Hello and welcome to
"His words are life."
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I am Kelly Mowrer and today
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we are going to read together
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from the Book of
Nahum, but first let's pray.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
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thank you for
all of your children,
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the men and women
throughout history
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who have had a
hand in bringing us
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the treasure of
this scripture today.
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And now we ask that
your Holy Spirit will come,
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as we read these words.
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May they bring new
life to our hearts.
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We love you and thank
you for loving us, amen.
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I am reading in the
Book of Nahum, Chapter 3,
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beginning with verse 10.
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And this is the
King James Version.
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"Yet was she carried
away, she went into captivity,
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her young children
also were dashed in pieces
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at the top of all the streets,
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and they cast lots
for her honourable men,
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and all her great
men were bound in chains.
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Thou also shalt be
drunken, thou shalt be hid,
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thou also shalt seek
strength because of the enemy.
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All thy strong holds
shall be like fig trees
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with the firstripe
figs, if they be shaken,
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they shall even fall
into the mouth of the eater.
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Behold, thy people in
the midst of thee are women,
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the gates of thy land
shall be set wide open
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unto thine enemies, the
fire shall devour thy bars.
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Draw thee waters for the siege,
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fortify thy strong
holds, go into clay,
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and tread the morter,
make strong the brickkiln.
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There shall the
fire devour thee,
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the sword shall cut thee off,
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it shall eat thee
up like the cankerworm,
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make thyself many
as the cankerworm,
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make thyself
many as the locusts.
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Thou hast
multiplied thy merchants
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above the stars of
heaven, the cankerworm spoileth,
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and flieth away.
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Thy crowned are as the locusts,
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and thy captains as
the great grasshoppers,
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which camp in the
hedges in the cold day,
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but when the sun
ariseth they flee away,
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and their place is
not known where they are.
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Thy shepherds
slumber, O king of Assyria,
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thy nobles shall
dwell in the dust,
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thy people is
scattered upon the mountains,
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and no man gathereth them.
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There is no
healing of thy bruise,
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thy wound is
grievous, all that hear
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the bruit of thee shall
clap the hands over thee,
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for upon whom hath not
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thy wickedness
passed continually?"
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Continuing to read in the
Book of Habakkuk, Chapter 1.
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This is the King James Version.
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"The burden which
Habakkuk the prophet did see.
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O Lord, how long shall I cry,
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and thou wilt not hear!
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even cry out
unto thee of violence,
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and thou wilt not save!
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Why dost thou shew me iniquity,
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and cause me to
behold grievance?
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For spoiling and
violence are before me,
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and there are that raise
up strife and contention.
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Therefore the law is slacked,
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and judgment
doth never go forth,
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for the wicked doth
compass about the righteous,
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therefore wrong
judgment proceedeth.
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Behold ye among the
heathen, and regard,
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and wonder marvelously,
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for I will work a
work in your days,
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which ye will not
believe, though it be told you.
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For, lo, I raise
up the Chaldeans,
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that bitter and hasty nation,
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which shall march
through the breadth of the land,
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to possess the dwelling
places that are not their's.
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They are terrible and dreadful,
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their judgment and their dignity
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shall proceed of themselves.
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Their horses also are
swifter than the leopards,
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and are more fierce
than the evening wolves,
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and their horsemen
shall spread themselves,
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and their horsemen
shall come from far,
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they shall fly as the
eagle that hasteth to eat.
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They shall come
all for violence,
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their faces shall
sup up as the east wind,
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and they shall gather
the captivity as the sand.
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And they shall
scoff at the kings,
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and the princes
shall be a scorn unto them,
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they shall deride
every strong hold,
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for they shall
heap dust, and take it.
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Then shall his mind
change, and he shall pass over,
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and offend, imputing
this his power unto his god.
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Art thou not from everlasting,
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O Lord my God, mine Holy One?
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We shall not die.
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O Lord, thou hast
ordained them for judgment,
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and, O mighty God,
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thou hast
established them for correction.
