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rem-nant

(remnnt)n. 1. Something left over; a remainder. 2. A leftover piece of fabric remaining after the rest has been used or sold. 3. A surviving trace or vestige: a remnant of his past glory. See Synonyms at remainder. 4.  Often remnants. A small surviving group of people.[Middle English remanant, remnant, from Old French remanant, from present participle of remaindre, to remain. See REMAIN.]

                                                                           Excerpted from American Heritage Talking Dictionary

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The Lord ISamuel sent a word into Jacob,

and it hath lighted upon Israel.

           And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria,

that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

The bricks are fallen down,

but we will build with hewn stones:

the sycomores are cut down,

but we will change them into cedars.

Therefore the Lord ISamuel shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him,

and join his enemies together;

The Syrians before,

and the Philistines behind;

and they shall devour Israel with open mouth.

For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,

neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

Israel head and tail,

branch and rush,

in one day.

The ancient and honourable,

he is the head;

and the prophet that teacheth lies,

he is the tail.

For the leaders of this people cause them to err;

and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Therefore the Lord ISamuel shall have no joy in their young men,

neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows:

for every one is an hypocrite and an d-evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly.

For all this his anger is not turned away,

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And the angel of the Lord said unto

her,

I will multiply thy seed exceedingly,

that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

And the angel of the Lord

said unto her,

Behold,

thou art with child,

and shalt bear a son,

and shalt call his name Ishmael;

because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.

And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,

and every man's hand against him;

and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

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but his hand is stretched out still.

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And the water was spent in the bottle,

and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

And she went,

and sat her down - over against him a good way off,

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And in the vine were three branches:

and it was as though it budded,

and her blossoms - shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:

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as it were a bow-shot:

for she said,

Let me - not see the death of the child.

And she sat over - against him,

and lift up her voice,

and wept.

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For wickedness burneth as the fire:

it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest,

and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened,

and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire:

no man shall spare his brother.

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Behold,

I go forward,

but he is not there;

and backward,

but I cannot perceive him:

On the left hand,

where he doth work,

but I cannot behold him:

he hideth himself

on the right hand,

that I cannot see him:

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And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry;

and he shall eat on the left hand,

and they shall not be satisfied:

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Wherefore say unto the children of Israel,

I am the Lord ISamuel,

and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage,

and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm,

and with great judgments:

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they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

Manasseth, Ephraim;

and Ephraim, Manasseth:

and they together shall be against Judah.

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And Judah said unto his brethren,

What profit is it if we slay our brother,

and conceal his blood?

Come,

and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites,

and let not our hand be upon him;

for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.

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For all this his anger is not turned away,

but his hand is stretched out still.

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees,

and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

To turn aside the needy from judgment,

and to take away the right from the poor of my people,

that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far?

to whom will ye flee for help?

and where will ye leave your glory?

Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners,

and they shall fall under the slain.

 For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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Thus saith the Lord,

In this thou shalt know that

I am the Lord ISamuel:

behold,

I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river,

and they shall be turned to blood.

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O Assyrian,

the rod of mine anger,

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I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies,

and of all the truth,

which thou hast shewed unto thy servant;

for with my staff - I passed over this Jordan;

and now I am become - two bands.

Deliver me,

I pray thee,

from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau:

for I fear him,

lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children

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and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

I will send him against an hypocritical nation,

and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge,

to take the spoil,

 and to take the prey,

and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

          

Howbeit he meaneth not so,

neither doth his heart think so;

but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

For he saith,

Are not my princes altogether kings?

Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols,

and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

Shall I not,

as I have done unto Samaria and her idols,

so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord ISamuel hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem,

I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria,

and the glory of his high looks.

For he saith,

By the strength of my hand I have done it,

and by my wisdom;

for I am prudent:

and I have removed the bounds of the people,

and have robbed their treasures,

and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people:

and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth;

and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth,

or peeped.

Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?

or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it?

as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up,

or as if the staff should lift up itself,

as if it were no wood.

Therefore shall the Lord ISamuel,

the Lord of hosts,

send among his fat ones leanness;

and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame:

and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

And shall consume the glory of his forest,

and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

          

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few,

that a child may write them.

    

And it shall come to pass in that day,

that the remnant of Israel,

and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob,

shall no more again stay upon him that smote them;

but shall stay upon the Lord ISamuelyeaon,

the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

The remnant shall re-turn,

even the remnant of Jacob,

unto the mighty God.

For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea,

yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption,

even determined,

in the midst of all the land.

Therefore thus saith

the Lord God

ISamuelyeaonAmallahOpia

of hosts,

O my people that dwellest in Zion,

be not afraid of the Assyrian:

he shall smite thee with a rod,

and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

For yet a - very little while,

and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea,

so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

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And the Lord said unto Cain,

Where is Abel thy brother?

And he said,

I know not:

Am I my brother's keeper?

And he said,

What hast thou done?

the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

And now art thou cursed from the earth,

which hath - opened her mouth to receive  - thy brother's blood from thy hand;

When thou  tillest the ground,

it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength;

a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

And Cain said unto the Lord,

My punishment is greater than I can bear.

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And it shall come to pass in that day,

that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder,

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And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother;

and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion,

that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

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and his yoke from off thy neck,

and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Samuel