30, Ecclesiastes 1:12-18; Deuteronomy 31:30-32:47; Nahum 1; Matthew 9
Ecclesiastes 1
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I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
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And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
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I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
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And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
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For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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Deuteronomy 31
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And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
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Deuteronomy 32
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Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
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To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
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For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
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And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
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Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
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See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
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For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
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If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
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I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
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Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
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And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
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And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
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And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
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For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
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Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
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My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
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Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
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He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
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They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
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Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
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Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
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When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
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For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
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He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
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As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
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So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
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He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
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Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
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But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
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They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
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They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
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Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
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And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
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And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
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They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
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For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
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I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
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They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
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The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
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I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
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Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.
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For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
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O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
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How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?
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For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
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For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
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Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
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Nahum 1
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The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
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God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
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The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
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He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
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The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
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Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
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The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
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But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
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What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
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For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
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There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor.
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Thus saith the Lord; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
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For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
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And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
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Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
Matthew 9
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And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city.
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And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
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And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.
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And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
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For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
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But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
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And he arose, and departed to his house.
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But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
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And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
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And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
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And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
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But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
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But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
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And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
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No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
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Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
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While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
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And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.
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And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
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For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
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But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
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And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
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He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
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But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.
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And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
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And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us.
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And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
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Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
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And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
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But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
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As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.
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And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.
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But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.
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And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
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But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
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Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
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Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
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