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When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
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.
That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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.
Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
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:
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
