Micah:1-7
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The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham ,
Ahaz ,
and Hezekiah ,
kings of Judah ,
which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem .
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Hear ,
all ye people ;
hearken ,
O earth ,
and all that therein is :
and let the Lord GOD be witness against you ,
the Lord from his holy temple .
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For ,
behold ,
the LORD cometh forth out of his place ,
and will come down ,
and tread upon the high places of the earth .
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And the mountains shall be molten under him ,
and the valleys shall be cleft ,
as wax before the fire ,
and as the waters that are poured down a steep place .
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For the transgression of Jacob is all this ,
and for the sins of the house of Israel Yisra #
el #.
What is the transgression of Jacob Ya #
aqob #?
is it not Samaria ?
and what are the high places of Judah ?
are they not Jerusalem ?
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Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field ,
and as plantings of a vineyard :
and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley ,
and I will discover the foundations thereof .
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And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces ,
and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire ,
and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate :
for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot ,
and they shall return to the hire of an harlot .
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Therefore I will wail and howl ,
I will go stripped and naked :
I will make a wailing like the dragons ,
and mourning as the owls bath #
ya #
anah #.
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For her wound is incurable ;
for it is come unto Judah ;
he is come unto the gate of my people ,
even to Jerusalem .
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Declare ye it not at Gath ,
weep ye not at all :
in the house of Aphrah Beyth l @-#
Aphrah #
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thyself in the dust .
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Pass ye away ,
thou inhabitant of Saphir ,
having thy shame naked :
the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel Beyth ha -#
etsel #;
he shall receive of you his standing .
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For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good :
but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem .
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O thou inhabitant of Lachish ,
bind the chariot to the swift beast :
she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion :
for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee .
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Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath Mowresheth :
the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel Yisra #
el #.
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Yet will I bring an heir unto thee ,
O inhabitant of Mareshah Mar #
eshah #:
he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel Yisra #
el #.
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Make thee bald ,
and poll thee for thy delicate children ;
enlarge thy baldness as the eagle ;
for they are gone into captivity from thee .
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Woe to them that devise iniquity ,
and work evil upon their beds !
when the morning is light ,
they practise it ,
because it is in the power of their hand .
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And they covet fields ,
and take them by violence ;
and houses ,
and take them away :
so they oppress a man and his house ,
even a man and his heritage .
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Therefore thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
against this family do I devise an evil ,
from which ye shall not remove your necks tsavva #
r #;
neither shall ye go haughtily :
for this time is evil .
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In that day shall one take up a parable against you ,
and lament with a doleful lamentation ,
and say ,
We be utterly spoiled :
he hath changed the portion of my people :
how hath he removed it from me !
turning away he hath divided our fields .
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Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD .
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Prophesy ye not ,
say they to them that prophesy :
they shall not prophesy to them ,
that they shall not take shame .
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O thou that art named the house of Jacob Ya #
aqob #,
is the spirit of the LORD straitened ?
are these his doings ma #
alal #?
do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly ?
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Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy :
ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war .
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The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses ;
from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever .
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Arise ye ,
and depart ;
for this is not your rest :
because it is polluted ,
it shall destroy you ,
even with a sore destruction .
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If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie ,
saying ,
I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink ;
he shall even be the prophet of this people .
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I will surely assemble ,
O Jacob Ya #
aqob #,
all of thee ;
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel Yisra #
el #;
I will put them tgether as the sheep of Bozrah ,
as the flock in the midst of their fold :
they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men .
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The breaker is come up before them :
they have broken up ,
and have passed through the gate sha #
ar #,
and are gone out by it :
and their king shall pass before them ,
and the LORD on the head of them .
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And I said ,
Hear ,
I pray you ,
O heads of Jacob Ya #
aqob #,
and ye princes of the house of Israel Yisra #
el #;
Is it not for you to know judgment ?
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Who hate the good ,
and love the evil ;
who pluck off their skin from off them ,
and their flesh from off their bones ;
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Who also eat the flesh of my people ,
and flay their skin from off them ;
and they break their bones ,
and chop them in pieces ,
as for the pot ,
and as flesh within the caldron .
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Then shall they cry unto the LORD ,
but he will not hear them :
he will even hide his face from them at that time ,
as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings ma #
alal #.
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Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err ,
that bite with their teeth ,
and cry ,
Peace ;
and he that putteth not into their mouths ,
they even prepare war against him .
