# t_kjv

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Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.


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His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.


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The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.


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He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.


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Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.


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And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.


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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.


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He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.


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For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.


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I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.


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And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.


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He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.


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They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.


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I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.


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His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.


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Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.


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The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.


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He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?


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His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.


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It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.


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Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.


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Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.


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He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.


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He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.


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That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.


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Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;


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In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.


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When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.


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It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.


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All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.


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What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?


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How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.


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For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?


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That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.


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The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.


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Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?


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If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.


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Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.


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When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.


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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:


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


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Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.


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Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.


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They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.


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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.


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In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.


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For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.


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He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.


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The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.


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They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.


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How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?


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Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?


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My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.


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This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.


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If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.


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He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.


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The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.


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The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.


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And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.


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The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.


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I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.


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But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.


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For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.


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Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.


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They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.


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Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.


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By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.


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If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;


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(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)


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This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.


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Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?


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Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.


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If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:


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Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.


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When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.


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And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.


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Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:


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In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;


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If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:


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Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.


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He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.


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He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;


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Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.


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How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.


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In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.


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When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:


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Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.


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For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.


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For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?


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If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?


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By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.


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Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.


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But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:


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He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.


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If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.


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Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.


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Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.


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After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.


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For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.


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And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.


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Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?


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And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.


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Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.


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That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?


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Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;


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Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.


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Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?


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Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.


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She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;


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He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.


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He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.


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Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.


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Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.


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And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.


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Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.


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So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.


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And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.


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Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.


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So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.


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And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.


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After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.


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Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.


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And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.


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Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.


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The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,


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I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.


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Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.


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Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.


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Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.


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Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.


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O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.


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But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.


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There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.


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My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.


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But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.


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Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.


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For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.


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Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.


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But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.


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If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)


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Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.


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Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.


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So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.


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The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.


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Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.


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He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.


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His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.


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I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.


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O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.


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Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.


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When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;


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Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:


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Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.


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O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.


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And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.


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And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.


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Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:


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That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.


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The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.


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The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.


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The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.


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The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.


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His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.


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He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.


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He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.


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Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.


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LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:


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For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.


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The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.


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Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.


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They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.


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For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.


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How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?


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Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.


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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.


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The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.


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They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.


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Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.


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Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.


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He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.


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In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.


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He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.


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Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.


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Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.


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Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.


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Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.


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Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.


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I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.


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Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.


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From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.


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As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.


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The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.


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In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.


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Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.


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He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.


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The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.


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Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.


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He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.


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The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.


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Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.


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With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;


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As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.


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Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.


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For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.


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Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.


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Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.


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He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.


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Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.


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Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,


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His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.


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The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.


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The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.


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The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.


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More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.


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Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.


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Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.


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We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.


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Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.


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For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.


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For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.


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Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.


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For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.


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Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.


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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?


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But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.


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I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.


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My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.


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For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.


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Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.


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For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.


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The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.


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All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.


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All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.


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They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.


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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.


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


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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.


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He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.


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Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.


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Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.


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Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.


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Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.


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Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.


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The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?


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When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.


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Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.


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One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.


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For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.


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And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.


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Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.


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Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.


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Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.


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Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.


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Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.


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Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.


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Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.


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Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.


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The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.


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The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.


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The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.


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I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.


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O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.


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For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.


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LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.


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Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;


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To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.


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Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.


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I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;


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Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.


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For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.


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I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.


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For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.


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My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.


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Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.


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Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.


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Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!


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Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.


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For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.


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O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.


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For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.


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I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.


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For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.


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Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.


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I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.


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Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.


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Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.


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Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.


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The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.


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Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.


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The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.


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The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.


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Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.


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Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.


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For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.


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Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.


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All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?


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But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.


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I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.


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But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:


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Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.


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Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.


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For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.


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Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.


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Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.


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Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.


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The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.


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He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.


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Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.


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How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.


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They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.


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O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.


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Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.


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For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.


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The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.


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But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.


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For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.


