# bible

id: 3cf49245-5b3b-4114-9ac7-0c098e74e836
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will destroy all its beasts from beside many waters; and no foot of man shall trouble them anymore, nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.


id: f39f72e5-4b40-4322-9dd4-676ad43111bc
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  When I make the land of Egypt desolate, and when the land is desolate of all that fills it, when I strike down all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the LORD.


id: 4df7c10e-5ce0-4893-892c-6889cce7e361
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”


id: 7c28761b-dfdb-4b51-833d-dfc949df91c8
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:


id: d8a34bb7-d17c-4673-a8d7-6bb64ea62f06
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:


id: daa73277-b2fc-456f-b5c4-9836b048b2a0
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword. Egypt is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and all her multitudes.


id: c2d10907-19a7-4852-8281-6a870f52a67f
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The mighty chiefs shall speak of them, with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: ‘They have come down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’


id: 0de3fda1-44da-4fa6-a594-ceaa41014156
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Assyria is there, and all her company, its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword,


id: 66191c97-7aad-4b0d-951c-7500702632b3
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.


id: 3c3f3b33-2d79-4036-ad9d-753d3e5b11ca
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Elam is there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.


id: fcec7839-8c38-4f06-a019-3567aa3d11a4
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are placed among the slain.


id: 0a5bfe9e-8057-4914-abb5-40f16ac358ed
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Meshech-Tubal is there, and all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they spread their terror in the land of the living.


id: 1622b5a7-a797-4dfd-9c32-41af51bb86b4
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living.


id: 7579a2cd-bc3b-46db-87b4-1c35960bfad1
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But as for you, you shall be broken and lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.


id: 969ab40b-75e5-41c8-ac42-8b025aa837e2
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Edom is there, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with those who are killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.


id: e4730cf0-0c86-4a19-8125-2a2a94ceebe1
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “The princes of the north are there, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, for all the terror that they caused by their might; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.


id: 2716a6d2-5021-47be-8921-03dd976b4cff
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “When Pharaoh sees them, he will be comforted for all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.


id: 2042260a-5482-49b3-b329-98156ed09acc
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  For I spread terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid to rest among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.” 


id: 206d8a4e-817d-4761-8404-b1c19f64b8bd
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman,


id: ac7c3f95-9ddc-425e-980a-040b012b526f
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.


id: 9eb6c0dd-e139-497a-9652-184f778c1051
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life.


id: 41fe7385-1262-468b-9f47-23cb91fdbd53
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.


id: 963f29d6-fe3e-4ce1-897f-546a66ad3265
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.


id: e61f0687-37cd-444a-a5e7-5ef8689b12e5
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.


id: 314b1142-72c8-459c-b103-815a3d1d3b20
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.


id: a0d82b4e-ca21-484d-9bd5-3b630960d360
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: ‘Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we rot away because of them. How then can we live?’


id: d2df6fa7-134a-4649-9338-974df67b84be
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?


id: 4b59b484-b999-44eb-9c5d-a699d0813bc9
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins.


id: e6fbe2d5-5ea6-4349-8a58-13f851c0bbd5
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die.


id: ef587476-b9d3-4db7-940f-f48a5d4350f7
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Again, though I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,


id: ff42b691-11a3-4a21-a5c2-afef3190061d
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die.


id: 69b0116f-0830-4a0e-9781-cf6eab21cb6c
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.


id: 8b2cf5d0-1204-4b7e-8510-5948ddca094e
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this.


id: bef84d16-a22e-44b5-8bc4-0b3d73413501
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.”


id: 45b5f2ee-6274-459a-95e5-c6c6b6aef11f
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has been struck down.”


id: dc536cde-3a22-4bce-8c5e-461949ca8210
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.


id: e347f03b-e1bd-4d7c-a34d-5e65b2846c0a
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.’


id: f9374b84-5179-43a3-8cc1-2adbdaed0f3b
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?


id: bdd38296-846c-477b-85e7-4d43c5db65b4
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You rely on the sword, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?


id: 86b867c2-658e-41de-be54-8c934d57096f
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Say this to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence.


id: e75997ce-175f-42ca-9943-b44426a5cc85
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and her proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through.


id: daa76790-0cd8-4e50-bb25-87b7022c4372
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.


id: d9853f8b-80b1-4647-9d91-31b5aa328d4c
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.


id: cd8dd930-3bcd-483e-bb3a-436b8f8a61d2
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it.


id: ae17ee58-c03b-48b1-a21f-8e091bdca564
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?


id: 579395ad-af37-4dc5-8239-555ec74336bc
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.


id: 1bec94cd-2a15-44a9-aa7f-8ff00a353aa5
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.


id: 2bae7411-29f3-482f-84aa-2c140642690c
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered;


id: e3378285-833c-4c17-b265-9f22d60b5add
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them.


id: c5b95a04-87ac-41b8-81f2-65a6140c7aad
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,


id: e50ea454-caa3-440d-ac27-017281fba4e7
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.


id: 09cbf7a3-8ab1-4b2a-b7d2-ceea29a9ad47
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.


id: 14f7fb47-e061-4beb-b7f2-15d30681bcd7
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country.


id: feabdd2d-c848-41ca-b83a-6a066b4014a4
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.


id: fc606142-914f-4c81-a287-c18b1126c45f
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD.


id: 588daa49-d811-4eaf-907d-2fadcc65d2fe
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.


id: 68dd7d60-9aa1-4237-9bd3-d9858ade0281
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats.


id: 0724e1b6-8ab8-4896-966e-f06c2833c077
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet?


id: d2518971-6479-42b3-ab9b-058fde51e327
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet?


id: 2ce84252-02b6-4cf8-af3c-6834b03bce61
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.


id: 7605a978-cf69-4c23-9bd3-39f4b678aa37
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Because you push with side and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad,


id: 12fe4f1f-953d-48fc-85e5-f7179ada86b2
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.


id: 10922e07-5984-408b-be9d-dd530618ef5a
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. I am the LORD; I have spoken.


id: efb1bef7-c5ee-457f-a224-6442377dbb89
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.


id: 6a1c37b5-877c-4cb1-9a76-c0495b57f301
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.


id: 56f15cca-c1e6-4bf8-8280-da6bfc7bff2f
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.


id: a7bfbce2-d8eb-493e-b1a3-98a489e7e412
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.


id: 06540de2-c2b5-4bcd-a1c9-f54848f6b897
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will provide for them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations.


id: becef859-5bb6-4414-982a-4f69649d26e7
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And they shall know that I am the LORD their God with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the Lord GOD.


id: 97940ace-8528-4f29-b5c0-a60566876177
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  and say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste.


id: a5442d1a-16d2-4353-8614-62c420e0cef4
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the LORD.


id: 7e14e690-8da9-45a8-b7cd-880caa00e019
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Because you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment,


id: 3ef3438b-ecfe-4994-b654-b30c8229414e
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you.


id: 7d6fa3ba-ba6f-4496-afb0-cd452f9efa8f
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will fill its mountains with the slain. On your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain with the sword shall fall.


id: dfef0b17-f46e-4ed5-a74a-b5cf98b0d9a1
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.


id: 05cba1f2-9e67-4a02-a7fe-2ac67812f85e
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Because you said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them’—although the LORD was there—


id: ab1350af-b8be-4dc0-8203-20b202f35300
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them, when I judge you.


id: 670d1b1d-75fb-4790-b320-f0a178eaad90
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And you shall know that I am the LORD. “I have heard all the revilings that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.’


id: 7ba12f8a-db80-4823-b75d-858a11c84ad3
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.


id: 9a2f4154-4e15-4180-9f49-437214a847b6
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD. 


id: 46d1f2b2-45eb-428e-9374-3c0db5477dbc
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.


id: 88e231cd-ba66-4055-8797-40168c3a8c6e
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the enemy said of you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The ancient heights have become our possession,’


id: ba326d11-7032-4667-beb1-5cfc3a9f74bb
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,


id: c1da78fb-dbe8-4f43-89b4-8ab2773176a8
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,


id: 860c73f0-d5d8-465d-b2d6-b855e5cf5334
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.


id: ddffdfeb-b69e-4168-96cb-5461b5c6228a
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.


id: f986d62e-ff03-4acf-beb2-7e69fa10b274
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.


id: 5db89566-f9f8-4688-9613-7821b7b4723d
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they will soon come home.


id: a2b2fdac-d351-482b-8383-1a891e8dfb85
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt.


id: e0243219-fda2-4b87-afd5-09b2590ac7af
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.


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label: Ezek
content:
  I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, ‘You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD.”


id: 3b5ab32b-78cd-475f-813c-9c1ba87abf5e
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it.


id: 4711b19b-a100-44ff-8af3-2531f0888eeb
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.


id: f8ab8b66-ab5b-44ce-8928-c71260552157
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.


id: 9134efca-3f78-4c1c-b244-5f47f27e427b
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.


id: e7f7ca1e-042f-4ed7-82f9-f8e84a7c76cf
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GOD; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.


id: 5c398197-f5f7-4fb5-a378-50bdd7d30f23
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” 


id: e1df22e6-0a97-45c5-b57f-3177f0a07f6a
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.


id: e871d993-3b49-446e-b36e-558f2bb65d89
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry.


id: 694b0234-fd2f-44bc-8a08-602e8f24eed2
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.


id: cd807cb9-e7cc-45d2-bd78-8dc407f18392
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.” 


id: 4f309d42-2d16-48c1-b51b-66044a9689f5
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.


id: e758f9de-b90f-4578-b38e-49a980bdb8d0
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Gomer and all his hordes; Beth-togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes—many peoples are with you.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  After many days you will be mustered. In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.


id: a19221ee-74b0-4abb-8310-b7dad2a3999f
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  and say, ‘I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders will say to you, ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it?


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.


id: 81de80b5-8868-4c1d-b7d9-03f6ad05a940
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, my wrath will be roused in my anger.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Lord GOD. Every man’s sword will be against his brother.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.


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label: Ezek
content:
  So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD. 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will turn you about and drive you forward, and bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the mountains of Israel.


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content:
  Then I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the LORD.


id: 189525ed-d00f-4b7c-b8e8-12f6c480ed9d
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Behold, it is coming and it will be brought about, declares the Lord GOD. That is the day of which I have spoken.


id: 8be3e096-91a5-4ae7-a6d4-73dbdccb7caf
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years,


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  so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons. They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord GOD.


id: 8cd4beaf-d6f3-4e7d-afc6-078b54eb9974
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea. It will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day that I show my glory, declares the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make their search.


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label: Ezek
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  And when these travel through the land and anyone sees a human bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.


id: dcf88aaf-b418-4b27-96f5-b7b4adc9b822
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field: ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you.


id: 4c0f8c3a-7d8e-40a6-aac7-401d2398fa5e
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,’ declares the Lord GOD.


id: 96ffa35a-c640-4e44-adde-5134ac556256
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.


id: 2cf31a91-4686-4fe9-baa7-b54d78c1d1fb
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.


id: ac4915ed-ecac-4261-a24d-5a7479eb6e23
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They shall forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid,


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label: Ezek
content:
  when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies’ lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations.


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  Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.


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  And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.” 


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  In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me to the city.


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  In visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city to the south.


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  When he brought me there, behold, there was a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand. And he was standing in the gateway.


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  And the man said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”


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  And behold, there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man’s hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed; and the height, one reed.


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  Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep.


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  And the side rooms, one reed long and one reed broad; and the space between the side rooms, five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the vestibule of the gate at the inner end, one reed.


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  Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.


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  And there were three side rooms on either side of the east gate. The three were of the same size, and the jambs on either side were of the same size.


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  Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gateway, thirteen cubits.


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  There was a barrier before the side rooms, one cubit on either side. And the side rooms were six cubits on either side.


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  Then he measured the gate from the ceiling of the one side room to the ceiling of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; the openings faced each other.


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  He measured also the vestibule, sixty cubits. And around the vestibule of the gateway was the court.


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  From the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.


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  And the gateway had windows all around, narrowing inwards toward the side rooms and toward their jambs, and likewise the vestibule had windows all around inside, and on the jambs were palm trees.


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  Then he brought me into the outer court. And behold, there were chambers and a pavement, all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement.


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  And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates. This was the lower pavement.


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  Then he measured the distance from the inner front of the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court, a hundred cubits on the east side and on the north side.


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  As for the gate that faced toward the north, belonging to the outer court, he measured its length and its breadth.


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  Its side rooms, three on either side, and its jambs and its vestibule were of the same size as those of the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.


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  And its windows, its vestibule, and its palm trees were of the same size as those of the gate that faced toward the east. And by seven steps people would go up to it, and find its vestibule before them.


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  And opposite the gate on the north, as on the east, was a gate to the inner court. And he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.


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  And he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate on the south. And he measured its jambs and its vestibule; they had the same size as the others.


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  Both it and its vestibule had windows all around, like the windows of the others. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.


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  And there were seven steps leading up to it, and its vestibule was before them, and it had palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.


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  And there was a gate on the south of the inner court. And he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.


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  Then he brought me to the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate. It was of the same size as the others.


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  Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and both it and its vestibule had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.


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  Its vestibule faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.


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  Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gate. It was of the same size as the others.


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  Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.


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  Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and it had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.


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  There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.


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  And in the vestibule of the gate were two tables on either side, on which the burnt offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering were to be slaughtered.


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  And off to the side, on the outside as one goes up to the entrance of the north gate, were two tables; and off to the other side of the vestibule of the gate were two tables.


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  And there were four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high, on which the instruments were to be laid with which the burnt offerings and the sacrifices were slaughtered.


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  And hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened all around within. And on the tables the flesh of the offering was to be laid.


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  On the outside of the inner gateway there were two chambers in the inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, the other at the side of the south gate facing north.


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  and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who alone among the sons of Levi may come near to the LORD to minister to him.”


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  And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits broad, a square. And the altar was in front of the temple.


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  Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the jambs of the vestibule, five cubits on either side. And the breadth of the gate was fourteen cubits, and the sidewalls of the gate were three cubits on either side.


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  The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the breadth twelve cubits, and people would go up to it by ten steps. And there were pillars beside the jambs, one on either side. 


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  Then he brought me to the nave and measured the jambs. On each side six cubits was the breadth of the jambs.


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  And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits.


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  Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side of the entrance, seven cubits.


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  And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across the nave. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”


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  Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple.


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  And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.


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  And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story.


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  I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.


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  The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. The free space between the side chambers of the temple and the


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  And the doors of the side chambers opened on the free space, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the breadth of the free space was five cubits all around.


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  The building that was facing the separate yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.


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  Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long;


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  Then he measured the length of the building facing the yard that was at the back and its galleries on either side, a hundred cubits. The inside of the nave and the vestibules of the court,


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  the thresholds and the narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered),


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  to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls all around, inside and outside, was a measured pattern.


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  It was carved of cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces:


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  a human face toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around.


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  From the floor to above the door, cherubim and palm trees were carved; similarly the wall of the nave.


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  an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”


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  And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, such as were carved on the walls. And there was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside.


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  And there were narrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule, the side chambers of the temple, and the canopies. 


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  Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north.


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  The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits.


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  Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.


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  And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.


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  Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.


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  For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.


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  And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long.


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  For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the nave were a hundred cubits long.


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  In the thickness of the wall of the court, on the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers


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  with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors,


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  as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them.


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  Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the LORD shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings—the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering—for the place is holy.


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  When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.”


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  Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around.


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  He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, 500 cubits long and 500 cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common. 


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  And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory.


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  And the vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and just like the vision that I had seen by the Chebar canal. And I fell on my face.


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  the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple.


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  and he said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies of their kings at their high places,


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  by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them. They have defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger.


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  Now let them put away their whoring and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.


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  “As for you, son of man, describe to the house of Israel the temple, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and they shall measure the plan.


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  And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, that is, its whole design; and make known to them as well all its statutes and its whole design and all its laws, and write it down in their sight, so that they may observe all its laws and all its statutes and carry them out.


