Therefore pride is (A)their necklace;
    violence covers them as (B)a garment.

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18 He (A)clothed himself with cursing as his coat;
    may it (B)soak[a] into his body like water,
    like oil into his bones!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 109:18 Revocalization; Masoretic Text it has soaked

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. (A)Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for (B)“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

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30 and the king answered and said, (A)“Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by (B)my mighty power as a royal residence and for (C)the glory of my majesty?”

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for they are (A)a graceful garland for your head
    and (B)pendants for your neck.

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26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels[a] of gold, besides (A)the crescent ornaments and (B)the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 8:26 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

Behold, (A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (B)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (C)the Lord of hosts. (D)You have lived on the earth in luxury and (E)in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in (F)a day of slaughter. You have condemned and (G)murdered (H)the righteous person. He does not resist you.

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Thus says the Lord concerning (A)the prophets
    who lead my people astray,
(B)who cry “Peace”
    when they have something to eat,
but declare war against him
    who puts nothing into their mouths.

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Woe to the Oppressors

(A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and work evil (B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in the power of their hand.
They covet fields and (C)seize them,
    and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
    a man and his inheritance.

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(A)“Son of man, say to (B)the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God:

(C)“Because your heart is proud,
    and (D)you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods,
    in the heart of the seas,’
yet (E)you are but a man, and no god,
    (F)though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
(G)you are indeed wiser (H)than (I)Daniel;
    no secret is hidden from you;
by your wisdom and your understanding
    (J)you have made wealth for yourself,
and have gathered gold and silver
    into your treasuries;
by your great wisdom in your trade
    you have increased your wealth,
    and (K)your heart has become proud in your wealth—

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11 (A)And I adorned you with ornaments and (B)put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.

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29 (A)We have heard of the pride of Moab—
    he is very proud—
of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance,
    and the haughtiness of his heart.

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11 “Moab has been at ease from his youth
    and has (A)settled on his dregs;
he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
    nor has he gone into exile;
so his taste remains in him,
    and his scent is not changed.

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19 the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves;

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11 Because (A)the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, (B)the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.

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17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
    (A)and drink the wine of violence.

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31 (A)Do not envy (B)a man of violence
    and do not choose any of his ways,

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29 May my accusers be (A)clothed with dishonor;
    may they (B)be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak!

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(A)Why do the wicked live,
    reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
Their (B)offspring are established in their presence,
    and their descendants before their eyes.
Their houses are (C)safe from fear,
    and (D)no rod of God is upon them.
10 Their bull breeds without fail;
    their cow calves and (E)does not miscarry.
11 They send out their (F)little boys like a flock,
    and their children dance.
12 They sing to (G)the tambourine and (H)the lyre
    and rejoice to the sound of (I)the pipe.
13 They (J)spend their days in prosperity,
    and in (K)peace they go down to (L)Sheol.
14 They say to God, (M)‘Depart from us!
    We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
15 (N)What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    And what (O)profit do we get if we pray to him?’

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Haman Plans to Hang Mordecai

And Haman went out that day (A)joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai (B)in the king's gate, (C)that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. 10 Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and (D)his wife Zeresh. 11 And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, (E)the number of his sons, all the promotions with which (F)the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.

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