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I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.


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For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.


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Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.


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And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.


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There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.


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They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.


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For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.


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I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.


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LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.


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Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.


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Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.


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When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.


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Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.


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He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.


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And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.


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Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.


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Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.


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Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.


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I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.


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I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.


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Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.


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For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.


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Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.


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Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.


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But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.


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The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.


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The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.


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And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.


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Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.


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When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.


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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.


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O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.


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Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.


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Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.


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I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


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As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?


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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.


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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.


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For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


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O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.


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Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.


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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.


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We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.


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How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.


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For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.


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Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.


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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.


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All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.


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My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.


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Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.


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And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.


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Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.


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All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.


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Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.


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Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;


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And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.


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She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.


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I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.


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Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;


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Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.


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There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.


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He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.


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Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.


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The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.


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Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.


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Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.


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As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.


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According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.


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For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.


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Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.


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Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.


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Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.


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The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.


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Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.


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Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.


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I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.


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But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?


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These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.


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Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.


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Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.


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Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.


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Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.


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Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.


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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.


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Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.


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God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.


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Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.


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But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.


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I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.


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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.


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God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.


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Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.


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Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.


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There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.


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Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.


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For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.


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Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.


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Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.


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For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:


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Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.


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He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.


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God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.


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The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.


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Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.


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But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.


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In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.


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They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.


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For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?


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Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.


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He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.


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My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.


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They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.


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Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.


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As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.


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Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.


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The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.


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So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.


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For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.


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Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.


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Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.


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For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.


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Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.


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But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.


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O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.


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Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.


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Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.


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God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.


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Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;


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Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?


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From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.


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How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.


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They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.


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Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.


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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.


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Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.


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O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;


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My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:


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But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.


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They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?


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They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.


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And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.


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The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.


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Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.


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By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:


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They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.


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Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.


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Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.


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The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.


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Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.


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He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.


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Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.


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I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.


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O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.


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As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.


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Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.


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God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.


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O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:


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The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.


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Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.


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Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.


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Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.


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The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.


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Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.


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But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.


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The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:


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The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.


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There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.


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Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.


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To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.


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O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.


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They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.


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Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.


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For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.


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But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.


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Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.


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Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.


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Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.


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Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.


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Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.


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For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.


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For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.


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Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.


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Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.


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But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.


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Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.


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Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.


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By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.


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Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.


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My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.


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I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.


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Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.


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Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!


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Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.


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I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.


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My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.


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He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.


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The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.


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He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.


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And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.


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There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.


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His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.


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And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.


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For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.


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But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.


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O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?


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Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.


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Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.


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They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.


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They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.


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We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.


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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.


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Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.


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O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.


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Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.


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Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.


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Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.


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For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.


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The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.


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Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.


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In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.


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I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.


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The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.


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We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.


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For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:


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That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:


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And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.


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Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?


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Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;


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The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.


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But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.


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He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.


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He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;


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And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.


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He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.


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But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.


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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.


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From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.


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So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.


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O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.


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The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.


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Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.


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O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.


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Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.


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Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.


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Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;


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And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.


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So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.


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Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.


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And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.


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Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.


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This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.


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Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.


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I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.


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The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.


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He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.


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They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.


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They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.


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My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.


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Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.


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For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.


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For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.


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I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.


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For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.


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Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.


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All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.


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O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.


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But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.


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O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.


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Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.


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I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.


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And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.


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Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.


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Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.


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Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.


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I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.


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For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.


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And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.


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For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?


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God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.


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Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.


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The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.


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Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.


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Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.


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Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.


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Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.


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What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.


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Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;


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Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.


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Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.


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For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.


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Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.


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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.


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Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.


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And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.


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He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.


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A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.


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Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.


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He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.


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When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:


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For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.


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Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.


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The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.


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The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.


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He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?


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Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?


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And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.


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For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,


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Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:


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Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.


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Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.


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Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.


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The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.


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Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.


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Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.


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O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.


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The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.


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He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.


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Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.


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The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.


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The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.


