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For
before the days of the marriage were finished, Raguel had said unto him by an oath, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the marriage were
expired;
And he said to his daughter, Honour thy father and thy mother in law, which are now thy parents, that I may hear good report of thee. And he
kissed her. Edna also said to Tobias, The Lord of heaven restore thee, my
dear brother, and grant that I may see thy children of my daughter Sara
before I die, that I may
rejoice before the Lord: behold, I commit my daughter unto thee of special trust; where are do not
entreat her evil.
Let us
haste before thy wife, and prepare the house.
But Tobias gave
thanks before them, because God had mercy on him. And when he came near to Sara his daughter in law, he blessed her, saying, Thou art
welcome, daughter: God be blessed, which hath brought thee unto us, and blessed be thy father and thy mother. And there was joy among all his brethren which were at Nineve.
Now therefore, when thou
didst pray, and Sara thy daughter in law, I did bring the
remembrance of your prayers
before the Holy One: and when thou
didst bury the dead, I was with thee likewise.
I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.
Confess him
before the Gentiles, ye children of Israel: for he hath scattered us among them.
There declare his greatness, and
extol him
before all the living: for he is our Lord, and he is the God our Father for ever.
If ye turn to him with your whole heart, and with your whole mind, and deal uprightly
before him, then will he turn unto you, and will not hide his face from you. Therefore see what he will do with you, and
confess him with your whole mouth, and praise the Lord of might, and
extol the
everlasting King. In the land of my captivity do I praise him, and declare his might and majesty to a sinful nation. O ye sinners, turn and do justice
before him: who can tell if he will accept you, and have mercy on you?
But
before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineve, which was taken by Nabuchodonosor and Assuerus: and
before his death he
rejoiced over Nineve.
But all the inhabitants of the land made light of the commandment of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, neither went they with him to the battle; for they were not afraid of him:
yea, he was
before them as one man, and they sent away his ambassadors from them without effect, and with disgrace.
Thou therefore shalt go forth. and take
beforehand for me all their coasts: and if they will yield themselves unto thee, thou shalt reserve them for me till the day of their punishment.
Then he went forth and all his power to go
before king Nabuchodonosor in the voyage, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their
chariots, and
horsemen, and their chosen
footmen.
Behold, we the servants of Nabuchodonosor the great king lie before thee; use us as shall be good in thy sight.
Behold, our houses, and all our places, and all our fields of wheat, and flocks, and herds, and all the lodges of our tents lie before thy face; use them as it pleaseth thee.
And possessed themselves
beforehand of all the tops of the high mountains, and fortified the villages that were in them, and laid up
victuals for the provision of war: for their fields were of late
reaped.
Thus every man and women, and the little children, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, fell
before the temple, and cast ashes upon their heads, and spread out their
sackcloth before the face of the Lord: also they put
sackcloth about the altar,
So God heard their prayers, and looked upon their afflictions: for the people fasted many days in all
Judea and Jerusalem
before the sanctuary of the Lord
Almighty.
And Joacim the high priest, and all the priests that stood
before the Lord, and they which ministered unto the Lord, had their loins
girt with
sackcloth, and offered the daily burnt offerings, with the vows and free gifts of the people,
And God dried the Red sea before them,
And they cast forth before them the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, the Jebusite, and the Sychemite, and all the Gergesites, and they dwelt in that country many days.
And whilst they
sinned not
before their God, they
prospered, because the God that hateth iniquity was with them.
But if there be no iniquity in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we become a reproach before all the world.
And when the
tumult of men that were about the council was ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Assur said unto Achior and all the Moabites
before all the company of other nations,
For with them we will
tread them under foot, and their mountains shall be
drunken with their blood, and their fields shall be filled with their dead bodies, and their footsteps shall not be able to stand
before us, for they shall utterly perish, saith king Nabuchodonosor, lord of all the earth: for he said, None of my words shall be in vain.
So they and their wives and their children shall be consumed with fire, and before the sword come against them, they shall be overthrown in the streets where they dwell.
