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Preparations for the Temple
So David gave orders to assemble the foreigners residing in Israel, and from among them he appointed stonecutters to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God.
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We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
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Solomon took a census of all the foreigners residing in Israel, after the census his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600.
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The entire assembly of Judah rejoiced, along with the priests and Levites and all who had assembled from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and also those who resided in Judah.
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Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors.
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(to whom alone the land was given when no foreigners moved among them):
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foreigners cower before me; as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.
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Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners
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deliver me; rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
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Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.
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The Lord will have compassion on Jacob; once again he will choose Israel and will settle them in their own land. Foreigners will join them and unite with the descendants of Jacob.
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You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigners’ stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
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and like the heat of the desert. You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.
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And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant—
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“Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Though in anger I struck you, in favor I will show you compassion.
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Strangers will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
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The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled;
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And when the people ask, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?’ you will tell them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.’
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“‘In that day,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them.
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A sword against her horses and chariots and all the foreigners in her ranks! They will become weaklings. A sword against her treasures! They will be plundered.
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I will send foreigners to Babylon to winnow her and to devastate her land; they will oppose her on every side in the day of her disaster.
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“We are disgraced, for we have been insulted and shame covers our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the Lord’s house.”
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Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
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I will give their wealth as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile it.
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I will drive you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners and inflict punishment on you.