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  This is the law of the temple: the whole territory on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.


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  “These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth): its base shall be one cubit high and one cubit broad, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this shall be the height of the altar:


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  from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, with a breadth of one cubit;


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  The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad, with a rim around it half a cubit broad, and its base one cubit all around. The steps of the altar shall face east.”


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  And he said to me, “Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: These are the ordinances for the altar: On the day when it is erected for offering burnt offerings upon it and for throwing blood against it,


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  you shall give to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, declares the Lord GOD, a bull from the herd for a sin offering.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And you shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the ledge and upon the rim all around. Thus you shall purify the altar and make atonement for it.


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  You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place belonging to the temple, outside the sacred area.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  And on the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and the altar shall be purified, as it was purified with the bull.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  When you have finished purifying it, you shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish and a ram from the flock without blemish.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You shall present them before the LORD, and the priests shall sprinkle salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  For seven days you shall provide daily a male goat for a sin offering; also, a bull from the herd and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be provided.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And when they have completed these days, then from the eighth day onward the priests shall offer on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, and I will accept you, declares the Lord GOD.” 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the LORD said to me, “This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Only the prince may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD. He shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple, and I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple of the LORD. And I fell on my face.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I shall tell you concerning all the statutes of the temple of the LORD and all its laws. And mark well the entrance to the temple and all the exits from the sanctuary.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And say to the rebellious house, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: O house of Israel, enough of all your abominations,


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.


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content:
  And you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple and ministering in the temple. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before the people, to minister to them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their punishment.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They shall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my holy things and the things that are most holy, but they shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed.


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content:
  Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, to do all its service and all that is to be done in it.


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content:
  “But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the Lord GOD.


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content:
  They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  When they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear linen garments. They shall have nothing of wool on them, while they minister at the gates of the inner court, and within.


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label: Ezek
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  They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and linen undergarments around their waists. They shall not bind themselves with anything that causes sweat.


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  And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers. And they shall put on other garments, lest they transmit holiness to the people with their garments.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.


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book: Ezekiel
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  They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.


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label: Ezek
content:
  They shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person. However, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And on the day that he goes into the Holy Place, into the inner court, to minister in the Holy Place, he shall offer his sin offering, declares the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance: and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the first of all the firstfruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, that a blessing may rest on your house.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The priests shall not eat of anything, whether bird or beast, that has died of itself or is torn by wild animals. 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “When you allot the land as an inheritance, you shall set apart for the LORD a portion of the land as a holy district, 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits broad. It shall be holy throughout its whole extent.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Of this a square plot of 500 by 500 cubits shall be for the sanctuary, with fifty cubits for an open space around it.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And from this measured district you shall measure off a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 broad, in which shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  It shall be the holy portion of the land. It shall be for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and approach the LORD to minister to him, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Another section, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district you shall assign for the property of the city an area 5,000 cubits broad and 25,000 cubits long. It shall belong to the whole house of Israel.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary


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  of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no more oppress my people, but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “This is the offering that you shall make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley,


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  and as the fixed portion of oil, measured in baths, one tenth of a bath from each cor (the cor, like the homer, contains ten baths).


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  And one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the watering places of Israel for grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them, declares the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  It shall be the prince’s duty to furnish the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull from the herd without blemish, and purify the sanctuary.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court.


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content:
  You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.


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label: Ezek
content:
  “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And on the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the LORD seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And he shall provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil to each ephah.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the feast, he shall make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings, and for the oil. 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.


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label: Ezek
content:
  The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the LORD daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the LORD. This is a perpetual statute.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for a regular burnt offering.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance—it shall belong to his sons.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be scattered from his property.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, to the north row of the holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court—


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  in the four corners of the court were small courts, forty cubits long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around.


id: 93c35140-a51f-4a2c-b02a-24a3d560c9c9
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.” 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gate that faces toward the east; and behold, the water was trickling out on the south side.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Going on eastward with a measuring line in his hand, the man measured a thousand cubits, and then led me through the water, and it was ankle-deep.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was knee-deep. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was waist-deep.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Again he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the water had risen. It was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And he said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, and enters the sea; when the water flows into the sea, the water will become fresh.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Fishermen will stand beside the sea. From Engedi to Eneglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Thus says the Lord GOD: “This is the boundary by which you shall divide the land for inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.


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  And you shall divide equally what I swore to give to your fathers. This land shall fall to you as your inheritance.


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  “This shall be the boundary of the land: On the north side, from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, and on to Zedad,


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  Berothah, Sibraim (which lies on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.


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  So the boundary shall run from the sea to Hazar-enan, which is on the northern border of Damascus, with the border of Hamath to the north. This shall be the north side.


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  “On the east side, the boundary shall run between Hauran and Damascus; along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel; to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar. This shall be the east side.


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  “On the south side, it shall run from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribah-kadesh, from there along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This shall be the south side.


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content:
  “On the west side, the Great Sea shall be the boundary to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This shall be the west side.


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  You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the sojourners who reside among you and have had children among you. They shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.


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  In whatever tribe the sojourner resides, there you shall assign him his inheritance, declares the Lord GOD. 


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label: Ezek
content:
  “These are the names of the tribes: Beginning at the northern extreme, beside the way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan (which is on the northern border of Damascus over against Hamath), and extending from the east side to the west, Dan, one portion.


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  “Adjoining the territory of Judah, from the east side to the west, shall be the portion which you shall set apart, 25,000 cubits in breadth, and in length equal to one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west, with the sanctuary in the midst of it.


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  The portion that you shall set apart for the LORD shall be 25,000 cubits in length, and 20,000 in breadth.


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  These shall be the allotments of the holy portion: the priests shall have an allotment measuring 25,000 cubits on the northern side, 10,000 cubits in breadth on the western side, 10,000 in breadth on the eastern side, and 25,000 in length on the southern side, with the sanctuary of the LORD in the midst of it.


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  This shall be for the consecrated priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge, who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, as the Levites did.


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  And it shall belong to them as a special portion from the holy portion of the land, a most holy place, adjoining the territory of the Levites.


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  And alongside the territory of the priests, the Levites shall have an allotment 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in breadth. The whole length shall be 25,000 cubits and the breadth 20,000.


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  They shall not sell or exchange any of it. They shall not alienate this choice portion of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.


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  “The remainder, 5,000 cubits in breadth and 25,000 in length, shall be for common use for the city, for dwellings and for open country. In the midst of it shall be the city,


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  and these shall be its measurements: the north side 4,500 cubits, the south side 4,500, the east side 4,500, and the west side 4,500.


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  And the city shall have open land: on the north 250 cubits, on the south 250, on the east 250, and on the west 250.


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  The remainder of the length alongside the holy portion shall be 10,000 cubits to the east, and 10,000 to the west, and it shall be alongside the holy portion. Its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.


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  The whole portion that you shall set apart shall be 25,000 cubits square, that is, the holy portion together with the property of the city.


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  “What remains on both sides of the holy portion and of the property of the city shall belong to the prince. Extending from the 25,000 cubits of the holy portion to the east border, and westward from the 25,000 cubits to the west border, parallel to the tribal portions, it shall belong to the prince. The holy portion with the sanctuary of the temple shall be in its midst.


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  It shall be separate from the property of the Levites and the property of the city, which are in the midst of that which belongs to the prince. The portion of the prince shall lie between the territory of Judah and the territory of Benjamin.


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  And adjoining the territory of Gad to the south, the boundary shall run from Tamar to the waters of Meribah-kadesh, from there along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea.


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content:
  This is the land that you shall allot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the Lord GOD.


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  three gates, the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah, and the gate of Levi, the gates of the city being named after the tribes of Israel.


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  On the east side, which is to be 4,500 cubits, three gates, the gate of Joseph, the gate of Benjamin, and the gate of Dan.


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  On the south side, which is to be 4,500 cubits by measure, three gates, the gate of Simeon, the gate of Issachar, and the gate of Zebulun.


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  On the west side, which is to be 4,500 cubits, three gates, the gate of Gad, the gate of Asher, and the gate of Naphtali.


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content:
  The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. And the name of the city from that time on shall be, The LORD Is There.” 


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.


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label: Dan
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  Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility,


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  youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.


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label: Dan
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  The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king.


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  And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego.


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  But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
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  and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.”


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  Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,


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  Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king’s food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see.”


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  At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king’s food.


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label: Dan
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  As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.


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label: Dan
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  At the end of the time, when the king had commanded that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.


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label: Dan
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  And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king.


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  And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.


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  In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him.


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  Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.


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  Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”


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  The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins.


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  But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.”


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  They answered a second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show its interpretation.”


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label: Dan
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  The king answered and said, “I know with certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see that the word from me is firm—


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  if you do not make the dream known to me, there is but one sentence for you. You have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till the times change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.”


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  The Chaldeans answered the king and said, “There is not a man on earth who can meet the king’s demand, for no great and powerful king has asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean.


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label: Dan
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  The thing that the king asks is difficult, and no one can show it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”


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label: Dan
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  Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.


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label: Dan
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  So the decree went out, and the wise men were about to be killed; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them.


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label: Dan
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  Then Daniel replied with prudence and discretion to Arioch, the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.


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  He declared to Arioch, the king’s captain, “Why is the decree of the king so urgent?” Then Arioch made the matter known to Daniel.


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  And Daniel went in and requested the king to appoint him a time, that he might show the interpretation to the king.


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


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  and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
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  Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.


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label: Dan
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  Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.


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label: Dan
content:
  He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;


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label: Dan
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  To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king’s matter.”


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label: Dan
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  Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said thus to him: “Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show the king the interpretation.”


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  Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste and said thus to him: “I have found among the exiles from Judah a man who will make known to the king the interpretation.”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
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  The king declared to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its interpretation?”


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  Daniel answered the king and said, “No wise men, enchanters, magicians, or astrologers can show to the king the mystery that the king has asked,


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  but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:


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  To you, O king, as you lay in bed came thoughts of what would be after this, and he who reveals mysteries made known to you what is to be.


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  But as for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind.


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  “You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening.


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label: Dan
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  The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze,


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  As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.


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label: Dan
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  Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.


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label: Dan
content:
  You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory,


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  and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold.


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label: Dan
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  Another kingdom inferior to you shall arise after you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.


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  And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things. And like iron that crushes, it shall break and crush all these.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
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  And as you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom, but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the soft clay.


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  And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle.


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label: Dan
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  As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay.


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  And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,


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  just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
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  Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and paid homage to Daniel, and commanded that an offering and incense be offered up to him.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  The king answered and said to Daniel, “Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.”


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label: Dan
content:
  Then the king gave Daniel high honors and many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.


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label: Dan
content:
  Daniel made a request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But Daniel remained at the king’s court. 


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label: Dan
content:
  King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
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  Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.


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label: Dan
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  that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.


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label: Dan
content:
  Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  You, O king, have made a decree, that every man who hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, pay no attention to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”


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label: Dan
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  Then Nebuchadnezzar in furious rage commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. So they brought these men before the king.


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label: Dan
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  Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up?


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label: Dan
content:
  Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”


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label: Dan
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  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.


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


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label: Dan
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  But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”


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label: Dan
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  Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was usually heated.


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  And he ordered some of the mighty men of his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.


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label: Dan
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  Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, their hats, and their other garments, and they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace.


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label: Dan
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  Because the king’s order was urgent and the furnace overheated, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
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  Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in haste. He declared to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.”


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  He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”


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label: Dan
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  Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the burning fiery furnace; he declared, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire.


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label: Dan
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  And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king’s counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men. The hair of their heads was not singed, their cloaks were not harmed, and no smell of fire had come upon them.


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label: Dan
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  Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants, who trusted in him, and set aside the king’s command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God.


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label: Dan
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  Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins, for there is no other god who is able to rescue in this way.”


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label: Dan
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  King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you!


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


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  I saw a dream that made me afraid. As I lay in bed the fancies and the visions of my head alarmed me.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
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  So I made a decree that all the wise men of Babylon should be brought before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its interpretation.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  At last Daniel came in before me—he who was named Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods—and I told him the dream, saying,


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  “O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no mystery is too difficult for you, tell me the visions of my dream that I saw and their interpretation.


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  The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.


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  The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth.


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label: Dan
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  Its leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.


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label: Dan
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  “I saw in the visions of my head as I lay in bed, and behold, a watcher, a holy one, came down from heaven.


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label: Dan
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  He proclaimed aloud and said thus: ‘Chop down the tree and lop off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it and the birds from its branches.


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  But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, amid the tender grass of the field. Let him be wet with the dew of heaven. Let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
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  Let his mind be changed from a man’s, and let a beast’s mind be given to him; and let seven periods of time pass over him.


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label: Dan
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  The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.’


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label: Dan
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  This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. And you, O Belteshazzar, tell me the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”


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  Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was dismayed for a while, and his thoughts alarmed him. The king answered and said, “Belteshazzar, let not the dream or the interpretation alarm you.” Belteshazzar answered and said, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you and its interpretation for your enemies!


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  The tree you saw, which grew and became strong, so that its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth,


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  whose leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which beasts of the field found shade, and in whose branches the birds of the heavens lived—


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  it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. Your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the ends of the earth.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And because the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven periods of time pass over him,’


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  this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king,


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label: Dan
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  that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.


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label: Dan
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  And as it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be confirmed for you from the time that you know that Heaven rules.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you: break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your prosperity.”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  and the king answered and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  While the words were still in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you,


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label: Dan
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  and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles’ feathers, and his nails were like birds’ claws.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;


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  all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”


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label: Dan
content:
  At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and still more greatness was added to me.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble. 


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.


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label: Dan
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  Then they brought in the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then the king’s color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  The king called loudly to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king declared to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banqueting hall, and the queen declared, “O king, live forever! Let not your thoughts alarm you or your color change.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him, and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father—your father the king—made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers,


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  because an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king answered and said to Daniel, “You are that Daniel, one of the exiles of Judah, whom the king my father brought from Judah.


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label: Dan
content:
  I have heard of you that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.


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label: Dan
content:
  Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they could not show the interpretation of the matter.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  But I have heard that you can give interpretations and solve problems. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then Daniel answered and said before the king, “Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation.


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label: Dan
content:
  O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty.


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label: Dan
content:
  And because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled.


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content:
  But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.


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label: Dan
content:
  He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will.


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label: Dan
content:
  but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.


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label: Dan
content:
  This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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label: Dan
content:
  and over them three high officials, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other high officials and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then the high officials and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then these men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then these high officials and satraps came by agreement to the king and said to him, “O King Darius, live forever!


id: 4e539aeb-ea2f-4e81-827d-785388058529
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  All the high officials of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an injunction, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.


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label: Dan
content:
  Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked.”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.


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label: Dan
content:
  Then they came near and said before the king, concerning the injunction, “O king! Did you not sign an injunction, that anyone who makes petition to any god or man within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered and said, “The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then they answered and said before the king, “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or the injunction you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then the king, when he heard these words, was much distressed and set his mind to deliver Daniel. And he labored till the sun went down to rescue him.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or ordinance that the king establishes can be changed.”


id: e104c89e-23de-4313-b434-aa195690404b
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then the king commanded, and Daniel was brought and cast into the den of lions. The king declared to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.


id: 2b5691f6-e563-4a50-a7fe-565eefc55865
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no diversions were brought to him, and sleep fled from him.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  As he came near to the den where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish. The king declared to Daniel, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And the king commanded, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and cast into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. And before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.


id: 7f287c2e-b3ec-4925-81e8-9f9d5e7f3721
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: “Peace be multiplied to you.


id: 078e1aff-6ad4-412e-aa0e-a0510b34073d
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end.


id: 39875883-942b-492c-815d-8ef383ff7edd
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He delivers and rescues; he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, he who has saved Daniel from the power of the lions.”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  The first was like a lion and had eagles’ wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it.