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Thou art of purer
eyes than to behold evil,
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and canst not look on iniquity,
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wherefore lookest thou upon
them that deal treacherously,
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and holdest thy tongue
when the wicked devoureth
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the man that is
more righteous than he?
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And makest men as
the fishes of the sea,
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as the creeping things,
that have no ruler over them?
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They take up all of
them with the angle,
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they catch them in their net,
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and they gather
them in their drag,
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therefore they
rejoice and are glad
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Therefore they
sacrifice unto their net,
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and burn
incense unto their drag,
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because by them
their portion is fat,
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and their meat plenteous.
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Shall they
therefore empty their net,
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and not spare continually
to slay the nations?"
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Continuing in
Habakkuk Chapter 2.
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This is the King James Version.
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"I will stand upon my watch,
and set me upon the tower,
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and will watch to see
what he will say unto me,
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and what I shall
answer when I am reproved.
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And the Lord
answered me, and said,
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Write the vision, and
make it plain upon tables,
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that he may run that readeth it.
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For the vision is yet
for an appointed time,
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but at the end it
shall speak, and not lie,
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though it tarry, wait for it,
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because it will surely
come, it will not tarry.
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Behold, his soul
which is lifted up
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is not upright in him,
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but the just
shall live by his faith.
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Yea also, because he
transgresseth by wine,
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he is a proud man,
neither keepeth at home,
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who enlargeth
his desire as hell,
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and is as death,
and cannot be satisfied,
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but gathereth
unto him all nations,
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and heapeth unto him all people,
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Shall not all these take
up a parable against him,
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and a taunting
proverb against him, and say,
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Woe to him that increaseth that
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which is not his! how long?
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and to him that ladeth
himself with thick clay!
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Shall they not rise up
suddenly that shall bite thee,
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and awake that shall vex thee,
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and thou shalt be
for booties unto them?
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Because thou hast
spoiled many nations,
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all the remnant of the
people shall spoil thee,
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because of men's blood, and
for the violence of the land,
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of the city, and of
all that dwell therein.
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Woe to him that coveteth an evil
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covetousness to his house,
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that he may set
his nest on high,
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that he may be delivered
from the power of evil!
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Thou hast
consulted shame to thy house
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by cutting off many people,
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and hast sinned
against thy soul.
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For the stone shall
cry out of the wall,
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and the beam out of
the timber shall answer it.
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Woe to him that
buildeth a town with blood,
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and stablisheth
a city by iniquity!
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Behold, is it not of
the Lord of hosts that
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the people shall
labor in the very fire,
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and the people shall weary
themselves for very vanity?
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For the earth shall be
filled with the knowledge
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of the glory of the Lord,
as the waters cover the sea.
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Woe unto him that
giveth his neighbour drink,
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that puttest thy bottle to him,
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and makest him drunken also,
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that thou mayest
look on their nakedness!
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Thou art filled
with shame for glory,
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drink thou also, and let
thy foreskin be uncovered,
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the cup of the Lord's right hand
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shall be turned unto
thee, and shameful spewing
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shall be on thy glory.
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For the violence of
Lebanon shall cover thee,
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and the spoil of
beasts, which made them afraid,
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because of men's blood, and
for the violence of the land,
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of the city, and of
all that dwell therein.
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What profiteth
the graven image that
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the maker
thereof hath graven it,
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the molten image,
and a teacher of lies,
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that the maker of his
work trusteth therein,
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to make dumb idols?
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Woe unto him that
saith to the wood,
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Awake, to the dumb stone,
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Arise, it shall teach!
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Behold, it is laid
over with gold and silver,
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and there is no breath
at all in the midst of it.
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But the Lord is
in his holy temple,
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let all the earth
keep silence before him."
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Continuing with
Habakkuk Chapter3.
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This is the King James Version.
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"A prayer of Habakkuk
the prophet upon Shigionoth.
