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they shall see, and be ashamed for
their
envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall
devour them.
12
L
ORD
, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
13
O L
ORD
our God,
other
lords besides thee have had dominion over us:
but
by thee only will we make mention
of thy name.
14
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.
15
Thou hast increased
the nation, O L
ORD
, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed
it
far
unto
all the ends of the earth.
16
L
ORD
, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer
when
thy chastening
was
upon them.
17
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 L
ORD
.
18
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.
19
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.
20
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.
21
For, behold, the L
ORD
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.
CHAPTER 27
In that day the L
ORD
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.
2
In that
day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
3
I the L
ORD
do keep it; I will water it every moment:
lest
any
hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4
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.
5
Or let him take hold
of my strength,
that
he may make peace with me;
and
he shall make peace with me.
6
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.
7
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?
8
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he
stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9
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.
10
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.
11
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
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