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Beginning
tail2
(tal)
Law.n.
Limitation of the inheritance of an estate to a particular party.adj. Law. Being in tail: a tail estate.[Middle English taille, from Old French, division, from taillier, to cut. See TAILOR.]
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holpen
(holpn)v. Archaic. A past participle of help.
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i-mag-i-na-tion
. 1. The formation of a mental image of something that is neither perceived as real nor present to the senses. The mental image so formed. The ability or tendency to form such images. 2. The ability to confront and deal with reality by using the creative power of the mind; resourcefulness: handled the problems with great imagination. 3. A traditional or widely held belief or opinion. . . .
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gird1
(gurd)v. gird-ed or girt (gurt). gird-ing, girds.v. tr. 1. To encircle with a belt or band. To fasten or secure (clothing, for example) with a belt or band. To surround. See Synonyms at surround. 2. To equip or endow. 3. To prepare (oneself) for action.v. intr. To prepare for action: "Men still spoke of peace but girded more sternly for war" (W. Bruce Lincoln).--idiom. gird (up) (one's) loins. To summon up one's inner resources in preparation for action.[Middle English girden, from Old English gyrdan. See gher-1.]
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churl
(churl)n. 1. A rude, boorish person. See Synonyms at boor. 2. A miserly person. 3. A ceorl. A medieval English peasant.
An awkward and uncouth person : lout, churl, boor, clod, blockhead, dolt, galoot (slang), klutz (slang), lummox, oaf, bumpkin, ox, yokel.
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vil-lain-y
(vil-ne).Something that causes harm, misfortune, or destruction : evil, cruelty, deviltry, badness, diablerie, fiendishness, hellishness, iniquity, malevolence, malice, malignancy, viciousness, villainy, wickedness.
Antonyms
misbehavior, infraction, misdemeanor, wrongdoing, trespass, violation, iniquity, malefaction, crime, felony, villainy, sin, evil, evildoing, wickedness.
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vin-tage
(vintij)n. 1. The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season. 2. Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin. 3. The year or place in which a wine is bottled. 4. The harvesting of a grape crop. The initial stages of winemaking. 5. Informal. A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics. A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage. Length of existence; age.
Excerpted from American Heritage Talking Dictionary
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That the sons of God
saw
the daughters of men that they were fair;
**
And
it
came to pass,
when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,
and
daughters were born unto them,
**
And
God
saw
the light,
**
That the sons of
God
saw
the
daughters
of
men
that they were fair;
**
that it was good:
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and
they took them - wives of all which - they chose.
**
And
the
days
of
Adam
and
he
begat sons and daughters:
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And Seth
and
begat sons and daughters:
**
And Enos
and
begat sons and daughters:
**
And Cainan
and
begat sons and daughters:
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And Mahalaleel
and
begat sons and daughters:
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And Jared
and
begat sons and daughters:
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And Enoch
and
begat sons and daughters:
And Enoch
and
begat sons and daughters:
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And Methuselah
and
begat sons and daughters:
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And Lamech
and
begat sons and daughters:
**
and
God
divided
the
light
from
the
darkness.
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behold,
twins were in her womb.
And it came to pass,
when she travailed,
that the one put out his hand:
and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread,
**
Wherefore,
O king,
let my counsel be acceptable unto thee,
and break off thy sins by righteousness,
and thine inequities by shewing mercy to the poor;
if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
All
this came
upon
the
king
Nebuchadnezzar.
***
saying,
This came
out first.
And
it
came to pass,
as he drew back his hand,
**
Associate
yourselves,
O ye people,
and ye shall be broken in pieces;
and give ear,
all ye of far countries:
gird yourselves,
and ye shall be broken in pieces;
gird yourselves,
and ye shall be broken in pieces.
Take counsel together,
and it shall come to nought; speak the word,
and it shall not stand:
**
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold,
a virgin shall conceive,
and
bear a son,
and shall call his name
Immanuel.
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for God is with us.
For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand,
and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people,
saying,
Say ye not,
A confederacy,
to all them to whom this people shall say,
A confederacy;
neither fear ye their fear,
nor be afraid.
Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself;
and let him be your fear,
and let him be your dread.
And he shall be for a sanctuary;
but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel,
for a gin - and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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that,
behold,
his brother came out:
and
she
said,
How - hast thou - broken forth?
**
And
he
said,
Cursed be Canaan;
a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. . . .
God
shall enlarge
Japheth,
and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem;
and
Canaan shall be his servant.
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this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.
And
afterward
came out his brother,
that had the scarlet thread upon his hand:
and his name was called Zerah.
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jewels of silver,
and jewels of gold,
and
raiment:
and ye shall put them upon your sons,
and upon your daughters;
**
then your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods, knowing good
and evil
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and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
And
Moses
answered
and
said,
But,
behold,
they will not believe me,
nor hearken unto my voice:
for
they
will say,
The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.
