A Vision
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,
saying,
This came out first.
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And it came to pass, as he
drew
back his hand, - that, behold, his brother came out:
and she
said,
How hast thou broken forth? 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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And he
will lift up an ensign to the
nations - from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
None shall be weary nor stumble
among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins
be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
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That I - will not take from
- a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I - will not take any thing - that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
Save only that which the
young men have eaten, and the portion of the men
which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, . . .
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If
we
assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?
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. . Now a thing
was
secretly brought to me, and mine ear
received a little thereof.
In thoughts
from
the
visions of the
night, when deep
sleep falleth on men,
Fear
came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Then
a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood
up:
It
stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image
was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
Shall
mortal man be more just than
God? shall a man be more pure
than his maker?
Behold,
he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
How
much less in them
that dwell in houses of clay, whose
foundation is in the dust, which
are crushed before the moth?
They
are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any
regarding it.
Doth not their excellency which is in them go
away? they die, even without wisdom.
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But
Job answered and said,
When I say, My
bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams,
and
terrifiest me
through visions:
So
that my soul
chooseth strangling, and
death rather than my life. I loathe it;
I
would
not live - alway: let me alone;
for my days are vanity.
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And
he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision,
and
will speak unto him in a dream.
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And
I will put a division between my people and thy people: tomorrow shall this sign be.
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And
these are the kings of the country
which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
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My
servant Moses is - not so,
who is faithful in -- all
mine house.
With
him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches;
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After these things - the - word - of the
Lord came unto Abram - in
a - vision,
saying,
Fear not, Abram: I am thy
shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
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And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
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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.
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the - word - of the Lord
came unto Abram - in a vision,
Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
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Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
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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,
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And when Abram
heard that his brother was taken captive,
he armed his trained servants, born in his own house,
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And Abram
said, Behold, to me
thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one
born in my
house is mine heir.
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And it
came to pass
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And, behold,
the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This
shall not be thine heir; but he
that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine
heir.
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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:
he made the stars
also.
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And he
said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be
- unto his brethren.
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And
the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families
of the Canaanites spread abroad.
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And he
brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them:
and he
said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
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And
God saw the light, that it was good:
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And he
believed in the Lord; and he
counted it
to him for righteousness.
ISamuel
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O
Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee
only will we make mention of thy name.
They
are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise:
therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to
perish.
Thou
hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art
glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
Lord,
in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening
was upon them.
Like
as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain,
and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.
We
have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth
wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the
inhabitants of the world fallen.
Thy
dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and
sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth
shall cast out the dead.
Come,
my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide
thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
For,
behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth
for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more
cover her slain.
In
that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish
leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he
shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
In
that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
I
the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will
keep it night and day.
Fury
is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would
go through them, I would burn them together.
Or
let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall
make peace with me.
He
shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud,
and fill the face of the world with fruit.
Hath
he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to
the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
In
measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough
wind in the day of the east wind.
By
this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit
to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones
that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
Yet
the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like
a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and
consume the branches thereof.
When
the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and
set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that
made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them
no favour.
And
it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the
channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by
one, O ye children of Israel.
ISamuelyeaOn
