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“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:11
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“And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:13
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“I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:14
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“That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:15
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“I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:17
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“I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:18
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“Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.”
— Ecclesiastes 5:1
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“Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.”
— Ecclesiastes 5:2
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“When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.”
— Ecclesiastes 5:4
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“Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?”
— Ecclesiastes 5:6
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“For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.”
— Ecclesiastes 5:7
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“Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.”
— Ecclesiastes 5:18
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“Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.”
— Ecclesiastes 5:19
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“For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.”
— Ecclesiastes 5:20
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“A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.”
— Ecclesiastes 6:2
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“Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?”
— Ecclesiastes 7:13
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“In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.”
— Ecclesiastes 7:14
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“It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.”
— Ecclesiastes 7:18
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“And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.”
— Ecclesiastes 7:26
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“Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.”
— Ecclesiastes 7:29
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“I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.”
— Ecclesiastes 8:2
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“Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:”
— Ecclesiastes 8:12
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“But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.”
— Ecclesiastes 8:13
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“Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.”
— Ecclesiastes 8:15
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“Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.”
— Ecclesiastes 8:17
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“For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.”
— Ecclesiastes 9:1
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“Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.”
— Ecclesiastes 9:7
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“As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.”
— Ecclesiastes 11:5
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“Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.”
— Ecclesiastes 11:9
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“Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”
— Ecclesiastes 12:7
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“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”
— Ecclesiastes 12:13
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“For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”
— Ecclesiastes 12:14
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“Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.”
— Isaiah 1:10
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“And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”
— Isaiah 2:3
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“Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”
— Isaiah 7:11
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“And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?”
— Isaiah 7:13
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“And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?”
— Isaiah 8:19
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“And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.”
— Isaiah 8:21
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“And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.”
— Isaiah 13:19
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“Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.”
— Isaiah 17:6
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“Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:”
— Isaiah 17:10
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“And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.”
— Isaiah 21:9
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“O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.”
— Isaiah 21:10
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“And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.”
— Isaiah 21:17
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“Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea.”
— Isaiah 24:15
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“O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.”
— Isaiah 25:1
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“And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
— Isaiah 25:9
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“O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.”
— Isaiah 26:13
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“For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.”
— Isaiah 28:26
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“But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.”
— Isaiah 29:23