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1 | Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's
divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is
it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have
ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother
put away. |
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2 | Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was
there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it
cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my
rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their
fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for
thirst. |
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3 | I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth
their covering. |
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4 | The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I
should know how to speak a word in season to him that is
weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to
hear as the learned. |
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5 | The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away back. |
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6 | I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that
plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and
spitting. |
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7 | For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be
confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I
know that I shall not be ashamed. |
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8 | He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let
us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to
me. |
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9 | Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall
condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth
shall eat them up. |
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10 | Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice
of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light?
let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. |
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11 | Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves
about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the
sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand;
ye shall lie down in sorrow. |
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