And it came to pass, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said one to another, Let us go at once to Bethlehem, and see that which hath come to pass, which the Lord hath made known to us.


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And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all which they had heard and seen, as had been told them.


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And when eight days were completed for him to be circumcised, his name was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.


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And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,


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and to offer a sacrifice, according to what is directed in the law of the Lord: “A pair of turtle doves, or two young pigeons.”


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And lo! there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and he was a righteous and devout man, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Spirit was upon him;


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and it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.


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And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the law,


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And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that will be spoken against;—


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And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel: of the tribe of Asher; she was of great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity;


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and she was a widow eighty-four years old, who never left the temple, worshipping with fastings and prayers night and day.


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And she came up at this very time, and gave thanks to God, and spoke of him to all that were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.


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And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.


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and had completed the days, on their returning, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and his parents did not know it,


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but, supposing him to be in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance;


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And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.


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And when they saw him, they were amazed; and his mother said to him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have been seeking thee in much distress.


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And he said to them, Why is it that ye have been seeking me? Did ye not know that I must be about my Father's business?


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And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these things in her heart.


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Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,


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when Annas and Caiaphas were high-priests, the word of God came to John, the son of Zachariah, in the wilderness.


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And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;


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as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths!


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Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked places shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth;


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He said therefore to the multitudes that came forth to be baptized by him, Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?


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Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance; and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.


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And already also is the axe lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that beareth not good fruit is to be cut down, and cast into the fire.


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He answered and said to them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath food, let him do likewise.


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And soldiers also asked him, saying, And what must we do? And he said to them, Do violence to no one, accuse no one falsely, and be content with your wages.


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And while the people were in expectation, and all were considering in their hearts concerning John, whether he were the Christ,


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John answered and said to them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but he who is mightier than I is coming, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loose; he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire.


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And it came to pass, when all the people had been baptized, and Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying, that the heaven was opened,


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and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in a bodily shape as a dove; and a voice came from heaven: “Thou art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased.”


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And Jesus himself was, when he began, about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, who was the son of Heli,


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who was the son of Matthath, who was the son of Levi, who was the son of Melchi, who was the son of Jannai, who was the son of Joseph,


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who was the son of Mattathias, who was the son of Amos, who was the son of Nahum, who was the son of Esli, who was the son of Naggai,


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who was the son of Maath, who was the son of Mattathias, who was the son of Shimei, who was the son of Josech, who was the son of Joda,


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who was the son of Joanan, who was the son of Rhesa, who was the son of Zerubbabel, who was the son of Shealtiel, who was the son of Neri,


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who was the son of Melchi, who was the son of Addi, who was the son of Kosam, who was the son of Elmadam, who was the son of Er,


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who was the son of Jesus, who was the son of Eliezer, who was the son of Jorim, who was the son of Matthath, who was the son of Levi,


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who was the son of Simeon, who was the son of Judah, who was the son of Joseph, who was the son of Jonam, who was the son of Eliakim,


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who was the son of Melea, who was the son of Menna, who was the son of Mattatha, who was the son of Nathan, who was the son of David,


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who was the son of Jesse, who was the son of Obed, who was the son of Boaz, who was the son of Salma, who was the son of Nahshon,


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who was the son of Amminadab, who was the son of Admin, who was the son of Arni, who was the son of Hezron, who was the son of Pharez, who was the son of Judah,


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who was the son of Jacob, who was the son of Isaac, who was the son of Abraham, who was the son of Terah, who was the son of Nahor,


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who was the son of Serug, who was the son of Reu, who was the son of Peleg, who was the son of Eber, who was the son of Shelah,


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who was the son of Cainan, who was the son of Arphaxad, who was the son of Shem, who was the son of Noah, who was the son of Lamech,


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who was the son of Methuselah, who was the son of Enoch, who was the son of Jared, who was the son of Mahalaleel, who was the son of Cainan,


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who was the son of Enos, who was the son of Seth, who was the son of Adam, who was the son of God.<pb/>


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And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness


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forty days, tempted by the Devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry.


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And the Devil said to him, If thou art the Son of God, command this stone that it become a loaf of bread.


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And the Devil said to him, All this power will I give thee, and their glory; because to me it hath been delivered, and I give it to whomever I will.


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And Jesus answering said to him, It is written, “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”


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And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence;


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And Jesus answering said to him, It hath been said, “Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God.”


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And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee; and there went out a report concerning him through all the surrounding country


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And he came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day; and stood up to read.


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And there was delivered to him the book of the prophet Isaiah; and unrolling the book, he found the place where it was written,


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“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he hath sent me to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty the oppressed,


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And rolling up the book, he gave it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him.


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And they all spoke in his praise, and wondered at the words of grace which proceeded from his mouth; and they said, Is not this Joseph's son?