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label: Dan
content:
  And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  After this I looked, and behold, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back. And the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.


id: 222e2853-93f7-4e58-b23c-df8783078c93
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, 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.


id: f1606444-eab6-4140-802b-8af650172795
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire.


id: ec58d7f2-a932-4172-9998-3d28ebb0aaad
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  A stream of fire issued and came out from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “I looked then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire.


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label: Dan
content:
  As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.


id: d4b1735c-f1e5-4c88-8784-1db2e036839e
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  I approached one of those who stood there 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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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.’


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “Then I desired to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the rest, exceedingly terrifying, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze, and which devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet,


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label: Dan
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  and about the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn that came up and before which three of them fell, the horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and that seemed greater than its companions.


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label: Dan
content:
  until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom.


id: a130fc57-80cb-4d3e-8ce7-55c2c26df578
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “Thus he said: ‘As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it to pieces.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  But the court shall sit in judgment, and his dominion shall be taken away, to be consumed and destroyed to the end.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; his kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.’


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly alarmed me, and my color changed, but I kept the matter in my heart.” 


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


id: 12dce034-b1a6-40cf-ace9-5ff6f37ca136
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And I saw in the vision; and when I saw, I was in Susa the citadel, which is in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and I was at the Ulai canal.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. No beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.


id: 41e51ffd-c154-4240-a136-b22d03f1f1ab
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground. And the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.


id: 4c310ba3-86fa-4dd7-b1dd-8234514fb33f
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He came to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing on the bank of the canal, and he ran at him in his powerful wrath.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged against him and struck the ram and broke his two horns. And the ram had no power to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled on him. And there was no one who could rescue the ram from his power.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then the goat became exceedingly great, but when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and instead of it there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Out of one of them came a little horn, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the glorious land.


id: 6299339a-c469-437a-976f-ed6dcd512529
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  It grew great, even to the host of heaven. And some of the host and some of the stars it threw down to the ground and trampled on them.


id: 158a985d-5efd-4738-ab88-9dccb37a2802
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  It became great, even as great as the Prince of the host. And the regular burnt offering was taken away from him, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown.


id: b2e592fd-43c6-48ff-9f8d-3f4b06842ded
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And a host will be given over to it together with the regular burnt offering because of transgression, and it will throw truth to the ground, and it will act and prosper.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the one who spoke, “For how long is the vision concerning the regular burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled underfoot?”


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And he said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.”


id: c8e7a8f1-8d6c-4764-9fe1-db816aaddce0
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. And behold, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.


id: d88c950a-d6d5-4d15-a4c1-a89b1ede9164
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, and it called, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”


id: ced5f40e-f4af-4c10-8f3b-c86f85e7d567
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  So he came near where I stood. And when he came, I was frightened and fell on my face. But he said to me, “Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end.”


id: b4cad886-4b7e-46ea-9463-02344273530f
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And when he had spoken to me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face to the ground. But he touched me and made me stand up.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He said, “Behold, I will make known to you what shall be at the latter end of the indignation, for it refers to the appointed time of the end.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And at the latter end of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their limit, a king of bold face, one who understands riddles, shall arise.


id: 4c49ccf4-5be5-4a21-ba44-46f859931121
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  His power shall be great—but not by his own power; and he shall cause fearful destruction and shall succeed in what he does, and destroy mighty men and the people who are the saints.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall become great. Without warning he shall destroy many. And he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes, and he shall be broken—but by no human hand.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been told is true, but seal up the vision, for it refers to many days from now.”


id: 61988a0d-1708-47ca-8d2f-0f00f6ad7024
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days. Then I rose and went about the king’s business, but I was appalled by the vision and did not understand it. 


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a Mede, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans—


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.


id: e0f5bdf9-0b69-4a85-aa6b-d106606ac4ff
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.


id: f238266c-20ae-44b3-964c-552578c28897
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  I prayed to the LORD my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,


id: d14c78bd-4c04-496d-9c08-37b98bf33885
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.


id: 5aecf759-69a9-4e04-8e5e-1fef618a7faf
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.


id: a3601e6c-9174-48e4-b71b-012213245740
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you.


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label: Dan
content:
  To us, O LORD, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.


id: 50f06de1-e4d4-4242-a1fd-db83b7f9bcee
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.


id: 3f9c1956-3d6a-415f-8515-15ac4fd3c1e6
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.


id: f76d2d28-66f5-4220-953b-9904b4fb679b
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.


id: f49ba0b8-9c71-4188-9f0c-a97636666589
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.


id: 69dce0d8-5d1c-46a6-ad6b-17a995c55eb6
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”


id: 063959a5-4c42-430c-9e22-1bdcaab9ea54
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the LORD my God for the holy hill of my God,


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice.


id: 3406acb0-71a7-4b3f-804f-464d8073ab48
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, “O Daniel, I have now come out to give you insight and understanding.


id: 6b9c6879-a96e-41ed-adea-14f279a607a2
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision.


id: 38c4e6b4-2394-4e27-a8f5-cf8146e0f38d
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.” 


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river (that is, the Tigris)


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.


id: 6f0028ea-4d1f-42fe-8a76-3131fb3871ee
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great trembling fell upon them, and they fled to hide themselves.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  So I was left alone and saw this great vision, and no strength was left in me. My radiant appearance was fearfully changed, and I retained no strength.


id: 478ad05f-5288-423e-b9c9-7e542dc3143a
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then I heard the sound of his words, and as I heard the sound of his words, I fell on my face in deep sleep with my face to the ground.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And he said to me, “O Daniel, man greatly loved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for now I have been sent to you.” And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling.


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book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.


id: 10b42808-1a3f-4caf-b754-e44979072331
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia,


id: d3c2da2e-ac92-43e1-b9a4-3ff66fd6b745
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  and came to make you understand what is to happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come.”


id: bdffbbad-7bab-4907-b042-34c6ccf811cc
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, “O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength.


id: dc22c49f-7ab0-4f2c-886e-2c302b68c9d8
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  How can my lord’s servant talk with my lord? For now no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me.”


id: 96e4f074-3444-4f68-a822-d162ec3f9302
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And he said, “O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage.” And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”


id: ae5a6c33-ff81-41ae-a568-c4493d6d7c3e
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the prince of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come.


id: 7a393dde-d9d7-4281-b6ee-fabc1d81c7cc
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince. 


id: 327f4a9a-6c05-4ec8-98ad-d1654fefa619
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “And now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece.


id: 770cd481-e251-44d2-b68a-0689bab36133
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the authority with which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these.


id: c7777885-f8e5-427d-8217-9f452da64966
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “Then the king of the south shall be strong, but one of his princes shall be stronger than he and shall rule, and his authority shall be a great authority.


id: a9bc5a01-2fbb-4976-b103-f1763643040a
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  After some years they shall make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement. But she shall not retain the strength of her arm, and he and his arm shall not endure, but she shall be given up, and her attendants, he who fathered her, and he who supported her in those times.


id: 22218529-13e2-4f91-bf81-dfbc8feb3ef6
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “And from a branch from her roots one shall arise in his place. He shall come against the army and enter the fortress of the king of the north, and he shall deal with them and shall prevail.


id: dbde9f95-5b67-4ca6-9b5b-a6aa161c4926
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He shall also carry off to Egypt their gods with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold, and for some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north.


id: 78c972c9-92a9-4e31-b9a9-5913b920e508
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then the latter shall come into the realm of the king of the south but shall return to his own land.


id: fe4812f0-08a9-4600-8e43-6f3d330bfb15
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall keep coming and overflow and pass through, and again shall carry the war as far as his fortress.


id: c032e2e0-c736-4f82-8d31-79743c9c6f22
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then the king of the south, moved with rage, shall come out and fight against the king of the north. And he shall raise a great multitude, but it shall be given into his hand.


id: 3f763f67-0003-4f2c-ac6a-e4303aa2a1c9
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And when the multitude is taken away, his heart shall be exalted, and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.


id: 9d65853f-6023-4388-9bc7-c1707c3f198f
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  For the king of the north shall again raise a multitude, greater than the first. And after some years he shall come on with a great army and abundant supplies.


id: 67994c3b-7fe8-43dc-afcd-9e3af6b5032d
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “In those times many shall rise against the king of the south, and the violent among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but they shall fail.


id: 70e92643-f329-4cb2-92aa-522e980acd37
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then the king of the north shall come and throw up siegeworks and take a well-fortified city. And the forces of the south shall not stand, or even his best troops, for there shall be no strength to stand.


id: 8389449e-4b0b-4291-bc1e-72ed40f1aee9
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  But he who comes against him shall do as he wills, and none shall stand before him. And he shall stand in the glorious land, with destruction in his hand.


id: 74ed0d47-e2d5-43df-8a74-a2add6f82520
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and he shall bring terms of an agreement and perform them. He shall give him the daughter of women to destroy the kingdom, but it shall not stand or be to his advantage.


id: 08b27520-bae5-4195-9842-4d42fc62f9ae
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Afterward he shall turn his face to the coastlands and shall capture many of them, but a commander shall put an end to his insolence. Indeed, he shall turn his insolence back upon him.


id: 1746c401-0cdf-4299-afd6-41a03554cd88
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then he shall turn his face back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.


id: e3be04c8-c18d-44c7-87de-e181d6c65ca6
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “Then shall arise in his place one who shall send an exactor of tribute for the glory of the kingdom. But within a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle.


id: 775e2601-06f1-4bba-a4b6-e2ebaa0903ee
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given. He shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.


id: c39045ba-5a8d-41e7-b517-73fecb5f715a
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people.


id: e52e663b-7f82-4f95-97db-297a0d440815
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Without warning he shall come into the richest parts of the province, and he shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathers’ fathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time.


id: 761b1ec4-f6c1-4abb-a214-913ae007b27f
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And he shall stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south shall wage war with an exceedingly great and mighty army, but he shall not stand, for plots shall be devised against him.


id: e2de6e22-3803-4854-ba41-02df458cb0b8
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Even those who eat his food shall break him. His army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain.


id: 95f10167-34ef-40f4-9e49-da2c783ab401
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And as for the two kings, their hearts shall be bent on doing evil. They shall speak lies at the same table, but to no avail, for the end is yet to be at the time appointed.


id: 1ba793d9-8ed5-4821-9ebe-fdac63148240
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And he shall return to his land with great wealth, but his heart shall be set against the holy covenant. And he shall work his will and return to his own land.


id: c1230f30-a3e8-4af2-991d-fd51b465dab1
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “At the time appointed he shall return and come into the south, but it shall not be this time as it was before.


id: d7a7d796-c074-4efa-87e9-a55242f66598
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  For ships of Kittim shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and be enraged and take action against the holy covenant. He shall turn back and pay attention to those who forsake the holy covenant.


id: 5a803c9e-e81c-4a41-9ec6-7efe243024e6
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.


id: a2e5f000-9900-4ecd-87f3-7b2869e7866a
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.


id: 94e6c52d-1cc0-4ebd-aca6-e9ffc6ff59b4
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And the wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder.


id: 5a78655e-6422-4ddf-b812-5a0756de3922
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  When they stumble, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery,


id: 2de3b6fe-a87f-4894-8f0b-30edcf418e38
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  and some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.


id: c5128977-ccef-427f-816b-a6a2a70f366a
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “And the king shall do as he wills. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done.


id: 51d46736-af6d-42af-aff0-9ecbdf5e9aa6
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all.


id: 428cfe91-b1aa-4bd4-9482-ba4698f6e35a
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these. A god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts.


id: d7ae9c31-767e-4008-9c8c-2c29ed094a98
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He shall deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god. Those who acknowledge him he shall load with honor. He shall make them rulers over many and shall divide the land for a price.


id: 89530b58-bcfd-46d1-b659-06e5ae21738b
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “At the time of the end, the king of the south shall attack him, but the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships. And he shall come into countries and shall overflow and pass through.


id: 669b98ee-58a0-4e8d-a394-41c266fdeed0
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He shall come into the glorious land. And tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the main part of the Ammonites.


id: 8d3f88d5-9969-41e8-8e2c-cee564445cf9
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Cushites shall follow in his train.


id: 6c82cb72-c7bb-4eee-ac4d-9482c0dbd60d
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  But news from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go out with great fury to destroy and devote many to destruction.


id: 93d8c3f0-3fbe-4a46-9372-1f7896bfa8fa
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him. 


id: 79119cdf-49f4-4792-b51f-a1a5e7a74258
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  “At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.


id: 591a88a5-5286-4621-89b8-ff6a70bca769
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.


id: 2a1c07e0-d96a-44f6-b17d-d040f9cb762b
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.


id: 070bc8dd-a13e-4a22-b614-38f1646f636b
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”


id: ed3c47bc-c445-4c01-803f-6a0cf5d133ba
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream.


id: a6d2b4e4-8f74-4604-81dd-a1ea36b80ffb
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And someone said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, “How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?”


id: a511d817-f088-4a1d-b272-ea6639b1d707
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.


id: 0420e4d8-5e90-4507-b211-daa742bd2b40
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, “O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?”


id: e42cde82-d887-4f6e-b182-fbc9e9a11c9a
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.


id: 91a332b5-1b41-49f3-addc-1e9a3d39204e
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.


id: 1bbb00d8-3b1a-4662-aeca-3d8c234e2387
book: Daniel
label: Dan
content:
  But go your way till the end. And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.” 


id: e965b986-79d8-4b45-a939-64abb6892c35
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The word of the LORD that came to Hosea, 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.


id: 1a91878f-d443-4074-9356-a0424c105b33
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.”


id: 7cf08d9d-feec-48d8-bc81-aeda8de6ff61
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And the LORD said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.


id: e109a8fc-4d7f-48c2-908c-be21eff0273b
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him, “Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.


id: 489f856a-10a8-4c31-952e-835eb7aef15c
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the LORD their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”


id: a279b54c-85a9-4dbf-af6e-10fe3179e6dd
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”


id: 32420651-0afd-4bf3-94a7-0a89f4411dfa
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel. 


id: cf014342-b0af-4611-bcdf-1b7c7b430f0a
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  “Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;


id: e3aa3b53-9b1a-4926-879a-042c16c5c2e3
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst.


id: d67f2825-fb56-43d4-ad15-7d8f93d88272
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’


id: e162c86e-25e9-4485-8452-fd4d8740bc4e
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.


id: 6bd3b140-6089-4c3e-a0f7-1e8724029532
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.’


id: 347f9066-db99-4616-87fd-fa7cc3467818
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.


id: 225804d3-6a85-42b5-8dc8-5c4b382d955d
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.


id: 5ff63b08-ed7c-4a5b-a015-73e21584c660
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.


id: 42f2aae9-87d1-45d9-b050-5bc907f49e26
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.


id: 518adf62-70e7-448b-8769-86f9bf8d0db8
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, ‘These are my wages, which my lovers have given me.’ I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.


id: 9f9d4e76-1fde-4ec2-b7b3-8db47b02229e
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the LORD.


id: 95742807-c7c8-4e84-99a6-ad5aedbfb99b
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.


id: 30c57211-a4b6-4006-891a-392b93e21e26
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.


id: ebb3e142-58ba-4669-892b-26dd69c75858
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  “And in that day, declares the LORD, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’


id: 4660fb05-a13f-44b1-9bad-4e35390c75c4
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.


id: 8c5427b7-93ad-456f-ac3a-0ba55ec6ec5f
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.


id: 24a7b40f-4b7f-4411-977d-1adaafcdf55f
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.


id: 04ce0ca3-5a58-403a-8729-a0a4e7006dd5
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  “And in that day I will answer, declares the LORD, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth,


id: 304eaa70-5997-4700-99ba-b31074bcdc9a
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  and I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’; and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’” 


id: ddae7850-0d8d-4285-a341-68741bec3525
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And the LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”


id: 71e65b59-1745-4ed1-b3e3-06d344774542
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”


id: f6c216fd-8870-40ef-acd9-ee57d18cafec
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.


id: a31a01ec-59d1-4ee3-98f7-05c35026f974
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the LORD and to his goodness in the latter days. 