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Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.


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He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.


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Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.


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Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.


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Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.


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I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.


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I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.


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Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.


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Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.


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He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.


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I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.


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Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.


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This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.


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For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;


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I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.


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They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:


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But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;


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Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.


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Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.


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Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:


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They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.


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He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;


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And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.


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O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.


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So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.


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Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.


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Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.


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He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.


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Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;


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That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.


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Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.


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He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.


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And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.


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Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.


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And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.


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Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.


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Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.


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Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.


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Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.


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And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.


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


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They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.


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Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.


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He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.


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He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.


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Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.


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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.


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Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.


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Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.


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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.


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Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.


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As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.


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As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.


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Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.


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Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.


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But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.


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Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.


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Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.


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The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.


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He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.


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Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.


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He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.


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He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.


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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.


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Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.


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Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.


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He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.


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The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.


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He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.


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Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.


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They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.


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The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.


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The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.


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O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.


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For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.


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The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.


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They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.


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They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.


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The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.


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Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.


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God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.


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My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.


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Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.


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The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.


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Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.


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Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.


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Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.


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Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.


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As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.


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For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.


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As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.


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Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.


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He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.


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Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.


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It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.


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Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.


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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.


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The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.


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Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.


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My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.


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Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.


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Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.


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Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.


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The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.


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If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.


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It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;


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As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.


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Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.


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He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.


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Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.


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For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.


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If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.


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Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.


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O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.


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I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.


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Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.


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The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.


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Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.


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I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.


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My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.


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Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.


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Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?


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Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.


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The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.


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Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.


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Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.


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Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.


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Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.


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Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.


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Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.


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When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.


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I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.


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Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.


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Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.


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Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.


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For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.


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Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.


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Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.


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Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.


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And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.


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My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.


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LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!


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Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;


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I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.


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Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:


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That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:


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That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:


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That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.


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My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.


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Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:


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The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:


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The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.


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Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.


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Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.


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He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.


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Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.


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He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD.


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A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:


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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:


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So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.


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She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,


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How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?


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Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.


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When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.


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Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:


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Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:


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For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.


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She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.


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When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.


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Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.


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He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.


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For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.


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Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.


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His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.


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Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.


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When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.


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For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:


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For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.


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But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.


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He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;


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Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.


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For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.


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The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.


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While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.


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When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:


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Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;


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He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.


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Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.


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Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,


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The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.


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The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.


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He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.


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In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.


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The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.


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The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.


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The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.


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The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.


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The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.


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An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.


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When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.


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By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.


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They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.


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Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.


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There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.


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He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.


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He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.


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He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.


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A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.


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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.


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A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.


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He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.


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He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.


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A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.


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The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.


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A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.


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He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.


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The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.


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There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.


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Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.


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A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.


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He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.


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The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.


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In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.


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He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.


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Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.


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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.


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The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.


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The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.


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Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.


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The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.


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He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.


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Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.


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How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!


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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.


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A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.


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Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.


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A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.


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He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.


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The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.


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He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.


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He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.


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Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.


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A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.


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A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.


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A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.


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Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.


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Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.


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All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.


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A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.


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He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.


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The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.


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Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.


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He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.


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The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.


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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.


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He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.


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The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.


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The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.


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When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.


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The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.


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The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.


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There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.


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A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.


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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.


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He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.


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That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?


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Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.


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Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.


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For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.


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For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.


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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.


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Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?


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Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.


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Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.


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They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.


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If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?


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So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.


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He that saith unto the wicked, Thou are righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:


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Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.


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And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.


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For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.


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Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.


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As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.


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Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.


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As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.


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It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.


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He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.


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Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.


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He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.


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Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.


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Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.


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And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.


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For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.


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Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.


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He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.


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Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.


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He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.


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The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.


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He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.


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A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.


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Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.


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He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.


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He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.


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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.


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Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.


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He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.


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An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.


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The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,


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Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?


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Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:


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Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.


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There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.


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The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:


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The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.


