Isaiah:6.
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Arise ,
shine ;
for thy light is come ,
and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee .
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For behold ,
the darkness shall cover the earth ,
and gross darkness the people :
but the LORD will arise upon thee ,
and his glory will be seen upon thee .
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And the Gentiles shall come to thy light ,
and kings to the brightness of thy rising .
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Lift up thy eyes around ,
and see :
all they assemble themselves ,
they come to thee :
thy sons shall come from far ,
and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side .
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Then thou shalt see ,
and flow together ,
and thy heart shall fear ,
and be enlarged ;
because the abundance of the sea shall be converted to thee ,
the forces of the Gentiles shall come to thee .
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The multitude of camels shall cover thee ,
the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah ;
all they from Sheba shall come :
they shall bring gold and incense ;
and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD .
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All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to thee ,
the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to thee :
they shall come up with acceptance on my altar ,
and I will glorify the house of my glory .
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Who are these that fly as a cloud ,
and as doves to their windows ?
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Surely the isles shall wait for me ,
and the ships of Tarshish first ,
to bring thy sons from far ,
their silver and their gold with them ,
to the name of the LORD thy God ,
and to the Holy One of Israel ,
because he hath glorified thee .
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And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls ,
and their kings shall minister to thee :
for in my wrath I smote thee ,
but in my favor have I had mercy on thee .
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Therefore thy gates shall be open continually ;
they shall not be shut day nor night ;
that men may bring to thee the forces of the Gentiles ,
and that their kings may be brought .
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For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish ;
yes ,
those nations shall be utterly wasted .
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The glory of Lebanon shall come to thee ,
the fir-tree ,
the pine-tree ,
and the box together ,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary ;
and I will make the place of my feet glorious .
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The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending to thee ;
and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ;
and they shall call thee ,
The city of the LORD ,
The Zion of the Holy One of Israel .
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Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated ,
so that no man went through thee ,
I will make thee an eternal excellence ,
a joy of many generations .
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Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles ,
and shalt suck the breast of kings :
and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Savior and thy Redeemer ,
the mighty one of Jacob .
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For brass I will bring gold ,
and for iron I will bring silver ,
and for wood brass ,
and for stones iron :
I will also make thy officers peace ,
and thy exactors righteousness .
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Violence shall no more be heard in thy land ,
wasting nor destruction within thy borders ;
but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation ,
and thy gates Praise .
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The sun shall be no more thy light by day ;
neither for brightness shall the moon give light to thee :
but the LORD will be to thee an everlasting light ,
and thy God thy glory .
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Thy sun shall no more go down ;
neither shall thy moon withdraw itself :
for the LORD will be thy everlasting light ,
and the days of thy mourning shall be ended .
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Thy people also shall be all righteous :
they shall inherit the land for ever ,
the branch of my planting ,
the work of my hands ,
that I may be glorified .
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A little one shall become a thousand ,
and a small one a strong nation :
I the LORD will hasten it in its time .
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The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me ;
because the LORD hath anointed me to publish good tidings to the meek ;
he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted ,
to proclaim liberty to the captives ,
and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ;
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To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD ,
and the day of vengeance of our God ;
to comfort all that mourn ;
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To appoint to them that mourn in Zion ,
to give to them beauty for ashes ,
the oil of joy for mourning ,
the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness ;
that they may be called trees of righteousness ,
the planting of the LORD ,
that he may be glorified .
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And they shall build the old wastes ,
they shall raise up the former desolations ,
and they shall repair the waste cities ,
the desolations of many generations .
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And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks ,
and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers .
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But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD :
men shall call you the Ministers of our God :
ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles ,
and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves .
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For your shame ye shall have double ;
and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion :
therefore in their land they shall possess the double :
everlasting joy shall be to them .
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For I the LORD love judgment ,
I hate robbery for burnt-offering ;
and I will direct their work in truth ,
and I will make an everlasting covenant with them .
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And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles ,
and their offspring among the people :
all that see them shall acknowledge them ,
that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed .
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I will greatly rejoice in the LORD ,
my soul shall be joyful in my God ;
for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation ,
he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness ,
as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments ,
and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels .
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For as the earth bringeth forth her bud ,
and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth ;
so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations .
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For Zion '
s sake I will not hold my peace ,
and for Jerusalem '
s sake I will not rest ,
until its righteousness shall go forth as brightness ,
and its salvation as a lamp that burneth .
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And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness ,
and all kings thy glory :
and thou shalt be called by a new name ,
which the mouth of the LORD shall name .
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Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD ,
and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God .
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Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken ;
neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate :
but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah ,
and thy land Beulah :
for the LORD delighteth in thee ,
and thy land shall be married .
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For as a young man marrieth a virgin ,
so shall thy sons marry thee :
and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride ,
so will thy God rejoice over thee .
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I have set watchmen upon thy walls ,
O Jerusalem ,
which shall never hold their peace day nor night :
ye that make mention of the LORD ,
keep not silence ,
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And give him no rest ,
till he shall establish ,
and till he shall make Jerusalem a praise in the earth .
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The LORD hath sworn by his right hand ,
and by the arm of his strength ,
Surely I will no more give thy corn to be food for thy enemies ;
and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine ,
for which thou hast labored :
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But they that have gathered it shall eat it ,
and praise the LORD ;
and they that have collected it shall drink it in the courts of my holiness .
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Go through ,
go through the gates ;
prepare ye the way of the people ;
cast up ,
cast up the highway ;
gather out the stones ;
lift up a standard for the people .
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Behold ,
the LORD hath proclaimed to the end of the world ,
Say ye to the daughter of Zion ,
Behold ,
thy salvation cometh ;
Behold ,
his reward is with him ,
and his work before him .
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And they shall call them ,
The holy people ,
The redeemed of the LORD :
and thou shalt be called ,
Sought out ,
A city not forsaken .
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Who is this that cometh from Edom ,
with dyed garments from Bozrah ?
this that is glorious in his apparel ,
traveling in the greatness of his strength ?
I that speak in righteousness ,
mighty to save .
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Why art thou red in thy apparel ,
and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-vat .
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I have trodden the wine-press alone ;
and of the people there was none with me :
for I will tread them in my anger ,
and trample them in my fury ,
and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments ,
and I will stain all my raiment .
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For the day of vengeance is in my heart ,
and the year of my redeemed is come .
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And I looked ,
and there was none to help ;
and I wondered that there was none to uphold :
therefore my own arm brought salvation to me ;
and my fury ,
it upheld me .
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And I will tread down the people in my anger ,
and make them drunk in my fury ,
and I will bring down their strength to the earth .
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I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD ,
and the praises of the LORD ,
according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us ,
and the great goodness towards the house of Israel ,
which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies ,
and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses .
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For he said ,
Surely they are my people ,
children that will not lie :
so he was their Savior .
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In all their affliction he was afflicted ,
and the angel of his presence saved them :
in his love and in his pity he redeemed them ;
and he bore them ,
and carried them all the days of old .
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But they rebelled ,
and vexed his holy Spirit :
therefore he was turned to be their enemy ,
and he fought against them .
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Then he remembered the days of old ,
Moses ,
and his people ,
saying ,
Where is he that brought them out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock ?
where is he that put his holy Spirit within him ?
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That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm ,
dividing the water before them ,
to make himself an everlasting name ?
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That led them through the deep ,
as a horse in the wilderness ,
that they should not stumble ?
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As a beast goeth down in the valley ,
the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest :
so didst thou lead thy people ,
to make thyself a glorious name .
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Look down from heaven ,
and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory :
where is thy zeal and thy strength ,
the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies towards me ?
are they restrained ?
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Doubtless thou art our father ,
though Abraham be ignorant of us ,
and Israel acknowledge us not :
thou ,
O LORD ,
art our father ,
our Redeemer ;
thy name is from everlasting .
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O LORD ,
why hast thou made us to err from thy ways ,
and hardened our heart from thy fear ?
Return for thy servants '
sake ,
the tribes of thy inheritance .
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The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while :
our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary .
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We are thine :
thou never didst bear rule over them ;
they were not called by thy name .
