halt
(holt)n. A
suspension of movement or progress, especially a temporary one.v. halt-ed, halt-ing,
halts.v. tr. To cause to stop; arrest.v. intr. To stop; pause. See Synonyms at stop.
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shrink
(shringk)v.
shrank
(shrangk).
or shrunk
To become constricted from heat, moisture, or
cold. See Synonyms at contract. 2. To
become reduced in amount or value; dwindle: His savings quickly shrank. 3. To draw back instinctively, as from something alarming; recoil. See Synonyms at recoil. 4. To
show reluctance; hesitate: shrink from making such a sacrifice.v. tr. To cause
to shrink.n. 1. The act of shrinking. The degree to which something shrinks;
shrinkage. 2. Slang. A psychiatrist.[Middle English shrinken, to wither, shrivel up, from Old English
scrincan. See sker-2.]--shrink'a-ble adj. --shrink'er n.
**
pre-vail
(pri-val)v. intr. pre-vailed, pre-vail-ing,
pre-vails. 1. To be greater in strength
or influence; triumph: prevailed against great odds. 2. To be or become effective; win out:
hoped justice would prevail. 3. To be
most common or frequent; be predominant: a region where snow and ice
prevail. 4. To be in force, use, or
effect; be current: an ancient tradition that still prevails. 5. To use
persuasion or inducement successfully. Often used with on, upon, or with. See
Synonyms at persuade.[Middle English prevailen, from Old French prevaloir,
prevaill-, from Latin praevalere, to be stronger : prae-, pre- + valere, to be
strong. See wal-.]--pre-vail'er n.
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a-sun-der
(-sundr)adv.
1. Into separate parts or pieces: broken asunder. 2. Apart
from each other either in position
or in
direction: The curtains had been
drawn asunder.[Middle English, from Old English on sundran : on, on. See ON +
sundran, separately (from sunder, apart).]
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wise
Often equated
with Wisdom
(wiz)adj. wis-er, wis-est. 1. Having wisdom or discernment for
what
is - true, right, or lasting;
sagacious: a wise leader. 2. Exhibiting
common sense; prudent: a wise
decision. Shrewd;
crafty. 3.
Having great learning; erudite. 4. Provided with information; informed. Used
with to: was wise to the politics of the department. 5. Slang. Rude and
disrespectful; impudent. --phrasal verb. wise up. Slang. To make or become
aware, informed, or sophisticated.
Excerpted from American Heritage
Talking Dictionary
******
And
they were both naked, the man - and his wife,
and were not ashamed.
**
Behold,
he taketh
away,
who
can
hinder him?
who
will
say unto him,
What doest thou?
If
God
will not withdraw his anger,
the proud
helpers do
stoop under him.
**
And
he said,
Cursed be Canaan;
a
servant of
servants shall he be
unto his brethren.
**
And
the servant
put
his hand under
the thigh of Abraham - his master,
and
sware to him concerning - that matter.
*
They mar my path,
they set forward my calamity,
they have no helper.
They
came upon me as a wide - breaking in - of
waters:
*
And
Jacob was left alone;
and
there wrestled a man with him until - the breaking - of the day.
And
when he saw - that he
- prevailed not -
against him,
he touched the hollow of
- his thigh;
and
the hollow
of
Jacob's thigh was out
of joint,
as
he wrestled with him.
*
And
as he passed
over
Penuel the sun
rose
upon him,
*
And the servant put his hand
under the thigh of Abraham his master,
*
and
he halted upon his thigh.
Therefore the children of Israel
- eat not
of the sinew
which shrank,
which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day:
because he touched
the hollow
of
Jacob's thigh in the sinew
that shrank.
*
And they said,
Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement,
and
to put her away.
And
Emmanuel
answered - and said unto them,
For
the hardness of your heart he - wrote
- you - this precept.
But
from the beginning
of the creation - God made them
- male - and female.
For
this cause
shall a man leave
his father - and mother,
and
cleave to
his wife;
And
they twain
shall be one flesh:
so then they are no more twain,
but
one flesh.