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Therefore night shall be unto you ,
that ye shall not have a vision ;
and it shall be dark unto you ,
that ye shall not divine ;
and the sun shall go down over the prophets ,
and the day shall be dark over them .
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Then shall the seers be ashamed ,
and the diviners confounded :
yea ,
they shall all cover their lips ;
for there is no answer of God .
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But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD ,
and of judgment ,
and of might ,
to declare unto Jacob his transgression ,
and to Israel his sin chatta #
ah #.
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Hear this ,
I pray you ,
ye heads of the house of Jacob Ya #
aqob #,
and princes of the house of Israel Yisra #
el #,
that abhor judgment ,
and pervert all equity .
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They build up Zion with blood ,
and Jerusalem with iniquity .
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The heads thereof judge for reward ,
and the priests thereof teach for hire ,
and the prophets thereof divine for money :
yet will they lean upon the LORD ,
and say ,
Is not the LORD among us ?
none evil can come upon us .
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Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field ,
and Jerusalem shall become heaps ,
and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest ya #
ar #.
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But in the last days it shall come to pass ,
that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains ,
and it shall be exalted above the hills gib #
ah #;
and people shall flow unto it .
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And many nations shall come ,
and say ,
Come ,
and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD ,
and to the house of the God of Jacob Ya #
aqob #;
and he will teach us of his ways ,
and we will walk in his paths :
for the law shall go forth of Zion ,
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem .
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And he shall judge among many people ,
and rebuke strong nations afar off ;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares ,
and their spears into pruninghooks :
nation shall not lift up a sword against nation ,
neither shall they learn war any more .
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But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree t @#
en #;
and none shall make them afraid :
for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it .
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For all people will walk every one in the name of his god ,
and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever .
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In that day ,
saith the LORD ,
will I assemble her that halteth ,
and I will gather her that is driven out ,
and her that I have afflicted ;
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And I will make her that halted a remnant sh @#
eriyth #,
and her that was cast far off a strong nation :
and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth ,
even for ever .
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And thou ,
O tower of the flock #
Migdal -#
Eder #,
the strong hold of the daughter of Zion ,
unto thee shall it come ,
even the first dominion ;
the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem .
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Now why dost thou cry out aloud ?
is there no king in thee ?
is thy counsellor perished ?
for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail .
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Be in pain ,
and labour to bring forth ,
O daughter of Zion ,
like a woman in travail :
for now shalt thou go forth out of the city ,
and thou shalt dwell in the field ,
and thou shalt go even to Babylon ;
there shalt thou be delivered ;
there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies .
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Now also many nations are gathered against thee ,
that say ,
Let her be defiled ,
and let our eye look upon Zion .
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But they know not the thoughts of the LORD ,
neither understand they his counsel :
for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor .
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Arise and thresh ,
O daughter of Zion :
for I will make thine horn iron ,
and I will make thy hoofs brass :
and thou shalt beat in pieces many people :
and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD ,
and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth .
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Now gather thyself in troops ,
O daughter of troops :
he hath laid siege against us :
they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek .
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But thou ,
Bethlehem BeythEphratah ,
though thou be little among the thousands of Judah ,
yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel Yisra #
el #;
whose goings forth have been from of old ,
from everlasting yowm #.
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Therefore will he give them up ,
until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth :
then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel Yisra #
el #.
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And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD ,
in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God ;
and they shall abide :
for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth .
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And this man shall be the peace ,
when the Assyrian shall come into our land :
and when he shall tread in our palaces ,
then shall we raise against him seven shepherds ,
and eight principal men .
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And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword ,
and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof :
thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian ,
when he cometh into our land ,
and when he treadeth within our borders .
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And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD ,
as the showers upon the grass ,
that tarrieth not for man ,
nor waiteth for the sons of men .
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And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest ya #
ar #,
as a young lion among the flocks of sheep tso #
n #:
who ,
if he go through ,
both treadeth down ,
and teareth in pieces ,
and none can deliver .
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Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries ,
and all thine enemies shall be cut off .
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And it shall come to pass in that day ,
saith the LORD ,
that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee ,
and I will destroy thy chariots :
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And I will cut off the cities #
of thy land ,
and throw down all thy strong holds :
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And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand ;
and thou shalt have no more soothsayers :
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Thy graven images also will I cut off ,
and thy standing images out of the midst of thee ;
and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands .
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And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee :
so will I destroy thy cities #.