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And he said to them, Ye will doubtless say to me this proverb, “Physician, heal thyself;” whatever things we have heard of as having been done in Capernaum, do here too in thy own country.


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But I tell you in truth, that there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land;


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And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.


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And they rose up, and forced him out of the city and took him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, to cast him down headlong;


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And in the synagogue there was a man having a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,


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Ha! what have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Thou hast come to destroy us. I know who thou art, the Holy One of God.


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And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be silent, and come out of him. And the demon threw him down in the midst, and came out of him, having done him no hurt.


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And all were amazed; and they spoke with one another, saying, What kind of word is this, that with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out?


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And he arose and went from the synagogue into the house of Simon. And Simon's wife's mother was seized with a great fever; and they besought him for her.


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And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her. And immediately she arose and waited on them.


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And when the sun was setting, all who had any sick with divers diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.


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And demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, Thou art the Son of God. And he rebuked them, and did not suffer them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.


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And when it was day, he went out, and betook himself to a desert place; and the multitudes went in search of him; and they came to him, and would have prevented him from leaving them.


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But he said to them, I must publish the good tidings of the kingdom of God to the other cities also; because for this I was sent forth.


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And it came to pass, as the multitude was pressing upon him and hearing the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,


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and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them, and had washed the nets.


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And going into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And sitting down in the boat, he taught the multitudes.


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And when he had done speaking, he said to Simon, Put out into deep water, and let down your nets for a draught.


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And Simon answering said, Master, we toiled all night, and took nothing; but at thy word I will let down the nets.


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And they beckoned to their partners in the other boat, to come and help them; and they came, and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.


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And Simon Peter seeing it fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying, Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.


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and so were also James and John the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not; henceforth thou shalt catch men.


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And it came to pass, when he was in one of the cities, lo! a man full of leprosy; and seeing Jesus, he fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst cleanse me.


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And he put forth his hand and touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed. And immediately the leprosy left him.


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And he charged him to tell no one: but go, and show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.


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But so much the more went abroad the report concerning him; and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed of their infirmities.


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And it came to pass on a certain day, that he was teaching, and there were sitting by Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every town of Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present that he might heal.


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And lo! men brought on a bed a man that was palsied; and they endeavored to bring him in, and to set him before him.


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And not finding any way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the house-top, and let him down through the tiling with the couch into the midst before Jesus.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this that speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?


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But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered and said to them, What are ye thinking in your hearts?


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But that ye may know that the Son of man hath authority on earth to forgive sins,—he said to the palsied man,—I say to thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go to thy house.


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And he immediately rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and went away to his house, giving glory to God.


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And amazement seized them all, and they gave glory to God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to-day.


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And after these things he went out, and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the custom-house; and he said to him, Follow me.


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And Levi made a great feast for him at his house, and there was a great company of publicans and others, who were reclining at table with them.


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And the Pharisees and their scribes murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with the publicans and sinners?


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And they said to him, The disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink.


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But Jesus said to them, Can ye make the companions of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?


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But the days will come—and when the bridegroom is taken from them, then will they fast in those days.


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And he spoke also a parable to them: No one taketh a patch from a new garment and putteth it upon an old one; for then both the new garment would be rent, and the patch from the new garment would not match with the old.


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And no one putteth new wine into old skins; for the new wine would burst the skins, and would itself run out, and the skins would be spoilt.


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And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he was going through grain-fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of grain, and ate them, rubbing them with their hands.


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And Jesus answering them, said, Have ye not even read what David did, when he was himself hungry, and they who were with him?


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how he went into the house of God, and took and ate the show-bread, and gave it also to those who were with him, which it is not lawful for any to eat but the priests alone?


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And it came to pass on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue, and taught; and there was a man there whose right hand was withered.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees were watching whether he would heal on the sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.


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But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man having the withered hand, Rise, and stand up in the midst. And he arose, and stood up.


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And Jesus said to them, I ask you whether it is lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil; to save life, or to kill?


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And looking round on them all, he said to him, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so; and his hand was restored.


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But they were filled with madness, and conferred with one another as to what they should do to Jesus.


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And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into the mountain to pray; and he continued all night in prayer to God.


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And when it was day, he called to him his disciples; and he chose from them twelve, whom he also named apostles;


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And he came down with them, and stood on a level place with a great multitude of his disciples, and a great crowd of the people from all Judaea and Jerusalem and the sea-coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases.


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And raising his eyes toward his disciples, he said, Blessed are ye poor; for yours is the kingdom of God.


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Blessed are ye that hunger now; for ye will be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now; for ye will laugh.


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Blessed are ye when men hate you, and when they exclude you, and revile and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man.


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Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy; for lo! your reward is great in heaven; for thus their fathers did to the prophets.


