So God heard their prayers and looked upon their afflictions; for the people fasted many days in all Judea and Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty.
Therefore they were exceedingly afraid of him, and were troubled for Jerusalem and for the temple of the Lord their God.
Then every man cried to God with great fervor, and they humbled their souls with great vehemence,
Then they cried to their God and he smote all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues, so the Egyptians cast them out of their sight.
And God dried the Red Sea before them
"While they did not sin before their God, they prospered, because the God who hates iniquity was with them.
But when they departed from the way which he appointed for them, they were destroyed in many battles very badly and were led captive into a land which was not their own, and the temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by the enemies.
But now are they returned to their God and have returned from the places where they were scattered and have possessed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country, for it had been desolate.
Now therefore, my lord and governor, if there is any ignorance in this people and they sin against their God, let us consider that this will be their ruin, and let us go up and we will overcome them.
But if there is no iniquity in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them and their God be for them, and we become a reproach before all the world."
For they left the way of their ancestors and worshipped the God of heaven, the God they knew; so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia and lodged there for many days.
Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they lived and to go into the land of Canaan; there they lived and were increased with gold and silver and with very much cattle.
Then the people fell down and worshipped God, and cried to God saying,
"O Lord God of heaven, behold their pride and pity the low estate of our nation and look upon the face of those who are sanctified for you this day."
"And who are you, Achior and the hired hands of Ephraim, that you would prophesy against us as today and would say that we should not make war with the people of Israel because their God will defend them? And who is God but Nebuchadnezzar?
And Uzziah took him out of the assembly to his house and made a feast for the elders. And they called on the God of Israel all that night for help.
He will send his power and will destroy them from the face of the earth and their God will not deliver them; but we, his servants, will destroy them as if they were one man; for they are not able to withstand the power of our horses.
Then the children of Israel cried to the Lord their God, because their heart failed, for all their enemies had surrounded them and there was no way to escape out from among them.
"God be judge between us and you, for you have done us great injury in that you have not made peace with the children of Assur.
For now we have no helper, but God has sold us into their hands, so that we should be thrown down before them with thirst and great destruction.
We present as witness against you: the heaven and the earth, and our God and Lord of our fathers, who punishes us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers, so that he will not allow what we have described to happen on this day."
Then there was great weeping in the midst of the assembly, all with one consent; and they cried to the Lord God with a loud voice.
Then Uzziah said to them, "Brethren, be courageous. Let us endure yet five days, in that period of time the Lord our God may turn his mercy toward us, for he will not forsake us utterly.
And they came to her, and she said to them, "Hear me now, you governors of the inhabitants of Bethulia; for your words which you spoke before the people this day are not right, concerning this oath which you made and pronounced between God and yourselves, and your promise to deliver the city to our enemies, unless within these days the Lord turns to help you.
And now who are you to have tempted God this day, and to stand among the children of men instead of God?
For you cannot find the depth of the heart of man, neither can you perceive the things which he thinks; so then how can you search out God, who has made all these things, and know his mind or comprehend his purpose? No, my brethren, do not provoke the Lord our God to anger.
Do not bind the plans of the Lord our God; for God is not like man as if he could be threatened; neither is he like the son of man so that he would be wavering.
But we know no other God, therefore we trust that he will not despise us, nor any of our nation.
For our servitude will not be directed towards our benefit, but the Lord our God will turn it to our dishonor.
Moreover, let us give thanks to the Lord our God, who tests us, even as he did our fathers.
Then Uzziah and the princes said to her, "Go in peace, and may the Lord God go before you to take vengeance on our enemies."
And there was no one who spoke an ill word about her, for she feared God greatly.
For your power is not found in numbers, nor your might in strong men; for you are a God of the afflicted, a helper of the oppressed, an upholder of the weak, a protector of the forlorn, a savior of those who are without hope.
"I pray to you, I beg you, O God of my father and God of the inheritance of Israel, Lord of the heavens and the earth, Creator of the waters, King of every creature, hear my prayer;
and so make every nation and tribe acknowledge that you are the God of all power and might, and that there is no other who protects the people of Israel but you."
"O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom you gave a sword to take vengeance on the strangers, who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her, and uncovered the thigh to her shame, and polluted her virginity to her reproach; for you said, 'It will not be so,' and yet they did so.
and you have given their wives for a prey and their daughters to be captives and all their spoils to be divided among your dear children, who were moved with your zeal and abhorred the pollution of their blood and called upon you for aid. O God, my God, hear me also for I am a widow.
Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
For I am the LORD your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'I am the LORD your God.
"'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am the LORD your God.'"
You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am the LORD your God.
You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
"'You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
"'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
"Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy.
In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am the LORD your God.
"'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
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