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  Speaker 1: Chapters zero through nine of the Psalms of Solomon by anonymous.
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  Speaker 1: by Sam Stinson, Chapter zero, the introduction the Psalms of Solomon.
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  Speaker 1: This collection of eighteen war songs are the gift of
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  Speaker 1: an ancient Semitic writer. The original manuscript has perished, but
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  Speaker 1: fortunately Greek translations have been preserved, and recently a Psyriac
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  Speaker 1: version of the same songs has turned up and was
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  Speaker 1: published in English for the first time in nineteen o
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  Speaker 1: nine by doctor Rendall Harris. The date of the writing
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  Speaker 1: may be established at the middle of the first century BC,
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  Speaker 1: because the theme of these songs is that of Pompey's actions
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  Speaker 1: in Palestine and his death in Egypt in forty eight
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  Speaker 1: b C. These psalms had an important position and were
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  Speaker 1: widely circulated in the early Church. They are frequently referred
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  Speaker 1: to in the various codexes and histories of the first
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  Speaker 1: few centuries of the Christian era. Later, they became lost
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  Speaker 1: through inexplicable reasons and have only been recovered for our
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  Speaker 1: use after the lapse of many centuries. Besides the literary
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  Speaker 1: value of the trumpet like rhythm of these verses, we
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  Speaker 1: have here a chapter of stirring ancient history written by
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  Speaker 1: an eye witness. Pompey comes out of the west. He
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  Speaker 1: uses battering rams on the fortifications, His soldiers defile the altar.
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  Speaker 1: He is slain in Egypt after a fearful career. In
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  Speaker 1: the righteous of these psalms, we see the Pharisees, in
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  Speaker 1: the sinners, we see the saduses. It is an epoch
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  Speaker 1: of a great people in the throes of a great crisis.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter zero, Chapter one. I cried unto the
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  Speaker 1: Lord when I was in distress, unto God, when sinners assail.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly the alarm of war was heard before me. I said,
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  Speaker 1: he will hearken to me, for I am full of righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: I thought in my heart that I was full of
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  Speaker 1: righteousness because I was well off and had become rich
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  Speaker 1: in children. Their wealth spread to the whole earth, and
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  Speaker 1: their glory unto the end of the earth. They were
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  Speaker 1: exalted unto the stars. They said they would never fan,
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  Speaker 1: but they became insolent in their prosperity, and they were
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  Speaker 1: without understanding. Their sins were in secret, and even I
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  Speaker 1: had no knowledge of them. Their transgressions went beyond those
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  Speaker 1: of the heathen. Before them they utterly polluted the holy
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  Speaker 1: things of the Lord. End of Chapter one, Chapter two.
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  Speaker 1: When the Sinner waxed pround with a battering ram, he
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  Speaker 1: cast down fortified walls, and thou didst not restrain him.
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  Speaker 1: Alien nations ascended thine altar. They trampled it proudly with
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  Speaker 1: their sandals. Because the sons of Jerusalem had defiled thee
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  Speaker 1: the holy things of the Lord, had profaned with iniquities,
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  Speaker 1: the offerings of God. Therefore he said, cast them far
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  Speaker 1: from me. It was said it naught before God. It
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  Speaker 1: was utterly dishonored. The sons and the daughters were in
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  Speaker 1: grievous captivity. Sealed was their neck branded? Was it among
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  Speaker 1: the nations according to their sins? Hath he done unto them,
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  Speaker 1: For he hath left them in the hands of them
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  Speaker 1: that prevailed. He hath turned away his face from pitying them,
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  Speaker 1: young and old and their children together, for they had
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  Speaker 1: done evil, one and all in not hearkening, and the
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  Speaker 1: heavens were angry and the earth abhorred them, for no
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  Speaker 1: man upon it had done what they did. And the
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  Speaker 1: earth recognized all thy righteous judgments, O God. They set
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  Speaker 1: the sons of Jerusalem to be mocked at in return
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  Speaker 1: for the harlots in her every wayfarer entered in. In
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  Speaker 1: the full light of day, they made mock with their transgressions,
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  Speaker 1: as they themselves were wont to do. In the full
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  Speaker 1: light of day, they revealed their iniquities, and the daughters
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  Speaker 1: of Jerusalem were defiled in accordance with Thy judgment, because
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  Speaker 1: they had defiled themselves with unnatural intercourse. I am pained
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  Speaker 1: in my bowels, in my inward parts for these things.
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  Speaker 1: And yet I will justify thee O God, an uprightness
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  Speaker 1: of heart, For in thy judgments is thy righteousness displayed,
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  Speaker 1: O God. For thou hast rendered to the sinners according
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  Speaker 1: to their deeds, yea, according to their sins, which were
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  Speaker 1: very wicked. Thou hast uncovered their sins that thy judgment
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  Speaker 1: might be manifest. Thou hast wiped out their memorial from
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  Speaker 1: the earth. God is a righteous judge, and he is
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  Speaker 1: no respector of persons. For the nations reproached Jerusalem trampling
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  Speaker 1: it down. Her beauty was dragged down from the throne
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  Speaker 1: of glory. She girded on sackcloth instead of comely raiment,
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  Speaker 1: the rope was about her head instead of a crown.
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  Speaker 1: She put off the glorious diadem which God had set
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  Speaker 1: upon her. In dishonor, was her beauty cast upon the ground.
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  Speaker 1: And I saw and entreated the Lord, and said, long enough,
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  Speaker 1: O Lord, has thine hand been heavy on Israel in
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  Speaker 1: bringing the nations upon them? For they have made sport
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  Speaker 1: unsparingly and wrath in fierce anger. And they will make
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  Speaker 1: an under end unless thou, O Lord, rebuke them in
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  Speaker 1: thy wrath. For they have done it not in zeal,
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  Speaker 1: but in lust of soul, pouring out their wrath upon us,
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  Speaker 1: with a view to rapine. Delay not, o God, to
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  Speaker 1: recompense them on their heads, to turn the pride of
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  Speaker 1: the dragon into dishonor. And I had not long to
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  Speaker 1: wait before God showed me the insolent one, slain on
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  Speaker 1: the mountains of Egypt, esteemed of less account than the
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  Speaker 1: least on land and sea, His body too borne hither
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  Speaker 1: and thither on the billows with much insolence, with none
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  Speaker 1: to bury him, because he had rejected him with dishonor.
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  Speaker 1: He reflected not that he was man, and reflected not
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  Speaker 1: on the latter end. He said, I will be lord
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  Speaker 1: of land and sea. And he recognized not that it
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  Speaker 1: is God who is great, mighty in his great strength.
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  Speaker 1: He is king over the heavens, and judgeth kings and kingdoms.
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  Speaker 1: It is he who setteth me up in glory, and
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  Speaker 1: bringeth down the proud to eternal destruction and dishonor, because
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  Speaker 1: they knew him not. And now behold, ye, princes of
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  Speaker 1: the earth, the judgment of the Lord. For a great
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  Speaker 1: king and righteous is he judging all that is under heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Bless God, ye that fear the Lord with wisdom, For
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  Speaker 1: the mercy of the Lord will be upon them that
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  Speaker 1: fear him in the judgment, so so that He will
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  Speaker 1: distinguish between the righteous and the sinner, and recompense the
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  Speaker 1: sinners forever according to their deeds, and have mercy on
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  Speaker 1: the righteous, delivering him from the affliction of the sinner,
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  Speaker 1: and recompensing the sinner for what he hath done to
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  Speaker 1: the righteous. For the Lord is good to them that
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  Speaker 1: call upon him in patience, doing according to his mercy,
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  Speaker 1: to his pious ones, establishing them at all times before
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  Speaker 1: him in strength. Blessed be the Lord forever before his servants.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter two, Chapter three. Why sleepest thou, o
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  Speaker 1: my soul, and blessest not the Lord? Sing a new
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  Speaker 1: song unto God, who is worthy to be praised. Sing
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  Speaker 1: and be wakeful against His awaking for good is a
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  Speaker 1: psalm sung to God from a glad heart. The righteous
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  Speaker 1: remember the Lord at all times with thanksgiving and declaration
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  Speaker 1: of the righteousness of the Lord's judgments. The Righteous despiseth
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  Speaker 1: not the chastening of the Lord. His will is always
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  Speaker 1: before the Lord. The righteous stumbleth and holdeth the Lord righteous.
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  Speaker 1: He falleth and looketh out for what God will do
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  Speaker 1: to him. He seeketh out whence his deliverance will come.
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  Speaker 1: The steadfastness of the righteous is from God their deliverer.
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  Speaker 1: There lodgeth not in the house of the righteous sin
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  Speaker 1: upon sin. The Righteous continually searcheth his house to remove
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  Speaker 1: utterly all iniquity done by him in error. He maketh
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  Speaker 1: atonement for sins of ignorance by fasting and afflicting his soul,
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord counteth guiltless. Every pious man and his house.
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  Speaker 1: The sinner stumbleth and curseth his life the day when
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  Speaker 1: he was begotten, and his mother's travail. He addeth sinds
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  Speaker 1: to sins. While he liveth, he falleth verily grievous is
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  Speaker 1: his fall, and riseth no more. The destruction of the
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  Speaker 1: sinner is forever, and he shall not be remembered when
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  Speaker 1: the righteous is visited. This is the portion of sinners forever.
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  Speaker 1: But they that fear the Lord shall rise to life eternal,
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  Speaker 1: and their life shall be in the light of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and shall come to an end no more. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter three, Chapter four. Wherefore sittest thou, o, profane man,
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  Speaker 1: in the counsel of the pious, seeing that thy heart
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  Speaker 1: is far removed from the Lord, provoking with transgressions. The
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  Speaker 1: God of Israel, extravagant in speech, extravagant in outward seeming
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  Speaker 1: beyond all men, is he that is severe of speech
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  Speaker 1: in condemning sinners and judgment. And his hand is first
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  Speaker 1: upon him, as though he acted in zeal And. Yet
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  Speaker 1: he is himself guilty in respect of manifold sins and
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  Speaker 1: of wantonness. His eyes eyes are upon every woman without distinction.
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  Speaker 1: His tongue lieth when he maketh contract with an oath.
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  Speaker 1: By night and in secret he sinneth, as though unseen
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  Speaker 1: with his eyes. He talketh to every woman of evil compacts.
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  Speaker 1: He is swift to enter every house with cheerfulness, as
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  Speaker 1: though guileless. Let God remove those that live in hypocrisy
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  Speaker 1: in the company of the pious, even the life of
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  Speaker 1: such an one with corruption of his flesh and penury.
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  Speaker 1: Let God reveal the deeds of the men pleasers, the
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  Speaker 1: deeds of such an one, with laughter and derision, that
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  Speaker 1: the pious may count righteous the judgment of their God.
