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If my head is exalted, You hunt me like a fierce lion, And again You show Yourself awesome against me.
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote mountains of Ephraim. He took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
And it shall come to pass That from one New Moon to another, And from one Sabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worship before Me," says the LORD.
" Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see If there is any sorrow like my sorrow, Which has been brought on me, Which the LORD has inflicted In the day of His fierce anger.
"Even those from afar shall come and build the temple of the LORD. Then you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you. And this shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God."
'Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, "Please let me pass through your land." But the king of Edom would not heed. And in like manner they sent to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained in Kadesh.
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on,
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
"Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth; Yet they have not prevailed against me.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
Make me hear joy and gladness, That the bones You have broken may rejoice.
"For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.
Did I ever say, 'Bring something to me'? Or, 'Offer a bribe for me from your wealth'?
If I sin, then You mark me, And will not acquit me of my iniquity.
Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
"MANY a time they have afflicted me from my youth," Let Israel now say -
He also taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words; Keep my commands, and live.
So the children of Israel said to him, "We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more."
"Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into fields or vineyards; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the King's Highway until we have passed through your territory."