id: 0b1a4b83-0a2f-48a5-be45-b13ead5ae563
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;


id: a422fc9a-ae3d-46a0-b516-b46f0234773a
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.


id: 17fa55a7-5372-461c-8d32-939d5b2b3a6c
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.


id: 42cb5648-4a3c-40ab-b400-303aa4165631
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  You shall stumble by day; the prophet also shall stumble with you by night; and I will destroy your mother.


id: 919e1920-1aef-4c54-8948-f0dc9126097a
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.


id: c8fd3361-69d5-4bfb-bf45-e022a6dcd157
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.


id: c59d5e6e-7536-4d87-bace-5ad88019a71b
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They shall eat, but not be satisfied; they shall play the whore, but not multiply, because they have forsaken the LORD to cherish


id: 803852bd-0eed-4d67-81e8-20cdb5c65e51
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.


id: 85c12776-7435-42a1-9f7c-fe2d21edb672
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and your brides commit adultery.


id: c888140a-5870-4d3a-8ac7-7af1d3a2d024
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.


id: f9e49136-70f5-4bce-bead-fe9aba72f457
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and swear not, “As the LORD lives.”


id: 31ea2697-c34a-4930-b7ae-9ca04e41fd0a
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the LORD now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?


id: 661f78d0-20ce-42f9-85bc-9f32fe47831e
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.


id: 16db7ad3-661e-439e-8629-7337684ecee9
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled.


id: b7002039-4bc8-4016-b496-98c47f4b1e63
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD.


id: 3df917a2-322c-4fc3-804e-abea4ee99665
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.


id: 4a23abfd-dbdb-4eda-8786-b7cdbcb3edfb
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.


id: 5eb8ad02-e2dc-4787-b4f3-14b4d9ced4af
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.


id: 1ba0db2e-a6e4-4015-8f85-f2cf8d98a735
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; we follow you, O Benjamin!


id: f4a364bd-1c5f-4de7-88a0-ddba7405067b
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.


id: 139bdb6b-95ae-4d08-a65f-62b5f87c0e48
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The princes of Judah have become like those who move the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.


id: d7c84afd-c726-4d3b-a20b-16ebe71112f2
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.


id: eb4e7acf-4363-47cf-913c-e637321cc626
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.


id: d3ed2c65-79ad-4148-a3c0-563cbbea89aa
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me. 


id: 99da43ae-1ddc-434f-90aa-acf4bfa6cdae
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  “Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.


id: 7b57569f-74f2-4de4-b361-b8abb2665f7d
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.


id: 1ac48afa-4277-4e79-bc8b-df9430451990
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”


id: 27afa30f-181f-4c07-896b-7f21c0ede589
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.


id: 088e47a9-dd4b-4f20-a5a0-a00fbe4762ff
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.


id: c893a638-8449-4118-9056-ce64ae14a53c
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to Shechem; they commit villainy.


id: 98077bf6-06c0-4ec5-b54e-1b8ff47b1d6c
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.


id: 43595a7a-555a-4372-95f5-fba416b2fc70
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.


id: ae510ed1-1059-4eab-9350-f9648e8bc4c5
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.


id: 83ddfacf-36d4-4d59-af36-e5bae2740c7b
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.


id: 1d1971a5-2cf1-46b6-8bf6-75e06302b64d
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.


id: 5c5f5883-b4b7-45d8-b754-9fd73e089aff
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.


id: a5a92899-2fdc-436a-b53f-f6cabb9bcc47
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.


id: ef19cc75-ead3-49e5-acbf-51c11da7be6e
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.


id: f2e1dc97-b412-44fb-9c87-01230b6aa99d
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this.


id: 6efe0a0e-deb7-40e1-b155-a20d5143fda3
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.


id: ac460cc5-c316-415e-b339-0e5416f8f9b5
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.


id: 5927b21a-3b6a-4d05-8a1c-048b77e81f90
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me.


id: f1608b07-2d4a-494b-8c66-31e162da3b85
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They return, but not upward; they are like a treacherous bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. 


id: 058f4517-e781-47bd-b988-1fb4e69851aa
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.


id: e4c9d5ef-d989-4d11-bcce-a08f23873911
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.


id: 848a7fc2-3b89-473c-b890-3598c9b2c110
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?


id: 211df0c7-9d76-4236-9cfb-53c5914d8708
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For it is from Israel; a craftsman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.


id: 214be07d-2dfd-49e1-8775-d5e019abf018
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.


id: 75b87e8a-0ad5-4e0a-8707-d98c962446f3
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.


id: 26469dd8-e688-480f-abfc-58d0b0943450
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.


id: bb7bf04e-0efa-413d-bc42-81f2bbee8896
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds. 


id: 79156513-94cb-4207-91d2-c1a9e639aebc
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wages on all threshing floors.


id: c9f593bc-0427-4255-a71c-9858ac7cc7ce
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They shall not remain in the land of the LORD, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.


id: 5d8d5a10-a3bb-4d27-9e60-636f661fef16
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the LORD, and their sacrifices shall not please him. It shall be like mourners’ bread to them; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the LORD.


id: 80055a46-a6a4-452f-aba7-f86e2ffa8f40
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For behold, they are going away from destruction; but Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.


id: 03432229-b0df-434c-8776-7cdc02bb071d
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.


id: 95161711-8f59-4983-bdf2-54e309d108d3
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God; yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.


id: 78ed794f-e73a-4d38-a7e7-c4eb55bc1bce
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.


id: d0562152-f283-45a6-8e62-0ee52a2ad55d
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.


id: 1d440136-5733-4459-a4b1-b3f98dca05f4
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!


id: dba28fbc-c588-4c40-aee4-cf45a2f0c211
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.


id: f7744db0-8d5b-43c5-9868-c86f3e1a3ca3
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.


id: a682ca4d-7e1c-4324-bfa1-af83067af8e9
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death.


id: 839d9dae-320d-4c15-8aef-a05fa1804495
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations. 


id: ea460797-d2b7-48a4-ad65-df624ea1102a
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars.


id: 6b57287f-94a4-4977-8d29-f2abc32f89ee
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and destroy their pillars.


id: ecb13efe-33c7-4bdf-944b-9966457d91f5
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For now they will say: “We have no king, for we do not fear the LORD; and a king—what could he do for us?”


id: 6af04bd3-b3b6-44e4-a728-b1f2a5b43b09
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.


id: fc93db3e-6f82-4c3a-bbb4-4f13698a09a4
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced over it and over its glory— for it has departed from them.


id: 9c7260dc-65e7-4ca0-89e3-a41bc92ddfe5
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.


id: f0210060-3d5b-45c9-909a-3292a613c852
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,” and to the hills, “Fall on us.”


id: 35b3d327-b3db-4050-9726-926369f063d3
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?


id: 0d325a01-e846-4db8-af93-b40602c4f36a
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  When I please, I will discipline them, and nations shall be gathered against them when they are bound up for their double iniquity.


id: 402d7fba-b195-4a87-87b6-0813311e5455
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put Ephraim to the yoke; Judah must plow; Jacob must harrow for himself.


id: 17a36c61-b514-4683-8447-03bbd6ceaf2f
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.


id: 3957578b-67d0-4805-94bd-479d5d6e2925
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors,


id: 54e500bf-ceac-43d2-a809-b06324146cbd
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle; mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.


id: 60743271-61d9-475e-b9c8-86be25ffcdef
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great evil. At dawn the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off. 


id: 62010c9c-5623-4cc4-9279-8e0bfd73d59b
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.


id: d31ea194-1cff-4afd-8aac-57a43f535bcd
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them.


id: cdc0cd88-c5b1-482a-97df-1bf8c6f2886c
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.


id: 181a8cb5-9e38-48b2-a8d7-7587923e9aaf
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They shall not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.


id: 24970675-d0de-4bc2-a03f-f6e36fceb794
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels.


id: d10117fd-5b65-46a3-b1b1-29b461e902c3
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.


id: 861dc52a-5730-46b4-b069-30fb470a4102
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.


id: 704a70ee-c555-46d8-9759-822d8fff71ef
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.


id: e5f2d239-02c2-4b5b-8935-2029dba9ef71
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They shall go after the LORD; he will roar like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west;


id: 11547fc7-b056-457c-b28b-b8fb4487728f
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria, and I will return them to their homes, declares the LORD.


id: 88dd2a2f-145d-482a-b80b-5a55d68b80db
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One. 


id: d8a48b4c-2f37-4197-835f-1e3b5e9a95f8
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.


id: 56081299-d27e-4a09-9ab4-3d8a01d69941
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The LORD has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds.


id: 99ef4ebd-975c-4b0e-b5f2-be8f942f7dbe
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  He strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor. He met God at Bethel, and there God spoke with us—


id: f16939be-011a-4555-9473-2abf42af1c78
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  “So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”


id: 1adaf4ea-0b8d-435a-bcaf-d43d07e691ed
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim has said, “Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”


id: 86054d7a-1010-4da7-aaba-ff4c15aa03f7
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.


id: 98630be9-116b-41a6-9ea3-79c963b6177f
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  If there is iniquity in Gilead, they shall surely come to nothing: in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars also are like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.


id: 9932506b-a39b-4de8-a3cc-581a9c86ec1a
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim has given bitter provocation; so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds. 


id: 286fdb9b-203b-4409-ad39-cc3dfcbc3387
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.


id: 04eeb894-8ffd-404c-8eb2-5e3e8631a22f
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!”


id: 6e6ded75-fc3b-4972-bade-c4d855dad083
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.


id: c0ae84e3-b83d-417a-9a10-8c30bff1d642
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.


id: 8a12365f-686b-4563-b9bd-3735e5693cc9
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.


id: 049b1566-82e3-441b-a5dc-1d1b5c6994e5
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.


id: 8552cbbc-786f-49b6-80e9-1eb3589068ff
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers— those of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?


id: 410e8df3-8e43-4402-87c2-e5c15afbfd47
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son, for at the right time he does not present himself at the opening of the womb.


id: a044d564-f23b-4677-a0de-9ada5072433d
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.


id: 18ac7ebe-2cdb-4b18-9873-e477cdae43de
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the LORD, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.


id: d4249aa7-a810-4ecd-b711-561bc41b8df7
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open. 


id: f21f056a-40df-4c80-909b-ca5e8910876b
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Take with you words and return to the LORD; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips.


id: 46c4fc9d-b8ac-47f1-b6f1-ecba275c1487
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.”


id: bf5f406c-85b9-4b56-8a63-eb0f092b80ee
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;


id: 14137c99-c41c-4e18-a4d8-1c558ba37349
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow; they shall flourish like the grain; they shall blossom like the vine; their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.


id: b4009bca-9308-4f98-ab19-c556d67eaa40
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit.


id: ad60ba29-1e74-4b20-8782-57e11ba4e315
book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them. 


id: d33a2895-a544-4dd8-b92f-1d51e72586ca
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?


id: 9d97f976-9e98-4a03-8ac0-cb5c174740e4
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.


id: cd6d0e4d-59ed-4a3d-86e5-212e4f87b2ed
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.


id: f6d32b59-bccd-4527-9286-0c14582f2454
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.


id: 06073e87-98e0-4677-be3d-c0b60a2838ff
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions’ teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.


id: 135c4177-ded5-432f-8335-dd1d464e8258
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  It has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white.


id: a7cbcba2-3995-4a65-96ca-6769c97b89eb
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD.


id: 9a4159d8-550a-4476-8c25-34a252fc0f06
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes.


id: 178cd502-9ffc-4c1f-abf6-3c2125604328
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.


id: f9b38646-9626-4265-a401-03ee5ad05e1f
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The vine dries up; the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and gladness dries up from the children of man.


id: e9c84b6f-b61c-48d9-b567-99e303557246
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.


id: 4ca8a4b4-ae00-476a-a904-06b9804936c9
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.


id: df30d8a9-f835-4da0-be49-e3ff81308d32
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The seed shrivels under the clods; the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are torn down because the grain has dried up.


id: 3065cdd9-0a63-4155-83ce-cb7c3b3de6fd
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep suffer.


id: e812a7de-2d31-48ec-89f9-f98a1e2ebd0f
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  To you, O LORD, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.


id: 3f05f5db-053b-4b8f-a498-1b24145b7a87
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Even the beasts of the field pant for you because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. 


id: 0fe33ae7-6c3e-41d9-a991-a585662f2562
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near,


id: 837b4bad-14aa-41c8-a352-eb1ff36321a7
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.


id: c6784fbe-5248-477b-bd16-8a53135561c6
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.


id: 19ac5001-ea37-4cdb-938e-21c5b8256853
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.


id: 5f6132bc-6aa9-4ab7-8423-ea7419752021
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Like warriors they charge; like soldiers they scale the wall. They march each on his way; they do not swerve from their paths.


id: 1b204785-f5d0-48d3-96a1-b1059d5f27e4
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  They do not jostle one another; each marches in his path; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.


id: 7b81ca2e-797c-49ca-ab63-16618f4f6d34
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.


id: ff690c2e-3b70-478d-a207-2eaefa477ce5
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.


id: 7555787b-e1e6-4957-b0c3-c6d710d451ef
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The LORD utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the LORD is great and very awesome; who can endure it?


id: 0b4738ca-7cc8-43de-852a-71b99a9be219
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;


id: 35f2e4cb-1b99-4efe-9696-042ba0a51c60
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.


id: f138acde-9b19-4456-9230-74678d7d4bcc
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?


id: 5547fc70-cb94-4303-8503-0516d9915c5c
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.


id: 9da6a432-dbe5-4fb2-974e-1543e137fdac
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, “Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”


id: 856ce1d8-1c53-43ae-b2d9-110dbaf58f51
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The LORD answered and said to his people, “Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.


id: 203bb15e-d256-4a6b-95e5-825ff27fde65
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “I will remove the northerner far from you, and drive him into a parched and desolate land, his vanguard into the eastern sea, and his rear guard into the western sea; the stench and foul smell of him will rise, for he has done great things.


id: d782c48a-f89c-4748-b858-478a80564a5e
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Fear not, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green; the tree bears its fruit; the fig tree and vine give their full yield.


id: aa4f1c17-04c6-4512-8ace-9bc4fedd565c
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.


id: 7176589b-6154-4241-99d5-05d6b1f400ac
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.


id: 0492c55b-be04-4ad3-82d3-06e1941fc45e
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.


id: 654efc12-d6d8-48e0-ad8c-48f4a3f59e65
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.


id: 98860953-9f9b-43bb-981e-c084ce10b035
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.


id: b8840bbc-b942-45aa-a02a-07ca6599c28f
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.


id: c7b68aaf-4de0-4db1-a414-d62b7f7cab7c
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls. 


id: f987526a-ff72-42d8-b5b1-37298d6e54a9
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,


id: cc0ab0d9-50a9-4f91-a3c4-df9f3c3a2c7b
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.


id: 3b26d8d6-b1e9-4b36-b8ed-e7d981f88c4a
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.


id: 811f0243-002c-4421-a3f8-fdd4cb42743e
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.


id: f4594261-e500-4597-a24f-458c23d5312d
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head.


id: 8f208578-224c-4c69-b77d-0cf237b1b2a2
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken.”


id: 8a466293-0171-4e48-b149-4a02ea895789
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.


id: 201457bc-1219-4b19-bd1c-7ae45b791108
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”


id: 600bb305-3178-40b8-84d3-fecf18c7a24d
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.


id: b82f5ddc-75a1-4dac-bfbe-eb106114e2bd
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.


id: e850eaad-bc27-4913-bdab-58a6917c90f9
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.


id: 7a80b690-12d9-439d-b284-ae8650a8b5e8
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.


id: fd3efa68-bb87-45b0-9713-e99acdf25624
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the LORD is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.


id: 56e1468b-81b5-4647-8cb5-8311cd4c7021
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.


id: 9d27175d-1a3c-4723-acd3-7ddf37c0d323
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Valley of Shittim.


id: 3e0c3ed8-5a7c-41f4-aff5-db30862e015d
book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.


