Sermon on the Mountain XXXVIII

you

(ri-proov)v. tr. re-proved, re-prov-ing, re-proves. 1. To voice or convey disapproval of; rebuke. See Synonyms at admonish. 2. To find fault with

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How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? Do ye - imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.

in-eq-ui-ty

(in-ekwi-te)n.pl. in-eq-ui-ties. 1. Injustice; unfairness. 2. An instance of injustice or unfairness:

Re-turn, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, re-turn again, my righteousness is in it. Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? . . .

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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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. . . Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?. .

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Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

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As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: . . .

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And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

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And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold,. . .

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

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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

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. . . I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

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If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

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Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done - in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

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And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Is-ra-el, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, . . .

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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.

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but behold oppression; for righteousness, - but behold a cry.

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Or what man is there - of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

ISamuelyeaon-AmAll-ah

Sermon on the Mountain XXXVII

The Door

cer-tain

(surtn)adj. 1. Definite; fixed: set aside a certain sum each week. 2. Sure to come or happen; inevitable: certain success. 3. Established beyond doubt or question; indisputable: What is certain is that every effect must have a cause. 4. Capable of being relied on; dependable: a quick and certain remedy. 5. Having or showing confidence; assured. 6.   Not specified or identified but assumed to be known: a certain popular teacher; felt that certain breeds did not make good pets. Named but not known or previously mentioned: a certain Ms. Johnson. 7. Perceptible; noticeable: a certain cozy charm; kept a certain air of mystery about him. 8. Not great; calculable: to a certain degree; a certain delay in the schedule.

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And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed - their flocks.

And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went - after - his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

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There-fore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?

And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.

And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.

There-fore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.

  And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.

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and he that seeketh findeth;

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I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

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  In that day - a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

And I will give children - to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

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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.

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My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved - for him.

I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

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and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

ISamuelyeaon-AmAll-ah