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Oh that thou wouldst rend the heavens ,
that thou wouldst come down ,
that the mountains might flow down at thy presence ,
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As when the melting fire burneth ,
the fire causeth the waters to boil ,
to make thy name known to thy adversaries ,
that the nations may tremble at thy presence !
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When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for ,
thou camest down ,
the mountains flowed down at thy presence .
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For since the beginning of the world men have not heard ,
nor perceived by the ear ,
neither hath the eye seen ,
O God ,
besides thee ,
what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him .
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Thou meetest him that rejoiceth ,
and worketh righteousness ,
those that remember thee in thy ways :
behold ,
thou art wroth ;
for we have sinned :
in those is continuance ,
and we shall be saved .
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But we are all as an unclean thing ,
and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags ;
and we all do fade as a leaf ;
and our iniquities ,
like the wind ,
have taken us away .
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And there is none that calleth upon thy name ,
that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee :
for thou hast hid thy face from us ,
and hast consumed us ,
because of our iniquities .
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But now ,
O LORD ,
thou art our father ;
we are the clay ,
and thou our potter ;
and we all are the work of thy hand .
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Be not very wroth ,
O LORD ,
neither remember iniquity for ever :
behold ,
see ,
we beseech thee ,
we are all thy people .
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Thy holy cities are a wilderness ,
Zion is a wilderness ,
Jerusalem a desolation .
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Our holy and our beautiful house ,
where our fathers praised thee ,
is burned with fire :
and all our pleasant things are laid waste .
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Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things ,
O LORD ?
wilt thou hold thy peace ,
and grievously afflict us ?
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I am sought by them that asked not for me ;
I am found by them that sought me not :
I said ,
Behold me ,
behold me ,
to a nation that was not called by my name .
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I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people ,
which walketh in a way that is not good ,
after their own thoughts ;
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A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face ;
that sacrificeth in gardens ,
and burneth incense upon altars of brick ;
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Which remain among the graves ,
and lodge in the monuments ,
which eat swine '
s flesh ,
and broth of abominable things is in their vessels ;
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Which say ,
Stand by thyself ,
come not near to me ;
for I am holier than thou .
These are a smoke in my nose ,
a fire that burneth all the day .
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Behold ,
it is written before me :
I will not keep silence ,
but will recompense ,
even recompense into their bosom ,
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Your iniquities ,
and the iniquities of your fathers together ,
saith the LORD ,
who have burned incense upon the mountains ,
and blasphemed me upon the hills :
therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
As the new wine is found in the cluster ,
and one saith ,
Destroy it not ;
for a blessing is in it :
so will I do for my servants '
sake ,
that I may not destroy them all .
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And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob ,
and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains :
and my elect shall inherit it ,
and my servants shall dwell there .
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And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks ,
and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in ,
for my people that have sought me .
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But ye are they that forsake the LORD ,
that forget my holy mountain ,
that prepare a table for that troop ,
and that furnish the drink-offering to that number .
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Therefore will I number you to the sword ,
and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter :
because when I called ,
ye did not answer ;
when I spoke ,
ye did not hear ;
but did evil before my eyes ,
and did choose that in which I delighted not .
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ,
Behold ,
my servants shall eat ,
but ye shall be hungry :
behold ,
my servants shall drink ,
but ye shall be thirsty :
behold ,
my servants shall rejoice ,
but ye shall be ashamed :
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Behold ,
my servants shall sing for joy of heart ,
but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart ,
and shall howl for vexation of spirit .
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And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen :
for the Lord GOD will slay thee ,
and call his servants by another name :
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That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth ;
and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth ;
because the former troubles are forgotten ,
and because they are hid from my eyes .
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For behold ,
I create new heavens and a new earth :
and the former shall not be remembered ,
nor come into mind .
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But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create :
for behold ,
I create Jerusalem a rejoicing ,
and her people a joy .
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And I will rejoice in Jerusalem ,
and joy in my people :
and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her ,
nor the voice of crying .
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There shall be no more thence an infant of days ,
nor an old man that hath not filled his days :
for the child shall die a hundred years old :
but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed .
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And they shall build houses ,
and inhabit them ;
and they shall plant vineyards ,
and eat the fruit of them .
