Hello, and welcome
to "His Words are Life".
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I am Kelly Mowrer,
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and today we're going
to read together in Isaiah.
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But let's pray before we start.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
thank you for a chance
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to come in to hear
of Your mighty strength
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and of Your power
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and of how You work
mercy and justice and truth
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for those who are oppressed.
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Thank you for freeing
us and for rescuing us
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from the enemy who oppressed us.
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We love you and we
want to serve You better,
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please show us how, amen.
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We're reading in
the book of Isaiah,
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Chapter 24,
beginning with verse 21
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and this is the
King James Version,
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"And it shall come
to pass in that day,
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that the Lord shall
punish the host of the high ones
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that are on high,
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and the kings of the
earth upon the earth.
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And they shall be
gathered together,
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as prisoners are
gathered in the pit,
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and shall be
shut up in the prison,
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and after many days
shall they be visited.
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Then the moon
shall be confounded,
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and the sun ashamed,
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when the Lord of hosts
shall reign in mount Zion,
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and in Jerusalem,
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and before his
ancients gloriously.
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Continuing in the Book
of Isaiah with Chapter 25.
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"O Lord, thou art my God,
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I will exalt thee, I
will praise thy name,
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for thou hast
done wonderful things,
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thy counsels of old
are faithfulness and truth.
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For thou hast
made of a city an heap,
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of a defenced city a ruin,
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the palace of
strangers to be no city,
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it shall never be built.
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Therefore shall the
strong people glorify thee,
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the city of the terrible nations
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shall fear thee.
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For thou hast been a
strength to the poor,
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a strength to the
needy in his distress,
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a refuge from the
storm, a shadow from the heat,
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when the blast
of the terrible ones
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is as a storm against the wall.
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"Thou shalt bring down
the noise of strangers,
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as the heat in a dry place,
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even the heat with
the shadow of a cloud,
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the branch of the terrible ones
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shall be brought low.
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And in this mountain
shall the Lord of hosts
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make unto all people
a feast of fat things,
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a feast of wines on the lees,
of fat things full of marrow,
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of wines on the
lees well refined.
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And he will
destroy in this mountain
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the face of the
covering cast over all people,
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and the vail that is
spread over all nations.
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He will swallow
up death in victory,
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and the Lord God will wipe away
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tears from off all faces,
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and the rebuke of his people
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shall he take away
from off all the earth,
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for the Lord hath spoken it.
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And it shall be
said in that day,
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Lo, this is our God,
we have waited for him,
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and he will save
us, this is the Lord,
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we have waited for him,
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we will be glad and
rejoice in his salvation.
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For in this mountain
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shall the hand of the Lord rest,
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and Moab shall be
trodden down under him,
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even as straw is
trodden down for the dunghill."
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And he shall
spread forth his hands
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in the midst of
them, as he that swimmeth
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spreadeth forth
his hands to swim,
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and he shall bring
down their pride together
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with the spoils of their hands.
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And the fortress of
the high fort of thy walls
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shall he bring down, lay low,
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and bring to the
ground, even to the dust."
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Continuing in Isaiah Chapter 26,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"In that day
shall this song be sung
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in the land of Judah,
We have a strong city,
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salvation will God
appoint for walls and bulwarks.
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Open ye the gates,
that the righteous nation
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which keepeth the
truth may enter in.
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Thou wilt keep
him in perfect peace,
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whose mind is stayed on thee,
because he trusteth in thee.
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Trust ye in the Lord for ever,
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for in the Lord Jehovah
is everlasting strength.
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For he bringeth down
them that dwell on high,
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the lofty city,
he layeth it low,
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he layeth it low,
even to the ground,
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he bringeth it even to the dust.
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The foot shall tread it
down, even the feet of the poor,
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and the steps of the needy.
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The way of the
just is uprightness,
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thou, most upright,
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dost weigh the path of the just.
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Yea, in the way
of thy judgments,
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O Lord, have we waited for thee,
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the desire of our
soul is to thy name,
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and to the remembrance of thee.