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  Speaker 1: When sinners are removed from before the righteous, even the
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  Speaker 1: man pleaser who uttereth long guilefully, and their eyes are
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  Speaker 1: fixed upon any man's house that is still secure, that
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  Speaker 1: they may, like the serpent, destroy the wisdom of with
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  Speaker 1: words of transgressor his words are deceitful, that he may
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  Speaker 1: accomplish his wicked desire. He never ceaseth from scattering families
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  Speaker 1: as though they were orphans. Yea, he layeth waste a
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  Speaker 1: house on account of his lawless desire. He deceiveth with words,
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  Speaker 1: saying there is none that seeth or judgeth He fills
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  Speaker 1: one house with lawlessness, and then his eyes are fixed
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  Speaker 1: upon the next house, to destroy it with words that
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  Speaker 1: give wing to desire. Yet with all these, his soul,
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  Speaker 1: like she ole, is not sated. Let his portion, O Lord,
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  Speaker 1: be dishonored before thee. Let him go forth groaning and
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  Speaker 1: come home cursed. Let his life be spent in anguish,
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  Speaker 1: in penury and want, O Lord. Let his sleep be
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  Speaker 1: beset with pains, in his awaking with perplexities. Let sleep
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  Speaker 1: be withdrawn from his eyelids at night. Let him fail
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  Speaker 1: this honorably in every work of his hand. Let him
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  Speaker 1: come home empty handed to his house, and his house
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  Speaker 1: be void of everything wherewith he could sate his appetite.
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  Speaker 1: Let his old age be spent in childless loneliness until
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  Speaker 1: his removal by death. Let the flesh of the men
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  Speaker 1: pleasers be rent by wild beasts, and let the bones
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  Speaker 1: of the lawless lie dishonored in the sight of the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Let ravens peck out the eyes of the hypocrites. For
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  Speaker 1: they have laid waste many houses of men in dishonor,
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  Speaker 1: and scattered them in their lust. And they have not
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  Speaker 1: remembered God nor feared God in all these things, but
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  Speaker 1: they have provoked God's anger and vexed him. May He
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  Speaker 1: remove them from off the earth, because with deceit they
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  Speaker 1: beguiled the souls of the flawless. Blessed are they that
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  Speaker 1: fear the Lord in their flawlessness. The Lord shall deliver
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  Speaker 1: them from guileful men and sinners, and deliver us from
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  Speaker 1: every stumbling block of the lawless men. Let God destroy
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  Speaker 1: them that insolently work all in righteousness, For a great
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  Speaker 1: and mighty judge is the Lord, our God. In righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon all them that
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  Speaker 1: love thee. End of Chapter four, Chapter five, O Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: I will praise thy name with joy in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of them that know thy righteous judgments, for Thou art
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  Speaker 1: good and merciful, the refuge of the poor. When I
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  Speaker 1: cry to THEE, do not silently disregard me. For no
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  Speaker 1: man taketh spoil from a mighty man, Who then can
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  Speaker 1: take aught of a that thou hast made, except thou
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  Speaker 1: thyself givest for man and his portion lie before THEE.
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  Speaker 1: In the balance he cannot add too, so as to
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  Speaker 1: enlarge what has been prescribed by THEE, O God. When
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  Speaker 1: we are in distress, we call upon THEE for help,
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  Speaker 1: And thou dost not turn back our petition. For thou art,
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  Speaker 1: our God, cause not thy hand to be heavy upon us,
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  Speaker 1: lest through necessity we sin, even though thou restore us.
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  Speaker 1: Not we will not keep away. But unto THEE will
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  Speaker 1: we come. For if I hunger, unto THEE, will I cry,
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  Speaker 1: O God, and thou wilt give to me birds and fish?
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  Speaker 1: Dost thou nourish, And that thou givest rain to the
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  Speaker 1: steps that green grass may spring up, so to prepare
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  Speaker 1: fodder in the step for every living thing. And if
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  Speaker 1: they hunger unto thee, do they lift up their face?
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  Speaker 1: Kings and rulers and peoples, Thou dost nourish, O God,
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  Speaker 1: And who is the help of the poor and needy?
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  Speaker 1: If not thou, o Lord, and thou wilt hearken for
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  Speaker 1: who is good and gentle? But thou making glad the
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  Speaker 1: soul of the humble by opening Thine hand in mercy.
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  Speaker 1: Man's goodness is bestowed grudgingly, and if he repeat it
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  Speaker 1: without murmuring, even that is marvelous. But thy gift is
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  Speaker 1: great and goodness and wealth. And he whose hope is
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  Speaker 1: set on thee shall have no lack of gifts. Upon
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  Speaker 1: the whole earth is thy mercy, O Lord in goodness.
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  Speaker 1: Happy is he whom God remembereth in granting to him
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  Speaker 1: a due sufficiency. If a man abound over much, he
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  Speaker 1: sinneth sufficient are moderate means with righteousness. And hereby the
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  Speaker 1: blessing of the Lord becomes abundance with righteousness. They that
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  Speaker 1: fear the Lord rejoice in good gifts. And Thy goodness
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  Speaker 1: is upon Israel in thy kingdom. Blessed is the glory
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, for he is our King. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter five, Chapter six. Happy is the man whose heart
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  Speaker 1: is fixed to call upon the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: When he remembereth the name of the Lord, he will
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  Speaker 1: be saved. These ways are made even by the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and the works of his hands are preserved by the
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  Speaker 1: Lord his God. And what he sees in his bad dreams,
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  Speaker 1: his soul shall not be troubled. When he passes through
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  Speaker 1: rivers and the tossing of the seas, he shall not
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  Speaker 1: be dismayed. He ariseth from his sleep and blesseth the
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  Speaker 1: name of the Lord. When his heart is at peace,
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  Speaker 1: he singeth to the name of his God, and he
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  Speaker 1: entreateth the Lord for all his house, And the Lord
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  Speaker 1: heareth the prayer of every one that feareth God, and
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  Speaker 1: every request of the soul that hopes for him doth
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  Speaker 1: the Lord accomplish. Blessed is the Lord who sheweth mercy
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  Speaker 1: to those who love him in sincerity. And of chapter six,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter seven, Make not thy dwelling afar from us, O God,
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  Speaker 1: lest they assail us that hate us without cause, For
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  Speaker 1: thou hast reached rejected them, O God, Let not their
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  Speaker 1: foot trample upon thy holy inheritance. Chasten us thyself and
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  Speaker 1: thy good pleasure. But give us not up to the nations.
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  Speaker 1: For if thou sendest pestilence, thou thyself givest it charge
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  Speaker 1: concerning us. For thou art merciful, and wilt not be
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  Speaker 1: angry to the point of consuming us. While thy name
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  Speaker 1: dwelleth in our midst, we shall find mercy, and the
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  Speaker 1: nations shall not prevail against us, for thou art our shield.
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  Speaker 1: And when we call upon thee, thou hearken us to us,
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  Speaker 1: for thou wilt pity the seed of Israel for ever,
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  Speaker 1: and thou wilt not reject them. But we shall be
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  Speaker 1: under thy yoke forever, and under the rod of thy chastening,
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  Speaker 1: Thou wilt establish us in the time that thou helpest us,
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  Speaker 1: showing mercy to the house of Jacob on the day
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  Speaker 1: wherein thou didst promise to help them. And of Chapter seven,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eight distress and the sound of war. Hath my
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  Speaker 1: ear heard the sound of a trumpet announcing slaughter and calamity,
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  Speaker 1: the sound of much people, as of an exceeding high wind,
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  Speaker 1: as a tempest with mighty fires sweeping through the Negeb.
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  Speaker 1: And I said in my heart, surely God judgeth us
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  Speaker 1: a sound I hear moving towards Jerusalem, the Holy City.
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  Speaker 1: My loins were broken at what I heard. My knees tottered,
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  Speaker 1: My heart was afraid. My bones were dismayed like flax.
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  Speaker 1: I said, they established their ways and righteousness. I thought
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  Speaker 1: upon the judgments of God since the creation of heaven
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  Speaker 1: and earth. I held God righteous in his judgments, which
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  Speaker 1: have been from of old. God bare their sins. In
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  Speaker 1: the full light of day, all the earth came to
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  Speaker 1: know the righteous judgments of God. In secret places underground,
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  Speaker 1: their iniquities were committed to provoke Him to anger. They
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  Speaker 1: wrought confusion son with mother and father with daughter. They
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  Speaker 1: committed adultery, every man with his neighbor's wife. They concluded
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  Speaker 1: covenants with one another with an oath. Touching these things.
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  Speaker 1: They plundered the sanctuary of God, as though there was
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  Speaker 1: no avenger. They trode the altar of the Lord, coming
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  Speaker 1: straight from all manner of uncleanness, and with menstrual blood.
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  Speaker 1: They defiled the sacrifices, as though these were common flesh.
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  Speaker 1: They left no sin undone, wherein they surpassed not the heathen. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: God mingled for them a spirit of wandering, and gave
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  Speaker 1: them to drink a cup of undiluted wine, that they
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  Speaker 1: might become drunken. He brought him that is from the
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  Speaker 1: end of the earth, that smiteth mightily. He decreed war
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  Speaker 1: against Jerusalem and against her land. The princes of the
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  Speaker 1: land went to meet him with joy. They said, unto him,
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  Speaker 1: blessed be thy way, Come ye, enter ye in with peace.
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  Speaker 1: They made the rough ways even before his entering in.
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  Speaker 1: They opened the gates to Jerusalem. They crowned its walls.
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  Speaker 1: As a father entereth the house of his sons, So
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  Speaker 1: he entered Jerusalem in peace. He established his feet there
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  Speaker 1: in great safety. He captured her fortresses and the wall
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  Speaker 1: of Jerusalem, for God himself led him in safety. While
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  Speaker 1: they wandered, he destroyed their princes and every one wise
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  Speaker 1: in council. He poured out the blood of the inhabitants
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  Speaker 1: of Jerusalem like the water of uncleanness. He led away
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  Speaker 1: their sons and daughters, whom they had begotten in defilement.
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  Speaker 1: They did according to their uncleanness, even as their father
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  Speaker 1: had done. They defiled Jerusalem, and the things that had
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  Speaker 1: been howlowed to the name of God. But God hath
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  Speaker 1: shown himself righteous in his judgments upon the nations of
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  Speaker 1: the earth. And the pious servants of God are like
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  Speaker 1: innocent life in their midst, worthy to be praised as
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  Speaker 1: the Lord that judgeest the whole earth in his righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: Behold now, o God, thou hast shown us thy judgment,
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  Speaker 1: in thy righteousness. Our eyes have seen thy judgments. O God,
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  Speaker 1: we have justified thy name that is honored forever. For
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  Speaker 1: thou art the God of righteousness, judging Israel with chastening Turn,
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  Speaker 1: O God, thy mercy upon us, and have pity upon us.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Gather together the dispersed of Israel with mercy and goodness.