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And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen ,
such as they have not heard .
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Hear ye now what the LORD saith ;
Arise ,
contend thou before the mountains ,
and let the hills hear thy voice .
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Hear ye ,
O mountains ,
the LORDS controversy ,
and ye strong foundations of the earth :
for the LORD hath a controversy with his people ,
and he will plead with Israel Yisra #
el #.
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O my people ,
what have I done unto thee ?
and wherein have I wearied thee ?
testify against me .
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For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt ,
and redeemed thee out of the house of servants ;
and I sent before thee Moses ,
Aaron ,
and Miriam .
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O my people ,
remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted ,
and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal ;
that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD .
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Wherewith shall I come before the LORD ,
and bow myself before the high God ?
shall I come before him with burnt offerings ,
with calves of a year old ?
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Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams ,
or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ?
shall I give my firstborn for my transgression ,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul ?
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He hath shewed thee ,
O man ,
what is good ;
and what doth the LORD require of thee ,
but to do justly ,
and to love mercy ,
and to walk humbly with thy God ?
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The LORDS voice crieth unto the city ,
and the man of wisdom shall see thy name :
hear ye the rod ,
and who hath appointed it .
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Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked ,
and the scant measure that is abominable ?
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Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances mo #
zen #,
and with the bag of deceitful weights ?
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For the rich men thereof are full of violence ,
and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies ,
and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth .
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Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee ,
in making thee desolate because of thy sins chatta #
ah #.
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Thou shalt eat ,
but not be satisfied ;
and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee ;
and thou shalt take hold ,
but shalt not deliver ;
and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword .
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Thou shalt sow ,
but thou shalt not reap ;
thou shalt tread the olives ,
but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil ;
and sweet wine ,
but shalt not drink wine .
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For the statutes of Omri are kept ,
and all the works of the house of Ahab #
Ach #
ab #,
and ye walk in their counsels mow #
etsah #;
that I should make thee a desolation ,
and the inhabitants thereof an hissing :
therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people .
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Woe is me !
for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits ,
as the grapegleanings of the vintage :
there is no cluster to eat :
my soul desired the firstripe fruit .
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The good man is perished out of the earth :
and there is none upright among men :
they all lie in wait for blood ;
they hunt every man his brother with a net .
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That they may do evil with both hands earnestly ,
the prince asketh ,
and the judge asketh for a reward ;
and the great man ,
he uttereth his mischievous desire :
so they wrap it up .
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The best of them is as a brier :
the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge :
the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh ;
now shall be their perplexity .
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Trust ye not in a friend ,
put ye not confidence in a guide :
keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom .
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For the son dishonoureth the father ,
the daughter riseth up against her mother ,
the daughter in law against her mother in law ;
a mans enemies are the men of his own house .
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Therefore I will look unto the LORD ;
I will wait for the God of my salvation :
my God will hear me .
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Rejoice not against me ,
O mine enemy :
when I fall ,
I shall arise ;
when I sit in darkness ,
the LORD shall be a light unto me .
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I will bear the indignation of the LORD ,
because I have sinned against him ,
until he plead my cause ,
and execute judgment for me :
he will bring me forth to the light ,
and I shall behold his righteousness .
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Then she that is mine enemy shall see it ,
and shame shall cover her which said unto me ,
Where is the LORD thy God ?
mine eyes shall behold her :
now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets .
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In the day that thy walls are to be built ,
in that day shall the decree be far removed .
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In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria ,
and from the fortified cities ,
and from the fortress even to the river ,
and from sea to sea ,
and from mountain to mountain .
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Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein ,
for the fruit of their doings ma #
alal #.
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Feed thy people with thy rod ,
the flock of thine heritage ,
which dwell solitarily in the wood ya #
ar #,
in the midst of Carmel :
let them feed in Bashan and Gilead Gil #
ad #,
as in the days of old .
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According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things .
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The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might :
they shall lay their hand upon their mouth ,
their ears shall be deaf .
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They shall lick the dust like a serpent ,
they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth :
they shall be afraid of the LORD our God ,
and shall fear because of thee .
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Who is a God like unto thee ,
that pardoneth iniquity ,
and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage ?
he retaineth not his anger for ever ,
because he delighteth in mercy .
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He will turn again ,
he will have compassion upon us ;
he will subdue our iniquities ;
and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea .
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Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob Ya #
aqob #,
and the mercy to Abraham ,
which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old .
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