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They shall not build ,
and another inhabit ;
they shall not plant ,
and another eat :
for as the days of a tree are the days of my people ,
and my elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands .
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They shall not labor in vain ,
nor bring forth for trouble ;
for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD ,
and their offspring with them .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that before they call ,
I will answer ;
and while they are yet speaking ,
I will hear .
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The wolf and the lamb shall feed together ,
and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock :
and dust shall be the serpents '
food .
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain ,
saith the LORD .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
The heaven is my throne ,
and the earth is my footstool :
where is the house that ye build to me ?
and where is the place of my rest ?
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For all these things hath my hand made ,
and all these things have been ,
saith the LORD :
but to this man will I look ,
even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit ,
and trembleth at my word .
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He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man ;
he that sacrificeth a lamb ,
as if he cut off a dog '
s neck ;
he that offereth an oblation ,
as if he offered swine '
s blood ;
he that burneth incense ,
as if he blessed an idol .
Yes ,
they have chosen their own ways ,
and their soul delighteth in their abominations .
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I also will choose their delusions ,
and will bring their fears upon them ;
because when I called ,
none did answer ;
when I spoke ,
they did not hear :
but they did evil before my eyes ,
and chose that in which I delighted not .
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Hear the word of the LORD ,
ye that tremble at his word ;
Your brethren that hated you ,
that cast you out for my name '
s sake ,
said ,
Let the LORD be glorified :
but he shall appear to your joy ,
and they shall be ashamed .
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A voice of noise from the city ,
a voice from the temple ,
a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompense to his enemies .
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Before she travailed ,
she brought forth ;
before her pain came ,
she was delivered of a male child .
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Who hath heard such a thing ?
who hath seen such things ?
shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day ?
or shall a nation be born at once ?
for as soon as Zion travailed ,
she brought forth her children .
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Shall I bring to the birth ,
and not cause to bring forth ?
saith the LORD :
shall I cause to bring forth ,
and shut the womb ?
saith thy God .
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Rejoice ye with Jerusalem ,
and be glad with her ,
all ye that love her :
rejoice for joy with her ,
all ye that mourn for her :
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That ye may suck ,
and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations ;
that ye may draw milk ,
and be delighted with the abundance of her glory .
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For thus saith the LORD ,
Behold ,
I will extend peace to her like a river ,
and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream :
then shall ye suck ,
ye shall be borne upon her sides ,
and be dandled upon her knees .
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As one whom his mother comforteth ,
so will I comfort you ;
and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem .
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And when ye see this ,
your heart shall rejoice ,
and your bones shall flourish like an herb :
and the hand of the LORD shall be known towards his servants ,
and his indignation towards his enemies .
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For behold ,
the LORD will come with fire ,
and with his chariots like a whirlwind ,
to render his anger with fury ,
and his rebuke with flames of fire .
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For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh :
and the slain of the LORD shall be many .
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They that sanctify themselves ,
and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst ,
eating swine '
s flesh ,
and the abomination ,
and the mouse ,
shall be consumed together ,
saith the LORD .
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For I know their works and their thoughts :
it shall come ,
that I will gather all nations and tongues ;
and they shall come ,
and see my glory .
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And I will set a sign among them ,
and I will send those that escape of them to the nations ,
to Tarshish ,
Pul ,
and Lud ,
that draw the bow ,
to Tubal ,
and Javan ,
to the isles afar off ,
that have not heard my fame ,
neither have seen my glory ;
and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles .
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And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the LORD out of all nations upon horses ,
and in chariots ,
and in litters ,
and upon mules ,
and upon swift beasts ,
to my holy mountain Jerusalem ,
saith the LORD ,
as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD .
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And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites ,
saith the LORD .
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For as the new heavens and the new earth ,
which I will make ,
shall remain before me ,
saith the LORD ,
so shall your seed and your name remain .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that from one new moon to another ,
and from one sabbath to another ,
shall all flesh come to worship before me ,
saith the LORD .
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And they shall go forth ,
and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me :
for their worm shall not die ,
neither shall their fire be quenched ;
and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh .
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