What
therefore
God hath
joined together,
let
not
man put asunder.
And
in - the house
his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
*
There
the wicked
cease from troubling;
***
And
Noah begat
three
sons, Shem,
Ham, and Japheth.
*
And
Rebekah said to
Isaac,
I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth:
if
Jacob
take a wife of the daughters of Heth,
such
as these which are
of the daughters of the land,
what
good
shall my life - do
me?
***
and
there the weary be at rest.
There
the prisoners rest together;
they
hear not the
voice of the oppressor. The small and great
are there;
***
And
the servant
put
his hand under
the thigh of Abraham his master,
and
sware to him concerning that matter.
***
and
the servant
is
free from his master.
*
O
Zion,
that
bringest good tidings,
get
thee up
into the high mountain;
O
Jerusalem,
that
bringest good tidings,
lift
up thy
voice with strength;
lift
it up, be not afraid;
say
unto the cities of
Judah,
Behold your
God!
Behold,
the Lord
God
ISamuelyeaonAmallahOpia
will
come with strong hand, and his arm
shall rule
for him:
behold,
his reward
is with
him,
and his work
before him.
He
shall feed his flock like
a shepherd:
he
shall gather the lambs with his arm,
and
carry them in
his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with
young.
Who
hath
measured the waters in
the hollow
of
his hand,
and
meted out
heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust
of the earth in a
measure, and weighed the mountains in
scales,
and
the hills
in
a balance?
Who
hath
directed the spirit of
the Lord, or
being
his counsellor hath taught him?
With
whom took
he counsel,
and
who instructed
him,
and
taught him in the
path of judgment,
**
And
the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
**
And
I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom,
and
in understanding,
and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
**
Then
wrought
Bezaleel and Aholiab,
and
every wise-hearted man,
in
whom
the Lord put wisdom
and
understanding to know how to work all
manner of
work for the service of
the sanctuary,
according
to all that the Lord had commanded.
**
Take you - wise men, and understanding, and known
among
your
tribes,
and
I will make them rulers over
you.
**
Keep
therefore and do them;
for
this is your wisdom - and
your understanding in the sight of the nations,
which shall hear all these statutes,
and say,
Surely
this great nation is a wise - and understanding people.
**
For
they
are a nation void of counsel,
neither
is there any understanding in them.
**
Give
therefore
thy servant an understanding
heart to judge
thy people,
that
I may
discern between
good and bad:
for
who is able to judge this thy - so great
a people?
**
And
God said unto him,
Because
thou
hast asked
this
thing,
and
hast not
asked
for thyself long life;
neither hast asked riches for thyself,
nor hast asked the life of thine
enemies;
but hast asked for thyself
understanding to
discern judgment;
Behold,
I
have done according to thy words:
lo,
I
have given thee a wise - and an understanding
heart;
so that there was none like thee before thee,
neither
after thee
shall any arise like
unto thee.
**
get understanding:
therefore I
hate every false way.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet,
and
a light unto my
path.
I have
sworn,
and
I will perform it,
that I
will keep thy
righteous
judgments.
I am afflicted
very much:
quicken
me,
O Lord,
according
unto
thy word.
Accept,
I
beseech thee,
the freewill
offerings of my mouth,
O
Lord,
and
teach me
- thy judgments.
**
Wisdom
is
the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:
and
with all thy getting
get understanding.
*****
. . . and taught him in the path of judgment,
and taught - him knowledge,
and shewed to - him
the way of understanding?
*****
Behold,
the nations are
as a drop of a bucket,
and
are counted as the small dust
of the balance:
***
And
Noah builded
an
altar unto the Lord;
and
took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl,
and
offered burnt
offerings on the altar.
And
the Lord smelled a
sweet savour;
and
the Lord said in his heart,
I
will not –again - curse
the ground any more for
man's sake;
***
behold,
he
taketh up the isles as a very little
thing.
And
Lebanon is
not sufficient
to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient
for
a burnt offering.
