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For the L
ORD
spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk
in the way of this people, saying,
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Say ye not, A confederacy, to all
them to
whom this people
shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
13
Sanctify the L
ORD
of hosts
himself; and
let
him
be
your fear, and
let
him
be
your dread.
14
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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And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be
broken, and be snared, and be taken.
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Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
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And I will wait upon the L
ORD
, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for
him.
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Behold, I and the children whom the L
ORD
hath given me
are
for signs and for wonders in
Israel from the L
ORD
of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
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And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards
that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
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To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word,
it is
because
there is
no light in them.
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And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to
pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God,
and look upward.
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And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness
of anguish; and
they shall be
driven to darkness.
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Nevertheless the dimness
shall
not
be
such as
was
in her vexation, when at the first he lightly
afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict
her by
the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2
The people that walked in
darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath
the light shined.
3
Thou hast multiplied the nation,
and
not increased the joy: they joy before thee
according to the joy in harvest,
and
as
men
rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4
For thou hast broken
the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5
For every battle of the warrior
is
with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but
this
shall
be with burning
and
fuel of fire.
6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7
Of the increase of
his
government and
peace
there shall be
no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to
establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the L
ORD
of
hosts will perform this.
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The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
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And all the people shall
know,
even
Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
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The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but
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