id: 7975356f-45e6-496a-b5c4-6d3b6e6aa94e
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.


id: 0c4c371f-c15a-42cd-947c-0daec684b65e
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And he said: “The LORD roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.”


id: d3193367-cdb0-4501-86c5-3386f8808308
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.


id: 5bdf531a-b7f6-48e6-92e7-47c689a476cc
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir,” says the LORD.


id: eb445622-953b-4b77-a408-d56ccab5d102
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom.


id: bbbede89-7993-4a82-9f07-47d3054b16cc
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,” says the Lord GOD.


id: c63ec30f-e1e8-4463-a67a-7000e25c8966
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.


id: a67558b6-9c90-404f-a013-f1c462780a19
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.


id: 4f89d45d-0d30-4102-b1b4-b7c521c699b0
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.


id: 3bfe57e4-28bf-48a9-b152-f6ef32c60379
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her strongholds, with shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;


id: 214d2cf8-3bda-4085-90a5-314bb1f2eb0f
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.


id: 2417580e-7eeb-4ea9-bfc3-14a513a75d26
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  So I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;


id: e93ea648-4ae4-4fd9-86aa-542aa86f80e2
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.


id: 23569eb1-a719-42a8-9ce5-75a3bcb62d0b
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals—


id: 3c56be60-a233-440c-bd50-21eccc999651
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;


id: 07464251-a0bf-4893-96ae-0628959e176c
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.


id: 20b63102-06e0-42fe-ba8e-120e756492ed
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.


id: cc2a39f8-1797-4605-b3bc-f483607922db
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.


id: bac606ee-59b5-436f-a62b-e9f70683bdbf
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?” declares the LORD.


id: fe904382-e20b-4f32-9f8b-018da3dad1db
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’


id: 0f766c4a-c0e7-427c-a2b2-f123a4171094
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain his strength, nor shall the mighty save his life;


id: 01b7eb70-5f08-4564-b2dd-cbf074080558
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  he who handles the bow shall not stand, and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself, nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;


id: 62a4794f-0a35-4031-ba09-f431db26a545
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  and he who is stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day,” declares the LORD. 


id: 91afc063-7eb2-4465-851e-f8e5802d65e1
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:


id: 0f5c288a-3e88-49b7-8778-81a49653f167
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.


id: 1a41e9de-c29f-4d1b-af7d-912499c5d9ff
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from his den, if he has taken nothing?


id: 52b7ec43-92ad-42de-8bc4-d395158e42f6
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when it has taken nothing?


id: 2de04281-a2a3-494c-9930-cfe49929af52
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?


id: bd15f874-0f20-468c-a865-5405ce21ddc8
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults within her, and the oppressed in her midst.”


id: c5cf0575-b229-454b-a0d7-fefb961e41cb
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “They do not know how to do right,” declares the LORD, “those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”


id: 05014bb4-c2cf-4525-921f-05e442152367
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “An adversary shall surround the land and bring down your defenses from you, and your strongholds shall be plundered.”


id: a15f1634-9c73-4532-a620-6240e8e02b8f
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part of a bed.


id: d673ccd1-f7b6-49e5-b960-8c7a4be05e36
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.


id: cc1cbf94-6311-4b12-8311-3f6b48e56587
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I will strike the winter house along with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end,” declares the LORD. 


id: 512042b9-f580-4074-9d99-618c8d2aaccb
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’


id: 5462d633-a74d-4cdd-921a-e325b30a6dd0
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness that, behold, the days are coming upon you, when they shall take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks.


id: 709bc931-b806-4425-bc17-90c0bfee0a49
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And you shall go out through the breaches, each one straight ahead; and you shall be cast out into Harmon,” declares the LORD.


id: 92a0c54b-c536-4396-bb6d-5e17d2e56b81
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days;


id: 8b94d322-636b-47ac-aa07-7a1d01f12ec2
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!” declares the Lord GOD.


id: aa7ecbec-e823-4781-af63-fc4705adc058
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.


id: e724c4c9-dbcb-4649-81f9-c1540bfb8f01
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;


id: 8e277ab6-478e-48e7-a175-00c68326d0f2
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  so two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, and would not be satisfied; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.


id: f2fbbfed-9cb1-455d-aeab-68385fb2599f
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “I struck you with blight and mildew; your many gardens and your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.


id: 69b69cb5-9690-4994-9f85-f1def91ecbe6
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and carried away your horses, and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.


id: 16987da4-706d-4dfa-b0ff-587bebfd249c
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.


id: 29be3a86-1af2-4fea-ad10-505813c45399
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”


id: 0f91214b-0caf-4174-a7eb-7fb6b8cc6394
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name! 


id: e47c8782-8f8d-4482-a6b1-83450ecf5435
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  For thus says the Lord GOD: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”


id: 6e13c8e3-c0d9-4f70-8680-afc2c81ec214
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.”


id: f6692700-520f-4146-bc68-bac7cdd8b4b9
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Seek the LORD and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,


id: b7dea279-4a96-4164-94e7-376672ad7a6a
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name;


id: f058d2cc-2765-4634-b073-173786af16ca
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.


id: 21848db0-4ce2-4d48-8a66-937272e1d89f
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.


id: 47fc7408-3b74-4d53-9dab-dc53508c00dd
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.


id: 76c19a6b-a386-4ea0-94fa-3b998b76c14b
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.


id: 55da4f42-0a76-4797-9ab4-f9e60d2d35c0
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: “In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,


id: d03e9440-3599-4cbb-8d2c-31cfca5a0738
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why would you have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light,


id: b78ad364-3322-4c7c-905c-0d4bbfaa6838
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.


id: bc3548b4-a266-455b-a20c-346327c51333
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them.


id: c3101e0c-49e5-4bcd-b8e5-aab151176675
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?


id: 3d2d1959-f975-4a64-a459-4b04d55c4c79
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves,


id: 6ea986e5-bd55-495c-be14-d44df16451e7
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!


id: dec24fc9-4935-49b9-80ac-1faa5d1b9616
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Pass over to Calneh, and see, and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory,


id: f90064a9-b905-4c03-bc79-e3d106a71c4b
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,


id: 83b1ee69-0ea5-46d1-a6de-1e74f5443038
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music,


id: fe90794d-be7b-4196-a586-f6bc59fc4fe2
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!


id: 48826360-b8c5-469f-a383-c1242b87442d
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile, and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away.”


id: ef44c4a8-253c-431a-91ff-37b097364200
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, declares the LORD, the God of hosts: “I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds, and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”


id: dddf3cbc-9cc3-4b49-aa54-0fb7bd6e7f28
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And when one’s relative, the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, “Is there still anyone with you?” he shall say, “No”; and he shall say, “Silence! We must not mention the name of the LORD.”


id: a406b7e9-7384-4647-a31e-7f6c0a6abf3b
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  For behold, the LORD commands, and the great house shall be struck down into fragments, and the little house into bits.


id: 1f70f207-7870-4b96-a20b-4a02089df0cc
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—


id: d7e09e23-9d61-4a7f-b8c7-2176227f6919
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, “Have we not by our own strength captured Karnaim for ourselves?”


id: 03fef0e3-3f6d-4bc9-bbc0-3826942835ff
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of hosts; “and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.” 


id: eabfb8e1-6e0f-417d-b50e-c0eb5e3bbb6f
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.


id: 60e27cf2-380a-45f5-83e8-a6d5e1d26967
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, “O Lord GOD, please forgive! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”


id: 63fd2fb2-6ce2-4fc9-ac29-75b7eab7388f
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.


id: 8bdf42d7-823b-4927-8cc3-2f06c402447f
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.


id: b9f0c715-17d8-4e1d-a232-1a464fcf323e
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;


id: 09f3badc-12ca-4861-85d5-fcd05cb8ccb0
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  the high places of Isaac shall be made 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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book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.


id: afe7b657-be24-483f-9f91-c710cec830e8
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  For thus Amos has said, “‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.’”


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book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there,


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book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”


id: 67e76e9a-baec-4259-86ff-32a130a06c95
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs.


id: 3b465e61-c50a-401a-8c96-4dc3c69e4a90
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  But the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’


id: 8871acbe-132e-4ee9-90bf-20325887f3df
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Now therefore hear the word of the LORD. “You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’


id: 187d028d-fc14-406d-836b-609d85f261d3
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD: “‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided up with a measuring line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’” 


id: ba499d2a-c27f-4e0a-add4-131aec93c752
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them.


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book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,” declares the Lord GOD. “So many dead bodies!” “They are thrown everywhere!” “Silence!”


id: 2fae2e26-78b8-4e40-ac65-1125b2121a9e
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,


id: 2847c18d-e208-4b09-a2d5-9b1b45af94cd
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?”


id: 0a504cc0-0e77-4d98-bbff-c114e3350542
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”


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book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “And on that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.


id: 321ced80-23b5-4c79-a435-8e76164dd9ae
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.


id: 9e70953c-5584-431c-a280-a65a066faeec
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.


id: 432bb390-5def-4b05-97a4-4498586d9a34
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it.


id: 443d2d4e-6604-4ded-b022-de838afbed78
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’ and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’ they shall fall, and never rise again.” 


id: 2dc6b699-cb01-4c6e-9b65-005c524d5f74
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: “Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.


id: f5af373c-5aee-4d08-9b56-c1b85aa1c27f
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.


id: fa1e6a33-0268-42c6-9bfb-c8f01772b8a6
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.


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book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.”


id: 59f84d00-19a8-4763-a703-f12fccead615
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  The Lord GOD of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;


id: 856c5b66-9ab7-4b9e-894d-c55098f97d3c
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the LORD is his name.


id: eca93ee0-a6ff-4ce4-9466-5ca7a8db4b0b
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?


id: 5767caf4-5bc6-4b29-b122-e66d13d48c8d
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.


id: 54a2af1f-a682-4d34-b87c-701f8acaf523
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.


id: 2a71f3ea-d5fe-4127-9451-1a1bd9f5abff
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, ‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’


id: 4db91856-44e8-4e80-bc23-8ba06c60db16
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old,


id: b3f871da-0327-486b-8893-fabb825c6d75
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” declares the LORD who does this.


id: 857e035f-ed30-476e-90c3-8ddca8d98a8a
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.


id: 59088d3f-5cd7-44d6-a768-359590331238
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.


id: 275ccbe2-a77c-43ee-aeca-3d6badff8fbc
book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God. 


id: a0a7596d-7c09-4302-8714-39c88d0185e8
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!”


id: 0cefe6c5-5580-49cc-a658-bd7d1670fb1a
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”


id: 50651f76-b291-42ad-8d1c-33bc2f5d58a5
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.


id: 7ad0e4c0-1410-4f63-a349-44d2695bae9a
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  If thieves came to you, if plunderers came by night—how you have been destroyed!—would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?


id: 3502a0a4-67f3-4735-aca0-e271e0542461
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  All your allies have driven you to your border; those at peace with you have deceived you; they have prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you— you have no understanding.


id: df7f2c08-6ee9-4178-8c13-6a460d891753
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  Will I not on that day, declares the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?


id: aefe0848-d516-44a4-b862-24bd207ad983
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.


id: cf356258-d20f-45d2-9094-a89aebd58e39
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.


id: 33802f33-e2b8-42d0-bd6c-3f4662b8451a
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.


id: 52106d33-e026-4b47-85f1-3ff6e0611aea
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; do not boast in the day of distress.


id: daacb36e-44b1-45c0-ba26-567d86069088
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; do not gloat over his disaster in the day of his calamity; do not loot his wealth in the day of his calamity.


id: e7c9f281-9785-4b41-a662-45fe09fd923d
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives; do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress.


id: 95ed9e6d-f3e4-4458-bbde-19cc3391af8f
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.


id: ca416bf1-8ff1-4f28-b909-d3fd5211e785
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.


id: 368e8313-ebe2-4644-801e-b49b7de3da1d
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.


id: 5af410d9-4f40-430e-937d-ad62ba3774a0
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.


id: 17bfde4d-221a-43c0-b301-2198d7ff7498
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.


id: 47a85120-5efc-4aae-a980-1d01bba5d627
book: Obadiah
label: Obad
content:
  The exiles of this host of the people of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.


id: 1d7d8cd2-253d-4a4c-a5c6-3880abf137c7
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”


id: 41ccf94d-5f09-4829-ab28-051a27fa1791
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.


id: f1886aab-f73d-41f6-ae53-5d79fe8a48a8
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  But the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.


id: 277a98cd-1bed-49c3-a927-8fd7dd4c6ebd
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.


id: 45930c15-13ec-44f1-8950-021be0fbfc9b
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”


id: a38b42d6-f87c-4061-ab54-4e7a5da269dc
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.


id: eb40f361-479e-4fc3-9bf9-677d6563bebc
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Then they said to him, “Tell us on whose account this evil has come upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?”


id: 4832fc52-c67d-4f77-9bbf-f3a7bb617e34
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”


id: 0c73ab00-83eb-4c95-a7ee-9cee290be38f
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done!” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.


id: ce50848a-52dd-409c-84a7-9df9b61384f0
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.


id: 3539414a-d4ca-423e-a125-94bc697e6a81
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”


id: 80ca8224-9f2a-411a-bffb-449efa6c5423
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.


id: d70071d0-957f-43ae-841b-364f348dd5ef
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Therefore they called out to the LORD, “O LORD, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.”


id: 797069eb-9720-4ddc-a507-9b53ad9fe8ad
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. 


id: c713148a-57a5-4a30-96d6-5010885d6aef
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  saying, “I called out to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice.


id: 0e6337f3-a68d-4d87-bfda-18ca3f1b62a7
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.


id: 49753314-5bf6-485c-b1e5-28eb5c7d67d8
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  The waters closed in over me to take my life; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped about my head


id: 58018be0-e161-4aab-a85c-1cb221ec20aa
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.


id: 6d7e8e69-82b2-4428-ae81-09d0ca92c379
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  When my life was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.


id: e3b1e201-7e7b-4dfb-a9e7-c524f1fb4b74
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the LORD!”


id: a81014dd-bf21-4bf2-acf2-df5904f6628f
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth.


id: 317de857-8bdc-40b4-915b-89fd23237c9d
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”


id: a4f5d709-f1cc-47a8-9218-9d8702d1b5b9
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.


id: 1586fffb-578e-4331-9d73-22696c7f4d22
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.


id: 0de825f3-58d4-4cf9-8aba-064499010375
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,


id: 9340b1a2-6746-4e72-ae61-dc9c3e958c18
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.


id: 04f6dc6c-6a66-4b93-abd0-704a8f2a2bce
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it. 


id: 3dbe6fc4-0c7c-4fd8-bb21-264b645b06f7
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And he prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.


id: ad905014-05d0-4c14-a170-70a0aad24645
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.


id: 8b51ab20-4bf2-493e-be06-061d7816656c
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Now the LORD God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.


id: 9846807e-8349-4f5e-bf2b-94c8bdea546a
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered.


id: 7cb5212d-8325-4ea3-9b50-8e8343905dd2
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”


id: 73d23be7-bdf3-4fa5-b22e-ca858b137356
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”


id: f0a82ee5-4363-448f-9bcf-63e04087b7ea
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And the LORD said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night.


id: 3f1115b6-cf89-4c13-a68e-27e55b344766
book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?” 


id: 8481cc9e-d4a4-4478-8336-91547e029cf1
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.


id: 8916f019-50be-43c5-9c0e-0f8a565e598a
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.


id: 547404e9-3294-4be7-85f7-7093a94cdf57
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  For behold, the LORD is coming out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.


id: 3b9ec7a8-7195-42af-bc19-a62606b6d963
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  And the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.


id: cad79a72-9270-40b4-aefc-7d73748108b3
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?


id: 363cd150-5c93-4237-ae97-3417bca48489
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards, and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.


id: d00625c7-130b-4a9c-9277-a0930f63594f
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces, all her wages shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste, for from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.


id: ac2398a1-45b9-4e59-ba7c-514d7fecbede
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.