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  Speaker 1: For thy faithfulness is with us. And though we have
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  Speaker 1: stiffened our neck, yet thou art our chastener overlook us, not,
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  Speaker 1: o our God, lest the nations swallow us up, as
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  Speaker 1: though there were none to deliver. But thou art our
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  Speaker 1: God from the beginning. And upon THEE is our hope. Set,
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  Speaker 1: O Lord, and we will not depart from THEE. For
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  Speaker 1: good are thy judgments upon us, ours and our childrens.
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  Speaker 1: Be thy good pleasure forever, O Lord, our Savior, we
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  Speaker 1: shall never more be moved. The Lord is worthy to
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  Speaker 1: be praised for his judgments with the mouth of his
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  Speaker 1: pious ones. And blessed be Israel of the Lord forever.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter eight. Chapter nine. When Israel was led
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  Speaker 1: away captive into a strange land, when they fell away
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  Speaker 1: from the Lord who redeemed them, they were cast away
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: from the inheritance which the Lord had given them. Among
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: every nation were the dispersed of Israel according to the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: word of God, that thou mightest be justified, O God,
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  Speaker 1: in thy righteousness, by reason of our transgressions. For thou
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: art a just judge over all the peoples of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: For from thy knowledge none that doeth unjustly is hidden,
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  Speaker 1: and the righteous deeds of thy pious ones are before thee,
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  Speaker 1: O Lord. Where then can a man hide himself from
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: thy knowledge, O God? Our works are subject to our
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  Speaker 1: own choice and power to do right or wrong in
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the works of our hands, and in thy righteousness. Thou
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  Speaker 1: visitest the sons of men. He that doeth righteousness layeth
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: up life for himself with the Lord, and he that
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: doeth wrongly forfeits his life to destruction. For the judgments
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: of the Lord are given in righteousness to every man
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: in his house, unto whom art thou good, O God,
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  Speaker 1: except to them that call upon the Lord. He cleanseth
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  Speaker 1: from sins, a soul when it maketh confession, when it
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: maketh acknowledgment. For shame is upon us and on our
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: faces on account of all these things. And to whom
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  Speaker 1: doth He forgive sins, except to them that have sinned.
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  Speaker 1: Thou blessest the righteous, and dost not reprove them for
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the sins that they have committed. And Thy goodness is
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: upon them that sin when they repent. And now thou
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  Speaker 1: art our God, and we the people whom thou hast loved.
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  Speaker 1: Behold and show pity, O God of Israel, for we
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  Speaker 1: are thine, and remove not thy mercy from us lest
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: they assail us. For thou didst choose the seat of
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  Speaker 1: Abraham before all nations, and didst set thy name upon us,
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  Speaker 1: O Lord, And thou wilt not reject us forever. Thou
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: madest a covenant with our fathers concerning us. And we
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: hope in THEE when our soul turneth unto THEE, the
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: mercy of the Lord be upon the House of Israel
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  Speaker 1: forever and ever. End of chapter nine, Chapters ten through
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  Speaker 1: eighteen of the Psalms of Solomon by anonymous. This is
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  Speaker 1: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: For more information and to find out how you can volunteer,
• 24:57
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  Speaker 1: Happy is the man whom the Lord remembereth with reproving,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: and whom he restraineth from the way of evil with strokes,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: that he may be cleansed from sin, that it may
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: not be multiplied. He that maketh ready his back for
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: strokes shall be cleansed. For the Lord is good to
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: them that endure chastening, for He maketh straight the ways
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: of the righteous, and doth not pervert them by his chastening.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: And the mercy of the Lord is upon them that
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: love Him in truth. And the Lord remembereth his servants
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: in mercy. But the testimony is in the law of
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: the Eternal Covenant. The testimony of the Lord is on
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the ways of men in his visitation. Just and kind
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: is our Lord in his judgments forever. And Israel shall
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: praise the name of the Lord in gladness, and the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: pious shall give thanks. And the assembly of the people,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and on the poor, shall God have mercy in the
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  Speaker 1: gladness of Israel. For good and merciful is God forever,
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  Speaker 1: and the assemblies of Israel shall glorify the name of
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the Lord. The salvation of the Lord be upon the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: house of Israel, unto everlasting gladness. End of Chapter ten.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eleven. Blow Ye and Zion on the trumpet to
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  Speaker 1: summon the saints. Cause ye to be heard in Jerusalem
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the voice of Him that bringeth good tidings. For God
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: hath had pity on Israel in visiting them. Stand on
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the height o Jerusalem and behold thy children from the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: East and the West, gathered together by the Lord. From
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the north, they come in the gladness of their God,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: from the Isles Afar Off God hath gathered them high
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: mountains hath he abased into a plain for them. The
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: hills fled at their entrance. The woods gave them shelter
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: as they passed by. Every sweet smelling tree God caused
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: to spring up for them, that Israel might pass by
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  Speaker 1: in the visitation of the glory of their God. Put on,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: o Jerusalem, thy glorious garments, Make ready thy holy robe.
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  Speaker 1: For God hath spoken good concerning Israel, forever and ever.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Let the Lord do what he hath spoken concerning Israel
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and Jerusalem. Let the Lord raise up Israel by his
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: glorious name. The mercy of the Lord be upon Israel
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  Speaker 1: forever and ever. End of Chapter eleven, Chapter twelve, O, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: deliver my soul from the lawless and wicked man, from
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the tongue that is lawless and slanderous, and speaketh lies
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and deceit menifoldly twisted are the words of the tongue
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: of the wicked man, even as among a people a
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: fire that burneth up their beauty, so he delights to
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: fill houses with a lying tongue, to cut down the
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  Speaker 1: trees of gladness, which setteth on fire, transgressors to involve
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: households in warfare by means of slanderous lips. May God
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  Speaker 1: remove far from the innocent the lips of transgressors by
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: bringing them to wont. And may the bones of slanderers
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: be scatter'd far away from them that fear the Lord,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and flaming fire perish the slander's tongue far away from
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the pious. May the Lord preserve the quiet soul that
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: hateth the unrighteous. And may the Lord establish the man
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: that followeth peace at home. The salvation of the Lord
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: be upon Israel, his servant forever. And let the sinners
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: perish together at the presence of the Lord. But let
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the Lord's pious ones inherit the promises of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And of Chapter twelve. Chapter thirteen. The right hand of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord hath covered me, the right hand of the life.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord hath spared us. The arm of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Hath saved us from the sword that passed through. From
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: famine and the death of sinners. Noisome beasts ran upon
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: them with their teeth, they tore the flesh, and with
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: their molers crush'd their bones. But from all these things
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the Lord deliver'd us. The righteous was troubled an account
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: of his errors, lest he should be taken away along
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: with the sinners. For terrible is the overthrow of the sinner.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: But not one of all these things toucheth the righteous.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: For not alike are the chastening of the righteous, for
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: sins done in ignorance, and the overthrow of the sinners.
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  Speaker 1: Secretly is the righteous chasten'd, lest the sinner rejoice over
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the righteous. For he correcteth the righteous as a beloved son,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: and his chastisement is as that of a first born.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: For the Lord spareth his pious ones and blotteth out
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: their errors by his chastening. For the life of the
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  Speaker 1: righteous shall be forever, But sinners shall be taken away
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  Speaker 1: into destruction, and their memorial shall be found no more.
