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lan-guish

(langgwish)v. intr. lan-guished, lan-guish-ing, lan-guish-es. 1. To be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor. 2. To exist or continue in miserable or disheartening conditions. 3. To remain unattended or be neglected: legislation that continued to languish in committee. 4. To become downcast; pine: languish for home and family. 5. To affect a wistful or languid air, especially in order to gain sympathy.[Middle English languishen, from Old French languir, languiss-, from Latin languere, to be languid. See sleg-.]--lan'guish-er n. --lan'guish-ing-ly adv. --lan'guish-ment n.

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in the image

of

God

created he

him;

male

and

female

created

he

them.

**

Unto Shem also,

the father of all the children of Eber,

the brother of Japheth

the elder,

*

And the Lord God

took the man,

and

put him into the garden of Eden to dress it

and to keep it.

***

even to him were children born.

The

children

of

Shem;

Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

  And the children of Aram;

Uz,

and Hul,

and Gether,

and Mash.

**

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job;

and that man was perfect

and upright,

and one that feared God,

and eschewed evil.

***

These names sings Africa

*

And Arphaxad begat Salah;

and Salah begat Eber.

And unto Eber were born two sons:

the name of one was Peleg;

for in his days was the earth divided;

and his brother's name was Joktan.

And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

And Obal, and Abimael,

and Sheba,

And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

And their dwelling was from Mesha,

as thou

goest unto Sephar

a mount

of

the east.

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

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And God saw

every thing

that he had made,

and,

behold,

it was very good.

And the evening

and the morning

were the sixth day.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,

and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day

God ended

*

So God

created

man

in

his

own image,

*

his work

*

in

the image

of

God

Created

he

him;

*

male and female

created he them.

**

which he had made;

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And Adam knew Eve his wife; and

she conceived,

and bare Cain,

and said,

I

have gotten a man

from the

Lord.

***

But

with thee will

I

establish my covenant;

and thou shalt come into the ark, thou,

and thy sons,

and thy wife,

and thy sons' wives with thee.

**

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life

***

And of every living thing

of all flesh,

two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark,

to keep them alive with thee;

they

shall be male and female.

Of fowls after their kind,

and of cattle after their kind,

of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind,

two of every sort shall come unto thee,

to keep them alive.

**

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,

and all the host of them.

***

And it shall be,

as with the people,

so with the priest;

as with the servant,

so with his master;

as with the maid,

so with her mistress;

as with the buyer,

so with the seller;

as with the lender,

so with the borrower;

as with the taker of usury,

so with the giver of usury to him.

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

The earth mourneth

and fadeth away,

the

world

languisheth

and fadeth away,

the haughty people of the earth do languish.

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;

because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

**

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

And

he

sent

forth a raven, which went forth to and fro,

***

Now there was a day when the sons of God

came to present themselves before the Lord,

and Satan came also among them.

And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou?

*

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

**

Then Satan answered the Lord,

and said,

From going to

and fro in the earth,

and from walking up

and down in it.

**

Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

For

I

know him,

that he will command his children and his household after him,

and they shall keep the way of the Lord,

to do justice

and judgment;

that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

***

After this opened Job

His mouth,

and cursed his day.

*

And he said,

Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

**

Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate:

therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

**

And it shall come to pass,

that he

that is

left in Zion,

*

Is not this it in which my lord drinketh,

and whereby indeed he divineth?

ye have done evil in so doing.

**

and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:

When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,

and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment,

and by the spirit of burning.

***

The new wine mourneth,

the vine languisheth,

all the merryhearted do sigh.

The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth,

the joy

of

the harp ceaseth.

**

Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly,

and steal away from me;

and didst not tell me,

that

I

might have sent thee away with mirth,

and with songs, with tabret,

and with harp?

And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons

and my daughters?

thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt:

but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight,

saying,

Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone,

because thou sore longedst after thy father's house,

yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

***

They shall not drink wine with a song; 

strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

The city of confusion

is broken down:

every house is shut up,

that no man may come in.

There is a crying for wine in the streets;

all joy is darkened,

the mirth of the land is gone.

In the city is left desolation,

and the gate is smitten with destruction.

When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people,

there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree,

and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

**

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

And

he

sent

forth a raven, which went forth to and fro,

***

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord,

and Satan came also among them.

And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou?

*

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

**

Then Satan answered the Lord,

and said,

From going to

and fro in the earth,

and from walking up

and down in it.

**

For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth,

and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

And I will punish the world for their evil,

and the wicked for their inequity;

and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,

and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

***

    And the Lord said unto Satan,

Hast thou considered

my

servant

Job,

**

but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

**

that there is none like him in the earth,

a perfect

and an upright man,

one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

***

And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword,

and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof:

thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian,

when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest,

as a young lion among the flocks of sheep:

who,

if he go through,

both treadeth down,

and teareth in pieces,

and none can deliver.

Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

**

  And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, . . .and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

Lamech, hearken unto my speech:

**

that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

Also he sent forth a dove from him,

to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot,

and she returned unto him into the ark,

for the waters were on the face of the whole earth:

then he put forth his hand, and took her,

and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

***

For God, said she,

hath appointed me another seed

instead

of Abel,

whom

Cain slew.

**

Therefore hear now this,

thou afflicted,

and drunken,

but not with wine:

Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold,

I

have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury;

thou shalt no more drink it again:

***

And

that son

that is

priest in his stead shall put them on seven days,

**

And

I

will

turn my hand upon thee,

and purely purge away thy dross,

and take away all thy tin:

And I will restore thy judges as at the first,

and thy counsellors as at the beginning:

afterward thou shalt be called,

The city of righteousness,

the faithful city.

***

by

the door

of

the tabernacle

of

the congregation.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth

when

they

were created,

***

And

they

shall be upon

Aaron,

and

upon his sons,

when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation,

or

when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place;

that they

bear not inequity,

and die:

it

shall be a statute

for ever

unto

him

and his

seed

after him.

And

this is

the thing

that thou

shalt do unto

them to hallow them,

to

minister unto

me

in the

priest's office:

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