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⁶ For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

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⁷ And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

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²² While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

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¹² And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.

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¹³ Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

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¹⁴ And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.

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⁴⁸ And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.

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⁵⁶ And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.

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²⁰ And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

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²¹ So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:

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¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

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²⁰ But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

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⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

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¹⁰ Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

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¹¹ Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

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¹² Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.

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¹³ Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.

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¹⁴ The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

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¹⁵ Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

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¹⁶ Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.

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¹⁷ Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

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¹⁸ The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.

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¹⁹ For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

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⁶⁵ For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

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² And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

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¹⁵ Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

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¹⁸ But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

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¹⁴ In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.

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⁴⁵ There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

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⁷ The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

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⁸ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.

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⁷ Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:

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⁸ And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.

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⁹ And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.

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⁶ And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

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¹⁰ And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

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¹² And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, and went along the highway, highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth-shemesh.

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¹⁴ And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

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¹⁵ Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

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¹⁹ And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

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³⁰ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

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³⁴ And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

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³⁷ So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

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³⁸ And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.

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¹² Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

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⁶ Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

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²¹ And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

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⁹ Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.

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¹⁰ He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

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¹⁰ By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

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¹¹ Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:

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¹² And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

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¹³ He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

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⁸ I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

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⁶ Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

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⁵ Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

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⁶ For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

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⁷ But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

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³ Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

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⁴ He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

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⁵ Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. ever.

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⁶ Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

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⁷ At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

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⁸ They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

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⁹ Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

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⁴ Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

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¹ A Song of degrees for Solomon.

Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

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² It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

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¹ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.

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² Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

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³ Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

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⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

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⁵ Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

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⁷ O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

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⁹ The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

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⁹ He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

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¹⁵ My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

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¹⁰ The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

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²⁸ For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

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¹⁶ When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

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¹⁹ Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

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¹¹ For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

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²⁷ These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

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²⁸ That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.

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¹⁵ I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

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²⁵ Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.

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¹⁰ Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

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¹⁷ The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

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⁶ In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

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³ Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

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⁹ A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

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³³ The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.

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²¹ There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

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²⁴ Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

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³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

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³¹ The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.

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⁵ O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

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⁶ I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down down like the mire of the streets.

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⁷ Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.