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But he sent envoys to him, saying, "What have we to do with each other, king of Judah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war. And God has commanded me to hurry. Cease opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you."

And the archers shot King Josiah. And the king said to his servants, "Take me away, for I am badly wounded."

saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

And I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?"

Then Haman said, "Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.

And she said, "If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.

I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes."

so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.

Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.

Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.

although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?

If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.'

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.