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Woe to you that are full now! for ye will hunger. Woe to you that laugh now! for ye will mourn and weep.


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To him that smiteth thee on one cheek, offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also.


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Give to every one that asketh of thee; and from him that taketh away thy goods, demand them not again.


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And if ye love those who love you, what thanks do ye deserve? for sinners also love those who love them.


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And if ye lend to those from whom ye expect to receive, what thanks do ye deserve? even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much in return.


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But love your enemies, and do good and lend, despairing of no one; and your reward will be great, and ye will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the unthankful and wicked.


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And judge not, and ye will not be judged; and condemn not, and ye will not be condemned; forgive, and ye will be forgiven;


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give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will men give into your bosom; for with what measure ye mete, it will be measured to you in return.


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And he spoke also a parable to them: Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a ditch?


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And why dost thou look at the mote in thy brother's eye, and not perceive the beam that is in thine own eye?


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How canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me take out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself perceivest not the beam in thine own eye? Hypocrite! first cast the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou wilt see clearly to take out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.


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For there is no good tree that beareth bad fruit; and again, there is no bad tree that beareth good fruit.


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For every tree is known by its own fruit; for from thorns men do not gather figs, nor from a bramble-bush do they gather grapes.


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The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil; for out of the abundance of his heart his mouth speaketh.


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He is like a man building a house, who dug deep, and laid its foundation on a rock; and when a flood arose, the stream dashed against that house, and could not shake it; because it was well built.


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And having heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, and besought him to come and save his servant.


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And they came to Jesus, and besought him earnestly, saying, He is worthy that thou shouldst do this for him;


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And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying, Lord, trouble not thyself; for I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof;


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on which account I did not think myself worthy to come to thee; but command with a word, and let my servant be healed.


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For even I am a man set under authority, having soldiers under me; and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.


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And Jesus hearing this, wondered at him; and turning round said to the multitude that followed him, I say to you, Not even in Israel have I found such faith.


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And it came to pass the day after, that he was going to a city called Nain; and many of his disciples were with him, and a great multitude.


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And as he came near the gate of the city, lo! there was carried out dead an only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a great multitude from the city was with her.


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And he came up, and touched the bier; and they who bore it stood still; and he said, Young man, I say to thee, Rise.


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And fear seized on all, and they gave glory to God, saying, A great prophet hath risen up among us; and, God hath visited his people.


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And calling to him two of his disciples, John sent them to the Lord, saying, Art thou he that is to come, or are we to look for another?


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And the men came to him and said, John the Baptist hath sent us to thee, saying, Art thou he that is to come, or are we to look for another?


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In that hour he cured many of diseases, and plagues, and evil spirits, and to many who were blind he gave sight.


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And he answered and said to them, Go and tell John what ye have seen and heard; that the blind receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor good tidings are brought;


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And when the messengers of John had departed, he began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What have ye gone out into the wilderness to see? the reeds shaken by the wind?


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But what have ye gone out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Lo! they who wear gorgeous apparel, and live luxuriously, are in kings' palaces.


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This is he of whom it is written, “Lo! I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.”


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I say to you, Among those born of women there is no greater prophet than John; but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.


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And all the people when they heard him, and the publicans, acknowledged God as righteous by being baptized with the baptism of John.


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But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God toward themselves, not being baptized by him.


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They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance; we sung a dirge, and ye did not weep.


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The Son of man hath come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold, a glutton and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!


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And one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him; and he went into the Pharisee's house, and reclined at the table.


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And lo! a woman who was in the city, a sinner, learning that he was at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster-bottle of ointment,


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and standing behind at his feet, weeping, began to wet his feet with tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.


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And the Pharisee who had invited him, when he saw this, said within himself, This man, if he were a prophet, would know who, and what sort of woman, this is that toucheth him; for she is a sinner.


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And Jesus answering said to him, Simon, I have somewhat to say to thee. And he saith, Teacher, say on.


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When they had nothing to pay, he freely remitted the debt of both. Which of them, now, will love him the most?


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Simon answering said, He, I suppose, to whom he remitted the most. And he said to him, Thou hast judged rightly.


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And turning to the woman, he said to Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered thy house, no water didst thou give me for my feet; but she wet my feet with tears, and wiped them with her hair.


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Wherefore, I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven; for she loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven loveth little.


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And those who were at table with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that even forgiveth sins?


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And it came to pass afterward, that he journeyed through cities and villages, preaching and publishing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God; and the twelve were with him,


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and certain women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom had come seven demons,


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and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who afforded them aid from their substance.


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And a great multitude collecting together, and people from the cities going out to him, he spoke by a parable:


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A sower went forth to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some seeds fell by the way-side; and they were trodden down, and the birds of the air devoured them.


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And others fell upon rocky ground; and when they had sprung up they withered away, because they had no moisture.


