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see how they are rewarding us by coming to drive us out from Your possession which You have given us as an inheritance.

'You need not fight in this battle; station yourselves, stand and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.' Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out to face them, for the LORD is with you."

So he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which his father Jehoiada had shown him, but he murdered his son. And as he died he said, "May the LORD see and avenge!"

"Therefore the wrath of the LORD was against Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, of horror, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.

"Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the LORD God of their fathers, so that He made them a horror, as you see.

"Behold, I will gather you to your fathers and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, so your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants."'" And they brought back word to the king.

"Now because we are in the service of the palace, and it is not fitting for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore we have sent and informed the king,

Then I said to them, "You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach."

Our enemies said, "They will not know or see until we come among them, kill them and put a stop to the work."

Now it was when they had spoken daily to him and he would not listen to them, that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai's reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

"Yet all of this does not satisfy me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

"For how can I endure to see the calamity which will befall my people, and how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?"

"Now you write to the Jews as you see fit, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's signet ring; for a decree which is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's signet ring may not be revoked."

"Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it wait for light but have none, And let it not see the breaking dawn;

"Indeed, you have now become such, You see a terror and are afraid.

"Now please look at me, And see if I lie to your face.

"Remember that my life is but breath; My eye will not again see good.

"Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; Were He to move past me, I would not perceive Him.

"Now my days are swifter than a runner; They flee away, they see no good.