Lenten Lectionary Á-? The Third Week of Great Lent - Page of 22
pursue birds in their flight: for he has forsaken the ways of
his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own
husbandry to go astray; and he goes through a dry desert,
and a land appointed to drought, and he gathers
barrenness with his hands.
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A foolish and bold woman,
who knows not modesty, comes to want a morsel.
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She
sits at the doors of her house, on a seat openly in the
streets,
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calling to passers by, and to those that are
going right on their ways;
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saying, Who so is most
senseless of you, let him turn aside to me; and I exhort
those that want prudence, saying,
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Take and enjoy secret
bread, and the sweet water of theft.
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But he knows that
mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of hell.
But hasten away, delay not in the place, neither fix thine
eye upon her: for thus shalt thou go through strange
water; but do thou abstain from strange water, and drink
not of a strange fountain, that thou mayest live long, and
years of life may be added to thee.