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And others fell upon good ground, and sprung up, and bore fruit, a hundred-fold. While saying these things, he cried aloud, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.


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And he said, To you it hath been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God; but to others [[these things are spoken]] in parables; that while seeing they may not see, and while hearing they may not understand.


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Those by the way-side are they that hear; then cometh the Devil and taketh away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.


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Those on the rocky ground are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root; and for a while they believe, and in time of temptation fall away.


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And those seeds which fell among the thorns, these are they who, when they have heard, go away and are choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.


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But the seeds on the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, when they have heard the word, hold it fast, and bear fruit with constancy.


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And no one having lighted a lamp, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light.


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For nothing is secret, that will not be made manifest; nor hidden, that will not be known, and come to light.


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Take heed therefore how ye hear; for whoever hath, to him will be given; and whoever hath not, from him will be taken even what he seemeth to have.


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And his mother and his brothers came where he was, and could not get to him on account of the crowd.


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And he answering said to them, My mother and my brothers are these, who hear the word of God, and do it.


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Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a boat with his disciples, and said to them, Let us go over to the other side of the lake; and they put off.


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But as they were sailing, he fell asleep. And there came down a storm of wind on the lake, and they were filling with water, and were in jeopardy.


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And they came and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we are perishing! And he rose, and rebuked the wind, and the surging of the water; and they ceased, and there was a calm.


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And he said to them, Where is your faith? And they were afraid, and wondered, saying one to another, Who then is this, that he commandeth even the winds and the water, and they obey him?


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And when he had landed, there met him a certain man out of the city who had demons, and for a long time had worn no clothes, and abode not in a house, but in the tombs.


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And seeing Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of the most high God? I beseech thee, do not torment me.


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For he was about to command the unclean spirit to come out of the man; for it had possessed him for a long time, and he had been kept bound and secured with chains and fetters; and bursting the bands, he had been driven by the demon into the wilderness.


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And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion; because many demons had entered into him.


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Now there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain; and they besought him to permit them to go into them. And he permitted them.


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And the demons coming out of the man went into the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep into the lake, and were drowned.


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And they went out to see what had been done. And they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus; and they were afraid.


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And the whole multitude in the surrounding country of the Gergesenes besought him to depart from them; for they were seized with great fear. And he went on board a boat and returned.


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And the man out of whom the demons had gone besought him that he might be with him. But he sent him away, saying,


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Return to thy house, and tell what great things God hath done for thee. And he went and published through the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.


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And it came to pass when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed him; for they were all waiting for him.


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And lo! there came a man, named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue; and falling at the feet of Jesus, he besought him to come into his house;


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for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. And as he went, the multitudes thronged him.


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And Jesus said, Who touched me? And when all denied it, Peter and those with him said, Master, the multitudes are thronging thee, and pressing against thee.


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And the woman, seeing that she was discovered, came trembling, and falling down before him declared before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was cured immediately.


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While he was yet speaking, there cometh one from the house of the ruler of the synagogue, saying, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Teacher any further.


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And going into the house, he suffered no one to go in with him but Peter and John and James, and the father of the maiden, and the mother.


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And he called together the twelve, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.


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And he said to them, Take nothing for the journey, neither a staff, nor a bag, nor bread, nor money, nor have two coats apiece.


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And whoever shall not receive you, shake off, when ye leave that city, even the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.


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And they departed, and went through the towns publishing the glad tidings, and performing cures everywhere.


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And Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was taking place, and was perplexed; because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead;


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But Herod said, John I beheaded; but who is this, about whom I hear such things? And he sought to see him.


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And the apostles returned and told him what they had done; and taking them with him, he withdrew privately to a city called Bethsaida.


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But the multitudes, when they knew it, followed him; and he welcomed them, and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing.


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And when the day began to decline, the twelve came and said to him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages around, and the open country, and lodge, and get food; for we are here in a desert place.


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But he said to them, Do ye give them food. And they said, We have not more than five loaves and two fishes, unless we ourselves should go and buy food for l all these people.


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They were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them lie down in companies of fifty.


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Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and broke and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.


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And they ate, and were all filled; and what remained to them of fragments was taken up, twelve baskets.


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And it came to pass as he was in a private place praying, that his disciples were with him; and he asked them, saying, Who do the multitudes say that I am?


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And they answering said, John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others, that one of the old prophets hath risen.


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saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and rise again on the third day.


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And he said to all, If any one chooseth to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily, and follow me.


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For whoever chooseth to save his life, will lose it; and whoever loseth his life for my sake, he will save it.


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For whoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed, when be cometh in his glory, and that of his Father, and of the holy angels.


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And I tell you in truth, that there are some of those standing here who will not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God.