All nations before him are as nothing;
and they
are
counted to him less than nothing,
and
vanity.
***
And
the Lord God planted
a garden eastward in Eden;
and
there he put the man whom he
had formed.
***
To whom then
will ye liken God?
or
what likeness will ye compare
unto him?
The workman
melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold,
and casteth
silver chains.
He
that
is so impoverished
that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not
rot;
he
seeketh
unto him a cunning workman to
prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
Have
ye not known?
have
ye not
heard?
hath
it not
been told you from the
beginning?
have
ye not
understood from the foundations of the earth?
It
is he that
sitteth upon the circle of the earth,
and
the inhabitants
thereof
are as grasshoppers;
***
God shall enlarge
Japheth,
and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his
servant.
***
that
stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
That
bringeth
the princes to nothing;
he maketh the judges
of
the earth as vanity.
Yea,
they
shall not be planted;
yea,
they shall not be sown:
yea,
their
stock shall not take root in the earth:
and
he shall also blow
upon them,
and
they shall wither,
and
the whirlwind shall take them
away as stubble.
To
whom then will ye liken me,
or
shall I
be equal?
saith the Holy One.
Lift
up your
eyes on high,
and behold - who hath created these things,
that bringeth out
their
host by number:
he
calleth
them - all by names - by the greatness
of his might,
for
that
he is strong in
power;
not one faileth.
Why sayest thou,
O
Jacob,
and
speakest,
O
Israel,
My way is hid from the Lord,
and
my judgment is passed
over from my God?
Hast thou not known?
hast
thou
not heard,
that the everlasting God,
the Lord,
the Creator of
the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?
there
is
no searching of
his understanding.
He
giveth power to the faint;
and
to them that
have no might he increaseth strength.
Even
the youths
shall faint
and
be weary,
and
the young
men
shall utterly
fall:
But
they that
wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;
they
shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run,
and
not be weary;
and
they shall walk,
and
not faint.
***
And
it shall come to pass in that day,
that
the Lord
shall set
his hand again the
second time to
recover the remnant of his people,
which
shall be
left,
from
Assyria,
and
from Egypt,
and
from Pathros,
and
from Cush,
and
from Elam,
and
from Shinar,
and
from Hamath,
and
from the islands
of the sea.
And
he shall set up an ensign
for the nations,
and
shall assemble
the outcasts
of
Israel, and gather together the dispersed of
Judah from - the four corners of the earth.
***
Keep silence
before me,
O islands;
and
let the people renew their strength: let them come near;
then
let them speak:
let
us
come near together to judgment.
Who
raised
up the righteous man from the east,
called
him to his foot,
gave
the nations before him,
and
made him rule
over kings?
he
gave
them as the dust to his sword,
and
as driven stubble to
his bow.
He
pursued
them,
and
passed safely;
even
by the way
that
he had not gone with his feet.
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from - the beginning?
I the Lord,
the first,
and
with the last;
I am he.
The isles saw it,
and
feared;
the ends of the earth were afraid,
drew near,
and
came.
They
helped every one his neighbour;
and every
one said to his brother,
Be of good
courage.
So
the carpenter
encouraged
the goldsmith,
and
he that smootheth
with the hammer him that smote the anvil,
saying,
It is ready for
the soldering: and he fastened it with
nails, that it - should not be moved.
But thou,
IsRAel,
art
my servant,
Jacob
whom
I
have chosen,
the seed of
Abraham -
my friend.
Thou
whom I have taken
from the ends of the earth,
and
called thee
from the chief men thereof,
and
said unto thee,
Thou art
my servant;
I
have chosen thee, - and not cast thee away.
Fear thou not;
for
I am with
thee: be not dismayed;
for I am thy God:
I
will strengthen
thee;
yea,
I will help thee;
**
And Abram said to the king of
Sodom,
I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord,
the most
high God,
the possessor
of
heaven
- and earth,
**
yea,
I
will uphold
thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Behold,
all
they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed - and confounded: they shall be as nothing;
and
they that strive with
thee shall perish.