Then all the people assembled to Ozias, and to the chief of the city, both young men, and women, and children, and
cried with a loud voice, and said
before all the elders,
For now we have no helper: but God hath sold us into their hands, that we should be thrown down
before them with
thirst and great destruction.
For it is better for us to be made a
spoil unto them, than to die for
thirst: for we will be his servants, that our souls may live, and not see the death of our infants
before our eyes, nor our wives nor our children to die.
And they came unto her, and she said unto them, Hear me now, O ye governors of the inhabitants of Bethulia: for your words that ye have spoken before the people this day are not right, touching this oath which ye made and pronounced between God and you, and have promised to deliver the city to our enemies, unless within these days the Lord turn to help you.
For if he will not help us within these five days, he hath power to defend us when he will, even every day, or to destroy us before our enemies.
For the which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for a
spoil, and had a great fall
before our enemies.
Then said Ozias and the princes unto her, Go in peace, and the Lord God be
before thee, to take
vengeance on our enemies.
For thou hast wrought not only those things, but also the things which fell out
before, and which
ensued after; thou hast thought upon the things which are now, and which are to come.
And I am coming
before Holofernes the chief captain of your army, to declare words of truth; and I will
shew him a way, whereby he shall go, and
win all the hill country, without losing the body or life of any one of his men.
And when thou standest
before him, be not afraid in thine heart, but
shew unto him according to thy word; and he will
entreat thee well.
So they shewed him of her; and he came out before his tent with silver lamps going before him.
And when
Judith was come
before him and his servants they all
marvelled at the beauty of her countenance; and she fell down upon her face, and did reverence unto him: and his servants took her up.
And are resolved to
spend the firstfruits of the tenths of wine and oil, which they had
sanctified, and reserved for the priests that serve in Jerusalem
before the face of our God; the which things it is not lawful for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands.
And I will lead thee through the midst of
Judea, until thou come
before Jerusalem; and I will set thy throne in the midst thereof; and thou shalt drive them as sheep that have no
shepherd, and a dog shall not so much as open his mouth at thee: for these things were told me according to my
foreknowledge, and they were declared unto me, and I am sent to tell thee.
Likewise Holofernes said unto her. God hath done well to send thee before the people, that strength might be in our hands and destruction upon them that lightly regard my lord.
Then said
Judith unto him As thy soul liveth, my lord, thine
handmaid shall not
spend those things that I have,
before the Lord work by mine hand the things that he hath determined.
Then she took and
ate and
drank before him what her
maid had prepared.
And God turn these things to thee for a perpetual praise, to visit thee in good things because thou hast not
spared thy life for the
affliction of our nation, but hast
revenged our ruin, walking a straight way
before our God. And all the people said; So be it, so be it.
Then they shall take their armour, and shall go into their camp, and raise up the captains of the army of Assur, and shall run to the tent of Holofernes, but shall not find him: then fear shall fall upon them, and they shall
flee before your face.
But
before ye do these things, call me Achior the
Ammonite, that he may see and know him that
despised the house of Israel, and that sent him to us as it were to his death.
And they put a
garland of olive upon her and her
maid that was with her, and she went
before all the people in the dance, leading all the women: and all the men of Israel followed in their armour with garlands, and with songs in their mouths.
So the people continued feasting in Jerusalem
before the sanctuary for the space of three months and
Judith remained with them.
And the house of Israel
lamented her seven days: and
before she died, she did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred to Manasses her husband, and to them that were the nearest of her kindred.
And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judgment, before God among all nations.
Therefore those days shall be unto them in the month
Adar, the
fourteenth and
fifteenth day of the same month, with an assembly, and joy, and with
gladness before God, according to the generations for ever among his people.
All Israel in like manner
cried most earnestly unto the Lord, because their death was
before their eyes.