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And it came to pass about eight days after this discourse, that he took with him Peter and John and James, and went up into the mountain to pray.


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And while he was praying, the appearance of his countenance was changed, and his raiment became white and glistening.


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But Peter and those who were with him were weighed down with sleep. But when they awoke, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.


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And it came to pass as they were parting from him, that Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tents, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah;—not knowing what he said.


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But as he was saying this, there came a cloud and overshadowed them; and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.


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And when the voice had come, Jesus was found alone. And they kept it secret, and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen.


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And it came to pass that on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great multitude met him.


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And lo! a man from the multitude cried out, saying, Teacher, I beseech thee, look upon my son, for he is my only child;


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and lo! a spirit seizeth him, and suddenly crieth out, and convulseth him so that he foameth, and it departeth from him hardly, taking away all his strength.


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And Jesus answering said, O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and bear with you? Bring thy son hither.


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And while he was yet coming, the demon threw him down, and convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him to his father.


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And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they were all wondering at all the things which he did, he said to his disciples,


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As for you, let these words sink into your ears; for the Son of man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men.


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But they knew not the meaning of these words, and it was hidden from them, that they might not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask him about these words.


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and said to them, Whoever receiveth this child in my name, receiveth me; and whoever receiveth me, receiveth him who sent me. For he that is least among you all, he is great.


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And John answering said, Master, we saw one casting out demons in thy name, and we forbade him, because he doth not follow in our company.


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And it came to pass, when the time was near for his being received up, that he himself steadily set his face to go to Jerusalem.


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And he sent messengers before him; and they went and entered a city of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.


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And the disciples James and John, on seeing it, said, Lord, wilt thou have us bid fire come down from heaven, and consume them?


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And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have lodging-places; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.


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And he said to him, Let the dead bury their own dead; but go thou and carry the tidings of the kingdom of God.


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And another also said, I will follow thee, Lord; but first let me bid farewell to those who are in my house.


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And Jesus said to him, No one who looketh back after putting his hand to the plough is fit for the kingdom of God.<pb/>


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After these things, the Lord appointed also seventy others, and sent them two and two before him into every city and place where he himself was about to come.


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And he said to them, The harvest is great, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers for his harvest.


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And abide in the same house, eating and drinking such things as they give; for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house.


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Even the dust of your city that cleaveth to our feet we wipe off to you; but know this, that the kingdom of God hath come near.


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Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.


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He that hearkeneth to you, hearkeneth to me; and he that rejecteth you, rejecteth me; but he that rejecteth me, rejecteth him that sent me.


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Lo! I have given you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the might of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you.


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Yet rejoice not in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names have been written in heaven.


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In that hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that, though thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, thou didst reveal them to babes. Yea, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. And turning to the disciples he said,


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All things were delivered to me by my Father; and no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom it is the will of the Son to reveal him.


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And turning to the disciples, he said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye are seeing.


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For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which ye are seeing, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye are hearing, and heard them not.


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And lo! a certain lawyer stood up to try him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?


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And he answering said “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.”


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Jesus answering said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers; who after stripping him of his raiment, and wounding him, departed, leaving him half dead.


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And by chance a certain priest was going down on that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.


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And in like manner also a Levite, having arrived at the place, came and saw, and passed by on the other side.


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But a certain Samaritan, as he was journeying, came where he was, and when he saw him, had compassion,


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and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and setting him on his own beast, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.


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And the next day, he took out two denaries and gave them to the host, and said, Take care of him; and whatever thou spendest more, I, when I come back, will repay thee.


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And it came to pass, as they journeyed, that he entered into a certain village; and a certain woman, named Martha, received him into her house.


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But Martha was cumbered about much serving; and she came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? Tell her therefore to help me.


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But the Lord answering said to her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and troubled about many things.


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But one thing is needful. For Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.<pb/>


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And it came to pass, as he was in a certain place praying, that when he ceased one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.


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and forgive us our sins, for even we ourselves forgive every one that is indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation.


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And he said to them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and say to him Friend, lend me three loaves;


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And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not; the door is now shut, and I and my children are in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.


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I say to you, though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.


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And I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and ye will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.


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And what father is there, among you, who, if his son ask for bread, will give him a stone? or if he ask for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent?


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If ye then, though evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!


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And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb; and it came to pass, when the demon had gone out, that the dumb man spoke. And the multitudes wondered.


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But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and house divided against house falleth.


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And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? For ye say that I cast out the demons through Beelzebul.


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But if I cast out the demons through Beelzebul, through whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore shall they be judges of you.


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But if I cast out the demons through the finger of God, then hath the kingdom of God already come to you.


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but when one stronger than he cometh upon him and overcometh him, he taketh from him his whole armor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.


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When the unclean spirit is gone out from a man, it goeth through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, it saith, I will return to my house whence I came out.


