and said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.

And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.

As yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in.

but if he say thus, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me: As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me.

Now therefore, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances;

And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for Jehovah hath sent me as far as Beth-el. And Elisha said, As Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el.

And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances;

and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

And I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me, as also of the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for the good work .

If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?

And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.

Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb);

Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:

Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.

Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me, As thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

My beloved is unto me as a bundle of myrrh, That lieth betwixt my breasts.

My beloved is unto me as a cluster of henna-flowers In the vineyards of En-gedi.

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah.

Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel.

For thus saith Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest: she hath uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.

Is my heritage unto me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook , as waters that fail?

But Jehovah is with me as a mighty one and a terrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly put to shame, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.

In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes.

He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it; and, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.

And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.

I am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water.

Why askest thou me? Ask them that have heard me , what I spake unto them: behold, these know the things which I said.

Wouldest thou kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?

According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.

and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief might Jesus Christ show forth all his longsuffering, for an ensample of them that should thereafter believe on him unto eternal life.

Suffer hardship with me , as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.