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These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down— he who accuses them day and night before our God.
And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”
And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
And I am John, who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.
And according to the several dignities of the fathers, before the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses: and thus did they in the morning.
And set them before all the people: and afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests their brethren, the sons of Aaron.
And the works or Josias were upright before his Lord with an heart full of godliness.
These things are written in the book of the stories of the kings of Judah, and every one of the acts that Josias did, and his glory, and his understanding in the law of the Lord, and the things that he had done before, and the things now recited, are reported in the book of the kings of Israel and Judea.
Five and twenty years old was Joacim when he was made king in the land of Judea and Jerusalem; and he did evil before the Lord.
And reigned but three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and did evil before the Lord.
And sat him down in the royal seat of judgment; and the writings were read before them.
And that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both of gold and silver, that Nabuchodonosor took out of the house at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, should be restored to the house at Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were before.
And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, making merry before the Lord,
And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given thee for the use of the temple of thy God, which is in Jerusalem, thou shalt set before thy God in Jerusalem.
And there I vowed a fast unto the young men before our Lord, to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and them that were with us, for our children, and for the cattle:
I said, O Lord, I am confounded and ashamed before thy face;
Behold, now are we before thee in our iniquities, for we cannot stand any longer by reason of these things before thee.
Then took Esdras the book of the law before the multitude: for he sat honourably in the first place in the sight of them all.
All the nations have I destroyed before them, and in the east I have scattered the people of two provinces, even of Tyrus and Sidon, and have slain all their enemies.
I divided among you a fruitful land, I cast out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall I yet do more for you? saith the Lord.
And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have despised my commandment, and done the thing that is an evil before me.
And gavest a body unto Adam without soul, which was the workmanship of thine hands, and didst breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before thee.
And thou leadest him into paradise, which thy right hand had planted, before ever the earth came forward.
And every people walked after their own will, and did wonderful things before thee, and despised thy commandments.
Now when they lived so wickedly before thee, thou didst choose thee a man from among them, whose name was Abraham.
And said, Come, let us go and make war against the sea that it may depart away before us, and that we may make us more woods.
So I stood, and saw, and, behold, an hot burning oven passed by before me: and it happened that when the flame was gone by I looked, and, behold, the smoke remained still.
And I said, Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?
And I asked, and said, Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draweth now nigh unto age.
Say unto her, Wherefore are unto they whom thou hast now brought forth like those that were before, but less of stature?
Consider thou therefore also, how that ye are less of stature than those that were before you.
And he said unto me, In the beginning, when the earth was made, before the borders of the world stood, or ever the winds blew,
Before the fair flowers were seen, or ever the moveable powers were established, before the innumerable multitude of angels were gathered together,
And when he talked with me, behold, I looked by little and little upon him before whom I stood.
For thy voice is heard before the most High: for the Mighty hath seen thy righteous dealing, he hath seen also thy chastity, which thou hast had ever since thy youth.
And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again, and I began to speak before the most High.
Upon the sixth day thou gavest commandment unto the earth, that before thee it should bring forth beasts, cattle, and creeping things:
All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou madest the world for our sakes
If this city now were given unto a man for an inheritance, if he never shall pass the danger set before it, how shall he receive this inheritance?
For there be many that perish in this life, because they despise the law of God that is set before them.
O Lord, if thou suffer not thy servant, that we may pray before thee, and thou give us seed unto our heart, and culture to our understanding, that there may come fruit of it; how shall each man live that is corrupt, who beareth the place of a man?
Therefore will I begin to pray before thee for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land.
Therefore hear my voice, and understand my words, and I shall speak before thee. This is the beginning of the words of Esdras, before he was taken up: and I said,
Whose throne is inestimable; whose glory may not be comprehended; before whom the hosts of angels stand with trembling,
Think not upon those that have walked feignedly before thee: but remember them, which according to thy will have known thy fear.
For indeed I will not think on the disposition of them which have sinned before death, before judgment, before destruction:
In this also thou art marvellous before the most High:
He answered me then, and said, Measure thou the time diligently in itself: and when thou seest part of the signs past, which I have told thee before,
Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things from the days that were before thee, even from the beginning.
I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be many more of them which perish, than of them which shall be saved:
After seven days I sat upon the grass, and my heart was vexed within me, like as before:
And I opened my mouth, and began to talk before the most High, and said,
Hear thou that hast borne rule over the earth so long: this I say unto thee, before thou beginnest to appear no more,
Then arose the third, and reigned as the other before, and appeared no more also.
Then I head a voice, which said unto me, Look before thee, and consider the thing that thou seest.
And I said, Lord that bearest rule, if I have found grace before thy sight, and if I am justified with thee before many others, and if my prayer indeed be come up before thy face;
Behold, the days will come, that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it.
And of those that dwell therein, with much oppression, above all those that were before them: therefore are they called the heads of the eagle.
For he shall set them before him alive in judgment, and shall rebuke them, and correct them.
And the time shall be when these things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I shewed thee before, and then shall my Son be declared, whom thou sawest as a man ascending.
Then answered I before thee, and said,
But if I have found grace before thee, send the Holy Ghost into me, and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since the beginning, which were written in thy law, that men may find thy path, and that they which will live in the latter days may live.
But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the land thereof.
The earth quaketh, and the foundations thereof; the sea ariseth up with waves from the deep, and the waves of it are troubled, and the fishes thereof also, before the Lord, and before the glory of his power:
And when your sins are brought forth, ye shall be ashamed before men, and your own sins shall be your accusers in that day.
What will ye do? or how will ye hide your sins before God and his angels?
And the most High gave me grace and favour before Enemessar, so that I was his purveyor.
And there passed not five and fifty days, before two of his sons killed him, and they fled into the mountains of Ararath; and Sarchedonus his son reigned in his stead; who appointed over his father’s accounts, and over all his affairs, Achiacharus my brother Anael’s son.
Then before I had tasted of any meat, I started up, and took him up into a room until the going down of the sun.
And now thy judgments are many and true: deal with me according to my sins and my fathers’: because we have not kept thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee.
So the prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of the great God.
And said with himself, I have wished for death; wherefore do I not call for my son Tobias that I may signify to him of the money before I die?
And he said unto him, Touching the heart and the liver, if a devil or an evil spirit trouble any, we must make a smoke thereof before the man or the woman, and the party shall be no more vexed.
And now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest if I go in unto her, I die, as the other before: for a wicked spirit loveth her, which hurteth no body, but those which come unto her; wherefore I also fear lest I die, and bring my father’s and my mother’s life because of me to the grave with sorrow: for they have no other son to bury them.