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With my soul have I
desired thee in the night,
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yea, with my spirit within me
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will I seek thee early,
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for when thy
judgments are in the earth,
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the inhabitants of the
world will learn righteousness.
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Let favour be
shewed to the wicked,
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yet will he not
learn uprightness,
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in the land of uprightness
will he deal unjustly,
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and will not behold
the majesty of the Lord.
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Lord, when thy
hand is lifted up,
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they will not see,
but they shall see,
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and be ashamed for
their envy at the people,
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yea, the fire of thine enemies
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shall devour them.
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Lord, thou wilt
ordain peace for us,
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for thou also hast
wrought all our works in us.
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O Lord our God,
other lords beside thee
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have had dominion over us,
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but by thee only will we
make mention of thy name.
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They are dead,
they shall not live,
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they are deceased,
they shall not rise,
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therefore hast thou
visited and destroyed them,
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and made all
their memory to perish.
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Thou hast
increased the nation, O Lord,
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thou hast increased the nation,
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thou art glorified,
thou hadst removed it far
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unto all the ends of the earth.
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Lord, in trouble
have they visited thee,
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they poured out a prayer
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when thy
chastening was upon them.
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Like as a woman with child,
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that draweth near
the time of her delivery,
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is in pain, and
crieth out in her pangs,
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so have we been
in thy sight, O Lord.
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We have been with
child, we have been in pain,
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we have as it were
brought forth wind,
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we have not wrought any
deliverance in the earth,
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neither have the
inhabitants of the world fallen.
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Thy dead men shall live,
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together with my dead
body shall they arise.
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Awake and sing, ye
that dwell in dust,
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for thy dew is
as the dew of herbs,
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and the earth
shall cast out the dead.
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Come, my people, enter
thou into thy chambers,
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and shut thy doors about thee,
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hide thyself as it
were for a little moment,
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until the
indignation be overpast.
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For, behold, the Lord
cometh out of his place
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to punish the inhabitants of
the earth for their iniquity,
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the earth also
shall disclose her blood,
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and shall no
more cover her slain."
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Continuing to read
in the Book of Isaiah
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Chapter 27, this is
the King James Version.
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"In that day the Lord
with his sore and great
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and strong sword
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shall punish
leviathan the piercing serpent,
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even leviathan
that crooked serpent,
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and he shall slay the dragon
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that is in the sea.
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In that day sing ye unto
her, A vineyard of red wine.
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I the Lord do keep it, I
will water it every moment,
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lest any hurt it, I
will keep it night and day.
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Fury is not in me,
who would set the briers
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and thorns against me in battle?
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I would go through them,
I would burn them together.
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Or let him take
hold of my strength,
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that he may make peace with me,
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and he shall make peace with me.
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He shall cause them
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that come of Jacob to take root,
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Israel shall blossom and bud,
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and fill the face of
the world with fruit.
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Hath he smitten him,
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as he smote
those that smote him?
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Or is he slain according
to the slaughter of them
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that are slain by him?
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In measure, when
it shooteth forth,
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thou wilt debate with it,
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he stayeth his rough wind
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in the day of the east wind.
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By this therefore
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shall the iniquity
of Jacob be purged,
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and this is all the
fruit to take away his sin,
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when he maketh all
the stones of the altar
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as chalkstones that
are beaten in sunder,
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the groves and
images shall not stand up.
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Yet the defenced
city shall be desolate,
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and the habitation forsaken,
and left like a wilderness,
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there shall the calf feed,
and there shall he lie down,
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and consume the
branches thereof.
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When the boughs
thereof are withered,
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they shall be broken off,
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the women come,
and set them on fire,
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for it is a people
of no understanding,
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therefore he that made them
will not have mercy on them,
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and he that formed them
will shew them no favour.
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And it shall come
to pass in that day,
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that the Lord shall beat off
from the channel of the river
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unto the stream of Egypt,
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and ye shall be
gathered one by one,
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O ye children of Israel.
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And it shall come
to pass in that day,
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that the great
trumpet shall be blown,
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and they shall come
which were ready to perish
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in the land of Assyria,
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and the outcasts
in the land of Egypt,
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and shall worship the Lord
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in the holy mount at Jerusalem."
