Hello and welcome
to His Words Are Life.
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I am Kelly Mowrer and
today we're going to be reading
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from the Book of Isaiah.
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But before we start
let's pray together.
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Dear heavenly Father,
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thank you for this
time to sit with you
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and to hear your voice
speaking words of truth
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down through the centuries
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that can change our lives today.
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Please give us
understanding as we hear them
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and please send the
Holy Spirit to teach us
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the lessons You have for us.
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We love you so much
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and thank you
for loving us, amen.
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We're picking up
in Isaiah, Chapter 7,
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beginning with verse 20.
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This is the King James Version.
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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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the head, and
the hair of the feet,
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and it shall also
consume the beard.
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And it shall come
to pass in that day,
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that a man shall
nourish a young cow,
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and two sheep, and
it shall come to pass,
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for the abundance of milk
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that they shall
give he shall eat butter.
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For butter and
honey shall every one eat
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that is left in the land.
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And it shall come
to pass in that day,
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that every place shall be,
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where there
were a thousand vines
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at a thousand silverlings,
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it shall even be
for briers and thorns.
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With arrows and with
bows shall men come thither,
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because all the land
shall become briers and thorns.
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And on all hills that shall
be digged with the mattock,
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there shall not come thither
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the fear of briers and thorns,
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but it shall be for
the sending forth of oxen,
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and for the
treading of lesser cattle."
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Continuing in Isaiah, Chapter 8,
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this is the King James Version.
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"Moreover the Lord said unto me,
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Take thee a great
roll, and write in it
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with a man's pen
concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
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And I took unto me
faithful witnesses to record,
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Uriah the priest,
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and Zechariah the
son of Jeberechiah.
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And I went unto the prophetess,
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and she
conceived, and bare a son.
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Then said the Lord to me,
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Call his name
Mahershalalhashbaz.
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For before the child
shall have knowledge to cry,
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my father, and my mother,
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the riches of Damascus
and the spoil of Samaria
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shall be taken away
before the king of Assyria.
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The Lord spake
also unto me again,
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saying, Forasmuch
as this people refuseth
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the waters of
Shiloah that go softly,
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and rejoice in
Rezin and Remaliah's son,
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now therefore,
behold, the Lord bringeth up
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upon them the
waters of the river,
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strong and many,
even the king of Assyria,
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and all his glory,
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and he shall come up
over all his channels,
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and go over all his banks.
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And he shall pass through Judah,
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he shall overflow and go over,
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he shall reach even to the neck,
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and the
stretching out of his wings
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shall fill the breadth
of thy land, O Immanuel.
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Associate
yourselves, O ye people,
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and ye shall be
broken in pieces,
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and give ear, all
ye of far countries,
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gird yourselves, and ye
shall be broken in pieces,
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gird yourselves, and ye
shall be broken in pieces.
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Take counsel together,
and it shall come to nought,
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speak the word,
and it shall not stand,
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for God is with us.
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For the Lord spake thus
to me with a strong hand,
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and instructed me
that I should not walk
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in the way of
this people, saying,
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Say ye not, A confederacy,
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to all them to whom
this people shall say,
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A confederacy,
neither fear ye their fear,
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nor be afraid.
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Sanctify the
Lord of hosts himself,
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and let him be your fear,
and let him be your dread.
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And he shall be for a sanctuary,
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but for a stone of stumbling
and for a rock of offense
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to both the houses of Israel,
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for a gin and for a snare
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to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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And many among
them shall stumble,
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and fall, and be broken,
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and be snared, and be taken.
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Bind up the testimony,
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seal the law among my disciples.
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And I will wait upon the Lord,
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that hideth his face
from the house of Jacob,
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and I will look for him.
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Behold, I and the children
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whom the Lord hath given me
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are for signs and
for wonders in Israel
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from the Lord of hosts,
which dwelleth in mount Zion.
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And when they
shall say unto you,
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seek unto them that
have familiar spirits,
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and unto wizards that
peep, and that mutter,
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should not a people
seek unto their God?
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For the living to the dead?