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Then it goeth, and taketh with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they enter in, and dwell there; and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first.


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And it came to pass, as he was saying these things, that a certain woman lifted up her voice from the crowd, and said to him, Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the breasts from which thou drewest nourishment.


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And when the crowds were thronging about him, he began to say, This generation is a wicked generation; it seeketh a sign; and no sign will be given it, but the sign of Jonah.


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The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and lo! something more than Solomon is here.


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The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and lo! something more than Jonah is here.


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No one when he has lighted a lamp, puts it into a secret place, or under the bushel, but on the lamp-stand, that they who come in may see the light.


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The lamp of the body is thine eye. When thine eye is clear, thy whole body also is in the light; but when it is disordered, thy body also is in darkness.


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If then thy whole body is enlightened, having no part dark, the whole will be as fully enlightened, as when a lamp with its bright shining giveth thee light.


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And when he had done speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him. And he went in and reclined at the table.


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But the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inside is full of rapacity and wickedness.


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But woe to you Pharisees! for ye pay tithes of the mint, and the rue, and every herb; and pass by justice and the love of God. These ought ye to have done, and not to leave those undone.


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Woe to you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the markets.


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And one of the lawyers answering saith to him, Teacher, in saying these things, thou revilest us also.


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And he said, To you lawyers also, woe! for ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.


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So then ye bear witness to and approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and ye are building [[their tombs]].


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Therefore the wisdom of God also said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute;


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that the blood of all the prophets, which hath been shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;


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from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was slain between the altar and the temple. Yea, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.


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Woe to you lawyers! because ye have taken away the key of knowledge; ye have not entered yourselves, and those who were entering ye have hindered.


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And as he came out thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very spiteful, and to press him to speak off hand about many things,


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In the mean time, when the multitude was gathered together in myriads, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.


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Therefore, whatever ye have said in darkness, will be heard in the light; and what ye have spoken in the ear in closets, will be proclaimed upon the house-tops.


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But I will warn you whom to fear; fear him who after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, fear him.


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But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are of more value than many sparrows.


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And I say to you, Every one that acknowledgeth me before men, him will the Son of man also acknowledge before the angels of God.


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And every one that shall speak a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him; but to him that hath blasphemed against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven.


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And when they bring you to the synagogues and the magistrates and the authorities, be not anxious as to how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say;


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And he said to them, Take heed and beware of all covetousness; for even when one hath great abundance, his life doth not depend upon his possessions.


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And he said, This will I do; I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I store all my crops and my goods;


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and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.


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But God said to him, Fool! this night will thy soul he required of thee; and whose will those things be which thou hast laid up?


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And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for the life, what ye shall eat; nor for the body, what ye shall put on.


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Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; which have neither store-house, nor barn; and God feedeth them. Of how much greater value are ye than the birds!


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Consider the lilies, that they neither spin nor weave; and yet I say to you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like one of these.


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But if God so clothes the herbage in the field, which is to-day, and tomorrow is cast into an oven, how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith!


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For all these things do the nations of the world seek after; and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.


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Sell what ye have, and give alms. Make for yourselves purses which wax not old, treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, nor moth destroyeth.


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and be yourselves like men waiting for the return of their lord from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.


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Happy are those servants, whom their lord when he cometh shall find watching; truly do I say to you, that he will gird himself, and place them at table, and will come and wait on them.


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And be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have suffered his house to be broken through.


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And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful, the wise steward, whom his lord will place over his household, to give the portion of food in due season?


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But if that servant say in his heart, My lord is long in coming; and begin to beat the men-servants and maid-servants, and to eat and drink and be drunken,


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the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the unfaithful.


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And that servant who knew his lord's will, and did not make ready, nor do according to his will, will be beaten with many stripes;


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but he that knew not and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few. And from every one to whom much hath been given, will much be required; and to whom much hath been entrusted, of him will the more be demanded.


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For from this time forth five in one house will be divided, three against two, and two against three.


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They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.


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And he said also to the multitudes, When ye see a cloud rising in the west, ye say at once, A shower is coming; and it is so;


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Hypocrites! ye know how to judge of the face of the earth and the sky; but how is it that ye know not how to judge of this time


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When thou art going with thine adversary at law to the magistrate, take pains, while on the way, to be released by him; lest he drag thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.


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There were present also at the same time some who told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices.


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And he answering said to them, Do ye think that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they have suffered such things?


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Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were offenders above all the men that dwell in Jerusalem?


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He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none.


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Then said he to the vine-dresser, Lo! three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and have found none; cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?


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And he answering saith to him, Lord, let it alone this year also; till I shall dig about it, and dung it;


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And lo! there was a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she was bent together, and wholly unable to lift herself up.


