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  • Exodus 29
    And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
    And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
    And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
    And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.
    And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
    And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
    Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
    And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
    And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
    And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.
    And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
    And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
    And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
    But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
    Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
    And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
    And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
    And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
    And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
    Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
    And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
    Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:
    And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
    And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.
    And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
    And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.
    And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is he
    8 min
  • Psalms 83,84
    Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
    For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
    They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
    They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
    For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
    The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
    Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
    Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
    Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
    Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
    Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
    Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
    O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
    As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
    So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
    Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
    Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
    That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
    How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
    My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
    Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
    Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
    Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
    Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
    They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
    O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
    Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
    For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
    For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
    O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
    4 min
  • Exodus 28
    And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
    And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.
    And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
    And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
    And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
    And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
    It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
    And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
    And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
    Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
    With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
    And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
    And thou shalt make ouches of gold;
    And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.
    And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
    Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
    And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.
    And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
    And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
    And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
    And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
    And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.
    And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
    And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
    And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.
    And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.
    And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
    And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastpl
    8 min
  • Mark 13
    And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!
    And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
    And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
    Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?
    And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:
    For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
    And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
    For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
    But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
    And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
    But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
    Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
    And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
    But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
    And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:
    And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.
    But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
    And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
    For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
    And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
    And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
    For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
    But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
    But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
    And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
    And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
    And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
    Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
    So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
    Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
    Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
    But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
    Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
    For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who
    6 min
  • Mark 12
    And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
    And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
    And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
    And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
    And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
    Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
    But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
    And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
    What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
    And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
    This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
    And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
    And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
    And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
    Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
    And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
    And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.
    Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
    Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
    Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
    And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
    And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
    In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
    And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
    For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
    And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
    He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
    And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
    And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
    And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
    And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
    And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is
    7 min
  • Psalms 81,82
    Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
    Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
    Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
    For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
    This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
    I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
    Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
    Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
    There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
    I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
    But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
    So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
    Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
    I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
    The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
    He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
    God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
    How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
    Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
    Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
    They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
    I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
    But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
    Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
    3 min
  • Exodus 27
    And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
    And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
    And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
    And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.
    And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
    And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
    And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
    Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
    And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
    And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
    And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
    And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
    And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
    The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
    And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
    And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
    All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
    The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
    All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
    And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
    In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
    4 min
  • Exodus 26
    Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
    The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
    The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
    And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
    Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
    And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
    And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
    The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.
    And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
    And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
    And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
    And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
    And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
    And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.
    And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
    Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
    Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
    And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
    And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
    And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
    And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
    And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
    And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
    And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
    And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
    And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
    And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
    And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.
    And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
    And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
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  • Psalms 79,80
    O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
    The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
    Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
    We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
    How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
    Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
    For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
    O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
    Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
    Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
    Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
    And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
    So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
    Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
    Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
    Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
    O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
    Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
    Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
    Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
    Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
    Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
    The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
    She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
    Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
    The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
    Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
    And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
    It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
    Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
    So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
    Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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  • Mark 11
    And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,
    And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.
    And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.
    And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.
    And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt?
    And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.
    And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him.
    And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.
    And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
    Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
    And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
    And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
    And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
    And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
    And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
    And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
    And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
    And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
    And when even was come, he went out of the city.
    And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
    And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.
    And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
    For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
    Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
    And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
    But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
    And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,
    And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?
    And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
    The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.
    And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?
    But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.
    And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. An
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