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  Speaker 1: But upon the pious is the mercy of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and upon them that fear him his mercy. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirteen, Chapter fourteen. Faithful is the Lord to them
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  Speaker 1: that love him in truth, to them that endure his chastening,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: to them that walk in the righteousness of His commandments
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  Speaker 1: in the law which he commanded us that we might live.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: The pious of the Lord shall live by it forever.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: The paradise of the Lord. The trees of life are
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: his pious ones. Their planting is rooted forever. They shall
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: not be plucked up all the days of heaven. For
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the portion and the inheritance of God is Israel. But
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: not so are the sinners and transgressors, who love the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: brief day spent in companionship with theirs sin. Their delight
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  Speaker 1: is in fleeting corruption, and they remember not God. For
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  Speaker 1: the ways of men are known before Him at all times,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: and He knoweth the secrets of the heart before they
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: come to pass. Therefore, their inheritance is she old and
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: darkness and destruction, and they shall not be found in
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: the day when the righteous obtain mercy. But the pious
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: of the Lord shall inherit life in gladness. End of
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Chapter fourteen. Chapter fifteen. When I was in distress, I
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  Speaker 1: called upon the name of the Lord. I hoped for
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the help of the God of Jacob, and was saved
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: for the hope and refuge of the poor. Art thou
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: o God, for who O God is strong except to
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: give thanks unto thee in truth. And wherein is a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: man powerful except in giving thanks to Thy name, a
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: new psalm with song and gladness of heart, the fruit
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: of the lips, with the well tuned instrument of the tongue,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the first fruits of the lips, from a pious and
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: righteous heart. He that offereth these things shall never be
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: shaken by evil. The flame of fire, and the wrath
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: against the unrighteous shall not touch him, when it goeth
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: forth from the face of the Lord against sinners to
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: destroy all the substance of sinners. For the mark of
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: God is upon the righteous, that they may be saved.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Famine and sword and pestilence shall be far from the righteous,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: for they shall flee away from the pious, as men
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: pursued in war. But they shall pursue sinners and overtake them.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: And they that due lawlessness shall not escape the judgment
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: of God, as by enemies experienced in war. Shall they
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: be overtaken. For the mark of destruction is upon their forehead.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: And the inheritance of sinners is destruction and darkness, and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: their iniquities shall pursue them unto she o beneath their
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: inheritance shall not be found of their children. For sins
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: shall lay waste the houses of sinners, and sinners shall
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: perish forever in the day of the Lord's judgment, when
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  Speaker 1: God visiteth the earth with his judgment. But they that
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: feared the Lord shall find mercy therein and shall live
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: by the compassion of their God. But sinners shall perish forever.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: End of Chapter fifteen. Chapter sixteen. When my soul slumbered,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: being afar from the Lord, I had all but slipp'd
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: down to the pit. When I was far from God.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: My soul had been well nigh poured out unto death.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I had been nigh unto the gates of Sheol with
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the sinner. When my soul departed from the Lord God
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: of Israel, had not the Lord helped me with his
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: everlasting mercy. He prick'd me as a horse is prick'd
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: that I might serve him, my savior and helper at
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: all times saved me. I will give thanks unto thee,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: O God, for thou hast helped me to my salvation,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and hast not counted me with sinners to my destruction.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Remove not thy mercy from me, O God, nor thy
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: memorial from my heart until I die. Rule me, O God,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: keeping me back from wicked sin and from every wicked
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: woman that causeth the simple to stumble. And let not
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the beauty of a lawless woman beguile me, nor any
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: one that is subject to unprofitable sin. Establish the works
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: of my hands before THEE, and preserve my goings in
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: the remembrance of THEE. Protect my tongue and my lips
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: with words of truth. Anger and unreasoning wrath put far
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: from me, murmuring and impatience in affliction, remove far from me.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: When if I sin, thou chastenest me, that I may
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: return unto THEE. But with good will and cheerfulness support
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: my soul. When thou strengthenest my soul, what is given
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: to me will be sufficient for me. For if thou
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: givest not strength, who can endure chastisement with poverty? When
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: a man is rebuked by means of his corruption, thy
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: testing of him is in his flesh and in the
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: affliction of poverty. If the righteous endureth in all these trials,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: he shall receive mercy from the Lord. End of Chapter sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter seventeen, O Lord, thou art our King forever and ever.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: For in thee, O God, doth our soul glory. How
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: long are the days of man's life upon the earth,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: as are his days, so is the hope said upon him.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: But we hope in God, our deliverer, For the might
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: of our God is forever with mercy, and the kingdom
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: of our God is forever over the nations and judgment. Thou,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: o Lord, didst choose David to be king over Israel,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: and swearest to him, touching his seed, that never should
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: his kingdom fail before thee. But for our sins, sinners
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: rose up against us. They assailed us and thrust us out.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: What thou hadst not promised to them, they took away
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: from us with violence. They and no wise glorified Thy
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: honorable name. They set a worldly monarchy in place of
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: that which was their excellency. They laid waste the throne
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: of David in tumultuous arrogance. But Thou, o God, didst
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: cast them down and remove their seed from the earth.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: And that there rose up against them a man that
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: was alien to our race. According to their sins. Didst
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: thou recompense them, o God, so that it befell them
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: according to their deeds. God showed them no pity. He
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: sought out their seed, and let not one of them
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: go free. Faithful is the Lord in all his judgments,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: which he doeth upon the earth. The lawless one laid
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: waste our land, so that none inhabited it. They destroyed,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: young and old, and their children together. And the heat
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: of his anger he sent them away even unto the west,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: and he exposed the rulers of the land unsparingly to derision.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Being an alien, the enemy acted proudly, and his heart
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: was alien from our God, and all things whatsoever he
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: did in Jerusalem, as also the nations in the cities
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: to their gods, and the children of the Covenant, in
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the midst of the mingled peoples surpassed them in evil.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: There was not among them one that wrought in the
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: midst of Jerusalem mercy and truth. They that loved the
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: synagogues of the pious fled from them as sparrows that
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: fly from their nest. They wandered in deserts that their
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: lives might be saved from harm. And precious in the
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: eyes of them that lived abroad, was any that escaped
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: alive from them over the whole earth were they scattered
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: by lawless men. For the heavens withheld the rain from
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: dropping upon the earth. Springs were stopped that spring perennially
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: out of the deeps that ran down from lofty mountains.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: For there was none among them that wrought righteousness and justice.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: From the chief of them to the least of them.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: All were sinful. The king was a transgressor, and the
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: judge disobedient, and the people sinful. Behold, o Lord, and
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: raise up unto them their king, the son of David,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: at the time in the which thou seest o God,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: that he may reign over Israel, thy servant, and gird
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: him with strength, that he may shatter unrighteous rulers, and
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: that he may purge Jerusalem from nations that trample her
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: down to destruction. Wisely, righteously, he shall thrust out sinners
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: from the inheritance. He shall destroy the pride of the
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: sinner as a potter's vessel. With the rod of iron,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: he shall break in pieces all their substance. He shall
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: the destroy the godless nations with the word of his mouth.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: At his rebuke, nations shall flee before him, and he
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: shall reprove sinners for the thoughts of their heart. And
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: he shall gather together a holy people whom he shall
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: lead in righteousness. And he shall judge the tribes of
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: the people that has been sanctified by the Lord his God.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: And he shall not suffer unrighteousness to lodge any more
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: in their midst, nor shall there dwell with them any
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: man that knoweth wickedness. For he shall know them that
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: they are all sons of their God. And he shall
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: divide them according to their tribes upon the land, and
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: neither sojourner nor alien shall sojourn with them any more.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: He shall judge peoples and nations in the wisdom of
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: His righteousness Sallah, and he shall have the heathen nations
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: to serve him under his yoke. And he shall glorify
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: the Lord in a place to be seen of all
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: the earth. And he shall purge Jerusalem, making it wholly
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: as of old, so that nations shall come from the
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: ends of the earth to see His glory, bringing as
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: gifts her sons who had fainted, and to see the
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: glory of the Lord, wherewith God hath glorified her. And
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: he shall be a righteous king taught of God over them,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: and there shall be no unrighteousness in his days in
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: their midst for all shall be holy and their king
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: the anointed of the Lord. For he shall not put
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: his trust in horse and rider in bow, nor shall
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: he multiply for himself gold and silver for war, nor
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: shall he gather confidence from a multitude for the day
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: of battle. The Lord himself is his king, the hope
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: of Him that is mighty. Through his hope in God,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: all nations shall be in fear before him, For he
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: will smite the earth with the word of his mouth.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: For ever he will bless the people of the Lord
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: with wisdom and gladness, and he himself will be pure
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: from sin, so that he may rule a great people.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: He will rebuke rulers and remove sinners by the might
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: of his word, and relying upon his God. Throughout his days.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: He will not stumble, for God will make him mighty
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: by means of his Holy Spirit, and wise by means
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: of the Spirit of understanding, with strength and righteousness, and
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: the blessing of the Lord will be with him. He
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: will be strong and stumble not. His hope will be
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: in the Lord, who then can prevail against him. He
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: will be mighty in his works and strong in the
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: fear of God. He will be shepherding the flock of
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the Lord faithfully and righteously, and will suffer none among
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  Speaker 1: them to stumble in their pasture. He will lead them
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  Speaker 1: all aright, and there will be no pride among them
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  Speaker 1: that any among them should be oppressed. This will be
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  Speaker 1: the majesty of the King of Israel, whom God knoweth.
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  Speaker 1: He will raise him up over the house of Israel
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  Speaker 1: to correct him. His words shall be more refined than
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  Speaker 1: costly gold, the choicest in the assemblies. He will judge
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  Speaker 1: the peoples, the tribes of thee sanctified. His words shall
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  Speaker 1: be like the words of the Holy ones in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of sanctified peoples. Blessed be they that shall be
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  Speaker 1: in those days, and that they shall see the good
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  Speaker 1: fortune of Israel, which God shall bring to pass, and
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  Speaker 1: the gathering together of the tribes. May the Lord hasten
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  Speaker 1: his mercy upon Israel. May he deliver us from the
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  Speaker 1: uncleanness of unholy enemies. The Lord himself is our king,
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  Speaker 1: forever and ever. End of Chapter seventeen. Chapter eighteen, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: thy mercy is over the works of thy hands forever
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  Speaker 1: Thy goodness is over Israel with the rich gift. Thine
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  Speaker 1: eyes look upon them, so that none of them suffers want.
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  Speaker 1: Thine ears listen to the hopeful prayer of the poor.
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  Speaker 1: Thy judgments are executed upon the whole earth and mercy,
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  Speaker 1: and thy love is toward the seed of Abraham, the
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  Speaker 1: children of Israel. Thy chastisement is upon us, as upon
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  Speaker 1: a first born, only begotten son, to turn back the
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  Speaker 1: obedient soul from folly that is wrought in ignorance. May
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  Speaker 1: God cleanse Israel against the day of mercy and blessing
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  Speaker 1: against the day of choice. When blessed shall they be
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  Speaker 1: that shall be in those days He bringeth back his anointed,
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  Speaker 1: and that they shall see the goodness of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: which he shall perform for the generation that is to
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  Speaker 1: come under the wrod of chastening of the Lord's anointed,
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  Speaker 1: in the fear of his God, in the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: wisdom and righteousness and strength, that he may direct every
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  Speaker 1: man in the works of righteousness by the fear of God,
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  Speaker 1: that he may establish them all before the Lord, a
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  Speaker 1: good generation living in the fear of God and the
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  Speaker 1: days of mercy. So Lah great is our God, and
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  Speaker 1: glorious dwelling in the highest It is He who hath
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  Speaker 1: established in their courses the lights of Heaven for determining
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  Speaker 1: seasons from year to year. And they have not turned
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  Speaker 1: aside from the way which He appointed them. In the
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  Speaker 1: fear of God, they pursue their path every day from
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  Speaker 1: the day God created them and forevermore. And they have
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  Speaker 1: erred not since the day He created them, since the
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  Speaker 1: generations of old, they have not withdrawn from their path
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  Speaker 1: unless God commanded them so to do by the command
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  Speaker 1: of his servants. End of chapter eighteen and also the
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  Speaker 1: end of the Psalms of Solomon by Anonymous. Chapters zero
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  Speaker 1: through fourteen of the Odes of Solomon by Anonymous. This
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  Speaker 1: Sam Stinson, Chapter zero, the introduction the Odes of Solomon.
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  Speaker 1: Here are some of the most beautiful songs of peace
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  Speaker 1: and joy that the world possesses. Yet their origin, the
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  Speaker 1: date of their writing, and the exact meaning of many
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  Speaker 1: of the verses remain one of the great literary mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: They have come down to us in a single and
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  Speaker 1: very ancient document in Syriac language. Evidently that document is
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  Speaker 1: a translation from the original Greek. Critical debate has raged
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  Speaker 1: around these odes. One of the most plausible explanations is
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  Speaker 1: that they are songs of newly baptized Christians of the
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  Speaker 1: first century. They are strangely lacking in historical illusions. Their
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  Speaker 1: radiance is no reflection of other days. They do not
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  Speaker 1: borrow from either the Old Testament or the Gospels. Inspiration
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  Speaker 1: of these verses is first hand. They remind you of
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  Speaker 1: Aristides remark a new people with whom something divine is mingled.
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  Speaker 1: Here is vigor, an insight to which we can find
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  Speaker 1: parallels only in the most exalted parts of the Scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: For these dazzling mystery odes, we owe our translation to J.
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  Speaker 1: Rendell Harris m, a honored fellow of Claire College, Cambridge.
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  Speaker 1: He says about them, there does not seem to be
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  Speaker 1: anything about which everyone seem agreed, unless it be that
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  Speaker 1: the odes are of singular beauty and high spiritual value.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter zero, Chapter one. The Lord is on
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  Speaker 1: my head like a crown, and I shall not be
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  Speaker 1: without him. They wove for me a crown of truth,
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  Speaker 1: and it caused thy branches to bud in me. For
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  Speaker 1: it is not like a withered crown, which budeth not.