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But the ruler of the synagogue answering, being filled with indignation because Jesus had performed a cure on the sabbath, said to the multitude, There are six days in which it is proper to work; on those therefore come and be cured, and not on the sabbath-day.


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But the Lord answered him and said, Hypocrites, doth not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away and water him?


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And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo! for eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?


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And on his speaking thus, all his adversaries were ashamed; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.


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It is like a grain of mustard, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and became a tree, and the birds of the air lodged in its branches.


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It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.


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Strive to enter in through the narrow door; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.


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When once the master of the house shall have risen, and shut the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I know not whence ye are;


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There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth there, when ye see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.


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And from the east and the west and the north and the south will men come, and take their places at table in the kingdom of God.


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In the same hour there came certain Pharisees, saying to him, Depart, and go hence; for Herod designeth to kill thee.


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And he said to them, Go, tell that fox, Lo! I cast out demons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and on the third day I make an end.


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But to-day and to-morrow and the next day I must go on; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish out of Jerusalem.


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Jerusalem! Jerusalem! that killeth the prophets, and stoneth those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, and ye would not!


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And Jesus answering spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath, or not?


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And he answered them and said, Who is there of you, who, if his son or his ox fall into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the sabbath-day?


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And he spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he observed how they chose out the highest places at the table, saying to them,


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When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not take the highest place, lest one more honorable than thou may have been invited by him;


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and he who invited thee and him come and say to thee, Give place to this man; and then thou wilt begin with shame to take the lowest place.


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But when thou art invited, go and recline in the lowest place, that when he who invited thee cometh, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher. Then wilt thou have honor in the presence of all who are at table with thee.


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And he said also to him who invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, do not invite thy friends, nor thy brothers, nor thy kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest they too invite thee in return, and a recompense be made thee.


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and thou shalt be blessed, because they cannot recompense thee; but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the righteous.


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And one of those who were at table with him, hearing this, said to him, Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.


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And at the hour of supper he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, Come, for things are now ready.


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And all with one accord began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of land, and must needs go out and see it; I pray that I may be excused.


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And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and am going out to try them; I pray that I may be excused.


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And the servant came, and reported these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, the blind, and the lame.


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And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and constrain them to come in, that my house may be filled.


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If any one cometh to me, and hateth not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.


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For which of you, intending to build a tower, doth not sit down first and count the cost, whether he hath the means to finish it?


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lest haply when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to make sport of him,


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Or what king, setting out to give battle to another king, will not first sit down and consider whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?


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Else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an embassy, and asketh conditions of peace.


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And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.


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What man of you having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he findeth it?


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And when he hath come home, he calleth together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.


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I say to you, that in like manner there will be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need of repentance.


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Or what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and search carefully till she findeth it?


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And when she hath found it, she calleth together her friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I lost.


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I say to you, that thus there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.


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And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of the property that falleth to me. And he divided to them his living.


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And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and went abroad into a far country; and there wasted his substance in riotous living.


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And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.


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And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!


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I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before thee;


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And he arose, and went to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him.


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And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.


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But the father said to his servants, Bring out the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and sandals on his feet.


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For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to make merry.


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Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.


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And he said to him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.


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And he answering said to his father, Lo! for so many years have I served thee, and never transgressed thy command; and yet to me thou never gavest a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.


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But as soon as this thy son came, who devoured thy living with harlots, thou didst kill for him the fatted calf.


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And he said also to the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused to him as wasting his goods.


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And he called him, and said to him, What is this that I hear of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou canst be no longer steward.


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Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do, now that my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? I cannot dig, I am ashamed to beg.


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I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, I may be received into their houses.


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So he called to him every one of his lord's debtors, and said to the first, How much dost thou owe my lord?


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And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said to him, Take thy bond, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.


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Then he said to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. He saith to him, Take thy bond, and write eighty.


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And the lord commended the unjust steward for having done wisely; for the sons of this world are wiser toward their generation than the sons of light.


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And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the unrighteous mammon; that, when it faileth, ye may be received into everlasting habitations.


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He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much.


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If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?


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and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?


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No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate one, and love the other; or he will cleave to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.


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And he said to them, Ye are they who justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is highly exalted among men is an abomination before God.


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The Law and the Prophets were till John; from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God have been published, and every one is forcing his way into it.


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and longing to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. But even the dogs came and licked his sores.


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And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.


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And in the underworld he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.


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And he called and said, Father Abraham, have pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.


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But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy lifetime, and Lazarus in like manner his evil things; but now he is comforted here, and thou art tormented.


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for I have five brothers; that he may give earnest warning to them, that they too may not come into this place of torment.


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It were better for him to have a millstone hung round his neck, and be cast into the sea, than to cause one of these little ones to fall away.


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And if he sin against thee seven times in a day, and seven times turn to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.


