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Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.

And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:

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.

And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.

For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?

And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.

And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.

He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.

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

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.

And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.