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The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.


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The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.


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Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.


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If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.


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Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.


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She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.


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The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.


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All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.


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All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.


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The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.


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Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.


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There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.


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And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.


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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.


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I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.


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And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.


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I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.


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I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.


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I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:


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I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.


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And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.


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Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.


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And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.


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The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.


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Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.


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For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.


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Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.


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Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.


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And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.


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For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.


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For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?


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For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.


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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.


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For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.


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A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;


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A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.


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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.


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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.


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For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.


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Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?


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Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?


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So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.


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Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.


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Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.


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There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.


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For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.


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And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.


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I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.


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There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.


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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.


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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.


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For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.


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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.


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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?


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If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.


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He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.


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When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?


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The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.


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There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.


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As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.


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And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.


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For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.


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Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?


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For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?


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Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.


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That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.


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For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?


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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.


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Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.


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Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.


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For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.


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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.


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All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.


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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.


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I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:


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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.


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Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.


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Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.


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Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.


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Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.


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Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.


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There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.


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All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.


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And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.


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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:


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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.


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There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.


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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.


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When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)


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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 farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.


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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.


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All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.


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This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.


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For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.


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For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.


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Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.


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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.


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Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.


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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.


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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.


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For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.


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There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:


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Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.


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Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.


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If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.


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Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.


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If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.


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The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.


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A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?


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Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!


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By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.


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Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.


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If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.


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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.


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In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.


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But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.


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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.


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Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.


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Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;


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While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:


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In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,


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And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;


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Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:


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Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.


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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.


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And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.


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The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.


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The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.


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And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.


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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.


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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.


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Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.


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Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.


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I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.


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Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.


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Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?


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If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.


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As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.


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I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.


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My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.


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The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;


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The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.


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O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.


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Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.


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I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.


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It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.


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Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?


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They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.


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He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.


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Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.


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Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.


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Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.


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Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.


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Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.


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Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.


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Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.


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Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.


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How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!


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Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.


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Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:


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Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.


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I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.


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I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.


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I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.


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I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.


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The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.


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I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.


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What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?


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His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.


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His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.


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His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.


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His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.


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Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.


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My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.


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Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.


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Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.


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My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.


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Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?


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I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates budded.


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Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.


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How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.


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Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.


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Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.


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Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.


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I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;


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And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.


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Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.


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The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.


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O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.


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I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.


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Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.


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Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.


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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.


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We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?


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If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.


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Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.


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My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.


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The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.


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Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.


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The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.


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Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.


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Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.


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From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.


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Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.


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And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.


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Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.


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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.


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To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.


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Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.


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Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.


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And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.


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Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.


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But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.


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How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.


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Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.


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Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:


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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.


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And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.


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And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.


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And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.


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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.


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And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.


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Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.


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Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:


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Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:


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Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.


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The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.


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For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:


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And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.


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And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.


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In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;


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To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.


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For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.


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The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.


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And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.


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When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:


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In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.


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For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.


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The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.


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Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.


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As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.


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The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.


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What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.


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Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:


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Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.


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In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,


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And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.


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And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.


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In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:


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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.


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And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.


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And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.


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Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:


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And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.


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And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.


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And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:


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And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.


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For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.


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Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!


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In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.


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Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!


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And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.


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Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.


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Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.


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And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:


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But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.


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Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.


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That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!


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Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.


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Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:


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Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:


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Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.


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And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.


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In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.


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Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.


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And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.


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And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.


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Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.


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Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:


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And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.


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Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.


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Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.


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Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,


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But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.


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And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.


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And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.


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Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;


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And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.


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Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:


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For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.


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And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.


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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?


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Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.


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For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.


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The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.


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And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.


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In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.


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And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.


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With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.


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And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.


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Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.


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And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.


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And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.


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For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.


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Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;


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Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:


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And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.


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Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.


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Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.


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For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,


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Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.


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And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.


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Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.


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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?


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To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.


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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.


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And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.


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Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.


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The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.