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But the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye might say to this sycamine-tree, Be plucked up by the roots, and planted in the sea! and it would obey you.


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And which of you having a servant plowing, or feeding cattle, will say to him, when he hath come in from the field, Come immediately and place thyself at table?


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Will he not rather say to him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself and serve me till I have eaten and drunken, and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?


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So also do ye, when ye have done all that hath been commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were bound to do.


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And it came to pass, as he was going to Jerusalem, that he was traveling on the confines of Samaria and Galilee.


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And when he saw them, he said to them, Go, show yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they were on their way, they were cleansed.


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And one of them, perceiving that he was freed from his disease, turned back, giving glory to God with a loud voice;


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And being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not in such a manner as to be watched for;


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And he said to the disciples, The days will come, when ye will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and will not see it.


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For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of one part under heaven, shineth to the other part under heaven, so will the Son of man be in his day.


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They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.


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In like manner, as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;


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but on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.


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In that day, let not him who is upon the house-top, and whose furniture is in the house, come down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not turn back.


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I tell you, In that night there will be two men on one bed; one will be taken, and the other will be left.


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And they answering say to him, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there also will the eagles be gathered together.<pb/>


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And he would not for some time. But afterward he said within himself, Though I neither fear God, nor regard man,


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And will not God avenge his chosen, who cry to him day and night, though he be slow to punish in their behalf?


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I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. But yet, when the Son of man cometh, will he find faith on the earth?


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And to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised all others, he spoke this parable:


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The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself thus: O God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.


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But the publican, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven; but smote his breast, saying, O God, be merciful to me a sinner!


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I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one that exalteth himself will be humbled; but he that humbleth himself will be exalted.


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And they brought to him infants also, that he might touch them; and the disciples, on seeing it, rebuked them.


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But Jesus called them to him, saying, Suffer the little children to come to me, and forbid them not; for to such belongeth the kingdom of God.


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Truly do I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, will not enter therein.


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Thou knowest the commandments: “Do not commit adultery; Do not kill; Do not steal; Do not bear false witness; Honor thy father and thy mother.”


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And Jesus hearing this said to him, One thing thou still lackest: sell all that thou hast, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.


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And he said to them, Truly do I say to you, There is no one that hath left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,


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And taking the twelve aside, he said to them, Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all that hath been written by the prophets concerning the Son of man will be accomplished.


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And they understood none of these things; and the meaning of these words was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what was said.


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And it came to pass, as he drew near to Jericho, that a certain blind man was sitting by the wayside begging.


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And they who went before sharply bade him hold his peace. But he cried out the more, Son of David, have pity on me!


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And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, giving glory to God; and all the people on seeing it gave praise to God.<pb/>


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And he sought to see Jesus, what sort of man he was; and he could not on account of the multitude; because he was small of stature.


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And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and said to him, Zacchaeas, make haste and come down; for today I must abide at thy house.


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And Zacchaeus stood up, and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any one by false representation, I restore him four-fold.


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And Jesus said to him, This day hath salvation come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;


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And while they were hearing these things, he proceeded and spoke a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and they thought that the kingdom of God would immediately appear.


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He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.


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And he called his ten servants, and gave them ten pounds, and said to them, Trade with these, till I come.


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But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.


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And it came to pass, when he had returned, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what each had gained by trading.


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And he said to him, Well done, good servant! because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.


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For I feared thee, because thou art a harsh man; thou takest up what thou didst not lay down, and reapest what thou didst not sow.


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He saith to him, Out of thy mouth will I judge thee, wicked servant! thou knewest that I was a harsh man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping what I did not sow;


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why then didst thou not put my money into a bank? Then I at my coming might have received it back with interest.


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And he said to them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath the ten pounds.


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I say to you, that to every one who hath, will be given; but from him that hath not, even what he hath will be taken away.


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But as for those enemies of mine, who would not that I should reign over them, bring them here, and slay them before me.


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And it came to pass, as he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,


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saying, Go to the village over against us; on entering which ye will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever sat; and loose, and bring it.


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And as he was drawing near, just at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen;


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saying, Blessed be the King in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest heavens!


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saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, and that in this thy day, the things that concern thy peace! but now they are hidden from thine eyes.


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For the days will come upon thee, when thine enemies will cast up a mound about thee, and compass thee round, and shut thee in on every side,


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and will level thee with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they will not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.


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saying to them, It is written, “And my house shall be a house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of robbers.”


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And he was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests, and the scribes, and the leading men of the people sought to destroy him.


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And they could not find an opportunity of doing any thing; for all the people hung upon him, listening.<pb/>


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And it came to pass, on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and publishing the good tidings, that the priests and the scribes with the elders came upon him,


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and spoke to him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? Or who is he that gave thee this authority?


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And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven, he will say, Why did ye not believe him?