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  Speaker 1: But thou livest upon my head, and thou hast blossomed
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  Speaker 1: upon my head. Thy fruits are full grown and perfect.
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  Speaker 1: They are full of thy salvation. And of chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three I put on and his members are with him,
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  Speaker 1: And on them do I stand. And he loves me.
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  Speaker 1: For I should not have known how to love the
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  Speaker 1: Lord if he had not loved me. For who is
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  Speaker 1: able to distinguish love except the one that is loved.
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  Speaker 1: I love the beloved, and my soul loves him. And
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  Speaker 1: where his rest is, there also am I. And I
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  Speaker 1: shall be no stranger. For with the Lord most High
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  Speaker 1: and merciful, there is no grudging. I have been united
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  Speaker 1: to I run, for the lover has found the beloved.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: And because I shall love him that is the Sun,
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  Speaker 1: I shall become a son. For he that is joined
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  Speaker 1: to him that is a mortal, will also himself become
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  Speaker 1: a mortal. And he who has pleasure in the living
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  Speaker 1: one will become living. This is the spirit of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: which doth not lie, which teacheth the sons of men
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  Speaker 1: to know His ways, be wise and understanding, and vigilant. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter three, Chapter four. No man, o, my
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  Speaker 1: God changeth thy holy place, and it is not possible
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  Speaker 1: that he should change it and put it in another place,
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  Speaker 1: because he hath no power over it. For thy sanctuary
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  Speaker 1: thou hast designed before thou didst make other places. That
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  Speaker 1: which is the older shall not be altered by those
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  Speaker 1: that are younger than itself. Thou hast given thy heart,
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  Speaker 1: o Lord, to thy believers. Never wilt thou faith, nor
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  Speaker 1: be without fruits. For one hour of thy faith is
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  Speaker 1: more precious than all days and years. For who is
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  Speaker 1: there that shall put on thy grace and be hurt?
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  Speaker 1: For thy seal is known, and thy creatures know it,
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  Speaker 1: and thy heavenly hosts possess it, and the elect archangels
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  Speaker 1: are clad with it. Thou hast given us thy fellowship.
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  Speaker 1: It was not that thou wast in need of us,
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  Speaker 1: but that we are in need of THEE. Distill thy
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  Speaker 1: dews upon us, and open thy rich fountains that pour
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  Speaker 1: forth to us milk and honey. For there is no
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  Speaker 1: repentance with THEE that thou shouldst repent of anything that
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  Speaker 1: thou hast promised, And the end was revealed before THEE.
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  Speaker 1: For what thou gavest, thou gavest freely, so that thou
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  Speaker 1: mayest not draw them back and take them again. For
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  Speaker 1: all was revealed before THEE as God and ordered from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning for THEE, and Thou, O God, hast made
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  Speaker 1: all things Hallelujah. End of Chapter four, Chapter five. I
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  Speaker 1: will give thanks unto THEE, O Lord, because I love
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  Speaker 1: thee O most high. Thou wilt not forsake me, for
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  Speaker 1: thou art my hope freely. I have received thy grace.
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  Speaker 1: I shall live Thereby My persecutors will come and not
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  Speaker 1: see me. A cloud of darkness shall fall on their eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and an air of thick gloom shall darken them, and
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  Speaker 1: they shall have no light to see. They may not
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  Speaker 1: take whole upon me. Let their counsel become thick darkness.
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  Speaker 1: And what I have cunningly devised, let it return upon
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  Speaker 1: their own heads. For they have devised a council, and
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  Speaker 1: it did not succeed. For my hope is upon the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and I will not fear. And because the Lord is
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  Speaker 1: my salvation, I will not fear. And he is as
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  Speaker 1: a garland on my head, and I shall not be moved.
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  Speaker 1: Even if everything should be shaken, I stand firm, And
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  Speaker 1: if all things visible should perish, I shall not die,
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  Speaker 1: because the Lord is with me, and I am with him. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter five, Chapter six. As the hand moves
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  Speaker 1: over the harp and the strings speak, so speaks in
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  Speaker 1: my members the spirit of the Lord, and I speak
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  Speaker 1: by his love. For it destroys what is foreign and
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  Speaker 1: everything that is bitter. For thus it was from the
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  Speaker 1: beginning and will be to the end, that nothing should
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  Speaker 1: be his adversary, and nothing should stand up against him.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord has multiplied the knowledge of himself, and is
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  Speaker 1: zealous that these things should be known, which by his
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  Speaker 1: grace have been given to us. And the praise of
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  Speaker 1: his name. He gave us our spirits praise his Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: For there went forth a stream and became a river,
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  Speaker 1: great and broad. For it flooded and broke up everything,
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  Speaker 1: and it brought water to the temple. And the restrainers
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  Speaker 1: of the children of men were not able to restrain it,
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  Speaker 1: nor the arts of those whose business it is to
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  Speaker 1: restrain waters, for it spread over the face of the
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  Speaker 1: whole earth and filled everything, and all the thirsty upon
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  Speaker 1: earth were given to drink of it, and thirst was
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  Speaker 1: relieved and quenched. For from the most high the draft
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  Speaker 1: was given. Blessed then are the ministers of that draft,
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  Speaker 1: who are entrusted with that water of his. They have
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  Speaker 1: assuaged the dry lips and the will that had fainted.
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  Speaker 1: They have raised up, and souls that were near departing.
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  Speaker 1: They have caught back from death, and limbs that had
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  Speaker 1: fallen they straightened and set up. They gave strength for
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  Speaker 1: their feebleness, and light to their eyes, for every one
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  Speaker 1: knew them in the Lord, and they lived by the
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  Speaker 1: water of life forever. Hallelujah. And of chapter six Chapter seven.
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  Speaker 1: As the impulse of anger against evil, so is the
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  Speaker 1: impulse of joy over what is lovely and brings in
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  Speaker 1: of its fruits without restraint. My joy is the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and my impulse is toward him. This path of mine
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  Speaker 1: is excellent, for I have a helper, the Lord. He
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  Speaker 1: hath caused me to know himself without grudging. By his simplicity,
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  Speaker 1: his kindness has humbled his greatness. He became like me
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  Speaker 1: an order that I might receive him. He was reckoned
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  Speaker 1: like myself in order that I might put him on.
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  Speaker 1: And I trembled not when I saw him, because he
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  Speaker 1: gracious to me, like my nature, he became, that I
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  Speaker 1: might learn him, and like my form, that I might
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  Speaker 1: not turn back from him. The father of knowledge is
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  Speaker 1: the word of knowledge. He who created wisdom is wiser
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  Speaker 1: than his works. And he who created me, when yet
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  Speaker 1: I was not knew what I should do when I
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  Speaker 1: came into being. Wherefore he pitied me in his abundant
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  Speaker 1: grace and granted me to ask from him and to
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  Speaker 1: receive from his sacrifice. Because he it is that is incorrupt,
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  Speaker 1: the fullness of the ages, and the father of them.
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  Speaker 1: He hath given him to be seen of them that
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  Speaker 1: are his, in order that they may recognize him that
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  Speaker 1: made them, and that they might not suppose that they
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  Speaker 1: came of themselves. For knowledge he hath appointed as its way.
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  Speaker 1: He hath widened it and extended it, and brought to
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  Speaker 1: all perfection, and set over it the trances of his light.
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  Speaker 1: And I walked therein from the beginning even to the end,
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  Speaker 1: for by him it was wrought, and he was resting
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  Speaker 1: in the sun. And for its salvation. He will take
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  Speaker 1: hold of everything and the Most High shall be known
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  Speaker 1: in his saints to announce to those that have songs
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  Speaker 1: of the coming of the Lord, that they may go
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  Speaker 1: forth to meet him, and may sing to him with
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  Speaker 1: joy and with the harp of many tones. The seers
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  Speaker 1: shall come before him, and they shall be seen before him,
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  Speaker 1: and they shall praise the Lord for his love, because
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  Speaker 1: he is near and beholdeth. And hatred shall be taken
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  Speaker 1: from the earth, and along with jealousy it shall be drown'd,
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: for ignorance hath been destroy'd, because the knowledge of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord hath arrived. They who make songs shall sing the
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  Speaker 1: grace of the Lord most High, and they shall bring
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  Speaker 1: their song, and their heart shall be like the day,
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  Speaker 1: and like the excellent beauty of the Lord their pleasant song.
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  Speaker 1: And there shall neither be anything that breathes without knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: nor any that is dumb. For He hath given a
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  Speaker 1: mouth to his creation to open the voice of the
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  Speaker 1: mouth towards him, to praise him. Confess ye his power,
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  Speaker 1: and show forth his grace. Hallelujah. End of chapter seven,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eight, Open ye, open ye your hearts to the
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  Speaker 1: exultation of the Lord, and let your love be multiplied
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: from the heart and even to the lips to bring
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  Speaker 1: forth fruit to the Lord, fruit holy fruit, and to
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  Speaker 1: talk with watchfulness in his light. Rise up and stand erect,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Ye who some time were brought low. Tell forth, ye
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  Speaker 1: who were in silence, that your mouth hath been opened.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Ye therefore that were despised, be henceforth lifted up, because
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: your righteousness hath been exalted. For the right hand of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is with you, and he is your helper,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: And peace was prepared for you before ever your war
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: was here the word of truth, and receive the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the most High. Your flesh has not known what
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  Speaker 1: I am saying to you, neither have your hearts known
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  Speaker 1: what I am showing to you. Keep my secret, ye
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: who are kept by it. Keep my faith, ye who
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  Speaker 1: are kept by it, and understand my knowledge. Ye who
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: know me in truth, Love me with affection, ye who
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: love for I do not turn away my face from
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: them that are mine. For I know them, And before
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  Speaker 1: they came into being, I took knowledge of them, and
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  Speaker 1: on their faces I set my seal. I fashion'd their
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  Speaker 1: members my own breasts. I prepar'd for them that they
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  Speaker 1: might drink my holy milk and live. Thereby I took
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  Speaker 1: pleasure in them, and am not ashamed of them. For
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: my workmanship are they and the strength of my thoughts.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Who then shall rise up against my handiwork? Or who
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  Speaker 1: is there that is not subject to them? I will'd
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  Speaker 1: and fashion'd mind and heart, And they are mine. And
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: by my own right hand I set my elect ones,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: and my righteousness goeth before them, And they shall not
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: be depriv'd of my name, for it is with them.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: Ask and abound, and abide in the love of the Lord.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: And yet, beloved ones in the Beloved, those who are
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: kept in Him that liveth, and they that are sav'd
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: in Him that was sav'd, And ye shall be found
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: incorrupt in all ages to the name of your Father. Howellelujah,
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: and of chapter eight, chapter nine. Open your ears, and
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  Speaker 1: I will speak to you. Give me your souls, that
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: I may also give you my soul, the word of
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: the Lord and his good pleasures, the holy thought which
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: he has devised concerning his Messiah. For in the will
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: of the Lord is your salvation, and his thought is
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: everlasting life, and your end is immortality. Be enriched in
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: God the Father, and receive the thought of the Most High.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Be strong, and be redeemed by his grace. For I
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: announce to you peace, to you his saints, that none
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: of those who here may fall in war, and that
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: those again who have known Him may not perish, and
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: that those who receive may not be ashamed. An everlasting crown,
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  Speaker 1: for ever is truth. Blessed are they who set it
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: on their heads. A stone of great price is it,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: And there have been wars on account of the crown
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: and righteousness. Hath taken it, and hath given it to you.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Put on the crown in the true covenant of the Lord.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: And all those who have conquered shall be written in
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  Speaker 1: his book, for their book is victory, which is yours.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: And she victory sees you before her in wills that
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: you shall be saved. Hallelujah. And of chapter nine, Chapter ten.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: The Lord hath directed my mouth by his word, and
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: he hath opened my heart by his light. And he
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: hath cause to dwell in me his deathless life, and
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: gave me that I might speak the fruit of his
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: peace to convert the souls of them who are willing
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: to come to him, and to lead captive a good
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: captivity for freedom. I was strengthened and made Mighty and
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: took the world captive, and it became to me for
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: the praise of the Most High and of God my Father.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: And the gentiles were gathered together who were scattered abroad,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: and I was unpolluted by my love for them, because
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: they confessed me in high places, and the traces of
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: the light were set upon their heart, and they walked
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: in my life and were saved, and became my people
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: forever and ever, hallelujah. End of chapter ten, Chapter eleven.