And
the
Lord
said
unto
him,
What is that in thine hand?
**
wherefore
it
is
said,
Even as Nimrod
the
mighty hunter before the Lord.
***
And he said,
A
rod.
And
he
said,
Cast it on the ground.
And
he
cast it on the ground,
**
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
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and it became a serpent;
and
Moses
fled
from
before it.
And
the Lord
said
unto Moses,
Put forth thine hand,
and
take it by the tail. *
And
he
put forth his hand,
and
caught it,
and
it
became a rod in his hand:
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The meek also shall increase their joy in the
Lord ISamuelyea,
and the poor among men shall rejoice in the
Holy One of Israel.
For the terrible one is brought to nought,
and the scorner is consumed,
and all that watch for inequity are cut off:
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And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense,
from
Geba
to
Beersheba,
and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city,
which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem,
but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
And
he
defiled Topheth,
which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom,
that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun,
at the entering in of the house of the Lord,
by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain,
which was in the suburbs,
and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
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For Tophet is ordained of old;
yea,
for the king
it is
prepared;
he
hath made it deep and large:
the pile thereof is fire and much wood;
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And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils -
the breath of life;
and man became a living soul.
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All the while my breath
is in
me,
and
the
spirit
of
God
is in
my nostrils;
My lips shall not speak wickedness,
nor my tongue utter deceit.
God
forbid
that I should justify you:
till I die - I will not remove mine integrity from me.
My righteousness I hold fast,
and will not let it go:
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wickedness
of man was great in the earth,
**
and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
**
And it shall come to pass,
when many evils
and troubles are befallen them,
that this song shall testify against them as a witness;
for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed:
for I know
their imagination which
they go about,
even
now,
before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
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and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only
evil
con-tin-u-ally.
*
for the imagination of man's heart is evil - from his youth;
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my heart shall not reproach me - so long as I live.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked,
and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
For - what is the hope of the hypocrite,
though he hath gained,
when
God
taketh away his soul?
*
the breath of the Lord,
like a stream of brimstone,
doth kindle it.
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help;
and stay on horses,
and trust in chariots,
because they are many;
and in horsemen,
because they are very strong;
but they look not unto the
Holy One of Israel,
neither seek the Lord!
Yet he also is wise,
and will bring evil,
and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers,
and against the help of them that work inequity.
**
and
he
called
his name Enos:
then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
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And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: . . .
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Now the Egyptians are men, and not God;
and their horses flesh,
and not spirit.
When the Lord shall stretch out his hand,
both he that helpeth shall fall,
and he that is holpen shall fall down,
and they all shall fail together.
For
thus hath
the
Lord ISamuelOn
spoken
unto
me,
Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey,
when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him,
he will not be afraid of their voice,
nor abase himself for the noise of them:
so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion,
and for the hill thereof.
As birds flying,
so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem;
defending also he will deliver it;
and passing over he will preserve it.
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold,
which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword,
not of a mighty man;
and the sword,
not of a mean man,
shall devour him:
but he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be discomfited.
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And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites,
the inhabitants of the land:
which spake
unto
David,
saying,
Except thou take away the blind
and the lame,
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Woe to the land shadowing with wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea,
even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters,
saying,
Go,
ye swift messengers,
to a nation scattered and peeled,. . .
A people peeled of all identifiable characteristics leaving no semblance at all of who or what they are.
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Peeled
Years of imposed, torture, belittlement, false imprisonment, perpetual poverty, has peeled, stripped Israel clean of all knowledge of their heritage . . .
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I
said,
I would scatter them into corners,
I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
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But ISamuelyeaonZion, swear by myself for there is none Higher, what ISrael will be - and have become is a terrible people and there is none, this day or ever will be liken unto ISrael in the whole earth, Forever..
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to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto;
a nation meted out and trodden down,
whose land the rivers have spoiled
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In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled,
and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto;
a nation meted out and trodden under foot,
whose land the rivers have spoiled,
to the place of the name
of
the
Lord of hosts,
the
mount Zion.
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and if thou doest not well,
sin
lieth
at the door.
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thou shalt not come
in
hither:
thinking,
David cannot come in hither.
Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion:
the same is the city of David.
And David
said
on that day,
Whosoever getteth up to the gutter,
and smiteth the Jebusites,
and the lame and the blind,
that are hated
of
David's soul,
he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said,
The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
So David dwelt in the fort,
and
called it the city of
David.
And David built round about from Millo and inward.
And David went
on,
and
grew great,
and
the
Lord God
of
ISrael
was with him.
