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- Ecclesiastes 8:3
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Do not hasten to leave his presence, and do not persist in a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:4
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For the king’s word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
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- Ecclesiastes 8:7
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Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
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- Ecclesiastes 8:9
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All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:10
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Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:11
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When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:12
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Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:13
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Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:14
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There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:15
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So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
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- Ecclesiastes 8:16
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When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—
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- Ecclesiastes 8:17
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I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:1
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So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:2
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It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:3
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This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:4
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There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:6
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Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:9
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Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:10
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Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
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- Ecclesiastes 10:14
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Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
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- Ecclesiastes 10:15
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The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
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- Ecclesiastes 11:5
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As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
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- Ecclesiastes 12:1
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Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
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- Ecclesiastes 12:2
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before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
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- Ecclesiastes 12:6
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Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,
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- Ecclesiastes 12:7
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before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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- Song of Solomon 1:1
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This is Solomon’s Song of Songs.
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- Isaiah 1:1
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This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
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- Isaiah 1:29
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Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.
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- Isaiah 1:30
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For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.
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- Isaiah 2:1
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This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
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- Isaiah 2:8
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Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
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- Isaiah 2:20
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In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
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- Isaiah 2:22
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Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
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- Isaiah 5:5
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Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
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- Isaiah 5:28
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Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.
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- Isaiah 6:11
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Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,
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- Isaiah 6:13
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And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
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- Isaiah 7:16
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For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
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- Isaiah 7:17
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The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”
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- Isaiah 7:18
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On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
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- Isaiah 7:23
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And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
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- Isaiah 7:25
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For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
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- Isaiah 8:12
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“Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.
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- Isaiah 8:18
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Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
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- Isaiah 8:20
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To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
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- Isaiah 9:1
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Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
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Source alternate reference: 8.23
- Isaiah 9:3
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You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.
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Source alternate reference: 9.2
- Isaiah 10:10
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As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
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- Isaiah 10:11
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and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”
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