Hello and welcome back
to "His Words Are Life."
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Today we are going to begin
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reading in the Song of Solomon.
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But let's pray before we start.
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Our dear heavenly Father,
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thank you that we may sit
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and read again
from the Song of Songs.
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And as we read, please
give to each of our hearts
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a new vision of the love
that You have for each one of us
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and the love and the
beauty that we should see in You
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and have towards You.
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We ask this in the name
of your son Jesus, amen.
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We're beginning in
Song of Solomon, Chapter 8,
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this is the King James Version.
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"O that thou wert as my brother,
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that sucked the
breasts of my mother.
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When I should find thee without,
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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,
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who would instruct me.
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I would cause thee
to drink of spiced wine
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of the juice of my pomegranate.
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His left hand
should be under my head,
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and his right
hand should embrace me.
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I charge you, O
daughters of Jerusalem,
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that ye stir not up, nor
awake my love, until he please.
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Who is this that
cometh up from the wilderness,
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leaning upon her beloved?
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I raised thee up
under the apple tree,
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there thy mother
brought thee forth,
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there she brought
thee forth that bare thee.
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Set me as a seal
upon thine heart,
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as a seal upon thine arm,
for love is strong as death,
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jealousy is cruel as the grave,
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the coals thereof
are coals of fire,
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which hath a
most vehement flame.
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Many waters cannot quench love,
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neither can the floods drown it.
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If a man would
give all the substance
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of his house for love, it
would utterly be contemned.
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We have a little
sister, and she hath no breasts,
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what shall we do for
our sister in the day
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when she shall be spoken for?
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If she be a wall, we will build
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upon her a palace of
silver, and if she be a door,
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we will inclose her
with boards of cedar.
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I am a wall, and my
breasts like towers,
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then was I in his eyes
as one that found favor.
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Solomon had a
vineyard at Ba'al-ha'mon,
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he let out the
vineyard unto keepers,
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every one for the
fruit thereof was to bring
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a thousand pieces of silver.
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My vineyard, which
is mine, is before me,
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thou, O Solomon,
must have a thousand,
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and those that keep the
fruit thereof, two hundred.
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Thou that
dwellest in the gardens,
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the companions
hearken to thy voice,
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cause me to hear it.
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Make haste, my beloved,
and be thou like to a roe
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or to a young hart upon
the mountains of spices."
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Continuing now in the
Book of Isaiah, Chapter 1,
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this is the King James Version.
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"The vision of
Isaiah the son of Amoz,
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which he saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem
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in the days of Uzziah,
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Jotham, Ahaz, and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
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Hear, O heavens,
and give ear, O earth,
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for the Lord hath spoken,
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I have nourished
and brought up children,
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and they have
rebelled against me.
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The ox knoweth his owner,
and the ass his master's crib,
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but Israel doth not know,
my people doth not consider.
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Ah, sinful nation, a
people laden with iniquity,
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a seed of evildoers,
children that are corrupters,
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they have forsaken the Lord,
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they have provoked the
Holy One of Israel unto anger,
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they are gone away backward.
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Why should ye be
stricken any more?
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Ye will revolt more and
more, the whole head is sick,
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and the whole heart faint.
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From the sole of the
foot even unto the head
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there is no
soundness in it, but wounds,
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and bruises, and
putrefying sores,
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they have not been
closed, neither bound up,
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neither mollified with ointment.
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Your country is desolate,
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your cities are
burned with fire,
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your land, strangers
devour it in your presence,
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and it is desolate, as
overthrown by strangers.
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And the daughter of Zion is left
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as a cottage in a vineyard,
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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
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a very small remnant, we
should have been as Sodom,
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and we should have
been like unto Gomorrah.
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Hear the word of the
Lord, ye rulers of Sodom,
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give ear unto the law of
our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
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To what purpose is the multitude
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of your sacrifices unto me?
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Saith the Lord, I am full
of the burnt offerings of rams,
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and the fat of fed beasts,
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and I delight not in
the blood of bullocks,
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or of lambs, or of he goats.