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Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.


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For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.


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For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.


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For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.


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Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.


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And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,


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The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.


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Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;


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The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.


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Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.


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And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:


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Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;


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To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!


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Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


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I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.


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Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.


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As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;


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Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.


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For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:


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And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.


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Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.


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Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.


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And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;


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And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.


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For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.


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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.


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And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.


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They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.


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As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.


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Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.


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And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:


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And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;


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And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:


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But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.


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The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.


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And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.


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And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.


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They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.


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And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.


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And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.


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The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.


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But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.


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And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.


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And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.


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And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.


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Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.


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And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.


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Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.


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Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.


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I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.


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The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.


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They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.


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And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.


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Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.


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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.


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And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.


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Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.


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And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.


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Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.


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Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.


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Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.


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Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.


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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.


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It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.


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But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.


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And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.


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For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.


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And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.


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And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,


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That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!


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He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.


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Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.


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Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.


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All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?


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Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.


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How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!


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For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:


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They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;


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That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?


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But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.


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Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.


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Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.


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For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.


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I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.


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The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:


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That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.


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This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.


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For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?


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Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.


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And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.


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Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.


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What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.


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The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;


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He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.


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In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.


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And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.


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My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.


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For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.


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Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.


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For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.


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For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.


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Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.


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For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.


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Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.


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Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.


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And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.


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We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.


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Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.


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For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.


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Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.


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And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.


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And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.


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But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.


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The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.


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The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.


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And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.


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And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.


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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.


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At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.


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And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.


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In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.


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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:


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In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.


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Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!


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The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.


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And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.


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That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!


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All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.


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For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.


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For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.


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They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.


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In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.


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The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.


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And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.


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And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.


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And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.


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And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.


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The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.


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The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.


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Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?


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Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.


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The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.


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The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.


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In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.


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And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.


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In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.


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In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.


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And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.


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And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.


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And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.


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In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.


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In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:


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Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.


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In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;


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At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.


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And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;


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So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.


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And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?


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The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.


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A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.


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Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.


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My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.


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And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:


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And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:


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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.


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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.


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The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?


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The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.


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The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.


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The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.


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For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.


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For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:


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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.


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Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.


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All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.


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Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.


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For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.


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And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.


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And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.


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Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.


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And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.


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Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.


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And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:


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And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.


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And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.


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Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,


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What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?


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He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.


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And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.


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And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.


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And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.


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And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.


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In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.


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The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.


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Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.


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And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.


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Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.


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Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.


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Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?


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The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.


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He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.


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And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.


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Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.


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Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.


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And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.


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And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.


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Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.


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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.


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The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.


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The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.


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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.


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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.


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They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.


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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.


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From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.


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And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.


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The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.


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And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.


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Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.


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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.


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For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.


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For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.


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Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.


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And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.


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And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.


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He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.


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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.


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For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.


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And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.


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And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.


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In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.


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For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.


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Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.


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With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.


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Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.


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LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.


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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.


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They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.


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Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.


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LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.


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Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.


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Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.


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Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.


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For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.


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In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.


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I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.


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Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.


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Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.


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He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.


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Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?


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In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.


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By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.


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Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.


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When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.


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Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!


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Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.


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And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.


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In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,


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And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.


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But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.


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Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.


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For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:


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To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.


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But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.


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Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:


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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.


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Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.


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And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.


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From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.


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For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.


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For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.


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Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.


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When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?


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For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.


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Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.


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This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.


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Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.


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And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.


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And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.


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Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.


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Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.


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And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.


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It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.


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Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.


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For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.


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And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:


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And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.


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Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:


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Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.


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Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?


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Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?


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And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.


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The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.


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For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:


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That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.


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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.


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They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.


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Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:


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That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!


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Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.


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They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.


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The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.


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For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.


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Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:


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Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:


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Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.


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Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:


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Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.


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And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.


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For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.


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But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.


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One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.


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And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.


