| 1:Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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2: Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy
against it, |
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And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,
I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I
will make thee most desolate. |
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4: I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and
thou shalt know that I am the LORD. |
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5: Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the
blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of
their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: |
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6: Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee
unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood,
even blood shall pursue thee. |
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7: Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it
him that passeth out and him that returneth. |
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8: And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy
hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that
are slain with the sword. |
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9: I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall
not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. |
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10: Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two
countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was
there: |
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11: Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do
according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast
used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among
them, when I have judged thee. |
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12: And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard
all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of
Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
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13: Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have
multiplied your words against me: I have heard them. |
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14: Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I
will make thee desolate. |
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15: As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of
Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be
desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall
know that I am the LORD. |
| 1:Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of
Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
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| 2: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against
you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: |
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Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye
might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken
up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people: |
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| 4: Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the
rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities
that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of
the heathen that are round about; |
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| 5: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my
jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against
all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the
joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a
prey. |
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| 6: Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto
the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury,
because ye have borne the shame of the heathen: |
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:Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand,
Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame. |
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| 8: But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your
branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at
hand to come. |
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| 9: For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye
shall be tilled and sown: |
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| 10: And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel,
even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall
be builded: |
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| 11: And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall
increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates,
and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know
that I am the LORD. |
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| 12: Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people
Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their
inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men. |
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| 13: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land
devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations; |
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| 14: Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy
nations any more, saith the Lord GOD. |
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| 15: Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the
heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any
more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the
Lord GOD. |
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| 16: Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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| 17: Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land,
they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was
before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. |
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| 18: Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they
had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted
it: |
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| 19: And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were
dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to
their doings I judged them. |
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| 20: And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went,
they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people
of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land. |
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| 21: But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel
had profaned among the heathen, whither they went. |
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| 22: Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy
name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
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| 23: And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among
the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the
heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall
be sanctified in you before their eyes. |
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| 24: For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you
out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. |
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| 25: Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be
clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse
you. |
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| 26: A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put
within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and
I will give you an heart of flesh. |
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| 27: And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in
my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. |
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| 28: And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers;
and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. |
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| 29: I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will
call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
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| 30: And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase
of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the
heathen. |
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| 31: Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings
that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for
your iniquities and for your abominations. |
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| 32: Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known
unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of
Israel. |
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| 33: Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have
cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in
the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. |
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| 34: And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it
lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. |
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| 35: And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become
like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities
are become fenced, and are inhabited. |
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| 36: Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know
that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was
desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it. |
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| 37: Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be inquired of
by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men
like a flock. |
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| 38: As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn
feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they
shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 1: James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. |
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| 2: My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
temptations; |
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| 3: Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
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| 4: But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect
and entire, wanting nothing. |
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| 5: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to
all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. |
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| 6: But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that
wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. |
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:For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of
the Lord. |
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| 8: A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. |
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| 9: Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
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| 10: But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower
of the grass he shall pass away. |
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| 11: For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it
withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of
the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his
ways. |
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| 12: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is
tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised
to them that love him. |
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| 13: Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for
God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: |
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| 14: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own
lust, and enticed. |
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| 15: Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and
sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. |
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| 16: Do not err, my beloved brethren. |
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| 17: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness,
neither shadow of turning. |
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| 18: Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we
should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. |
| 1:I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my
supplications. |
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| 2: Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I
call upon him as long as I live. |
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The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat
hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. |
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| 4: Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech
thee, deliver my soul. |
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| 5: Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
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| 6: The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he
helped me. |
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:Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt
bountifully with thee. |
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| 8: For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from
tears, and my feet from falling. |
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| 9: I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
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| 10: I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
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| 11: I said in my haste, All men are liars. |
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| 12: What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward
me? |
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| 13: I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of
the LORD. |
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| 14: I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all
his people. |
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| 15: Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
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| 16: O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son
of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. |
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| 17: I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will
call upon the name of the LORD. |
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| 18: I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all
his people, |
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| 19: In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of thee, O
Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD. |