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To the law and to the testimony,
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if they speak not
according to this word,
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it is because there
is no light in them.
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And they shall pass through it,
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hardly bestead and hungry,
and it shall come to pass,
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that when they shall be hungry,
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they shall fret themselves,
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and curse their king and
their God, and look upward.
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And they shall
look unto the earth,
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and behold trouble and darkness,
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dimness of anguish,
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and they shall be
driven to darkness."
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Continuing with the
Book of Isaiah, Chapter 9,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"Nevertheless the
dimness shall not be
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such as was in her vexation,
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when at the first he lightly
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afflicted the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali,
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and afterward did
more grievously afflict her
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by the way of the
sea, beyond Jordan,
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in Galilee of the nations.
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The people that
walked in darkness
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have seen a great light,
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they that dwell in the
land of the shadow of death,
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upon them hath the light shined.
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Thou hast multiplied the nation,
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and not increased the joy,
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they joy before thee
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according to the joy in harvest,
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and as men rejoice
when they divide the spoil.
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For thou hast broken
the yoke of his burden,
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and the staff of his shoulder,
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the rod of his oppressor,
as in the day of Midian.
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For every battle of the warrior
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is with confused noise,
and garments rolled in blood,
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but this shall be with
burning and fuel of fire.
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For unto us a child is
born, unto us a son is given,
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and the government
shall be upon his shoulder,
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and his name shall
be called Wonderful,
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Counsellor, The mighty God,
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The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace.
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Of the increase of
his government and peace
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there shall be no end,
upon the throne of David,
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and upon his
kingdom, to order it,
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and to
establish it with judgment
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and with justice from
henceforth even forever.
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The zeal of the Lord of
hosts will perform this.
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The Lord sent a word into Jacob,
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and it hath lighted upon Israel.
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And all the people shall know,
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even Ephraim and the
inhabitant of Samaria,
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that say in the pride
and stoutness of heart,
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the bricks are fallen down,
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but we will
build with hewn stones,
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the sycamores are cut down,
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but we will
change them into cedars.
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Therefore the Lord shall set up
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the adversaries
of Rezin against him,
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and join his enemies together,
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the Syrians before,
and the Philistines behind,
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and they shall devour
Israel with open mouth.
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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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For the people turneth not
unto him that smiteth them,
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neither do they
seek the Lord of hosts.
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Therefore the Lord will cut off
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from Israel head and tail,
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branch and rush, in one day.
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The ancient and
honourable, he is the head,
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and the prophet
that teacheth lies,
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he is the tail.
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For the leaders of this
people cause them to err,
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and they that are led
of them are destroyed.
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Therefore the Lord shall
have no joy in their young men,
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neither shall have mercy
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on their fatherless and widows,
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for every one is an
hypocrite and an evildoer,
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and every mouth speaketh folly.
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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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For wickedness
burneth as the fire,
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it shall devour
the briers and thorns,
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and shall kindle in
the thickets of the forest,
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and they shall mount up
like the lifting up of smoke.
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Through the wrath
of the Lord of hosts
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is the land darkened,
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and the people shall be
as the fuel of the fire,
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no man shall spare his brother.
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And he shall
snatch on the right hand,
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and be hungry, and he
shall eat on the left hand,
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and they shall not be satisfied,
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they shall eat every man
the flesh of his own arm,
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Manasseh, Ephraim,
and Ephraim, Manasseh,
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and they together
shall be against Judah.
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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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Isaiah, Chapter 10.
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This is the King James Version.
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"Woe unto them that
decree unrighteous decrees,
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and that write grievousness
which they have prescribed,
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to turn aside the
needy from judgment,
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and to take away the right
from the poor of my people,
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that widows may be their prey,
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and that they may
rob the fatherless!
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And what will ye do
in the day of visitation,
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and in the desolation
which shall come from far?
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To whom will ye flee for help?
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Where will ye leave your glory?
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Without me they shall
bow down under the prisoners,
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and they shall
fall under the slain.