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For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.


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And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:


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And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.


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Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.


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Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.


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The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.


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And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.


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Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.


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Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:


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And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.


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Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.


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And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.


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And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.


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For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.


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Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!


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Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.


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Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.


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For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.


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As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.


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For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.


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Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.


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And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.


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And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.


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The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.


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For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.


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The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.


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Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.


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Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.


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Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:


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Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;


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Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.


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And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.


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And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;


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Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.


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O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.


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At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.


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And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.


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And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.


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The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.


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The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.


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The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?


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He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;


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He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.


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Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?


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Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.


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Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.


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But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.


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Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.


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Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.


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For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.


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Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.


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And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.


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For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.


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The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.


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And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.


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And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.


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It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.


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But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.


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They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.


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And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.


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The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.


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There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.


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Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.


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And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.


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The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.


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It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.


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Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.


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Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.


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And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.


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And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.


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No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:


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And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.


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Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.


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Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.


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I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?


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Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.


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But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?


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Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.


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And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.


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But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?


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Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.


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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;


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Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.


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Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?


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Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?


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Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?


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But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.


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Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.


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And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.


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And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.


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It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.


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And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.


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Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.


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And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,


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Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.


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Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?


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Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?


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Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?


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And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.


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O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.


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Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.


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Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.


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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:


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This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.


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By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.


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I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.


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Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.


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Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.


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Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.


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And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.


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And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:


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Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.


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Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.


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And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.


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In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.


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And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.


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Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.


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And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.


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And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;


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Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.


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I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.


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I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.


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Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.


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I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.


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Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.


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What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.


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O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.


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Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.


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For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.


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The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.


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The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.


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For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.


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At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.


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And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.


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Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.


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Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.


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Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.


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Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.


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The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.


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Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:


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And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.


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The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:


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The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.


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O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!


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Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.


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He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.


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With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?


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Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.


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The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.


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He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.


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Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?


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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:


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Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.


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Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.


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Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?


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Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.


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But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.


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Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.


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Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.


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Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.


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So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.


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Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.


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Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.


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Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.


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Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.


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Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.


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Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.


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Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.


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When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.


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I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.


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I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:


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That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.


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Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.


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Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.


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I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.


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Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.


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The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.


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For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.


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Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.


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A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.


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He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.


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Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:


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I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;


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To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.


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I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.


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Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.


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Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.


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Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.


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The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.


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I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.


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I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.


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And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.


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They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.


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Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant?


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The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.


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But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.


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Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.


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Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.


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But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.


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When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.


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For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.


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Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.


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I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;


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Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.


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Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.


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Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.


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I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.


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Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?


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Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.


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Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.


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Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.


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The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.


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Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.


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Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.


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I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.


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Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.


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Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.


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For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:


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One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.


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Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.


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And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.


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Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.


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They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.


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Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.


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The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.


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The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.


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He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.


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Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.


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He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:


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And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.


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They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.


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And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?


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He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?


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Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.


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Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.


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Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;


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That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;


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That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:


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That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.


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Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;


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I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:


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And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.


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For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.


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I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:


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That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.


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I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.


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Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.


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Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?


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Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?


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Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.


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I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.


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I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.


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Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.


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They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.


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But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.


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For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.


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I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.


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Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.


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Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.


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I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.


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Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.


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Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.


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Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:


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And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.


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They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.


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They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.


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Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,


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Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:


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Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.


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I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.


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Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.


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Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.


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Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.


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Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.


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I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.


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And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.


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Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:


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But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.


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For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.


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Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.


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Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.


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Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.


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Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.


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Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.


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Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.


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For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.


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I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.


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I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.


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Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.


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They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.


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Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.


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For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.


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Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.


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All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.


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I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.


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Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.


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Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.


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O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:


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Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.


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Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.


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And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.


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Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.


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And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;


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Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.


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And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.


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And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.


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Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.


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Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;


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That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.


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They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.


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Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.


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Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.


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Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.


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Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.


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For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.


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The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.


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Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?


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Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.


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And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.


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But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.


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And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.


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Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.


