Is any thing too hard for the Lord?

And she say to me,

Both drink thou,

and I will also draw for thy camels:

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Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee,

according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

***

And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

***

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden,

and I was afraid,

because I was naked;

and I hid myself.

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And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, - -I pray -thee, that I may drink;

and she shall say, Drink,

and I will give thy camels drink also:

let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac;

and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.

***

Behold, I stand by the well of water;

and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;

And she say to me, Both drink thou,

and I will also draw for thy camels:

let the same be the woman whom the Lord hath appointed out for my master's son.

***

And the Lord appointed a set time, saying, Tomorrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land.

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.

Samuel

He

 He

and the darkness he called Night.

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And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

And he divided himself against them,

he and his servants, by night,

 and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

 

 And he brought back all the goods,

and also brought again his brother Lot,

and his goods,

and the women also,

and the people.

 

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Man

And the Lord - - God took the man,

*

him

and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

*

Lord - - - God

And the Lord - -God commanded the man, saying,

*

And Abel, - - he also brought of the firstlings of - -his flock and of the fat thereof.

And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to - -his offering:

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And the Lord said, My spirit - - shall not always strive with man, - - for that - -he also is flesh:

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But unto Cain and to - -his offering - -he had not respect.

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Thou

Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:

for in the day that thou eatest - - thereof - - -thou shalt surely die.

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God

And God called the light Day,

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They

And let us arise, and go up to Bethel;

and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress,

and was with me in the way which I went.

 

And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand,

and all their earrings which were in their ears;

and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

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Now

Now  - - - the serpent - -was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord - -God had made.

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For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired,

and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

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Yea God

Yea, hath God said,

Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

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And the Lord - - -God - - -planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there - - -he put the man whom - - -he had formed.

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he

And he said,

I heard - -thy voice in the garden,

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And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust,

and thy voice shall be, as of - - one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

***

Lord God

And the Lord God said unto the serpent,

Because thou hast done this,

thou art cursed - - -above - all cattle,

and - - -above - every beast of the field;

upon - thy - - -belly - shalt - - -thou go,

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Lord - - God

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

***

upon thy belly shalt - - -thou - - -go,

and dust shalt thou eat all the days of - - -thy life:

***

So Boaz took Ruth, and she was - -his wife:

and when he went in unto her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bare a son.

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M--y

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh:

she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

***

And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee:

for whither thou goest, - - -I will go;

and where thou lodgest, - - -I will lodge:

thy people shall be my people,

and thy God - - -my God:

***

he said

Unto the woman  - -he said,

I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;

in sorrow - -thou shalt - -bring forth children;

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and thy - -desire shall be to thy husband,

and - -he- - shall rule over - -thee.

***

he said

And unto Adam he said,

Because - -thou hast hearkened unto the voice of - -thy wife,

and hast eaten of the tree,

of which I commanded thee, saying,

Thou shalt not eat of it:

cursed is the ground for - -thy sake;

in sorrow shalt - -thou eat of it all the days of --thy life;

***

And being in an agony - -he - -prayed more earnestly:

and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

***

In the sweat of thy face shalt - - -thou - -eat bread,

till thou return unto the ground;

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the Lord

And the Lord said unto Cain,

Why art -thou wroth?

and why is - -thy -countenance fallen?

***

And the Lord said unto Cain,

Where is Abel- - - thy - - -brother?

*

And he said,

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Am I

And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father:

and he said, Here --am I, my son.

***

And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

***

And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because ---she was barren:

and the Lord was entreated of him,

and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And the children struggled together within her;

and she said, If it be so,

why am I thus?

And she went to inquire of the Lord.

And the Lord said unto her,

Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;

and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;

and the elder shall serve the younger.

  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled,

behold, there - -were twins in her womb.

***

Am I - - -my - - -brother's keeper?

***

for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth,

and there was not a man to till the ground.

***

God said

And God said,

Let the -earth bring forth grass,

the herb yielding seed,

and the fruit tree yielding fruit after -his kind,

whose seed -is in -itself,

upon the earth:

and it was so.

***

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

***

And the -earth was without form,

And God called the - dry land -Earth;

***

now

And now art -thou -cursed -from the earth,

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

***

Behold, thou hast driven - - -me out this day from the face of the earth;

and from thy face shall I be hid;

and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth;

and it shall come to pass,

that every one that findeth - - -me- - - shall slay me.

***

Remember, I beseech thee,

that thou hast made me as the clay;

and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

***

Thou

But with thee will I establish my covenant;

and thou shalt come into the ark, thou,

Thy

and thy sons,

and thy wife,

and thy sons' wives with thee.

***

the Lord

And the Lord said unto Noah,

Come - -thou and all - - thy house into the ark;

for thee - -have - -I seen righteous - - before me in this generation.

