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He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.

And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.

Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.