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Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.


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The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.


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I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.


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For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.


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He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.


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Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.


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Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.


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Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.


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Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.


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Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.


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For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.


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Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.


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My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.


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Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.


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Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.


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For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.


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Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?


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Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?


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Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.


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I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;


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And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?


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The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.


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And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.


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Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.


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There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.


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These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?


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Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.


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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:


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But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.


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Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.


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Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.


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For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.


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For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.


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Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.


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Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.


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How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!


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Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.


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Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.


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The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.


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Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.


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For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.


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As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:


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So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.


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For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.


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He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.


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Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.


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But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.


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All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.


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He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.


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He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.


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And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.


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Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.


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He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.


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Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.


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Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.


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Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;


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For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.


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Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.


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For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.


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For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.


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In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.


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For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.


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For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.


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O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.


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And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.


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In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.


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Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.


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Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.


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No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.


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Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.


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Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.


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Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.


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Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.


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For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:


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So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.


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For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.


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Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.


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Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.


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Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.


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Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.


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For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;


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Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.


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Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;


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Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.


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The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.


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His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.


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Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.


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Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.


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The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.


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Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood.


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Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?


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Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?


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Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.


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Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.


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And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.


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Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.


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And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?


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When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;


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And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.


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For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.


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For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.


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For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.


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I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.


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Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.


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Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.


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Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.


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Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.


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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?


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Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?


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Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.


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Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;


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And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:


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And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.


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And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.


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If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:


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Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.


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Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:


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But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.


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For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.


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None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.


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They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.


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Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.


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The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.


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Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.


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We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.


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We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.


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For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;


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In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.


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And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.


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Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.


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And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.


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For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.


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According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.


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So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.


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And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.


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As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.


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For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.


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Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.


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Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.


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The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.


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All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.


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Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.


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And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.


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Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.


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For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.


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The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.


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The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.


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Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.


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Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.


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For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.


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Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.


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The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.


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Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.


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Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.


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A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.


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The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;


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To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;


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To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.


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And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.


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But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.


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For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.


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For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.


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And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.


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I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.


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For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.


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For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.


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And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.


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Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.


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Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.


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For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.


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I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,


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The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:


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But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.


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Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.


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Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.


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And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.


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Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.


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I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.


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And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.


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And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.


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I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.


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But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.


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Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?


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That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?


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As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.


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Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?


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Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.


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O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.


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The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.


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Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,


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As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!


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When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.


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For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.


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Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.


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But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.


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And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.


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But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.


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Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.


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Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.


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Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?


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I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.


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I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;


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A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;


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Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;


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Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.


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Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,


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Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.


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Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.


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And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.


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And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.


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But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.


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Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.


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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:


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Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.


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And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:


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That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.


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For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.


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But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.


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And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.


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There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.


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They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.


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They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.


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And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.


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The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.


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Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?


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For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.


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He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.


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I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.


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Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.


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A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.


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Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.


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Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.


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Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:


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That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.


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For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.


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And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.


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For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.


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For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.


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They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.


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For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.


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And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.


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And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.


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For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.


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And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.


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And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.


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To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.


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It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.


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Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.


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But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.


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Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.


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See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.


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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.


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And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.


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Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.


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For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.


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And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.


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Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.


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For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.


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And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.


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Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.


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Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.


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Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?


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Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?


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And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.


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The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.


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Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.


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For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.


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Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.


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For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.


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The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.


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Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?


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And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?


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Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.


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For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.


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Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?


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For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.


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How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;


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A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.


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Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.


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As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.


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Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.


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O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?


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Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.


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Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.


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Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.


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Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.


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Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.


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They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.


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Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.


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Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.


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Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.


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The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.


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And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.


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And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.


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And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.


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And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.


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And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.


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Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.


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Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.


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Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:


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And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.


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And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.


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At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.


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In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.


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But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.


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Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.


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A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.


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Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.


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Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.


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For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.


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We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.


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If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.


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And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.


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For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.


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Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.


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Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.


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Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.


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The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.