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  Speaker 1: My heart was cloven, and its flower appeared, and grace
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: sprang up in it, and it brought forth fruit to
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: the Lord. For the most High clave my heart by
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: his holy spirit, and searched my affection towards him and
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: filled me with his love. And his opening of me
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: became my salvation. And I ran in his way and
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: his peace, even in the way of truth. From the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: beginning and even to the end, I acquired his knowledge,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: and I was established upon the rock of truth where
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: he had set me up. And speaking waters touched my
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: lips from the fountain of the Lord plenteously, and I
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: drank and was inebriated with the living water that doth
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: not die. And my inebriation was not one without knowledge.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: But I forsook vanity and turned to the most High,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: my God, and I was enriched by his bounty. And
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: I forsook the folly which is diffused over the earth,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: and I stripped it off and cast it from me.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: And the Lord renewed me and his raiment, and possessed
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: me by his light. And from above he gave me
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: rest and incorruption. And I became like the land which
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: blossoms and rejoices in its fruits. And the Lord was
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: like the sun shining on the face of the land.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: He lightened my eyes, and my face received the dew,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: and my nostrils enjoyed the pleasant odor of the Lord.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: And he carried me to his paradise, where is the
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: abundance of the pleasure of the Lord. And I worshiped
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: the Lord on account of his glory, and I said, blessed,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: O Lord, are they who are planted in thy land,
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  Speaker 1: and those who have a place in thy paradise, And
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  Speaker 1: they grow by the fruits of the trees, and they
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  Speaker 1: have changed from darkness to light. Behold, all thy servants
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  Speaker 1: are fair, who do good works and turn away from
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  Speaker 1: wickedness to the pleasantness that is Thine. And they have
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  Speaker 1: turn'd back the bitterness of the trees from them when
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  Speaker 1: they were planted in thy land, and everything came like
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  Speaker 1: a relic of thyself, and memorial forever of thy faithful works.
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  Speaker 1: For there is abundant room in thy paradise, and nothing
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  Speaker 1: is useless therein, but everything is filled with fruit. Glory
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  Speaker 1: be to thee O God, the delight of paradise forever, Howelujah.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter eleven, Chapter twelve. He hath filled me
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  Speaker 1: with words of truth, that I may speak the same.
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  Speaker 1: And like the flow of waters, flows truth from my mouth,
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  Speaker 1: and my lips show forth his fruit. And he has
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  Speaker 1: caused his knowledge to abound in me. Because the mouth
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord is the true word and the door
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  Speaker 1: of his light. And the most High hath given it
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  Speaker 1: to his words, which are the interpreters of his own beauty,
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  Speaker 1: and the repeaters of his praise, and the confessors of
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  Speaker 1: his council, and the heralds of his thought, and the
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  Speaker 1: chasteners of his servants. For the swiftness of the word
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  Speaker 1: is inexpressible, and like its expression is its swiftness and force,
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  Speaker 1: and its course knows no limit, never doth it fail,
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  Speaker 1: But it stands sure, and it knows not descent nor
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  Speaker 1: the way of it. For as its work is, so
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  Speaker 1: is its end. For it is light and the dawning
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  Speaker 1: of thought. And by it the world's talk one to another.
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  Speaker 1: And in the Word there were those that were silent,
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  Speaker 1: and from it came love and conquer'd, and they spake
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  Speaker 1: one to the other whatever was theirs. And they were
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  Speaker 1: penetrated by the Word, and they knew him who made them,
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  Speaker 1: because they were inconquered. For the mouth of the most
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  Speaker 1: High spake to them, and his explanation ran by means
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  Speaker 1: of it. For the dwelling place of the Word is man,
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  Speaker 1: and its truth is love. Blessed are they who, by
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  Speaker 1: means thereof have understood everything and have known the Lord
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  Speaker 1: in his truth. Hallelujah. And of chapter twelve. Chapter thirteen, Behold,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is our mirror. Open the eyes and see
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  Speaker 1: them in him. And learn the manner of your face,
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  Speaker 1: and tell forth praise to his Spirit, and wipe off
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  Speaker 1: the filth from your face, and love his holiness, and
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  Speaker 1: clothe yourselves therewith, and be without stain at all times
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  Speaker 1: before him. Hallelujah. End of chapter thirteen, chapter fourteen. As
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of a son to his father, so are
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  Speaker 1: my eyes, O Lord, at all times towards THEE. For
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  Speaker 1: with THEE are my consolations and my delight. Turn not
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  Speaker 1: away thy mercies from me, O Lord, and take not
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  Speaker 1: thy coindineness from me. Stretch out to me, O Lord,
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  Speaker 1: at all times, thy right hand, and be my guide
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  Speaker 1: even unto the end, according to thy good pleasure. Let
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  Speaker 1: me be well pleasing before THEE because of thy glory,
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  Speaker 1: and because of thy name. Let me be preserv'd from evil.
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  Speaker 1: And let thy meekness, O Lord, abide with me and
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  Speaker 1: the fruits of thy love. Teach me the psalms of
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  Speaker 1: thy truth, that I may bring forth fruit in THEE.
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  Speaker 1: And open to me the harp of thy holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: that with all its notes I may praise THEE, O Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, so
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt give to me, and hasten to grant our petitions,
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  Speaker 1: And thou art able for all our needs. Hallelujah. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter fourteen, Chapters fifteen through twenty eight of the
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  Speaker 1: Odes of Solomon, by Anonymous. This is a LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: As the sun is the joy to them that seek
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  Speaker 1: for its daybreak, so is my joy the Lord, because
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  Speaker 1: he is my son, and his rays have lifted me up,
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  Speaker 1: and his light hath dispelled all darkness from my face.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: In him, I have acquired eyes and have seen his
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  Speaker 1: holy day. Ears have become mine, and I have heard
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  Speaker 1: his truth. The thought of knowledge hath been mine, and
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  Speaker 1: I have been delighted through him. The way of error
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: I have left and have walked towards him, and have
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: received salvation from him without grudging. And according to his
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  Speaker 1: bounty he hath given to me, and according to his
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  Speaker 1: excellent beauty he hath made me. I have put on
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  Speaker 1: in corruption through his name, and have put off corruption
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  Speaker 1: by his grace. Death hath been destroy'd before my face,
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  Speaker 1: and she all hath been abolish'd by my word. And
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  Speaker 1: there hath gone up deathless life in the Lord's land.
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  Speaker 1: And it hath been made known to his faithful ones,
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  Speaker 1: and hath been given without stint to all those that
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  Speaker 1: trust in him, hallelujah. And of chapter fifteen Chapter sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: As the work of the husbandman is the plowshare, and
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  Speaker 1: the work of the steersman is the guidance of the ship,
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  Speaker 1: so also my work is the psalm of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: My craft and my occupation are in his praises, because
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  Speaker 1: his love hath nourish'd my heart, and even to my
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  Speaker 1: lips his fruits he poured out. For my love is
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. And therefore I will sing unto Him, for
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: I am made strong in his praise, and I have
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  Speaker 1: faith in him. I will open my mouth, and his
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  Speaker 1: spirit will utter in me the glory of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and his beauty, the work of his hands and the
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  Speaker 1: operation of his fingers, the multitude of his mercies, and
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: the strength of his word. For the word of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord searches out all things, both the invisible and that
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: which reveals his thought. For the eye sees his works,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: and the ear hears his thought. He spread out the earth,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: and he settled the waters in the sea. He measured
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: the heavens and fixed the stars, and he established the
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  Speaker 1: creation and set it up. And he wrested from his
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  Speaker 1: works and created things run in their courses and do
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  Speaker 1: their works, and they know not how to stand and
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  Speaker 1: be idle. And his heavenly hosts are subject to his word.
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  Speaker 1: The treasure chamber of the light is the sun, and
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  Speaker 1: the treasury of the darkness is the night. And he
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  Speaker 1: made the sun for the day, that it may be bright,
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  Speaker 1: but night brings darkness over the face of the land.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: And their alternations, one to the other speak the beauty
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  Speaker 1: of God. And there is nothing that is without the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: For he was before any thing came into being, and
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  Speaker 1: the worlds were made by his word and by the
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  Speaker 1: thought of his heart. Glory and honor to his name. Howllelujah.
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  Speaker 1: And of chapter sixteen, Chapter seventeen. I was crowned by
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  Speaker 1: my God. My crown is living, and I was justified
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  Speaker 1: in my Lord. My incorruptible salvation is he. I was
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: loosed from vanity, and I was not condemned. The choking
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: bonds were cut off by her hands. I received the
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  Speaker 1: face and the fashion of a new person, and I
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  Speaker 1: walked in it and was saved. And the thought of
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: truth led me on, and I walked after it and
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  Speaker 1: did not wander. And all that have seen me were amazed,
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  Speaker 1: and I was regarded by them as a strange person.