id: efc79758-2389-4755-a8e0-36ce107e3ce1
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  For her wound is incurable, and it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.


id: e4807421-2fac-4f1e-a864-37d7bdf0cf4c
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come out; the lamentation of Beth-ezel shall take away from you its standing place.


id: 9a7e2ae9-c28e-4758-b78e-7202ade3e395
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because disaster has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.


id: 7d096119-f391-4871-b005-02f6408b4460
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; it was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.


id: 976c8074-4784-43a7-bde5-190e734347c9
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.


id: ee10df91-5cb2-43f4-b2f2-86359915f0ee
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  I will again bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.


id: 1a777e21-05e2-44d3-b7a8-d1fc62198d22
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile. 


id: b7311f09-ab0d-4fe3-a288-a5746e70e288
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.


id: df569fca-c6ea-4344-a7a0-690b0e5aae21
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.


id: 047439fa-4529-46c7-bcc4-6329a0c84509
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD: behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster.


id: ea6f3c15-7024-4a5c-b657-a2b10d094592
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields.”


id: 841054f8-b9bc-4306-97ec-d68502b26d59
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  “Do not preach”—thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.”


id: 774f13ba-c86c-4161-9e2a-dc4d48f5303b
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Has the LORD grown impatient? Are these his deeds? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?


id: e48baa1a-b1c8-4975-9cf2-9b6650e5d994
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  But lately my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.


id: 9cfe7c34-5370-480b-b5e9-f8dde269623b
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever.


id: 08f0d196-e0c3-40ae-9cde-33217d968fcf
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.


id: c39d36e2-2dfa-4fbc-9c76-8d6c47acd654
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!


id: c1b443d5-37cb-447e-81f7-621dc57a7306
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.


id: fc462b8d-1338-4c52-a2bf-4fecf5e13fc8
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  He who opens the breach goes up before them; they break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king passes on before them, the LORD at their head. 


id: 9e4d3a39-700d-4460-9cfb-da2d9d8fb8f3
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?—


id: 58ba1be6-425d-4659-9162-f3f1976c1d80
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,


id: 9a2901e1-b26d-40cd-aa34-8ae296d3bee3
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a pot, like flesh in a cauldron.


id: 915a6b35-553f-444c-9670-3f0ef4a048b7
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.


id: 46f855e8-ad98-4325-ae42-5804801fa577
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.


id: 521732b6-b0ce-470a-9326-7eb4aa94d961
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;


id: 5f836d7b-a74b-4dcf-890e-71272431f40a
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.


id: 0781c49e-8073-452f-95b0-04c90a731472
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.


id: b21a55bc-0a35-466f-8b72-bd0ac10d706c
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,


id: e7f0e7cc-4195-4611-bd25-2687f2b7ef1a
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the LORD and say, “Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us.”


id: 1436e28e-706f-486c-a7c7-dbf43dc9e655
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height. 


id: f1fc63bd-16d6-4843-91db-a5c4d47badcd
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it,


id: 213206b4-63c1-4c70-b41e-5dcdc03f3a3d
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  and many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.


id: 60c8730f-5fc3-4bea-90b5-34ea62bf1e40
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;


id: 856c5768-4a06-4a98-8dc9-73e181715241
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.


id: e517803a-6c2b-4965-9748-34bf0c803b50
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.


id: 94656767-073b-413e-8e4b-f2a66e975a38
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  In that day, declares the LORD, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away and those whom I have afflicted;


id: 17b5b53e-0499-4be2-9e45-2ca43bb3c076
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.


id: 8e0b5c50-088e-4ce5-b99d-b765fa72995c
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, the former dominion shall come, kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.


id: e4a3251e-0d9c-4b5e-9d2d-72348e4b6ed8
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seized you like a woman in labor?


id: 0767d8e2-3591-4941-8fd3-ceaed0e43551
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you shall go out from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.


id: 7bcd221d-f2ef-45c6-b1ab-6674df5b0dab
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”


id: d19ffb19-1721-40df-8338-b370af689473
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.


id: 8e5c8b6c-be6a-4635-80bb-e6f197faea50
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth. 


id: 90826d7f-2d0b-443d-8ccc-dd56363b2078
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek.


id: 000d07d1-d774-492c-b42b-ecc272c31614
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.


id: e80f445b-b388-437d-a1ef-6bed55e04de4
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of his brothers shall return to the people of Israel.


id: 763d4da0-8e37-4b63-a579-fc39d3a03d48
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.


id: a74bd2a3-a16e-486d-b127-e9b939fe7917
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  And he shall be their peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land and treads in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men;


id: 4b9334d0-c251-4a1e-affb-1749ce4b38b2
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances; and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.


id: b240f22d-126b-4713-9967-853b92d1cdeb
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which delay not for a man nor wait for the children of man.


id: 97bfdde3-751c-4ba6-bdda-0450ddba3573
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.


id: 450ede7c-eb5e-44b0-84ec-8c9349667369
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  And in that day, declares the LORD, I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots;


id: 2959cc4c-b7b3-4127-8e2a-7bdf24c19654
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  and I will cut off your carved images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands;


id: a2bcd0a7-9ed6-4e7c-b103-70317555b6ae
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Hear what the LORD says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.


id: 92b26be5-b070-4856-8075-a42f450a83d5
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the LORD, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against his people, and he will contend with Israel.


id: 06d8a691-b565-41bc-b9de-b604dbddd1a2
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.


id: fd500055-ee1d-472e-ab47-eb69365d31b3
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD.”


id: 7fd7c194-ebd6-4eaa-9276-4dddaed5a3ab
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  “With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?


id: 3698b97c-4b3d-4b09-a06f-bbf6d9bfa318
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”


id: 4381a9eb-c6ef-4ae6-b760-4f4745888280
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?


id: 2b5c7df2-c7d8-4044-bc0a-d0c839817fb3
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  The voice of the LORD cries to the city— and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: “Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!


id: 68b9b66e-343c-47b1-baa0-3bd4419f1ba8
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?


id: d2093241-8838-40b8-bd79-117e2afe443b
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.


id: e3571379-2bf9-4b20-9c3d-aafe02b6fc0b
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger within you; you shall put away, but not preserve, and what you preserve I will give to the sword.


id: 558ba023-8251-448b-866a-2d9816dc76db
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.


id: 88eaa665-1e1c-4b01-9177-93f7fc9f5f9a
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people.” 


id: 335d89f3-5e1d-4999-bad6-1fa328a4fb4c
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.


id: 051cb666-9df1-4030-b62b-f31cd3a64244
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.


id: 4549098e-c562-40a0-b621-f37fb339256d
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.


id: d1456115-4c09-4a18-ae12-540326e01507
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.


id: af56ff2f-d401-4d14-9496-3eae4ea2bc06
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;


id: b427b28d-bff1-4042-a8fa-8bce00c501b9
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.


id: 636062d8-6130-4097-bd92-0f4014298461
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.


id: 4361ebc9-149e-4b90-bd45-68c37579a506
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.


id: c28a3934-3ff8-4bfa-885d-5b6440976e8d
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.


id: 6cdeb027-1f4f-4265-994d-ebe57ad80fdd
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.


id: a7a52699-9fa4-45b8-b441-fe8c7d4481a9
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  In that day they will come to you, from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.


id: c003b520-9519-4e88-b62a-b8a2355bdb88
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.


id: 8540a698-e2d8-4538-aa22-9dae3a9e4b45
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;


id: 6334d404-7b69-4786-81de-0b59200b04da
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall be in fear of you.


id: 99ac1953-5a6d-45d4-8202-22c945dbe138
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.


id: d490e78d-f64c-4306-a2fa-acc61da5aa8c
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.


id: 409a32b8-8345-44da-b4e6-6908d7c2e329
book: Micah
label: Mic
content:
  You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old. 


id: fe9c16b1-0c43-4c5d-99e4-f6b8da2c6e3a
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.


id: c8901115-4214-41db-8118-22ae5059021d
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and the LORD will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.


id: b5e59584-b087-4614-81a2-8fb7849f6388
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither; the bloom of Lebanon withers.


id: 1ea4efd0-c182-42c4-884e-4e58b519db87
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it.


id: e23b584d-fbb2-4a75-8ff7-66f8c6bf1acd
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.


id: 039d1c93-cb43-4c2f-b844-fbef597bf7fe
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.


id: 0705f3e0-c009-4bd8-ac84-a61d729890f4
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a complete end; trouble will not rise up a second time.


id: d79e1691-e021-4bb7-ad89-fc420789ce71
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.


id: 17a5d7d8-583f-419e-b5aa-6c470f785d3b
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Thus says the LORD, “Though they are at full strength and many, they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.


id: b0119e0e-5a3c-45fb-ad40-55052414e543
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The LORD has given commandment about you: “No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the metal image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”


id: 0ca9b09f-afc6-44bd-bcff-1c4d9ddbb06c
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off. 


id: 5c7ce87d-e8f3-414e-89e0-54595076e866
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The scatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; collect all your strength.


id: 93e40ecb-bad9-4a3d-88a7-9dd0a4ceacca
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and ruined their branches.


id: 8ac03f4d-c0f8-409e-984b-3d7829357a0b
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished.


id: 2d7e351f-1ffa-44a2-80a3-12b35a55da18
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning.


id: bee54173-0833-4d41-b976-e27e53691449
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up.


id: e93555d9-ed8e-4018-be14-4059c18703ac
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.


id: 18922aee-ee1a-4128-9bee-bc199575f227
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.


id: 2869aa52-7ac2-4285-9aa8-ce8d95b7443d
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale!


id: 6170966b-7ba0-430d-9a00-a2e313dd0d62
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Where is the lions’ den, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?


id: c15cce81-bd0f-4f36-a62a-b4873072ff6e
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.


id: c27dd39c-539e-4035-8062-14fa2b042b95
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard. 


id: 7c86abe3-ba84-4cc8-8101-b49a19065b6f
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over the bodies!


id: 241b167e-fa0d-4899-a5f3-9a57b3f18a8e
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms.


id: b3a331ed-2067-4e92-bed3-2b1c791a34e9
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame.


id: 5150779f-b542-499a-bea3-1953d36c64c4
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, “Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?” Where shall I seek comforters for you?


id: 379d3df6-27ad-4c7a-bb6d-254acc9ed4d0
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?


id: b4b579d2-ea66-496e-93a9-502aa2b6fba1
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.


id: 8aa961f4-1554-4d50-970a-ba637b69063f
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs— if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.


id: 1cd66e58-8481-40b2-89c1-6df73c935a14
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.


id: 0113d79f-ce0f-4932-9cfb-aa756fae3910
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold!


id: 30c568c4-ee7f-4054-a470-79af38c8fb14
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper!


id: 2849aefc-ad86-4792-b36b-4216ea256843
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spreads its wings and flies away.


id: 7554995e-cc15-43e4-bac3-969467b2a866
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold— when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are.


id: a5854119-4dbe-4fa2-8aa0-c3beecc2c6e8
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them.


id: bff491f0-a59a-4075-8c65-45b12195d79a
book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil? 


id: 982b83a3-c15b-45c2-9353-44079d9c6c99
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save?


id: 5fe9ea6a-a1ae-46d1-8527-21c1cb797bd5
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.


id: 27063f7a-4a59-4d7a-9c09-44712fee2989
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.


id: 44d46115-0c29-48c5-835d-f4189a6f1467
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  “Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.


id: 94e717ec-3c87-424a-a8a4-765c7d57d6e9
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.


id: f210c797-fff9-4f2a-a9c5-eb2615e5abc1
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.


id: 5d08c74e-81ef-4c68-8516-5df60b65f9ac
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it.


id: d2a37332-2e43-488a-aa07-0d8238a334f0
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.


id: d3c297e3-e1d0-49d2-81e3-768983e10cad
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?


id: cbaaae9d-132f-48ef-a1d7-5b844692395e
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.


id: 3d6578f9-d784-4eb6-b070-8ad3a8281b54
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.


id: ae49f401-2f79-4f97-a946-a6e132cf5ae5
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.


id: 1e39aca3-1194-4ce3-b0d2-0ae6ef6c92d8
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.


id: aa039bf9-cb52-4cbf-bfd8-0d1889f5b18f
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.


id: a24d2830-9604-4b5d-94eb-81c47b783d1f
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  “Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.”


id: 4f56c172-5a99-469a-bf78-4089327be9ff
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”


id: d13cfb29-553d-40ef-83ea-d57b58acd51d
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them.


id: dc383f57-b396-4fd5-82ab-8d304644aa95
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.


id: 5b5629b4-6ad2-4595-ab98-a145eaa09b6a
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  “Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!


id: 936a1f36-a8bd-4fdf-a4a1-1dbbedbee12c
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?


id: d321b3a8-c03f-4640-a84a-e232f9c490ac
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.


id: 791723d5-0dcf-4d8f-9a15-53b9492e3844
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  “Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!


id: 5c512063-b6a9-4423-abba-b23d7196d3fb
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory!


id: 8e346659-b38f-412c-bfa3-31cddb8d9642
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.


id: 9a6954b7-dc6c-42d1-a717-fe3cddd72974
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  “What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!


id: 14d91bad-5fa2-4362-b226-ecf30871a9e5
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.


id: 8944c14d-e95f-4077-8848-fc78631dfeaf
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.


id: 9ab09048-141d-4d10-9792-37a26d78d9f7
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.


id: 3ba73f6e-a3d4-4df2-8947-4a07fc0620e1
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.


id: 9fc7382b-5d87-49d9-824f-21da2b344184
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Was your wrath against the rivers, O LORD? Was your anger against the rivers, or your indignation against the sea, when you rode on your horses, on your chariot of salvation?


id: ef5b7040-bfa0-4fda-a4bb-567d61bfad68
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  You stripped the sheath from your bow, calling for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.


id: 067952cc-1695-49fb-a57c-edfd25deae46
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  The mountains saw you and writhed; the raging waters swept on; the deep gave forth its voice; it lifted its hands on high.


id: 7a964c39-afb8-4ff3-b95b-86d38307172c
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.


id: 75e1c0aa-4c6b-4039-80b5-42265464fc22
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah


id: 9441fd46-0917-40b3-9769-7d1b2ce3651f
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.


id: afcead76-0fb4-4c9c-8ef9-081e3e25e687
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.


id: 063fe7d5-4f54-4b86-bf5f-a01747ce3f0f
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,


id: 5992b3a3-6511-4404-b202-a38aab0db8c7
book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. 


id: 1bea7ad1-33e9-4609-829e-3c92bb9bf630
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.


id: 504bdf6b-c549-4c8a-a4a6-dacd140376df
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, and the rubble with the wicked. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.


id: d39debcc-9fb5-48f5-8772-c4ecf34f1106
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal and the name of the idolatrous priests along with the priests,


id: ac772466-c158-43ec-babb-3485a7dc4494
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom,


id: 75e16734-973e-4853-99ed-abcc0174eb72
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Be silent before the Lord GOD! For the day of the LORD is near; the LORD has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his guests.


id: 9aed7465-c932-4c6f-9a1b-c92affc860fe
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  And on the day of the LORD’s sacrifice— “I will punish the officials and the king’s sons and all who array themselves in foreign attire.


id: a44e25ca-a5bb-4baa-a5ec-a5689b81f9fe
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.


id: 95e08d5d-2466-421b-9dd4-e33cb8471e17
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, a loud crash from the hills.


id: 68161c15-89a3-4288-83e6-d9047a7b1f49
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar! For all the traders are no more; all who weigh out silver are cut off.


id: 2c82b23f-020b-4b6d-9367-5377b87ea58a
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, ‘The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.’


id: a3b50a9a-513f-4ecd-9bb3-8e4bc082efbe
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.”


id: b40625f2-14af-4fc0-a44a-cf955eb3d992
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The great day of the LORD is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the LORD is bitter; the mighty man cries aloud there.


