Hello and welcome back
to "His Words Are Life."
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I am Kelly Mowrer
and today we are going
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to be reading
together in the Book of Isaiah.
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But before we start let's pray.
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Dear God, thank you so
much for an opportunity
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to hear the words that You spoke
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so many thousands of
years ago through Your prophet.
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And as we read about
them please show us today
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where we like
Jerusalem and Judah
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have turned away from you
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and where you are
calling us back to Yourself.
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Thank you, for loving us
and for searching for us.
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Help us to look for You
with our whole heart, amen.
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We're reading in
Isaiah, Chapter 3
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and we're
picking up in verse 19,
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where God has
pronounced and is pronouncing
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that the day is
coming when He is going
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to take away the
pride of the people
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who have turned
their backs on Him.
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So let's pick up in
verse 19 of Isaiah, Chapter 3.
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"The chains, and the bracelets,
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and the mufflers, the bonnets,
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and the ornaments of the legs,
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and the
headbands, and the tablets,
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and the earrings, the
rings, and nose jewels,
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the changeable suits of apparel,
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and the
mantles, and the wimples,
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and the crisping
pins, the glasses,
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and the fine linen, and
the hoods, and the veils.
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And it shall come to pass,
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that instead of sweet
smell there shall be stink,
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and instead of a girdle a rent,
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and instead of
well set hair baldness,
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and instead of a stomacher
a girding of sackcloth,
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and burning instead of beauty.
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Thy men shall fall by the sword,
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and thy mighty in the war.
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And her gates
shall lament and mourn,
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and she being desolate
shall sit upon the ground."
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Continuing in the
Book of Isaiah, Chapter 4,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"And in that day seven women
shall take hold of one man,
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saying, we will
eat our own bread,
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and wear our own apparel,
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only let us be
called by thy name,
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to take away our reproach.
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In that day shall
the branch of the Lord
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be beautiful and glorious,
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and the fruit of the
earth shall be excellent
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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,
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and he that
remaineth in Jerusalem,
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shall be called
holy, even every one
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that is written among
the living in Jerusalem.
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When the Lord
shall have washed away
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the filth of the
daughters of Zion,
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and shall have purged
the blood of Jerusalem
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from the midst thereof
by the spirit of judgment,
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and by the spirit of burning.
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And the Lord will create
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upon every dwelling
place of mount Zion,
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and upon her assemblies,
a cloud and smoke by day,
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and the shining of a
flaming fire by night,
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for upon all the
glory shall be a defense.
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And there shall be a
tabernacle for a shadow
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in the daytime from the
heat, and for a place of refuge,
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and for a covert
from storm and from rain."
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Continuing in Isaiah, Chapter 5,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"Now will I sing
to my wellbeloved
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a song of my beloved
touching his vineyard.
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My wellbeloved hath a vineyard
in a very fruitful hill.
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And he fenced it, and
gathered out the stones thereof,
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and planted it
with the choicest vine,
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and built a tower
in the midst of it,
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and also made a
winepress therein,
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and he looked that it
should bring forth grapes,
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and it brought
forth wild grapes.
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And now, O
inhabitants of Jerusalem,
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and men of Judah,
judge, I pray you,
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betwixt me and my vineyard.
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What could have been
done more to my vineyard,
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that I have not done in it?
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Wherefore, when I looked that
it should bring forth grapes,
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brought it forth wild grapes?
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And now go to, I will tell you
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what I will do to my vineyard,
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I will take away
the hedge thereof,
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and it shall be eaten up,
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and break down the wall thereof,
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and it shall be trodden down.
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And I will lay it
waste, it shall not be pruned,
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nor digged, but there
shall come up briers and thorns,
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I will also command the clouds
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that they rain no rain upon it.
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For the vineyard
of the Lord of hosts
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is the house of Israel,
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and the men of
Judah his pleasant plant.
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And he looked for
judgment, but behold oppression,
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for
righteousness, but behold a cry.
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Woe unto them that
join house to house,
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that lay field to
field, till there be no place
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that they may be placed
alone in the midst of the earth!
