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You say, 'See, I have smitten Edom,' and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home; why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?"

Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.

Do not be like your fathers and your brethren, who were faithless to the LORD God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.

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

Therefore, if it seem good to the king, let search be made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by Cyrus the king for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send us his pleasure in this matter."

Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer disgrace."

And our enemies said, "They will not know or see till we come into the midst of them and kill them and stop the work."

"And thou didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and hear their cry at the Red Sea,

And when they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mor'decai's words would avail; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Yet all this does me no good, so long as I see Mor'decai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

For how can I endure to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?"

Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning;

Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light?

Such you have now become to me; you see my calamity, and are afraid.

"Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

Lo, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.

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

Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?

where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?

and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,