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When ye come to
appear before me,
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who hath required
this at your hand,
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to tread my courts?
Bring no more vain oblations,
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incense is an
abomination unto me,
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the new moons and Sabbaths,
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the calling of
assemblies, I cannot away with,
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it is iniquity,
even the solemn meeting.
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Your new moons and
your appointed feast
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my soul hateth, they
are a trouble unto me,
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I am weary to bear them.
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And when ye
spread forth your hands,
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I will hide mine eyes from you,
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yea, when ye make many prayers,
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I will not hear, your
hands are full of blood.
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Wash you, make you
clean, put away the evil
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of your doings from before
mine eyes, cease to do evil.
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Learn to do well, seek judgment,
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relieve the
oppressed, judge the fatherless,
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plead for the widow.
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Come now, and let
us reason together,
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saith the Lord, though
your sins be as scarlet,
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they shall be as white as snow,
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though they be red like crimson,
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they shall be as wool.
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If ye be willing and obedient,
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ye shall eat the
good of the land.
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But if ye refuse and rebel,
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ye shall be
devoured with the sword,
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for the mouth of
the Lord hath spoken it.
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How is the faithful
city become an harlot!
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It was full of judgment,
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righteousness lodged
in it, but now murderers.
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Thy silver is become dross,
thy wine mixed with water.
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Thy princes are rebellious,
and companions of thieves,
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every one loveth gifts,
and followeth after rewards,
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they judge not the fatherless,
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neither doth the cause
of the widow come unto them.
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Therefore saith the
Lord, the Lord of hosts,
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the mighty One of Israel,
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Ah, I will ease me
of mine adversaries,
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and avenge me of mine enemies
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and I will turn
my hand upon thee,
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and purely purge away thy dross,
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and take away all thy tin
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and I will restore thy
judges as at the first,
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and thy counsellors
as at the beginning,
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afterward thou shalt be called,
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The city of righteousness,
the faithful city.
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Zion shall be
redeemed with judgment,
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and her converts
with righteousness.
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And the destruction
of the transgressors
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and of the
sinners shall be together,
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and they that forsake
the Lord shall be consumed.
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For they shall be
ashamed of the oaks
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which ye have desired,
and ye shall be confounded
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for the gardens
that ye have chosen.
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For ye shall be as an
oak whose leaf fadeth,
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and as a garden
that hath no water.
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And the strong shall be as tow,
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and the maker of it as a spark,
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and they shall
both burn together,
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and none shall quench them."
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Continuing to read in the
Book of Isaiah, Chapter 2.
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This is the King James Version.
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"The word that
Isaiah the son of Amoz
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saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem.
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And it shall come to
pass in the last days,
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that the mountain
of the Lord's house
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shall be established in
the top of the mountains,
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and shall be
exalted above the hills,
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and all nations
shall flow unto it.
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And many people
shall go and say,
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Come ye, and let us go up
to the mountain of the Lord,
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to the house of
the God of Jacob,
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and he will
teach us of his ways,
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and we will walk in his paths,
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for out of Zion
shall go forth the law,
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and the word of the
Lord from Jerusalem.
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And he shall
judge among the nations,
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and shall rebuke many people,
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and they shall beat
their swords into plowshares,
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and their spears
into pruning hooks,
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nation shall not lift
up sword against nation,
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neither shall they
learn war any more.
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O house of Jacob, come ye,
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and let us walk in
the light of the Lord.
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Therefore thou hast forsaken
thy people the house of Jacob,
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because they be
replenished from the east,
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and are soothsayers
like the Philistines,
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and they please themselves
in the children of strangers.
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Their land also is
full of silver and gold,
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neither is there any
end of their treasures,
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their land is
also full of horses,
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neither is there any
end of their chariots.
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Their land also
is full of idols,
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they worship the
work of their own hands,
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that which their
own fingers have made.
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And the mean man boweth down,
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and the great
man humbleth himself,
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therefore forgive them not.