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In mine ears said
the Lord of hosts,
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of a truth many
houses shall be desolate,
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even great and
fair, without inhabitant.
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Yea, ten acres of
vineyard shall yield one bath,
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and the seed of an
homer shall yield an ephah.
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Woe unto them that rise
up early in the morning,
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that they may
follow strong drink,
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that continue until
night, till wine inflame them!
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And the harp, and
the viol, the tabret,
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and pipe, and wine,
are in their feasts,
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but they regard not
the work of the Lord,
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neither consider the
operation of his hands.
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Therefore my people
are gone into captivity,
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because they have no knowledge,
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and their
honorable men are famished,
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and their multitude
dried up with thirst.
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Therefore hell
hath enlarged herself,
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and opened to her
mouth without measure
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and their glory,
and their multitude,
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and their pomp,
and he that rejoiceth,
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shall descend into it.
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And the mean man
shall be brought down,
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and the mighty
man shall be humbled,
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and the eyes of the
lofty shall be humbled.
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But the Lord of hosts
shall be exalted in judgment,
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and God that is holy shall
be sanctified in righteousness.
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Then shall the lambs
feed after their manner,
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and the waste places of the
fat ones shall strangers eat
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Woe unto them that draw
iniquity with cords of vanity,
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and sin as it were
with a cart rope that say,
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Let him make speed,
and hasten his work,
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that we may see
it, and let the counsel
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of the Holy One of
Israel draw nigh and come,
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that we may know it.
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Woe unto them that call
evil good, and good evil
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that put darkness for
light, and light for darkness
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that put bitter for
sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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Woe unto them that are
wise in their own eyes,
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and prudent in their own sight!
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Woe unto them that
are mighty to drink wine,
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and men of strength
to mingle strong drink
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which justify the
wicked for reward,
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and take away the righteousness
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of the righteous from him!
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Therefore as the fire
devoureth the stubble,
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and the flame
consumeth the chaff,
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so their root
shall be as rottenness,
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and their blossom
shall go up as dust
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because they have cast away
the law of the Lord of hosts,
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and despised the word
of the Holy One of Israel.
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Therefore is the
anger of the Lord
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kindled against his people,
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and he hath stretched
forth His hand against them,
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and hath smitten them
and the hills did tremble,
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and their carcases were torn
in the midst of the streets.
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For all this his
anger is not turned away,
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but his hand is
stretched out still.
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And he will lift up an
ensign to the nations from far,
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and will hiss unto them
from the end of the earth
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and, behold, they shall
come with speed swiftly.
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None shall be weary
nor stumble among them
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none shall slumber nor sleep,
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neither shall the girdle
of their loins be loosed,
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nor the latchet of
their shoes be broken.
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Whose arrows are sharp,
and all their bows bent,
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their horses' hoofs
shall be counted like flint,
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and their wheels
like a whirlwind.
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Their roaring
shall be like a lion,
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and they shall
roar like young lions
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yea, they shall roar,
and lay hold of the prey,
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and shall carry it away safe,
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and none shall deliver it.
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And in that day they
shall roar against them
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like the roaring of the sea
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and if one look unto the land,
behold darkness and sorrow,
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and the light is darkened
in the heavens thereof."
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We're continuing with the
Book of Isaiah, Chapter 6,
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this is the King James Version.
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"In the year
that king Uzziah died
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I saw also the Lord
sitting upon a throne,
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high and lifted up, and
his train filled the temple.
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Above it stood the seraphims,
each one had six wings
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with twain he covered his face,
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and with twain
he covered his feet,
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and with twain he did fly.
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And one cried
unto another, and said,
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Holy, holy, holy,
is the Lord of hosts
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the whole earth
is full of his glory.
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And the posts of the door moved
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at the voice of him that cried,
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and the house was
filled with smoke.
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Then said I, Woe is me!
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For I am undone because
I am a man of unclean lips,
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and I dwell in the midst
of a people of unclean lips
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for mine eyes have seen
the King, the Lord of hosts.
