But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?
Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, Come, let us have a meeting in one of the little towns in the lowland of Ono. But their purpose was to do me evil.
And I sent men to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come down: is the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come down to you?
And that you have prophets preaching about you in Jerusalem, and saying, There is a king in Judah: now an account of these things will be sent to the king. So come now, and let us have a discussion.
Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, they are only a fiction you have made up yourself.
For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.
So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.
And that they were to give out an order, and make it public in all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, Go out to the mountain and get olive branches and branches of field olives and of myrtle, and palm branches and branches of thick trees, to make tents, as it says in the book.
Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.
Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.
And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord will give you flesh, and it will be your food;
But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?
With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?
And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.
And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.
But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.
This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made, saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never been put:
And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
And Balaam said to God, Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent them to me, saying,
So he sent men to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor by the River in the land of the children of his people, saying to him, See, a people has come out of Egypt, covering all the face of the earth, and they have put up their tents opposite to me:
So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying,
And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,
And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel saying, This is the land which is to be your heritage, by the decision of the Lord, which by the Lord's order is to be given to the nine tribes and the half-tribe:
So by the direction of the Lord, Moses gave orders to the children of Israel, saying, What the tribe of the sons of Joseph have said is right.
The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her.
As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.
The legs of one who has no power of walking are hanging loose; so is a wise saying in the mouth of the foolish.
Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.
Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,
And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:
She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,
Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?
For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.
Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:
Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.
Then I made my prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, take my soul out of trouble.
In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.
I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.
I am delighted by your saying, like a man who makes discovery of great wealth.
My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?
The Lord gave a true oath to David, which he will not take back, saying, I will give your kingdom to the fruit of your body.
How he made an oath to the Lord, and gave his word to the great God of Jacob, saying,
For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.
He who goes on his way uprightly, doing righteousness, and saying what is true in his heart;
The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,
My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
<To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.> Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.
They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?
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