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ISAIAH
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- As a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall,
- Whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
- 14And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken,
- Breaking it in pieces without sparing;
- So that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd
- To take fire from the hearth,
- Or to take water out of the cistern.
- 15For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:
- In sitting still and rest shall ye be saved,
- In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength;
- And ye would not.
- 16But ye said: 'No, for we will flee upon horses';
- Therefore shall ye flee;
- And: 'We will ride upon the swift';
- Therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
- 17One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one,
- At the rebuke of five shall ye flee;
- Till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain,
- And as an ensign on a hill.
- 18And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you,
- And therefore will He be exalted, that He may have compassion upon you;
- For the Lord is a God of justice,
- Happy are all they that wait for Him.
- 19For, O people that dwellest in Zion at Jerusalem,
- Thou shalt weep no more;
- He will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry,
- When He shall hear, He will answer thee.
- 20And though the Lord give you sparing bread and scant water,
- Yet shall not thy Teacher hide Himself any more,
- But thine eyes shall see thy Teacher;
- 21And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying:
- 'This is the way, walk ye in it,
- When ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.'
- 22And ye shall defile thy graven images overlaid with silver,
- And thy molten images covered with gold;
- Thou shalt put them far away as one unclean;
- Thou shalt say unto it: 'Get thee hence.'
- 23And He will give the rain for thy seed, wherewith thou sowest the ground,
- And bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous;
- In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
- 24The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground
- Shall eat savoury provender,
- Which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
- 25And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill
- Streams and watercourses,
- In the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
- 26Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,
- And the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of the seven days,
- In the day that the Lord bindeth up the bruise of His people,
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