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  Speaker 1: And he who knew and brought me up is the
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  Speaker 1: most High in all his perfection. And he glorified me
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  Speaker 1: by his kindness and raised my thoughts to the height
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: of his truth. And from thence he gave me the
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  Speaker 1: way of his precepts. And I opened the doors that
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  Speaker 1: were closed, and break in pieces the bars of iron.
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  Speaker 1: But my iron melted and dissolved before me. Nothing appeared
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  Speaker 1: closed to me, because I was the door of everything.
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  Speaker 1: And I went over all my bondmen to loose them,
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  Speaker 1: and I might not leave any man bound or binding.
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  Speaker 1: And I imparted my knowledge without grudging. And my prayer
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  Speaker 1: was in my love. And I sowed my fruits in
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: hearts and transformed them into myself, and they received my
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  Speaker 1: blessing and lived. And they were gathered to me and
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  Speaker 1: were saved because they were to me as my own members,
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  Speaker 1: and I was their head. Glory to thee are head,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Messiah, hallelujah. End of chapter seventeen. Chapter eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: My heart was lifted up in the love of the
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  Speaker 1: Most High and was enlarged that I might praise him
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  Speaker 1: for his name's sake. My members were strengthened that they
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  Speaker 1: might not fall from his strength. Sickness is removed from
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: my body, and it stood to the Lord by his will.
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  Speaker 1: For his kingdom is true, O Lord, for the sake
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  Speaker 1: of them that are deficient, do not remove thy word
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  Speaker 1: from me, Neither for the sake of their works, do
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  Speaker 1: thou restrain from me thy perfection. Let not the luminary
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: be conquered by the darkness, nor let truth flee away
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  Speaker 1: from falsehood. Thou wilt appoint me to victory. Our salvation
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  Speaker 1: is thy right hand, and thou wilt receive men from
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  Speaker 1: all quarters, and thou wilt preserve whosoever is held in evils.
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  Speaker 1: Thou art my God. Falsehood and death are not in
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  Speaker 1: thy mouth. For thy will is perfection. And vanity thou
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  Speaker 1: knowest not, nor does it know thee. An error thou
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: knowest not, neither does it know thee. And ignorance appeared
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: like a blind man, and like the foam of the sea.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: And they supposed of that vain thing that it was
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: something great. And they too came in likeness of it
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  Speaker 1: and became vain. And those have understood, who have known
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  Speaker 1: and meditated, and they have not been corrupt in their imagination,
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  Speaker 1: for such were in the mind of the Lord. And
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  Speaker 1: they mocked at them that were walking in error. And
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  Speaker 1: they spake truth from the inspiration which the Most High
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: breathed into them. Praise and great comeliness to his name, Howelujah.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter eighteen, Chapter nineteen. A cup of milk
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  Speaker 1: was offered to me, and I drank it in the
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: sweetness of the delight of the Lord. The Son is
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  Speaker 1: the cup, and he who was milked is the Father.
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  Speaker 1: And the Holy Spirit milked him because his breasts were full,
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  Speaker 1: and it was necessary for him that his milk should
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  Speaker 1: be sufficiently released. And the Holy Spirit opened his bosom
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  Speaker 1: and mingled the milk from the two breasts of the Father,
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  Speaker 1: and gave the mixture to the world without their knowing.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: And they who receive in its fullness are the ones
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  Speaker 1: on the right hand. The Spirit opened the womb of
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  Speaker 1: the Virgin, and she received conception and brought forth. And
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: the Virgin became a mother with many mercy, and she
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  Speaker 1: travailed and brought forth a son without incurring pain. And
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  Speaker 1: because she was not sufficiently prepared, and she had not
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  Speaker 1: sought a midwife, for he brought her to bear, she
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  Speaker 1: brought forth as if she were a man of her
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: own will. And she brought him forth openly, and acquired
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: him with great dignity, and loved him in his swaddling clothes,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: and guarded him kindly, and showed him in majesty. How llelujah.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter nineteen, Chapter twenty. I am a priest
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, and to him I do priestly service,
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  Speaker 1: And to him I offer the sacrifice of his thought.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: For his thought is not like the thought of the world,
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  Speaker 1: nor the thought of the flesh, nor like them that
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: served carnally. The sacrifice of the Lord is righteousness and
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: purity of heart and lips. Present your reigns before him blamelessly.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: And let not thee thy heart do violence to heart,
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  Speaker 1: nor thy soul to soul. Thou shalt not acquire a
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: stranger by the price of thy silver, neither shalt thou
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: seek to devour thy neighbor, neither shalt thou deprive him
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  Speaker 1: of the covering of his nakedness. But put on the
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: grace of the Lord without stint, and come into his paradise,
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  Speaker 1: And make thee a garland from its tree, and put
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: it on thy head, and be glad and recline on
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: his rest, and glory shall go before thee, and thou
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: shalt receive of his kindness and of his grace, and
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: thou shalt be flourishing in truth, and the praise of
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: His holiness. Praise and honor be to his name. Hallelujah.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: End of chapter twenty, Chapter twenty one. My arms, I
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: lift it up to the most high, even to the
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: grace of the Lord, because he had cast off my
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: bonds from me, and my helper had lifted me up
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: to his grace and to his salvation. And I put
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: off darkness and clothed myself with light, and my soul
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: acquired a body free from sorrow or affliction or pains.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: And increasingly helpful to me was the thought of the
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: Lord and his fellowship and incorruption. And I was lifted
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: up in his light, and I served before him, and
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: I became near to him, praising and confessing him. My
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: heart ran over and was found in my mouth, and
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: it arose upon my lips, and the exultation of the
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: Lord increased on my face, and his praise likewise, hallelujah.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: And of chapter twenty one, Chapter twenty two. He who
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  Speaker 1: brought me down from on high also brought me up
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: from the regions below. And he who gathers together the
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  Speaker 1: things that are betwixt, is he also who cast me down.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: He who scat my enemies, had existed from ancient in
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: my adversaries. He who gave me authority over bonds, that
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  Speaker 1: I might loose them. He that overthrew by my hands
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: the dragon with seven heads, And thou hast set me
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: over his roots, that I might destroy his seed. Thou
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: wast there and didst help me, And in every place
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: thy name was a rampart me. Thy right hand destroyed
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: his wicked poison, and thy hand leveled the way for
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: those who believe in THEE. And thou didst choose them
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  Speaker 1: from the graves, and didst separate them from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Thou didst take dead bones, and didst cover them with bodies.
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  Speaker 1: They were motionless, and thou didst give them energy for life.
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  Speaker 1: Thy way was without corruption, and thy face. Thou didst
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  Speaker 1: bring thy world to corruption, that everything might be dissolved
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: and then renewed, and that the foundation for everything might
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  Speaker 1: be thy rock. And on it thou didst build thy kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: and it became the dwelling place of the saints. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter twenty two, Chapter twenty three. Joy is
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: of the saints, and who shall put it on but
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: they alone. Grace is of the elect, and who shall
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: receive it except those who trust in it from the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Love is of the elect, and who shall put it
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: on except those who have possessed it from the beginning.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: Walk ye in the knowledge of the Most High, without
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: grudging to his exultation and to the perfection of his knowledge.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: And his thought was like in a letter. His will
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: descended from on high, and it was sent like an
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: arrow which is violently shot from the bow. And many
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: hands rushed to the letter to seize it and to
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: take and read it. And it escaped their fingers, and
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: they were affright at it and at the seal that
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: was upon it, because it was not permitted to them
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  Speaker 1: to loose its seal, for the power that was over
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: the seal was greater than they. But those who saw
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: it went after the letter, that they might know where
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: it would alight, and who should read it, and who
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: should hear it. But a wheel received it and came
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: over it, and there was with it a sign of
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: the kingdom and of the government, and everything which tried
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: to move the wheel, it moved and cut down, and
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: it gathered the multitude of adversaries, and bridged the rivers,
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: and crossed over and rooted up many forests, and made
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: a broad path. The head went down to the feet,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: for down to the feet ran the wheel, and that
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  Speaker 1: which was a sign upon it. The letter was one
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  Speaker 1: of command, for there were included in it all districts,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: and there it was seen at its head, the head
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: which was revealed even the Son of Truth from the
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: most high Father, and he inherited. It took possession of everything,
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: and the thought of many was brought to naught, and
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: all the apostates hasted and fled away, and those who
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: persecuted and were enraged became extinct. And the letter was
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: a great volume which was wholly written by the finger
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: of God, and the name of the Father was on it,
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, to
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: rule forever and ever. Hollelujah. And of chapter twenty three
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty four, the dove fluttered over the Messiah because
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: he was her head, and she sang over him, and
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: her voice was heard, and the inhabitants were afraid, and
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: the sojourners were moved. The birds dropped their wings, and
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: all creeping things died in their holes, and the abysses
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: were opened which had been hidden, and they cried to
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: the Lord like women in travail. And no food was
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: given to them, because it did not belong to them.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: And they sealed up the abysses with the seal of
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: the Lord. And they perished in the thought those that
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  Speaker 1: had existed from ancient times, for they were corrupt from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning, and the end of their corruption was life.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: And every one of them that was imperfect perished, for
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: it was not possible to give them a word that
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: they might remain. And the Lord destroyed the imaginations of
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: all them that had not the truth with them, For
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: they who in their hearts were lifted up were deficient
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  Speaker 1: in wisdom, and so they were rejected because the truth
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  Speaker 1: was not with them. For the Lord disclosed his way
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  Speaker 1: and spread abroad his grace, and those who understood it
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  Speaker 1: know his holiness. Hallelujah. End of chapter twenty four. Chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. I was rescued from my bonds, and unto
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  Speaker 1: thee my God, I fled for Thou art the right
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  Speaker 1: hand of my salvation. And my helper. Thou hast restrained
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  Speaker 1: those that rise up against me, and I shall see
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  Speaker 1: him no more, because thy face was with me, which
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  Speaker 1: saved me by thy grace. But I was despised and
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  Speaker 1: rejected in the eye of many, and I was in
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  Speaker 1: their eyes like a lead. And strength was mine from thyself,
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  Speaker 1: and help Thou didst set me a lamp at my
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  Speaker 1: right hand and at my left, and in me there
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  Speaker 1: shall be nothing that is not bright. And I was
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  Speaker 1: clothed with the covering of thy spirit. And thou didst
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  Speaker 1: remove from me my raiment of skin, for thy right
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  Speaker 1: hand lifted me up and removed sickness from me. And
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: I became mighty in the truth and holy by thy righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: And all my adversaries were afraid of me. And I
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  Speaker 1: became admirable by the name of the Lord, and was
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: justified by his gentleness. And his rest is forever and ever, Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter twenty five. Chapter twenty six. I poured
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  Speaker 1: out praise to the Lord, for I am his and
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  Speaker 1: I will speak his holy song. For my heart is
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: with him, for his harp is in my hands, and
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  Speaker 1: the odes of his rest shall not be silent. I
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  Speaker 1: will cry unto him from my whole heart. I will
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  Speaker 1: praise and exalt him with all my members. For from
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  Speaker 1: the east and even to the west is his praise,
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  Speaker 1: And from the south and even to the north is
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  Speaker 1: the confession of Him. And from the top of the
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  Speaker 1: hills to their utmost bound is his perfection. Who can
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  Speaker 1: write the psalms of the Lord, or who read them,
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  Speaker 1: Or who can train his soul for life, that his
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  Speaker 1: soul may be saved, Or who can rest on the
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: most high, so that with his mouth he may speak.