And now we have
sinned before thee: therefore hast thou given us into the hands of our enemies,
Give me
eloquent speech in my mouth
before the lion: turn his heart to
hate him that fighteth against us, that there may be an end of him, and of all that are likeminded to him:
Then having passed through all the doors, she stood
before the king, who sat upon his royal throne, and was clothed with all his robes of majesty, all
glittering with gold and precious stones; and he was very
dreadful.
Then lifting up his countenance that
shone with majesty, he looked very fiercely upon her: and the queen fell down, and was pale, and
fainted, and bowed herself upon the head of the
maid that went
before her.
Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds,
before they be
withered:
Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness
before the face of such as have
afflicted him, and made no account of his labours.
I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
Neither compared I unto her any precious stone, because all gold in respect of her is as a little sand, and silver shall be counted as clay before her.
And I
rejoiced in them all, because wisdom goeth
before them: and I knew not that she was the mother of them.
For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it.
And hardly do we
guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are
before us: but the things that are in heaven who hath searched out?
For whom they respected with
scorn, when he was long
before thrown out at the casting forth of the infants, him in the end, when they saw what came to pass, they
admired.
For the whole world
before thee is as a little grain of the balance,
yea, as a drop of the morning
dew that falleth down upon the earth.
For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were punished, that is, for them whom they thought to be gods; now being punished in them, when they saw it, they acknowledged him to be the true God, whom
before they denied to know: and therefore came extreme
damnation upon them.
And so the multitude,
allured by the grace of the work, took him now for a god, which a little
before was but honoured.
And employing his labours
lewdly, he maketh a vain god of the same clay, even he which a little
before was made of earth himself, and within a little while after returneth to the same, out when his life which was lent him shall be demanded.
But for that they did not
hurt them now, of whom they had been wronged
before, they
thanked them, and
besought them
pardon for that they had been enemies.
As for the ungodly, wrath came upon them without mercy unto the end: for he knew before what they would do;
As namely, a cloud shadowing the camp; and where water stood
before, dry land appeared; and out of the Red sea a way without
impediment; and out of the violent stream a green field:
For earthly things were turned into
watery, and the things, that
before swam in the water, now went upon the ground.
Wisdom hath been created
before all things, and the understanding of
prudence from
everlasting.
The greater thou art, the more humble
thyself, and thou shalt find favour
before the Lord.
Do no secret thing before a stranger; for thou knowest not what he will bring forth.
Pride is
hateful before God and man: and by both
doth one commit iniquity.
The fear of the Lord goeth before the obtaining of authority: but roughness and pride is the losing thereof.
Blame not
before thou hast examined the truth: understand first, and then
rebuke.
Answer not
before thou hast heard the cause: neither
interrupt men in the midst of their talk.
Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be known in his children.
Do good unto thy friend before thou die, and according to thy ability stretch out thy hand and give to him.
He hath set fire and water
before thee: stretch forth thy hand unto whether thou
wilt.
Before man is life and death; and whether him liketh shall be given him.
Their ways are ever
before him, and shall not be
hid from his eyes.
Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.
None of their unrighteous deeds are
hid from him, but all their sins are
before the Lord
Return unto the Lord, and
forsake thy sins, make thy prayer
before his face, and
offend less.
Learn before thou speak, and use physick or ever thou be sick.
Before thou prayest, prepare
thyself; and be not as one that tempteth the Lord.
From the morning until the evening the time is changed, and all things are soon done before the Lord.
Admonish thy neighbour
before thou
threaten him; and not being
angry, give place to the law of the most High.
Casting down his countenance, and making as if he heard not: where he is not known, he will do thee a mischief before thou be aware.
As the vapour and smoke of a furnace goeth
before the fire; so
reviling before blood.
Who shall set a watch before my mouth, and a seal of wisdom upon my lips, that I fall not suddenly by them, and that my tongue destroy me not?
Lest mine ignorances increase, and my sins abound to my destruction, and I fall
before mine
adversaries, and mine enemy
rejoice over me, whose hope is far from thy mercy.
Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not
forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a
fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and
curse they day of thy
nativity.
In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power.