Thou
shalt seek them, - and shalt not find them,
even
them
that contended with
thee: they
that
war against thee
shall be
as
nothing, - and as a thing of nought.
For
I
the Lord thy God
will hold thy
right hand,
saying unto thee,
Fear not;
I
will help thee.
Fear
not, thou
worm Jacob,
- and ye
men
of Israel;
I will help thee,
saith
the Lord,
and
thy redeemer,
the Holy
One
of Israel.
Behold,
I
will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument
having teeth: thou
shalt
thresh the mountains,
and
beat them
small,
and
shalt make the hills as chaff.
Thou
shalt
fan them, and the wind shall carry them away,
and
the whirlwind
shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy
One of Israel.
***
And
he cried and said,
Father
Abraham, have mercy on me,
and send
Lazarus,
that he may dip the tip of
his finger in water,
and cool my tongue;
for
I am tormented
in this flame.
But
Abraham said, Son, remember that
thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil
things:
but now he is
comforted, and thou art
tormented.
***
When
the poor
and
needy seek water, and
there is
none,
and
their tongue faileth
for thirst,
I
the Lord
will hear them,
I the God
of Israel will not forsake them.
I
will
open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst
of the valleys:
I
will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and
the dry land springs of water.
I
will plant in the wilderness the cedar,
the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree;
I
will set
in the desert the fir tree,
and
the pine,
and
the box tree together:
***
and
it came to pass,
when
they were in the field,
that
Cain rose
up against Abel his brother,
and
slew him.
And
the Lord said unto Cain, Where
is
Abel thy
brother?
And
he said,
I know not:
Am
I
my brother's keeper?
***
That they may
see,
and know,
and
consider,
and understand together,
that
the hand of the
Lord hath done this,
and
the Holy
One
of Israel hath created it.
Produce
your cause,
saith
the Lord;
bring
forth
your strong reasons,
saith
the King
of
Jacob.
Let
them
bring them forth,
and
shew us what shall happen:
let
them shew
the former things,
what they be,
***
For
God doth
know that
in the day ye eat thereof,
then
your eyes
shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing
good
and evil.
***
that
we may
consider them, and
know the latter
end
of them; or declare us things for to come.
Shew
the things
that
are to come hereafter,
that we
may know that ye are gods:
***
And
he said unto the workman,
Yea,
hath God
said,
Ye
shall
not eat of every tree of the
garden?
***
yea,
do good, or do evil,
that we may be dismayed, and behold it
together.
Behold,
ye
are of nothing,
and your
work of nought: an
abomination is he that
chooseth you.
I
have raised up one from the north, and he
shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes
as
upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Who
hath
declared from - the beginning, that we may know?
and
beforetime, that we may
say,
He is righteous?
yea,
there
is
none that
sheweth,
yea,
there
is none that declareth,
yea,
there is none
that heareth
your words.
The first shall
say to Zion,
Behold,
behold
them:
and
I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth
good tidings.
For I beheld,
and
there was
no man;
even
among them, and there was no counsellor, that,
when I
asked of
them, could answer a word.
Behold,
they
are
all vanity; their works are nothing:
their molten images are
wind and confusion.
Behold my
servant,
whom I uphold;
mine
elect,
in whom my soul
delighteth;
I
have put my spirit upon him:
he
shall
bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
He shall not cry,
nor lift up, nor cause
his voice to be heard in the
street.
A
bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax
shall he not quench:
he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
He
shall
not fail
nor
be discouraged, till he
have
set
judgment in
the earth: and the isles
shall wait for his law.
Thus saith God the Lord,
he
that
created the heavens,
and
stretched them
out;
he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of
it;
he
that
giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to
them that walk therein:
I the Lord ISamuelyeaonamallahOpia
have
called thee
in righteousness,
and
will hold thine hand,
and
will keep thee,
and
give thee for a covenant of the people,
for a light of the Gentiles;
