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And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name"s sake.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king"s house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.

Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.

Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD"s people.