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Then flew one of
the seraphims unto me,
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having a live coal in his hand,
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which he had taken with
the tongs from off the altar.
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And he laid it upon my mouth,
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and said, Lo, this
hath touched thy lips
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and thine iniquity is
taken away, and thy sin purged.
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Also I heard the
voice of the Lord, saying,
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Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us?
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Then said I, Here am I, send me.
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And he said, Go,
and tell this people,
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Hear ye indeed,
but understand not
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and see ye
indeed, but perceive not.
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Make the heart
of this people fat,
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and make their ears
heavy, and shut their eyes
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lest they see with their eyes,
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and hear with their ears,
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and understand with their heart,
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and convert, and be healed.
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Then said I, Lord, how long?
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And he answered,
Until the cities be wasted
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without inhabitant,
and the houses without man,
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and the land be
utterly desolate.
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And the Lord have
removed men far away,
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and there be a great forsaking
in the midst of the land.
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But yet in it shall be a tenth,
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and it shall
return, and shall be eaten
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as a teil tree, and as an oak,
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whose substance is in them,
when they cast their leaves
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so the holy seed shall
be the substance thereof."
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Continuing with
Isaiah, Chapter 7,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"And it came to
pass in the days of Ahaz
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the son of Jotham, the
son of Uzziah, king of Judah,
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that Rezin the king of Syria,
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and Pekah the son of Remaliah,
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king of Israel, went up toward
Jerusalem to war against it,
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but could not
prevail against it.
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And it was told
the house of David,
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saying, Syria is
confederate with Ephraim.
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And His heart was moved,
and the heart of His people,
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as the trees of the
wood are moved with the wind.
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Then said the Lord unto Isaiah,
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go forth now to meet Ahaz,
thou, and Shearjashub thy son,
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at the end of the conduit of
the upper pool in the highway
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of the fuller's
field and say unto him,
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Take heed, and be quiet,
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fear not,
neither be fainthearted
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for the two tails of
these smoking firebrands,
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for the fierce
anger of Rezin with Syria,
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and of the son of Remaliah.
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Because Syria, Ephraim,
and the son of Remaliah,
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have taken evil
counsel against thee,
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saying, let us
go up against Judah,
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and vex it, and let us
make a breach therein for us,
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and set a king
in the midst of it,
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even the son of Tabeal.
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Thus saith the Lord
God, It shall not stand,
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neither shall it come to pass.
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For the head of
Syria is Damascus,
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and the head of
Damascus is Rezin
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and within threescore and five
years shall Ephraim be broken,
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that it be not a people.
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And the head of
Ephraim is Samaria,
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and the head of
Samaria is Remaliah's son.
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If ye will not believe,
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surely ye shall
not be established.
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Moreover the Lord
spake again unto Ahaz,
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saying, Ask thee a
sign of the Lord thy God
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ask it either in the
depth, or in the height above.
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But Ahaz said, I will not ask,
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neither will I tempt the Lord.
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And he said, Hear ye
now, O house of David
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Is it a small thing
for you to weary men,
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but will ye weary my God also?
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Therefore the Lord
himself shall give you a sign
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Behold, a virgin shall
conceive, and bear a son,
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and shall call
his name Immanuel.
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Butter and honey shall he eat,
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that he may know
to refuse the evil,
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and choose the good.
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For before the child
shall know to refuse the evil,
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and choose the good,
the land that thou abhorrest
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shall be forsaken
of both her kings.
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The Lord shall bring upon thee,
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and upon thy people,
and upon thy father's house,
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days that have
not come from the day
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that Ephraim departed from Judah
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even the king of Assyria.
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And it shall come
to pass in that day,
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that the Lord
shall hiss for the fly
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that is in the uttermost
part of the rivers of Egypt,
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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
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in the desolate valleys,
and in the holes of the rocks,
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and upon all
thorns, and upon all bushes.
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In the same day
shall the Lord shave
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with a razor
that is hired, namely,
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by them beyond the
river, by the king of Assyria."
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