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How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
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Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
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I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
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Until I find out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
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Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
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We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
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Arise, O Lord, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
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Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
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For thy servant David’s sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
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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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For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
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This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
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I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
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I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
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There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
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His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
Job 19
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Then Job answered and said,
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How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
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These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
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And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
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If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
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Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
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Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
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He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
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His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
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He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
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My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
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They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
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I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
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My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
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Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
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All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
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Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
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That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
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For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
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And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
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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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But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in 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.
Isaiah 41
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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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He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
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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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The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
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They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
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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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But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
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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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For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
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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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Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
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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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Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
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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, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Revelation 2
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Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
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I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
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And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
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Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
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Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
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But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
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And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
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I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
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Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
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And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
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I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
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But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
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So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.
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Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
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And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
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I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
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Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
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And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
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Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
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And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
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But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
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But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
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And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
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And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
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And I will give him the morning star.
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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
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