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Enter into the rock,
and hide thee in the dust,
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for fear of the Lord, and
for the glory of his majesty.
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The lofty looks of
man shall be humbled,
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and the haughtiness of
men shall be bowed down,
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and the Lord alone
shall be exalted in that day.
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For the day of the Lord of hosts
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shall be upon every one
that is proud and lofty,
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and upon every
one that is lifted up,
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and he shall be brought low.
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And upon all the
cedars of Lebanon,
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that are high and lifted up,
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and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
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and upon all the high mountains,
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and upon all the
hills that are lifted up,
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and upon every high tower,
and upon every fenced wall,
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and upon all the
ships of Tarshish,
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and upon all pleasant pictures.
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And the loftiness of
man shall be bowed down,
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and the haughtiness
of men shall be made low,
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and the Lord alone
shall be exalted in that day.
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And the idols he
shall utterly abolish.
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And they shall go into
the holes of the rocks,
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and into the caves of the earth,
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for fear of the Lord, and
for the glory of his majesty,
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when he ariseth to
shake terribly the earth.
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In that day a man shall
cast his idols of silver,
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and his idols of gold,
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which they made each
one for himself to worship,
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to the moles and to the bats.
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To go into the
clefts of the rocks,
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and into the tops
of the ragged rocks,
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for fear of the Lord, and
for the glory of his majesty,
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when he ariseth to
shake terribly the earth.
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Cease ye from man, whose
breath is in his nostrils,
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for wherein is he
to be accounted of?
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Continuing in Isaiah, Chapter 3.
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"For, behold, the
Lord, the Lord of hosts,
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doth take away from Jerusalem
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and from Judah the
stay and the staff,
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the whole stay of bread,
and the whole stay of water.
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The mighty man,
and the man of war,
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the judge, and the prophet,
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and the
prudent, and the ancient.
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The captain of fifty,
and the honorable man,
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and the counselor,
and the cunning artificer,
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and the eloquent orator.
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And I will give
children to be their princes,
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and babes shall rule over them.
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And the people
shall be oppressed,
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every one by another, and
every one by his neighbor,
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and child shall behave himself
proudly against the ancient,
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and the base
against the honorable.
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When a man shall
take hold of his brother
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of the house of his father,
saying, Thou hast clothing,
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be thou our ruler, and let
this ruin be under thy hand.
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In that day
shall he swear, saying,
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I will not be an healer,
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for in my house is
neither bread nor clothing,
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make me not a
ruler of the people.
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For Jerusalem is
ruined, and Judah is fallen,
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because their tongue and their
doings are against the Lord,
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to provoke the
eyes of his glory.
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The show of their countenance
doth witness against them,
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and they declare their sin
as Sodom, they hide it not.
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Woe unto their soul!
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For they have
rewarded evil unto themselves.
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Say ye to the righteous,
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that it shall be well with him,
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for they shall eat
the fruit of their doings.
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Woe unto the wicked!
It shall be ill with him,
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for the reward of his
hands shall be given him.
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As for my people,
children are their oppressors,
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and women rule over them.
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O my people, they which
lead thee cause thee to err,
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and destroy the
way of thy paths.
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The Lord standeth up to plead,
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and standeth to
judge the people.
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The Lord will
enter into judgment
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with the ancients of his people,
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and the princes thereof,
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for ye have
eaten up the vineyard,
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the spoil of the
poor is in your houses.
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What mean ye that ye
beat my people to pieces,
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and grind the faces of the poor?
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Saith the Lord God of hosts.
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Moreover the Lord saith,
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because the
daughters of Zion are haughty,
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and walk with stretched
forth necks and wanton eyes,
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walking and mincing as they go,
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and making a
tinkling with their feet.
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Therefore the Lord
will smite with a scab
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the crown of the head
of the daughters of Zion,
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and the Lord will
discover their secret parts.
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In that day the Lord
will take away the bravery
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of their tinkling
ornaments about their feet,
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and their cauls, and their
round tires like the moon."
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