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O Lord, I have heard thy speech,
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and was afraid, O Lord,
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receive thy work in
the midst of the years,
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in the midst of
the years make known,
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in wrath remember mercy.
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God came from Teman,
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and the Holy One
from mount Paran. Selah.
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His glory covered the heavens,
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and the earth was
full of his praise.
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And his
brightness was as the light,
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he had horns
coming out of his hand,
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and there was the
hiding of his power.
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Before him went the pestilence,
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and burning coals
went forth at his feet.
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He stood, and
measured the earth, he beheld,
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and drove asunder the nations,
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and the everlasting
mountains were scattered,
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the perpetual hills did
bow, his ways are everlasting.
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I saw the tents of
Cushan in affliction,
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and the curtains of the
land of Midian did tremble.
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Was the Lord
displeased against the rivers?
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Was thine anger
against the rivers?
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Was thy wrath
against the sea that
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thou didst ride
upon thine horses
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and thy chariots of salvation?
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Thy bow was made quite naked,
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according to the
oaths of the tribes,
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even thy word, Selah.
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Thou didst cleave
the earth with rivers.
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The mountains saw
thee, and they trembled,
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the overflowing of
the water passed by,
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the deep uttered his voice,
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and lifted up his hands on high.
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The sun and moon stood
still in their habitation,
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at the light of
thine arrows they went,
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and at the shining
of thy glittering spear.
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Thou didst march
through the land in indignation,
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thou didst thresh
the heathen in anger.
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Thou wentest forth for
the salvation of thy people,
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even for salvation
with thine anointed,
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thou woundedst the head
out of the house of the wicked,
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by discovering the
foundation unto the neck. Selah.
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Thou didst strike
through with his staves
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the head of his
villages, they came out
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as a whirlwind to scatter me,
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their rejoicing was as
to devour the poor secretly.
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Thou didst walk through
the sea with thine horses,
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through the
heap of great waters.
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When I heard, my belly trembled,
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my lips quivered at the voice,
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rottenness
entered into my bones,
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and I trembled in myself,
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that I might rest
in the day of trouble,
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when he cometh
up unto the people,
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he will invade
them with his troops.
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Although the fig
tree shall not blossom,
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neither shall
fruit be in the vines,
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the labor of the
olive shall fail,
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and the fields
shall yield no meat,
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the flock shall be
cut off from the fold,
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and there shall be
no herd in the stalls,
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Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
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I will joy in the
God of my salvation.
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The Lord God is my strength,
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and he will make my
feet like hinds' feet,
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and he will make me to
walk upon mine high places.
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To the chief singer on
my stringed instruments."
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Continuing now with the
Book of Zephaniah, Chapter 1.
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And this is the
King James Version.
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"The word of the Lord which
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came unto
Zephaniah the son of Cushi,
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the son of
Gedaliah, the son of Amariah,
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the son of Hizkiah,
in the days of Josiah
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the son of Amon, king of Judah.
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I will utterly consume
all things from off the land,
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saith the Lord.
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I will consume man and beast,
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I will consume the
fowls of the heaven,
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and the fishes of the sea,
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and the stumbling
blocks with the wicked,
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and I will cut off man from
off the land, saith the Lord.
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I will also stretch
out mine hand upon Judah,
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and upon all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem,
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and I will cut off the
remnant of Baal from this place,
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and the name of the
Chemarims with the priests,
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And them that worship the host
of heaven upon the housetops,
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and them that worship
and that swear by the Lord,
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and that swear by Malcham,
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And them that are
turned back from the Lord,
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and those that have
not sought the Lord,
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nor enquired for him.
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Hold thy peace at the
presence of the Lord God,
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for the day of
the Lord is at hand,
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for the Lord hath
prepared a sacrifice,
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he hath bid his guests.
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And it shall come
to pass in the day
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of the Lord's sacrifice,
that I will punish the princes,
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and the king's
children, and all such
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as are clothed with
strange apparel. Good bye.
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