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And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear,
and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign,
saith
the
Lord
ISamuelAm,
whose fire is in Zion,
and his furnace in Jerusalem.
Behold,
a king shall reign in righteousness,
and princes shall rule in judgment.
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind,
and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim,
and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
The heart
also
*
and
were not ashamed.
*
of the rash
shall
understand knowledge,
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For then
will
ISamuelyea
turn to the people
a
pure language,
that they may all call upon the name of the Lord,
to serve him with one consent.
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants,
even the daughter of my dispersed,
shall bring mine offering.
In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me:
for then
ISamuelyeaZIon
will take away out of the midst of thee - them that rejoice in thy pride,
and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted
and poor people,
and they shall trust in the name of the
Lord ISamuelyeaon.
The remnant of ISrael shall not do inequity,
nor speak lies;
neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth:
for they shall feed
and lie down,
and none shall make them afraid.
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and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
The vile person shall be no more called liberal,
nor the churl said to be bountiful.
For the vile person will speak villainy,
and his heart will work inequity,
to practise hypocrisy,
and to utter error against the
Lord ISamuelMe,
to make empty the soul of the hungry,
and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
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Simeon
and
Levi
are brethren;
instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
O my soul,
come not thou into their secret;
unto their assembly,
mine honour,
be not thou united:
for in their anger they slew a man,
**
My father made me swear, saying,
Lo,
I die:
in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan,
there shalt thou bury me.
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and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Cursed be their anger,
for it was fierce;
and their wrath,
for it was cruel:
I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
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The instruments also of the churl are evil:
he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor
with lying words,
even when the needy speaketh right.
But the liberal deviseth liberal things;
and by liberal things shall he stand.
Rise up,
ye workmen that are at ease;
hear my voice,
**
This is
the rejoicing city
that dwelt carelessly,
that said
in
her
heart,
I am,
and there is none beside me:
how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
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ye
careless daughters;
give ear unto my speech.
Many days
and years shall ye be troubled,
ye careless workmen:
for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
Tremble,
ye workmen that are at ease; be troubled,
ye careless ones:
strip you,
and make you bare,
and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
They shall lament for the teats,
for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns
and briers;
yea,
upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Because the palaces shall be forsaken;
the multitude of the city shall be left;
the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever,
a joy of wild asses,
a pasture of flocks;
Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high,
and the wilderness be a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
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And
the
Lord
said,
Shall I hide from Abraham
that thing which I do;
**
And the Lord did
that thing
on the morrow,
and all the cattle of Egypt died:
but of the cattle of the children of ISrael died not one.
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Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great
and mighty nation,
and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
For
ISamuelyea
know him,
that he will command his children . . .
**
And
she
called
the
name of
the
Lord
that spake
unto
her,
Thou God seest me:
for she said,
Have I also - here looked
after him
that
seeth me?
**
He that is born in thy house,
and he that is bought with thy money,
must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
And
the
uncircumcised
man child
whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised,
that soul shall be cut off from his people;
he hath broken my covenant.
***
and his household
after him,
and they shall keep the way of the Lord,
to do justice
and judgment;
that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
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Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness,
and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
And
the work of righteousness shall be peace;
and the effect of righteousness quietness
and assurance for ever.
And
my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation,
and in sure dwellings,
and in quiet resting places;
When it shall hail,
coming down - on the forest;
and the city shall be low in a low place.
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Our cattle also shall go with us;
there shall not an hoof be left behind;
for thereof must we take to serve the Lord our God;
and we know not with what we must serve the Lord,
until we come thither.
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Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters,
that send forth thither the feet of the ox
and the ass.
Woe to thee that spoilest,
and thou wast not spoiled;
and dealest treacherously,
and they dealt not treacherously with thee!
when thou shalt cease to spoil,
thou shalt be spoiled;
and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously,
they shall deal treacherously with thee.
O
Lord,
be gracious unto us;
we have waited for thee:
be thou their arm every morning,
our salvation also in the time of trouble.
At the noise of the tumult the people fled;
at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar:
as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
The
Lord
ISamuelyeaonAllahOpia
is exalted;
for he dwelleth on high:
he hath filled Zion with judgment
and
righteousness.
And
wisdom
and
knowledge shall be the stability of thy times,
and
strength of salvation:
the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
Behold,
their valiant ones shall cry without:
the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
The highways lie waste,
the wayfaring man ceaseth:
he hath broken the covenant,
he hath despised the cities,
he regardeth no man.
The earth mourneth
and languisheth:
Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down:
Sharon is like a wilderness;
and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Now
will
ISamuelyeaonamallahopia
rise,
saith the
Lord God;
now will ISamuelZiOn
be
exalted;
now
will ISamuelam
lift up
myself.
Samuel