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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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O Assyrian, the
rod of mine anger,
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and the staff in their
hand is mine indignation.
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I will send him
against an hypocritical nation,
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and against the
people of my wrath
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will I give him a
charge, to take the spoil,
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to take the prey,
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to tread them down like
the mire of the streets.
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Howbeit he meaneth not so,
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neither doth his heart think so,
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but it is in
his heart to destroy
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and cut off nations not a few.
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For he saith, Are not my
princes altogether kings?
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Is not Calno as Carchemish?
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Is not Hamath as Arpad?
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Is not Samaria as Damascus?
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As my hand hath found
the kingdoms of the idols,
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and whose graven images
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did excel them of
Jerusalem and of Samaria.
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Shall I not, as I have
done unto Samaria and her idols,
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so do to
Jerusalem and her idols?
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Wherefore it shall come to pass,
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that when the Lord hath
performed his whole work
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upon mount Zion
and on Jerusalem,
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I will punish the
fruit of the stout heart
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of the king of Assyria,
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and the glory of his high looks.
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For he saith, By
the strength of my hand
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I have done it,
and by my wisdom,
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for I am prudent,
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and I have removed
the bounds of the people,
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and have robbed their treasures,
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and I have put
down the inhabitants
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like a valiant man.
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And my hand hath found as a nest
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the riches of the people,
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and as one
gathereth eggs that are left,
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have I gathered all the fruit,
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there was none
that moved the wing,
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or opened the mouth, or peeped.
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Shall the ax
boast itself against him
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that heweth therewith?
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Or shall the saw magnify itself
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against him that shaketh it?
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As if the rod should
shake itself against them
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that lift it up,
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or as if the staff
should lift up itself,
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as if it were no wood.
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Therefore shall the
Lord, the Lord of hosts,
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send among his
fat ones leanness,
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and under his glory
he shall kindle a burning
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like the burning of a fire.
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And the light of
Israel shall be for a fire,
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and his Holy One for a flame,
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and it shall burn
and devour his thorns
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and his briers in one day,
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and shall consume
the glory of his forest,
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and of his fruitful
field, both soul and body,
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and they shall be as when
a standardbearer fainteth.
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And the rest of the trees
of his forest shall be few,
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that a child may write them.
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And it shall come
to pass in that day,
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that the remnant of Israel,
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and such as are
escaped of the house of Jacob,
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shall no more again stay
upon him that smote them,
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but shall stay upon the Lord,
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the Holy One of
Israel, in truth.
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The remnant shall return,
even the remnant of Jacob,
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unto the mighty God.
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For though thy people Israel
be as the sand of the sea,
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yet a remnant of
them shall return,
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the consumption decreed
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shall overflow
with righteousness.
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For the Lord God of
hosts shall make a consumption,
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even determined, in
the midst of all the land.
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Therefore saith
the Lord God of hosts,
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O my people that
dwellest in Zion,
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be not afraid of the Assyrian,
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he shall smite thee with a rod,
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and shall lift up
his staff against thee,
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after the manner of Egypt.
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For yet a very little while,
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and the indignation shall cease,
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and mine anger in
their destruction.
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And the Lord of hosts
shall stir up a scourge for him
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according to the
slaughter of Midian
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at the rock of Oreb,
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and as his rod was upon the sea,
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so shall he lift it up
after the manner of Egypt.
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And it shall come
to pass in that day,
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that his burden shall be taken
away from off thy shoulder,
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and his yoke from off thy neck,
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and the yoke shall be destroyed
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because of the anointing.
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He is come to Aiath,
he is passed to Migron,
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at Michmash he hath
laid up his carriages.
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They are gone over the passage,
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they have taken up
their lodging at Geba,
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Ramah is afraid,
Gibeah of Saul is fled.
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Lift up thy voice,
O daughter of Gallim,
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cause it to be heard
unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
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Madmenah is removed,
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the inhabitants of Gebim
gather themselves to flee.
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As yet shall he
remain at Nob that day,
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he shall shake his hand
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against the mount of
the daughter of Zion,
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the hill of Jerusalem."
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