***

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

***

Now

Now the Lord - -had - said unto Abram,

Get thee out of thy country,

and from thy kindred,

and from thy father's house,

***

Thee

unto a land that I will shew thee:

And I will make of thee a great nation,

and I will bless thee,

and make - -thy name great;

and thou shalt be a blessing:

And I will bless them that bless thee,

and curse him that curseth thee:

and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

***

And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said,

Thy

Unto thy seed will I give this land:

he

and there builded he an altar unto the Lord,

him

who appeared unto him.

***

Say, I pray thee,  - -thou art  - - my sister:

that it may be well with - -me for  - -thy sake;

and - -my soul shall - -live because of thee.

***

And Pharaoh called Abram, and said,

What is this that - - thou hast done unto me?

why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

Why saidst thou, She is my sister?

so I might have taken her to me to wife:

now therefore behold thy wife,

take her, and go --thy way.

***

And Abram said unto Lot,

Let there be no strife, I pray thee,

between - me and  -thee,

and between - my herdmen and - thy herdmen;

for - we be brethren.

***

Lord said

And the Lord said unto Abram,

after that Lot was separated - -from - him,

*****

now

Lift up - - now - thine eyes,

and look from the place where - - -thou art- - - northward,

and southward,

and eastward,

and westward:

For all the land which thou seest,

to thee will I give it,

and to thy seed for ever.

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth:

so that if a man can number the dust of the earth,

then shall thy seed also be numbered.

***

And he said,

I heard - -thy voice in the garden,

and I was afraid, - -because - -I was naked;

and I hid myself

***

And Abel,

***

he also

And Abel, - -he also brought of the firstlings of - - -his flock and of the fat thereof.

And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to - - -his offering:

*****

But unto Cain and to - - his offering - - -he had not respect.

And Cain was very wroth, and - - -his countenance fell.

Lord said

And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth?

and why is - - -thy countenance fallen?

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?

and if thou doest not well, - - -sin lieth at the door.

And unto - - -thee shall be - - -his desire,

and thou shalt rule over him.

And Cain talked with Abel - - -his brother:

and it came to pass, when they were in the field,

that Cain rose up against Abel his brother,

and slew him.

***

And he divided himself against them,

he and his servants, by night, and smote them,

*****

And he brought back all the goods,

and also brought again his brother Lot, and - - -his goods,

and the women also,

and the people.

***

And Jacob said, Sell me this day - - -thy birthright.

And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die:

and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

And Jacob said,

Swear to me this day;

and he sware unto him:

and he sold - -his birthright -unto Jacob.

***

And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him,

Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

Are we not counted of -him strangers?

for -he hath sold us,

and hath quite devoured also -our money.

*****

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?

***

And God created . . .  every winged fowl after his kind:

and God saw that it was good.

***

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

***

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,

***

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life,

I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

*****

and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

IS am U El

Excerpt from, Touch the Throne

It wasn’t until Reverend Calvin Duke, the last speaker to take the lectern, that the populace began to move toward the Lincoln memorial like a vaporous ground covering. They crowded around the reflective pool until not one inch of the earth they stood on was evident from above.

Calvin stood for a moment, impressed by the vastness of the crowd. He looked out over the sea of faces, groping for inspiring words. He stumbled forth with several false starts, but the throng was with him. They knew that inspiration did not come forth at the command of men, nor does prophecy at a man=s choosing.

Then, like cleansing rain, words of truth began to spill forth from the dais and washed over the throngs, purifying the cause and placing their crusade before the throne of God.

Justice, “he rang forth,” is not a legality set on paper to be legislated by men. Justice is a light instilled in the hearts of man by God himself. Justice burns in the souls of all people corroborating God’s existence. Mean men are not given charge to mete out God’s gratis; that is a profane calling that sets itself against truth. Justice is a weighty mass that rolls with persistence, grinding to powder all who assail its virtue, war against its rightness. Justice will prevail because it is older than the mountains, more durable than the hills and righteousness is on its side.

One day, not long from this day, freedom will rain down in bountiful supply without end, quenching the thirst of all God=s children who’ll stand in testimony of God’s perfect plan.”

Everyone who stood in the plaza or heard from afar those words were obliged to go forth and preach the gospel of equity by living out its virtues before all mankind and when the day was over and the assembled returned to their cities, hamlets, villages, they carried with them Reverend Duke’s words and knew for certain that God was on their side.

Samuel

And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord;

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;

for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;

neither will I again smite any more every thing living,

as I have done.

***

And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the 

daytime from the heat,

and for a place of refuge,

and for a covert from storm and from rain.

Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved 

touching his vineyard.

My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

*****

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, \

and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night 

shall not cease.

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be 

fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

I Am the Lord God  Samuelyeaon