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Continuing with
Isaiah Chapter 28,
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this is the King James Version.
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"Woe to the crown of pride,
to the drunkards of Ephraim,
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whose glorious
beauty is a fading flower,
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which are on the head
of the fat valleys of them
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that are overcome with wine!
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Behold, the Lord hath
a mighty and strong one,
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which as a tempest of
hail and a destroying storm,
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as a flood of
mighty waters overflowing,
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shall cast down to
the earth with the hand.
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The crown of pride,
the drunkards of Ephraim,
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shall be trodden under feet.
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And the glorious beauty,
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which is on the
head of the fat valley,
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shall be a fading flower,
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and as the hasty
fruit before the summer,
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which when he that
looketh upon it seeth,
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while it is yet in
his hand he eateth it up.
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In that day
shall the Lord of hosts
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be for a crown of glory,
and for a diadem of beauty,
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unto the residue of his people.
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And for a spirit
of judgment to him
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that sitteth in judgment,
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and for strength to them that
turn the battle to the gate.
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But they also have
erred through wine,
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and through strong
drink are out of the way,
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the priest and the prophet
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have erred through strong drink,
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they are swallowed up of wine,
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they are out of the
way through strong drink,
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they err in vision,
they stumble in judgment.
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For all tables are full
of vomit and filthiness,
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so that there is no place clean.
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Whom shall he teach knowledge?
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And whom shall he make
to understand doctrine?
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Them that are
weaned from the milk,
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and drawn from the breasts.
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For precept
must be upon precept,
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precept upon precept,
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line upon line, line upon line,
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here a little,
and there a little.
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For with stammering
lips and another tongue
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will he speak to this people.
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To whom he
said, This is the rest
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wherewith ye may
cause the weary to rest,
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and this is the refreshing,
yet they would not hear.
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But the word of
the Lord was unto them
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precept upon
precept, precept upon precept,
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line upon line, line upon line,
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here a little,
and there a little,
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that they might
go, and fall backward,
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and be broken,
and snared, and taken.
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Wherefore hear
the word of the Lord,
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ye scornful men,
that rule this people
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which is in Jerusalem.
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Because ye have said,
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We have made a
covenant with death,
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and with hell
are we at agreement,
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when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through,
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it shall not come unto us,
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for we have
made lies our refuge,
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and under falsehood
have we hid ourselves.
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Therefore thus
saith the Lord God,
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Behold, I lay in Zion
for a foundation a stone,
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a tried stone, a
precious corner stone,
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a sure
foundation, he that believeth
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shall not make haste.
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Judgment also
will I lay to the line,
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and
righteousness to the plummet,
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and the hail shall
sweep away the refuge of lies,
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and the waters shall
overflow the hiding place.
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And your covenant with
death shall be disannulled,
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and your agreement
with hell shall not stand,
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when the overflowing
scourge shall pass through,
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then ye shall be
trodden down by it.
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From the time
that it goeth forth
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it shall take you,
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for morning by
morning shall it pass over,
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by day and by night,
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and it shall be a vexation
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only to understand the report.
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For the bed is shorter
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than that a man can
stretch himself on it,
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and the covering narrower
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than that he can
wrap himself in it.
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For the Lord shall
rise up as in mount Perazim,
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he shall be wroth as
in the valley of Gibeon,
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that he may do his
work, his strange work,
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and bring to pass
his act, his strange act.
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Now therefore be ye not mockers,
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lest your bands be made strong,
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for I have heard from the Lord
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God of hosts a consumption,
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even determined
upon the whole earth.
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Give ye ear, and hear my voice,
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hearken, and hear my speech.
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Doth the plowman
plow all day to sow?
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doth he open and break
the clods of his ground?
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When he hath made
plain the face thereof,
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doth he not cast
abroad the fitches,
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and scatter the cummin,
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and cast in the principal wheat
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and the appointed barley
and the rie in their place?
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For his God doth
instruct him to discretion,
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and doth teach him.
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