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For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.


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And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.


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Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.


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At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,


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Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.


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O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?


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Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.


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As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.


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Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.


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My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.


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Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.


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For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.


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I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.


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For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.


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The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.


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And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.


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For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.


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Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.


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O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.


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Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.


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I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.


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Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.


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How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.


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Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.


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For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.


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They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:


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Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.


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Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.


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And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.


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And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.


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Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:


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Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?


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Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.


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For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.


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As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.


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They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.


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Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?


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O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.


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The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.


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Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.


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For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.


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As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.


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Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.


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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.


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To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.


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Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.


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And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.


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They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.


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Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.


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Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.


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Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.


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Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.


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To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.


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Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.


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They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.


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We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.


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Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.


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O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.


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I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.


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They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.


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The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.


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Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.


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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.


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Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.


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For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;


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If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:


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Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.


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Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;


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And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?


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Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.


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But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.


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And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;


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Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.


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Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.


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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.


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Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?


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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.


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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.


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For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:


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But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.


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But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.


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Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:


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Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.


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Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.


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But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.


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Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.


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For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.


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And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.


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And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.


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Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.


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At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:


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And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.


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And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.


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Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?


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I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.


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Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.


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How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.


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The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?


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Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.


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For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.


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Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.


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I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.


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Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.


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The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.


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For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.


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Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?


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For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.


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Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?


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Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.


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And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.


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Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.


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And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?


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Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.


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Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?


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For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.


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And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.


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Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?


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And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;


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But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:


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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.


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I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.


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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:


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And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.


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For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.


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Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.


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For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.


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Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.


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Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:


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But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.


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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;


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Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.


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Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.


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For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.


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They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.


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Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.


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Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.


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But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.


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Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.


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He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.


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When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.


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Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.


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The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.


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For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.


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My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.


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For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.


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Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.


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O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.


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Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.


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And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,


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Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:


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That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.


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Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.


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Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.


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And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.


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Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.


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For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.


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Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.


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What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.


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The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.


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For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.


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But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.


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But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:


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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:


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And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.


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Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?


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Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.


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But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.


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How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.


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If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?


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For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.


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I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.


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Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.


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Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.


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Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.


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They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.


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The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.


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They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.


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Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.


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And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.


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And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.


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Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.


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Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.


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And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.


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Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.


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Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.


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This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.


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For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.


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Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?


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Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.


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And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.


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Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.


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But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.


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Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.


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The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.


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What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?


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And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.


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This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.


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I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?


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Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.


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And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.


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Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.


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And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.


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O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.


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O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?


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Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.


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Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.


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When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.


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Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.


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Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.


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And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.


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Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.


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If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.


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Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!


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We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.


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Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.


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Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.


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Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.


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And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.


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And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.


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And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.


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For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?


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Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.


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And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since they return not from their ways.


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Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.


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She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.


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Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.


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The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.


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Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.


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And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.


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O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.


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Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.


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I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.


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Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?


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Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.


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And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.


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For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;


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They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.


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For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.


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Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:


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Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.


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For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.


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And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?


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Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;


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And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:


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Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.


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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;


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But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.


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Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.


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For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.


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And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.


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O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.


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Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.


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The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;


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Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.


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O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.


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And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.


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Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.


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For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.


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For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.


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I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.


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As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.


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O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.


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As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.


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Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.


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Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;


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And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:


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Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;


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Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.


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But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.


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And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;


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Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.


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And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.


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But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.


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And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.


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O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.


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At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;


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If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.


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If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.


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Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.


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And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.


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Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?


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Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;


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To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.


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I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.


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Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.


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Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.


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Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.


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Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.


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Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.


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Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;


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And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,


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And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.


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Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;


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They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:


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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.


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And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.


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And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.


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And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.


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And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.


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Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:


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And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.


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Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to all the people,


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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.


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Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.


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Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.


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And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.


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For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.


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Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.


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And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.


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O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.


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For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.


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Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.


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For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.


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But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.


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But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.


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Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.


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Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.


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And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;


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Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.


