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Praise ye the Lord. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
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Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? who can shew forth all his praise?
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Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
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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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We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
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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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Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
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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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And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
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Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
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They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
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But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
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And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
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They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.
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The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram.
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And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
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They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
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Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
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They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
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Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
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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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Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
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But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.
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Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
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To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
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They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
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Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
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Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
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And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
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They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
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Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
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They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them:
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But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
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And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
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Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
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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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Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
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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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And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.
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Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
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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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Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
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And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
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He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
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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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Leviticus 13
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And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,
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When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
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And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
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If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days:
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And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
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And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
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But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again.
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And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.
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When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;
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And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
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It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
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And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
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Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
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But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.
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And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.
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Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;
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And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.
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The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
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And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;
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And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.
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But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
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And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
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But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
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Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
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Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
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But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
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And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
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And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an inflammation of the burning.
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If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
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Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.
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And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:
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And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;
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He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
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And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
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But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
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Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean.
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But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
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If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;
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Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
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And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
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And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
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And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
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Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
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He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
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And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
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All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
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The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
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Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
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And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:
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And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days:
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And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
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He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
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And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
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Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
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And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
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And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
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And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
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And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
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This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
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Isaiah 13
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The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
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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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Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
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Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
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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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I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
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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.
Isaiah 14
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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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The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
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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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The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
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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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I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
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Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
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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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All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
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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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In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
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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.
2 Corinthians 10
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Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
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But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
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For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
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(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
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Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
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And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
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Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.
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For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
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That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
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For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
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Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
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For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.