id: 50d5f26f-e3af-4d1c-bb63-a9a94f2a3688
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,


id: 46118ab7-6318-4941-9d2f-41d7312f0cde
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.


id: da7bd9c5-8eaf-4b89-8df7-e8da5bbc1e8c
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  I will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.


id: 6516f47c-d6fd-4685-869a-b1653de90851
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth. 


id: d2ba7a60-7139-4040-b669-d3bf7f47fe23
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  before the decree takes effect —before the day passes away like chaff— before there comes upon you the burning anger of the LORD, before there comes upon you the day of the anger of the LORD.


id: 13471b41-5b3f-4269-91f4-cac9c762b3b7
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.


id: a9e3bddb-562a-4fa4-80e7-8c9eb6fa93d0
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.


id: 730319a0-ae71-454a-b346-54404198ff3d
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.


id: a9b7adc0-0834-4265-a0d7-5eed0813d2c7
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the LORD their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes.


id: f979e3b5-f519-49d6-8f07-290f9f800cf5
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.


id: 061d476c-4768-4b31-a2a4-a2c25fa67025
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”


id: 16638c3f-92cd-40f8-85cb-abfe73d9b70e
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the LORD of hosts.


id: f3692571-eeab-467d-b7e7-4770b52e61bd
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The LORD will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.


id: c5220f6e-c5d0-49b3-b66f-66c2e41ad507
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.


id: 8ff4df34-3b2a-4127-baa4-198b981136ff
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.


id: 29fe2a48-2eab-431f-9c30-7ae0be624613
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist. 


id: 36613448-d8dc-4ba6-bdd9-2700c35262bd
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  She listens to no voice; she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she does not draw near to her God.


id: a30adc74-f0ee-4b37-8998-a0682ea0294d
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.


id: af29ae4d-2712-4870-9977-1123b2d67dbe
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law.


id: 7dbc283d-e61a-44a6-9359-91c8e776394d
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.


id: 4d1a02b4-9876-44d4-b396-6391267d2a7a
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.


id: b932292d-1f06-456f-a940-e91395cd2762
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  I said, ‘Surely you will fear me; you will accept correction. Then your dwelling would not be cut off according to all that I have appointed against you.’ But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt.


id: 43decb0f-0d58-4b7e-b8b8-5929cc61ca4a
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “Therefore wait for me,” declares the LORD, “for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.


id: 6b98bd9d-290b-4420-9af8-527d053c6eaf
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the LORD and serve him with one accord.


id: e3f6cc8e-c597-412a-9dcc-9bc9fa7a9aab
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers, the daughter of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering.


id: 5ae431b2-cc7a-45e3-8389-c349d4509a08
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.


id: 80fb91f3-82dd-4b11-ae84-6627b0d37e4d
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the LORD,


id: 4071cdb4-3845-4233-aff7-1cee83fc30c0
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  those who are left in Israel; they shall do no injustice and speak no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”


id: 0fafe256-933e-464c-8469-15d44a4fd323
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!


id: 2b11f35e-65d9-4a27-b241-a25fba40b033
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The LORD has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil.


id: 227e28dc-09a1-4970-bd6c-c3acdbe62087
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.


id: 3d02e54d-221e-4fe7-aa19-22bc15b77dd4
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.


id: 455de5ee-4b59-4f5c-95a5-179e457e5b10
book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  At that time I will bring you in, at the time when I gather you together; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes,” says the LORD. 


id: 1e43e82f-a97c-4021-a0fa-76e71d3f8c0d
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest:


id: d35c6283-deba-4d6c-8ca9-c9e9f38316ec
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.”


id: f93f2cc3-c286-4223-80c6-49207d754020
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.


id: e79fcd5c-7a80-43d7-bf64-d2a6314de65c
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the LORD.


id: 92ce01a7-bd7d-4d15-91b7-cd54997ea794
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.


id: 410a12ea-30b8-4e58-878d-6d8d48384d3d
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.”


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book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.


id: 7a5dee8d-cc67-476b-a428-4fa3a5eb5f3b
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with the LORD’s message, “I am with you, declares the LORD.”


id: c34f764b-5bf1-49ad-94c8-a89b971cfb85
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,


id: 3bc5d879-71c6-4cbb-9445-c1b92994b4ad
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet:


id: 9ab3388a-150b-4001-90f9-c7ca8a1ff518
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say,


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book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?


id: 339cd0a6-2c6b-4d1f-b9ad-2cd54c7e6012
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the LORD. Work, for I am with you, declares the LORD of hosts,


id: 9a136508-5b43-460f-bf5f-0e96dc8cd516
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not.


id: a4810d9f-8861-44db-973d-faa470e6e23f
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  For thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.


id: 232ad6db-83cf-44bd-9283-0590ff46338b
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.


id: 45447f41-c3a3-4055-8366-64bb1dd8b566
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts.’”


id: b8204e85-ece4-46b7-8f3d-44e19ca76b0b
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet,


id: c4897836-7a70-47cd-96f6-49fd699fa8a0
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered and said, “No.”


id: 4fd4c8ff-b0b6-4709-9d2c-35da18fbcd06
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Then Haggai said, “If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.”


id: 8d30aee5-4609-48aa-8222-cf18588adf3e
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Then Haggai answered and said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.


id: dc770830-42df-480f-b79e-e1fa5d05bcca
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the LORD,


id: 4f2cfc27-e3a2-47c6-aa2d-e71155112f51
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.


id: ea1729fd-2a98-40ae-96a3-7b3a01bedbb0
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the LORD.


id: cdea8cb0-6c6c-4d0c-9cef-8b48f9bf073f
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider:


id: f638aaa2-0154-453e-9654-1f2dc8648a66
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on I will bless you.”


id: 7ba46eaf-05af-4372-a03d-e77ffd18ac95
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother.


id: 262318d8-153b-40e3-8b5d-b42c12975cf2
book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  On that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of hosts.” 


id: edaf13b6-1fb6-459c-a992-bd0d10d583b5
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying,


id: c71179fa-1114-4b32-8dc8-64215dd325fa
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Therefore say to them, Thus declares the LORD of hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts.


id: fe843bce-6597-494f-83ef-3d625e4fdf28
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.


id: 325a00b3-73f4-49b0-b34b-ddf46256f2f0
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, ‘As the LORD of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”


id: a430e640-6b62-4672-8b80-e976a308f877
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying,


id: f76214fb-f85a-41cf-a376-5567fcd715c2
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.


id: d909156c-a5d0-4dba-9709-0cc295f666a5
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then I said, ‘What are these, my lord?’ The angel who talked with me said to me, ‘I will show you what they are.’


id: 4a02dbbf-daa4-4a92-a11d-90e1efa9e34e
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, ‘These are they whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.’


id: 0f81cfba-fe54-4ea9-b36a-e15c5b1c6347
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And they answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, ‘We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth remains at rest.’


id: 4b812548-27e0-4f77-a249-092812e2a8b5
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then the angel of the LORD said, ‘O LORD of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?’


id: 1550061f-8423-4472-b66d-aeb03dcbe79d
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  So the angel who talked with me said to me, ‘Cry out, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.


id: 79c8472d-038d-435e-b4e1-4b7a4894bee1
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.


id: cf95e859-9caf-4093-879d-51cc887c4d72
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Therefore, thus says the LORD, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the LORD of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.


id: f619cda0-ec04-4eb4-b431-6bf1ea0aa3bb
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Cry out again, Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.’”


id: 86610251-db7f-415a-ae5f-ea2671019fb6
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” And he said to me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”


id: c0186dca-c0e8-4669-83c9-04541fefae12
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I said, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.” 


id: 84c890c7-0ff2-41c5-86b9-9a75bcaadb06
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”


id: e3adeec7-de75-45bd-9a25-1916e0c50c20
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of people and livestock in it.


id: a4a437c7-efea-4bf3-b2ad-4554678f5408
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”


id: 9eef6cfc-3a85-4712-aee0-52930f994c76
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north, declares the LORD. For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, declares the LORD.


id: d49a2171-7a5e-424f-a2ff-f66bb2f56a3a
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:


id: 3df04e6c-5d0d-4ebf-8cb8-c77a0815a80d
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.


id: 24f75bf9-a298-434a-b9fb-dc3df9b56fb3
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the LORD.


id: 06a3633f-fa65-4cc5-abb4-74d130791213
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.


id: 1ab552a7-d065-4c44-90ec-2b74a29e2f8c
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.


id: 161a4eea-8534-4e9e-b81e-a1ca5a836c41
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And the LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?”


id: c1a055e4-d063-4d51-947b-48cc18ae7da0
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And the angel said to those who were standing before him, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” And to him he said, “Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.”


id: af3ee42f-f228-415e-94eb-78d16bc0f3dc
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD was standing by.


id: 7a0076b2-16b4-4a07-8700-d607d71f827c
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here.


id: 7f605fef-6c4a-4ccc-a0c0-ab541e0db588
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch.


id: 004a6af2-0fa6-43d0-a200-7cba68cb793d
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.


id: cdc5f631-4418-4073-8cca-45810b5337b0
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree.” 


id: 3e416a1b-e3b8-47eb-97d1-b2320f0832fd
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And the angel who talked with me came again and woke me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep.


id: 7582d3e5-aa85-4dc5-b443-7bc74991a2b3
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it.


id: 38287848-c621-4b5e-b90c-ed6a107a5e1d
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”


id: fd574981-42f5-491a-b488-8ea5efe893fe
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.


id: f71c3231-0b1b-4165-81dc-a0d9ee25d8c9
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”


id: 15a93d50-fe54-4f3c-a576-72b69cb19e3e
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.


id: 3786084d-6e7e-4333-a98c-b63eeb5b25f0
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. “These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range through the whole earth.”


id: 6c1975c0-601f-49cf-9cc4-665b58e48023
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And a second time I answered and said to him, “What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil is poured out?”


id: c1e9eb72-d150-46e6-aea0-2fe7f38b073e
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”


id: 780c1e6b-5103-4687-9e76-329d4ca72e11
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.


id: f4e79ffa-3b0e-4ecb-afc9-4aecf698d70e
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  I will send it out, declares the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”


id: 851b2895-823b-49cd-8c87-4b4a8a3a26d9
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “Lift your eyes and see what this is that is going out.”


id: a83c407d-04d7-4dfe-80a9-ad2b710207d2
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the basket that is going out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”


id: 2df1e028-7078-41b3-9b29-2a6e76510f24
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And he said, “This is Wickedness.” And he thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down the leaden weight on its opening.


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book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.


id: b9f73fea-198c-4b76-b99b-0caadf0c26c6
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  He said to me, “To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it. And when this is prepared, they will set the basket down there on its base.” 


id: 7fd01304-19da-4cf1-bf89-6f89eab830ed
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains. And the mountains were mountains of bronze.


id: 846e2464-a3f7-488e-8804-0cc94baee596
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And the angel answered and said to me, “These are going out to the four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.


id: cd69ed87-4fe8-4005-af52-701ce6b48788
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go after them, and the dappled ones go toward the south country.”


id: 63830940-7329-487a-b50a-da939589c26d
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  When the strong horses came out, they were impatient to go and patrol the earth. And he said, “Go, patrol the earth.” So they patrolled the earth.


id: 69f772c4-bafb-48b0-bce1-817ea534838e
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then he cried to me, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have set my Spirit at rest in the north country.”


id: a7a9e206-fa99-4bf0-83ee-8bbc9591258d
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Take from the exiles Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon, and go the same day to the house of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah.


id: b246b59b-a505-4001-9ad5-3591d95aa1ea
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it on the head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.


id: 91a2344c-3c02-469e-a176-a4785d64dc5d
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall branch out from his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD.


id: fa85e7fc-d3ca-4635-8151-daf357bc1dfe
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  It is he who shall build the temple of the LORD and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule on his throne. And there shall be a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.”’


id: ea3600af-5826-43fb-a01b-412be926629d
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And the crown shall be in the temple of the LORD as a reminder to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen the son of Zephaniah.


id: 1c9dfda0-62cf-491f-8f20-2c63ea6a857c
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “And those who are far off shall come and help to build the temple of the LORD. And you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.” 


id: abec7eb2-3d2d-44b2-a636-b1c17f191056
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.


id: 10dc5894-c64d-47f7-8b02-cae850599936
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the LORD,


id: e819503c-b584-4a9e-bb20-999f624f45c9
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  saying to the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”


id: 1a2a7910-8259-4ada-8b96-07960ce9808e
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?


id: b160c6c2-1605-416c-af5c-82c09e289e71
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Were not these the words that the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, with her cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”


id: a7c64bd4-6214-47bb-9450-83cd0c1f7ca2
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”


id: 6ba334c6-0d2d-4258-ab58-621c8bc499c4
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.


id: 6d01654e-969e-42e3-a8c3-0e85c38e190d
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of hosts.


id: ee1af751-4e98-4483-be94-4d87c6dd7359
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the LORD of hosts,


id: 2d2d8cad-88d7-4506-abf8-2f8af59ce1da
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate.” 


id: d0c837c9-e129-49d7-b8f6-d0231384cbc6
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.


id: 54479d7a-0203-4917-b77a-679882ae5b04
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Thus says the LORD: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.


id: 7487e0ce-fe08-4474-8965-f68f029c7f89
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age.


id: 6f4b624f-a701-4992-a0da-be4b73cbfe3b
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts: If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my sight, declares the LORD of hosts?


id: 0a7c1931-8102-4437-a7aa-81eb639ea650
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country,


id: 9fbf8be6-bdd9-4a74-bf8c-8fd517cad5d8
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness.”


id: 24527b3f-546e-4085-a5fa-0a28f145f2bb
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets who were present on the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.


id: 4c27b150-a89f-4f36-aad3-48de16eb010f
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in, for I set every man against his neighbor.


id: e192bf21-3758-4e83-8511-8b27b83e8240
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days, declares the LORD of hosts.


id: cc9a6128-ff46-49bf-a635-adfcf697b0c8
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.


id: 25354649-31d1-4bb2-bf04-e6a49a132054
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong.”


id: 1f78a0fc-08d3-44fa-ba86-8e0286bcd5a4
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For thus says the LORD of hosts: “As I purposed to bring disaster to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath, and I did not relent, says the LORD of hosts,


id: 040bf37c-0aa2-4d60-a2bf-ed450f6aacc3
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  so again have I purposed in these days to bring good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; fear not.


id: c82a82b3-0c0b-471c-a614-9a648e1e34a7
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;


id: 1ddd3254-9827-4e5e-8e37-6a5f463cb5c2
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the LORD.”


id: 3585eeb1-09b8-47da-b0ef-0c1ad5693167
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.


id: 1f1f3f9c-6676-47e8-bcb4-4cb6fc0127a3
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD and to seek the LORD of hosts; I myself am going.’


id: 51edee26-2ead-4394-825b-2e25483a9705
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.


id: dcc5b2ab-5ae5-471a-80c9-6ff15c01ed8c
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’” 


id: 9f541d83-204f-402d-8c43-43fbd309fee2
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The oracle of the word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and Damascus is its resting place. For the LORD has an eye on mankind and on all the tribes of Israel,


id: ba8fa484-4a53-43fb-9aef-605fca8b68fa
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets.


id: 8d2a86e9-4464-4e9f-b6bd-d42cb29907f0
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions and strike down her power on the sea, and she shall be devoured by fire.


id: 8619e145-0831-4eee-9f68-ee8465bd00f1
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. The king shall perish from Gaza; Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;


id: c5bbd2e2-d078-4ada-b5c0-030e3204ecaa
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  I will take away its blood from its mouth, and its abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a remnant for our God; it shall be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.


id: f78b804c-7193-4d58-8ca6-4c245b1e961a
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then I will encamp at my house as a guard, so that none shall march to and fro; no oppressor shall again march over them, for now I see with my own eyes.


id: 53e7dc63-212d-425a-9699-faa95c94ae37
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.


id: 25c51aae-ca66-4ead-985b-44233dd0831d
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.


