Is the Lord quickly made angry? are these his doings? do not his words do good to his people Israel?
Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.
He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.
Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,
Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me; and of the king's words which he had said to me. And they said, Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.
Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:
And they said much before me of the good he had done, and gave him accounts of my words. And Tobiah sent letters with the purpose of causing me fear.
And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpose to be their king;
And my God put it into my heart to get together the rulers and the chiefs and the people so that they might be listed by families. And I came across a record of the names of those who came up at the first, and in it I saw these words:
And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.
And on the second day the heads of families of all the people and the priests and the Levites came together to Ezra the scribe, to give attention to the words of the law.
And they gave out the words of the book the law of God, clearly, and gave the sense of it, so that their minds were able to take it in.
And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.
And Moses went out and gave the people the words of the Lord: and he took seventy of the responsible men of the people, placing them round the Tent.
And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it.
And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream.
How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.
Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:
And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.
But they gave no attention to his words and went to the top of the mountain, though Moses and the ark of the Lord's agreement did not go out of the tent-circle.
And while these words were on his lips, the earth under them was parted in two;
And at the words of Moses, Aaron took his vessel, and went running among the people; and even then the disease had made a start among them; and he put spices in his vessel to take away the sin of the people.
And the Lord came to Balaam, and put words in his mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, Up! Balak, and give ear; give attention to me, O son of Zippor:
God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?
And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.
Then he went on with his story and said, These are the words of Balaam, the son of Beor, the words of him whose eyes are open:
He says, whose ear is open to the words of God, who has knowledge of the Most High, who has seen the vision of the Ruler of all, falling down and having his eyes open:
And moved by the spirit, he said, These are the words of Balaam, son of Beor, the words of the man whose eyes are open:
He says, whose ears are open to the words of God, who has seen the vision of the Ruler of all, falling down, but having his eyes open:
Say to Aaron and his sons, These are the words of blessing which are to be used by you in blessing the children of Israel; say to them,
Give words of love to every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me send you their love.
To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
The breathing out of true words gives knowledge of righteousness; but a false witness gives out deceit.
Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.
You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
The words of sinners are destruction for the upright; but the mouth of upright men is their salvation.
They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.
The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.
A man will give his wealth in exchange for his life; but the poor will not give ear to sharp words.
Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.
Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.
To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.
Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.
The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.
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