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My heart is established in the Lord, my horn is exalted in my God; my mouth is enlarged over my enemies, I have rejoiced in thy salvation.
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For there is none holy as the Lord, and there is none righteous as our God; there is none holy besides thee.
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Boast not, and utter not high things; let not high-sounding words come out of your mouth, for the Lord a God of knowledge, and God prepares his own designs.
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The bow of the mighty has waxed feeble, and the weak have girded themselves with strength.
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They that were full of bread are brought low; and the hungry have forsaken the land; for the barren has born seven, and she that abounded in children has waxed feeble.
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The Lord kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and brings up.
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The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; he brings low, and lifts up.
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He lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises the needy from the dunghill; to seat him with the princes of the people, and causing them to inherit the throne of glory:
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granting his petition to him that prays; and he blesses the years of the righteous, for by strength cannot man prevail.
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The Lord will weaken his adversary; the Lord holy. Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth; but let him that boasts boast in this, to understand and know the Lord, and to execute judgment and justice in the midst of the earth. The Lord has gone up to the heavens, and has thundered: he will judge the extremities of the earth, and he gives strength to our kings, and will exalt the horn of his Christ. And she left him there before the Lord,
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and departed to Armathaim: and the child ministered in the presence of the Lord before Heli the priest.
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And the sons of Heli the priest evil sons, not knowing the Lord.
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And the priest's claim from every one of the people that sacrificed the servant of the priest came when the flesh was in seething, and a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand.
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And he struck it into the great caldron, or into the brazen vessel, or into the pot, and whatever came up with the flesh-hook, the priest took for himself: so they did to all Israel that came to sacrifice to the Lord in Selom.
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And before the fat was burnt for a sweet savour, the servant of the priest would come, and say to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, and I will by no means take of thee sodden flesh out of the caldron.
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And the man that sacrificed said, First let the fat be burned, as it is fit, and take for thyself of all things which thy soul desires: then he would say, Nay, for thou shalt give it me now; and if not I will take it by force.
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So the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for they set at nought the offering of the Lord.
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And Samuel ministered before the Lord, a child girt with a linen ephod.