id: 9d757212-9c18-4bbd-bd8a-6682c6c1ecb6
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.


id: 78a02c05-1b40-465b-96de-b83c1d18854c
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior’s sword.


id: e254aa06-5f08-4cab-a927-7e6975a67b19
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then the LORD will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord GOD will sound the trumpet and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.


id: 78962e9f-0b6d-4bb6-bf34-0a5e1cf2774a
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The LORD of hosts will protect them, and they shall devour, and tread down the sling stones, and they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine, and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar.


id: f4c56d5c-f668-45a5-aaf8-978136d31b8e
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day the LORD their God will save them, as the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land.


id: 814f76d6-bc26-480a-9e60-8f9df58c98ed
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women. 


id: 6fd7efd8-43a2-4cbb-8c78-0475e82c9143
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORD who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.


id: 9c03dcc1-5c68-417e-8fb9-c440f24c6235
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.


id: e318c205-4d15-4443-af83-0a48b7e050eb
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his majestic steed in battle.


id: 8a316628-b14f-453a-a062-b4850c437ae9
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  From him shall come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler—all of them together.


id: e838f15f-5dc9-4904-9e06-f516602a2310
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  They shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the LORD is with them, and they shall put to shame the riders on horses.


id: a207c959-a010-4553-adfa-596298133035
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them.


id: 3dbdaec0-5432-4f94-9866-ec48f1602f19
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in the LORD.


id: f29d25ad-b780-4f9b-8e20-7fa78ff7f545
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “I will whistle for them and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall be as many as they were before.


id: 787155c5-ab1f-4b93-a72e-08e63b7a8af6
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.


id: c090a22c-643b-434f-afa4-2648f90b4dad
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria, and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them.


id: 8485369b-4ac3-4654-afef-ec051d01ac6a
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  He shall pass through the sea of troubles and strike down the waves of the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up. The pride of Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.


id: e71d816f-efb2-48fa-b4e7-02f9c6ce3f24
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!


id: 8d6715c7-6529-47be-b3c9-ed311df3f760
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The sound of the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is ruined! The sound of the roar of the lions, for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!


id: 79735c5d-dce8-4132-a58b-588fcd3e8363
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them.


id: 841fdb2e-f8fd-4c76-acae-4c849dd01341
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the LORD. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”


id: f8403627-9a19-4086-8d74-5dacf10d9853
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.


id: 18b7c4f2-4d31-4bc4-b9d4-2f6e389afcbf
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.


id: 94bc95ff-16e3-4cbe-8dda-50277760dce4
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.”


id: 544b0898-f309-4377-b50a-4c6eeebc0027
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples.


id: 8b683112-b5a2-4f2d-a1d3-eabc7353e49f
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD.


id: 033f8c6a-fafa-42a9-8a92-a55f0117c247
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.


id: 043c6761-6ad4-460b-ae3a-367618ff4a0c
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD, to the potter.


id: 160f2880-abc9-466d-8063-aa8d35d114f4
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.


id: 0798d33b-b158-40a4-83df-f99536d0d890
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!” 


id: 7343f226-5a93-434f-8fbb-f239e206aa8c
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The oracle of the word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus declares the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:


id: 75b2b5d7-2cf6-4c53-b717-057e652f3fd2
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah.


id: 0a61bbdd-8cf9-4a36-a647-48cc62550989
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.


id: c5ebb33b-b8ee-4dd9-9ab0-47d7ec4666e0
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day, declares the LORD, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.


id: 86828d9b-6584-47fd-b4bc-88d46a37ef80
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the LORD of hosts, their God.’


id: 9efd9cde-9afd-4be5-a647-46ad38e323ca
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.


id: 0939bbdc-257a-4b22-a1c0-5e4757447f51
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “And the LORD will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.


id: 3461b1cc-cf7c-4fe6-9dbc-b696388cdc6e
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day the LORD will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the LORD, going before them.


id: 8516b481-85c7-4774-b788-f9aa60e84304
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.


id: f7842708-7a95-460a-b40b-da45802b0d8e
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.


id: 6c13c424-2f90-4212-882f-5c1920317d5e
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The land shall mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;


id: 9a3a7242-3d7c-4c36-9cf0-c3ed771415e0
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves;


id: adccde31-fe85-4f5a-8ae6-f9a7bdb8c345
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.


id: cbde7df9-2edc-4662-a073-5fa34d02ce3e
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.


id: c9fc3469-b1f4-487c-8ecf-d732aff2bb91
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.


id: bd69e51c-d314-4533-b36e-943c37a1a325
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive,


id: 76fd02d8-e91e-4991-a824-427f54b19563
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’ he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’


id: afa648b7-43d6-45b3-b989-37501590880a
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,” declares the LORD of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.


id: 73cd687c-7ec2-4c72-97a3-4e0a4ae9433b
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  In the whole land, declares the LORD, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive.


id: 7d569f0a-a0ad-4f82-88df-afca943fee25
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’” 


id: 1938a358-599a-4121-85de-3468c5705f3b
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.


id: 786525ee-bf7f-4540-a646-7f8279a530ea
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.


id: a9e76a74-c328-43ca-ba0a-2391f1a95725
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.


id: bd22b72c-3a9c-4076-ac14-8cabd3f107ab
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And there shall be a unique day, which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light.


id: 9db05895-27a5-41af-b18c-b24588f73c30
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.


id: e749488a-9dd8-48ab-82a5-a3076c5ca3a1
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.


id: 78241f58-02c2-4bd0-b2eb-1577bdf6864c
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. Jerusalem shall dwell in security.


id: 36599423-a345-4d10-8cdd-6a70ec684348
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.


id: 73843edb-6acf-4150-9a4f-be51505ab64a
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And on that day a great panic from the LORD shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other.


id: 779f0729-ba81-4a33-a460-4e4fd3b2191c
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.


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book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.


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book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.


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book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them.


id: a3f96c16-a5c0-4b20-9550-3055d5381ab7
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.


id: 4b17e1e8-5fbc-4e2c-8e71-ead71a1a374d
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.


id: f267a152-108b-4e01-9faa-9d844463a2f8
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “Holy to the LORD.” And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar.


id: 9adbb834-1a19-47db-84e6-21ab318afed2
book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the LORD of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts on that day. 


id: 3a366c4b-2904-4548-87a2-8098cd3cb5b2
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob


id: cce9bb20-e304-4aab-83af-c60a2c0c3b41
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”


id: 5d7f3977-5a98-4eaa-92d7-736c09418dce
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the LORD of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the LORD is angry forever.’”


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book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’


id: bd1423b7-7798-42a4-a8b2-1b25b44cf559
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that the LORD’s table may be despised.


id: b6892bd0-45ac-4ae3-8e91-471908b3237c
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the LORD of hosts.


id: bc9bfd2c-7a80-4807-ae0f-743fbd93c326
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  And now entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With such a gift from your hand, will he show favor to any of you? says the LORD of hosts.


id: 655cd675-66af-4605-b7c4-86fcc7d5ea21
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand.


id: f47e902a-90e9-4b94-bdb0-1f9a637c38e9
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.


id: fe140700-54ac-40e7-8380-4cf329cef2ad
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  But you profane it when you say that the Lord’s table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.


id: a660b97d-7168-4ee5-a015-1b7abaad1c5a
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  But you say, ‘What a weariness this is,’ and you snort at it, says the LORD of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the LORD.


id: 29dfb9f9-351f-4044-8324-01fcaaaf58cb
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations. 


id: 5d15f1c6-789b-461b-9618-8b58c3fab038
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.


id: cd09f01e-a5fe-4f0b-9711-847a12f8b552
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.


id: 84ea415f-b38c-4f1b-aeb6-d08811cb64b2
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the LORD of hosts.


id: 735dfe13-23d6-4b50-8634-5488cfcdd37d
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name.


id: f6c7e406-82c9-44ef-8680-92781adbdd1e
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.


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book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.


id: 71f40037-6833-477c-b960-8200dc5f94bf
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts,


id: a65bfdc9-a319-4c8b-8572-4768295ea115
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”


id: 447597dd-bfdb-4000-803c-59023dc1baa7
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?


id: c582e59a-98b7-4412-a61c-2227a2223874
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.


id: 16b4a2cf-bceb-47b9-a536-586331f2f027
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the LORD of hosts!


id: 7cb941d1-157e-462a-a760-c19f4c01a1a5
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  And this second thing you do. You cover the LORD’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.


id: 1d473d78-0b63-4e30-9202-405846d42972
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.


id: 0579db90-eb8a-4c4e-8ab7-ccce8db343da
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.


id: 63c4261e-043a-4286-9cd6-3c4acd60e2d0
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”


id: a37d69c5-fc73-4806-9e34-bd0a31840dbd
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?” 


id: e210ee90-7621-4414-9aef-41fe6948d76a
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.


id: aeaa7bc2-1bba-477c-8a3c-fcab7d06dcd1
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.


id: 829d5825-9023-4378-99de-f8fa8f9eda8a
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD.


id: e75ca96f-931d-4def-8fd9-7d5049178dc4
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.


id: 89434ec3-3c80-47d3-9bd0-19c1345a1f5d
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.


id: b9f2e3d9-84ba-4df7-a0cf-df603d7c8725
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’


id: e9fe5887-7c52-4725-9382-0ed875aad70e
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions.


id: d2a10f2a-e41e-4132-8bb1-be85a92eb843
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.


id: db20eec0-f463-4895-ad69-7c7aaf41fca7
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts.


id: 95730c0a-9e37-4450-b1bc-5add8e796511
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “Your words have been hard against me, says the LORD. But you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’


id: 1959f224-1e85-43e4-b883-8d2cc1de689f
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts?


id: 8c2a3c44-49e6-45a8-ba1d-72d103a5b513
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.’”


id: 3645c8e9-5789-4767-b0cf-126f074eac43
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name.


id: 364afa54-15fc-448b-83d8-0ef0482a4d4a
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.


id: 99f0fa5b-adaa-41f4-813b-4ef58c79611c
book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him. 


id: fb3858ca-5b72-4ffb-af2e-255fdd20b1a6
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,


id: 0fe9d6a5-422e-47b0-921d-b7dd4f51ac2a
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label: Matt
content:
  and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,


id: 75433fe1-a629-4203-acd2-fb4822f5fff3
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label: Matt
content:
  and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon,


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label: Matt
content:
  and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,


id: ff2edc4d-c6f3-4a40-a899-8256b9aa8b48
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label: Matt
content:
  and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph,


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label: Matt
content:
  and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah,


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label: Matt
content:
  and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah,


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor,


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label: Matt
content:
  and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob,


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label: Matt
content:
  So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.


id: 495a9cc1-f60c-4837-ac64-41a910dec172
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.


id: ef8c4f51-da4f-4705-9446-ee979677b3ec
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.


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label: Matt
content:
  But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.


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label: Matt
content:
  She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”


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label: Matt
content:
  “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).


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label: Matt
content:
  Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem,


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.


id: 24c73c46-2942-49e3-9f0f-9c443038a988
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label: Matt
content:
  “‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’”


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label: Matt
content:
  Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had appeared.


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label: Matt
content:
  And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him.”


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label: Matt
content:
  After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was.


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label: Matt
content:
  And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”


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label: Matt
content:
  and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”


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label: Matt
content:
  Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.


id: d58efa0a-214e-431f-9da6-a3ed5704327c
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.”


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  saying, “Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child’s life are dead.”


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, so that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene. 


id: 3b3278e1-de8e-4c17-a17b-11edef465fdc
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’”


id: ac607679-cc25-48df-b1d0-c88e90a64353
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.


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label: Matt
content:
  Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.


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label: Matt
content:
  His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”


id: 19041ba2-5b3a-4455-80c1-486cdd69f704
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”


id: 69413f7a-0e95-4e85-b620-a0578415398b
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”


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label: Matt
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  and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”


id: f6d8ec53-5b12-4c32-8555-ca1da49a9923
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label: Matt
content:
  Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.


id: 8dee1030-4dc1-4f59-89fa-ca345af8144b
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label: Matt
content:
  Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”


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label: Matt
content:
  And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali,


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—


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label: Matt
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  the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And going on from there 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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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan. 


id: 3405c63e-0611-4751-9925-1a16c19ccd05
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.


id: 83f310d3-14db-4876-b2bb-68e8a1e09824
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.


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label: Matt
content:
  Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.


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label: Matt
content:
  In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.


id: f23f5bf1-d288-4225-909e-d8b82f29ba3a
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.


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label: Matt
content:
  So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,


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label: Matt
content:
  leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.


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label: Matt
content:
  Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.


id: 8f5d2021-90e8-43ec-987b-09b7f5a6f7fc
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.


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label: Matt
content:
  If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.


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label: Matt
content:
  And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’


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label: Matt
content:
  But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.


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label: Matt
content:
  so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.


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label: Matt
content:
  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.


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label: Matt
content:
  “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.


id: b089340b-f780-4497-9b87-db7aa34087cf
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label: Matt
content:
  “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.


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label: Matt
content:
  But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.


id: b85a8746-49b6-4ae0-bdf5-ed0add406078
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label: Matt
content:
  “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.


id: fa23ca4c-c50d-4668-a87a-5e98470807b7
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.


id: 84f74a3f-b627-401c-8e10-40cc4833f008
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.


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label: Matt
content:
  “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,


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book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!


id: 56837041-e846-4315-bf27-579158dc1a59
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.


id: f4df8c80-2bb4-4147-a191-a3da8f814f57
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?


id: f267c2c2-0d64-460f-8d57-ff4d1ae6a1f4
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?


id: 0e46b478-0bc2-437b-ae4a-f21afac3e266
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,


id: 21a57425-47f4-4358-bafa-a987cf2e5b8a
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?


id: 79d95c84-75eb-4e40-9012-748570f6ca9b
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’


id: ceeba7c4-6d8a-4151-8f9c-19d6a401e0f3
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.


id: 691cb1ba-cb0a-488d-ac27-822dec6d13e6
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. 


id: 95f1c3d9-a27d-482a-954e-097e9be6fb23
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.


id: 4c7c91e6-2f68-4c3f-9676-072e67287b1d
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?


id: 4b25ff02-6bdc-4e72-bfd4-af1796c04928
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?


id: 2ae5d4f8-7877-446a-814c-79753733a303
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.


id: 3abae0c0-caef-412e-a07d-c60198af22a8
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.


id: 1e8318ee-6b66-4804-9288-0c4024b06204
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.


id: e1d0e12c-24fd-4649-b63f-494d02000f3f
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!


id: abb4204c-d4cc-4433-a9f3-242d4efa7982
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.


id: d21308c3-f8ac-453f-a133-0599e00c3a09
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.


id: f2c7327e-d9a9-4971-bd0e-b8459b64aa9e
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?


id: 77b829e9-a673-45cb-bfaf-3fac38187a7a
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.


id: 728eaeaf-d94f-4f2d-a305-3656d9cf7305
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’


id: 1441d67e-93ed-477c-b9df-883fc850c105
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.


id: 065b81c1-cc22-4570-b72a-35a03ad99e53
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.


id: d15b0a65-2da3-488b-88c1-b698dbdcbc3e
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.


id: ad5d4fa2-933a-404c-ad1b-ca74a8e5cf23
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”


id: 697ddeca-d7e2-4bb1-abb0-82fe5dbaa85e
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.”


id: 015fc30b-05c6-448c-aedd-fba751566f76
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.


id: 3ec186b6-f268-42e5-a36e-a57c31f830db
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”


id: 32b131fa-e03d-47b6-a03c-5c2ff59fa1cb
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed.


id: f2cca053-366c-4df7-aa53-bf9b9221b566
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”


id: df75bc4c-7a2e-4ce5-b081-75bb3738c9ea
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith.


id: f833ddc1-c8ac-4415-b783-ceb35b6da6ad
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,


id: bd051d63-11fb-40a2-90e8-a03829d37c9b
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”


id: f224f256-6ec6-4b48-8a49-62aac0e28905
book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.


