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,
***
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.
***
but
his hand is stretched out still.
***
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,
***
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:
***
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.
***
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.
***
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:
***
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:
***
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:
***
they
shall eat
every man the flesh
of his own arm:
Manasseth,
Ephraim;
and
Ephraim,
Manasseth:
and
they together shall
be against Judah.
***
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.
***
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.
***
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.
***
O Assyrian,
the rod of
mine anger,
***
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
***
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.
***
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.
***
And
it shall come to pass in that day,
that
his burden
shall be taken away from off thy shoulder,
***
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.
***
and
his yoke
from
off thy neck,
and
the yoke
shall
be destroyed because of the anointing.
Samuel
