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NUMB. Xxiv. 5.

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

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So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might!

LAM. i. 1.

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

LAM. iv. 1.

How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

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LAM. ii. 1.

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

JER. ix. 1, 2.

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them!

Ps. lv. 6.

Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest !

Ps. civ. 24.

O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in

wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth

is full of thy riches!

Ps. cxx. 5.

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar !

ROM. vii. 24.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death!

Ps. cxxxix. 17, 18.

How precious are thy thoughts unto me! O God! how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand!

Ps. cxix. 103.

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

2 SAM. xviii. 33.

And the king was much moved, and went

up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son !

MATT. xi. 21.

Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

MATT. xviii. 7.

Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

Ps. cvii. 15.

Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

2 CHRON. vi. 18.

But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

ROM. xi. 33.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

Ps. liii. 6.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!

1 JOHN iii. 1.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God! therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not!

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