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  Speaker 1: Who is able to interpret the wonders of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: For he who could interpret would be dissolved and would
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  Speaker 1: become that which is interpreted. For it suffices to know
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  Speaker 1: and to rest. For in rest the singers stand like
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  Speaker 1: a river which has an abundant fountain, and flows to
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  Speaker 1: the help of them that seek it. Hallelujah. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter twenty six, Chapter twenty seven. I stretched out my
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  Speaker 1: hands and sanctified my Lord. For the extension of my
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  Speaker 1: hands is his sign, and my expansion is the upright
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  Speaker 1: tree or cross. End of chapter twenty seven, Chapter twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: As the wings of doves over their nestlings, and the
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  Speaker 1: mouth of their nestlings towards their mouths. So also are
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  Speaker 1: the wings of the spirit over my heart. My heart
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: is delight and exults, like the babe who exults in
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  Speaker 1: the womb of his mother. I believed. Therefore I was
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  Speaker 1: at rest. For faithful is he in whom I have believed.
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  Speaker 1: He has richly blessed me. And my head is with him.
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  Speaker 1: And the sword shall not divide me from him, nor
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  Speaker 1: the scimitar. For I am ready before destruction comes. And
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  Speaker 1: I have been set on his immortal pinions. And he
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  Speaker 1: showed me his sign forth and given me to drink.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: And from that life is the spirit within me, and
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  Speaker 1: it cannot die, for it lives. They who saw me
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: marveled at me because I was persecuted, and they suppose
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: that I was swallowed up, for I seemed to them
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: as one of the lost, and my oppression became my salvation.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: And I was their reprobation. Because there was no zeal
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: in me. Because I did good to every man. I
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: was hated, and they came round me like mad dogs
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  Speaker 1: who ignorantly attack their masters, for their thought is corrupt
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: and their understanding perverted. But I was carrying water in
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: my right hand, and their bitterness, I endured by my sweetness,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: and I did not perish, for I was not their brother,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: nor was my birth like theirs. And they sought for
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: my death and did not find it. For I was
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: older than the memorial of them. And vainly did they
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: make attack upon me. And those who without reward came
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: after me, they sought to destroy the memorial of him
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  Speaker 1: who was before them. For the thought of the most
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  Speaker 1: high cannot be anticipated, and his heart is superior to
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: all wisdom. Hallelujah. End of chapter twenty eight. Chapters twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine through forty two of The Odes of Solomon by anonymous.
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  Speaker 1: by Sam Stinson, Chapter twenty nine. The Lord is my hope,
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  Speaker 1: and him I shall not be confounded. For according to
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  Speaker 1: his praise he made me, and according to his goodness
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: even so he gave unto me, And according to his
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: mercies he exalted me, And according to his excellent beauty
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: he set me on high and brought me up out
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: of the depths of shee Oh, and from the mouth
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: of death he drew me, and thou didst lay my
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: enemies low. And he justified me by his grace. For
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: I believed in the Lord's Messiah, and it appeared to
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: me that he is the Lord. And he showed him
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: his sign, and he led me by his light, and
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: gave me the of his power, that I might subdue
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  Speaker 1: the imaginations of the peoples and the power of the
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: men of might, to bring them low, to make war
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  Speaker 1: by his word, and to take victory by his power.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: And the Lord overthrew my enemy by his word, and
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: he became like the stubble which the wind carries away.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: And I gave praise to the most High, because he
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: exalted me his servant and the son of his handmaid.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: How lleluyah. End of chapter twenty nine, Chapter thirty. Fill
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: ye waters for yourselves from the living fountain of the Lord,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: for it is opened to you. And come, all ye thirsty,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: and take the draft and rest by the Fountain of
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: the Lord, for fare it is and pure and gives
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  Speaker 1: rest to the soul. Much more pleasant are its waters
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: than honey, And the honeycomb of bees is not to
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: be compared with it. It flows forth from the lips
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: of the Lord, and from the heart of the Lord
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: is its name. And it came infinitely and invisibly, and
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: until it was set in the midst they did not
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  Speaker 1: know it. Blessed are they who have drunk therefrom and
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: have found rest thereby Hallelujah. End of chapter thirty Chapter
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  Speaker 1: thirty one. The abysses were dissolved before the Lord, and
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: darkness was destroyed by his appearance. Error went astray and
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: perished at his hand, and folly found no path to
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: walk in, and was submerged by the truth of the Lord.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: He opened his mouth and spake grace and joy, and
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: he spake a new song of praise to his name.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: And he lifted up his voice to the most High
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: and offered to him the sons that were with him.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: And his face was justified, for thus his Holy Father
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: had given to him. Come forth, ye that have been
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: afflicted and received joy, and possess your souls by his grace,
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: and take to you a mortal life. And they made
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  Speaker 1: me a debtor when I rose up me who had
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: been a debtor, and they divided my spoil, though nothing
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: was due to them, but I endured and held my peace,
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: and was silent, as if not moved by them. But
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  Speaker 1: I stood unshaken, like a firm rock which is beaten
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: by the waves and endurers. And I bore their bitterness
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: for humility's sake, in order that I might redeem my
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: people and inherit it, and that I might not make
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: void my promises to the fathers, to whom I promised
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: the salvation of their seed. Hallelujah. End of chapter thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty two. To the blessed, there is joy from
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  Speaker 1: their hearts, and light from Him that dwells in them,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: and words from the Truth, who was self a rig it.
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  Speaker 1: For he is strengthened by the Holy power of the
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  Speaker 1: Most High, and he is unperturbed forever and ever. Halleluyah.
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  Speaker 1: And of chapter thirty two, Chapter thirty three. Again Grace
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  Speaker 1: ran and forsook corruption and came down in him to
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  Speaker 1: bring it to naught. And he destroyed perdition from before
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  Speaker 1: him and devastated all its order. And he stood on
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  Speaker 1: a lofty summit and uttered his voice from one end
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  Speaker 1: of the earth to the other, and drew to him
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: all those who obeyed him, And there did not appear
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: as it were an evil person. But there stood a
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  Speaker 1: perfect virgin who was proclaiming and calling and saying, O, ye,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: sons of men, return ye, and ye daughters of men,
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  Speaker 1: come ye and forsake the ways of that corruption, and
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  Speaker 1: draw near unto me. And I will enter into you
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  Speaker 1: and will bring you forth from perdition, and make you
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  Speaker 1: wise in the ways of truth, that you be not
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  Speaker 1: destroyed nor perish. Hear ye me, and be redeemed. For
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  Speaker 1: the grace of God. I am telling among you, and
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  Speaker 1: by my means you shall be redeemed and become blessed.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: I am your judge. And they who have put me
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  Speaker 1: on shall not be injured, but they shall possess the
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  Speaker 1: new world that is incorrupt. My chosen ones, walk in
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: me and my ways. I will make known to them
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: that seek me, and I will make them trust in
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  Speaker 1: my name. Hallelujah. And of Chapter thirty three Chapter thirty four.
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  Speaker 1: No way is hard where there is a simple heart,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: nor is there any wound where the thoughts are upright,
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: nor is there any storm in the depth of the
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  Speaker 1: illuminated thought. Where one is surrounded on every side by beauty.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: There is nothing that is divided. The likeness of what
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  Speaker 1: is below is that which is above. For everything is above.
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  Speaker 1: What is below is nothing but the imagination of those
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  Speaker 1: that are without knowledge. Grace has been revealed for your salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Believe and live and be saved. Allelujah. And of chapter
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: thirty four, Chapter thirty five. The due of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: in quietness he distilled upon me, and the cloud of
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: peace he caused to rise over my head, which guarded
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: me continually. And it was to me for salvation. Everything
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: was shaken, and they were affrighted, and there came forth
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: from them a smoke and a judgment. And I was
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: keeping quiet in the order of the Lord. More than
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  Speaker 1: shelter was he to me, and more than foundation. And
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: I was carried like a child by his mother, and
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: he gave me milk the due of the Lord. And
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: I grew great by his bound empty, and rested in
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: his perfection. And I spread out my hands in the
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: lifting up of my soul. And I was made right
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: with the most High, and I was redeemed with him, hallelujah.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: End of chapter thirty five, Chapter thirty six. I rested
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: in the spirit of the Lord, and the spirit raised
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: me on high and made me stand on my feet
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: in the height of the Lord, before his perfection, in
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: his glory. While I was praising him by the composition
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: of his songs, the spirit brought me forth before the
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: face of the Lord. And although a son of Man,
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: I was named the Illuminate, the son of God. While
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: I praised amongst the praising ones, and great was I
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: amongst the mighty ones. For according to the greatness of
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: the Most High, so he made me, And like his
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  Speaker 1: own newness, he renewed me, and he anointed me from
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  Speaker 1: his own perfection. And I came one of his neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: And my mouth was opened like a cloud of dew,
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: and my heart poured out, as it were, a gushing
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: stream of righteousness. And my access to him was in peace,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: and I was established by the spirit of his government.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: How llelujah. End of chapter thirty six, Chapter thirty seven.
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  Speaker 1: I stretched out my hands to my Lord, and to
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: the Most High. I raised my voice, and I spake
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: with the lips of my heart, and he heard me.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: When my voice reached I him. His answer came to
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: me and gave me the fruits of my labors, and
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: it gave me rest by the grace of the Lord.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: How llelujah. End of chapter thirty seven. Chapter thirty eight.
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  Speaker 1: I went up to the light of Truth, as if
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  Speaker 1: into a chariot, and the Truth took me, led me,
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  Speaker 1: and carried me across pits and gullies, and from the
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: rocks and the waves. It preserved me, and it became
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  Speaker 1: to me a haven of salvation, and set me on
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  Speaker 1: the arms of immortal life. And it went with me
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  Speaker 1: and made me rest and suffered me not to wander,
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  Speaker 1: because it was the truth. And I ran no risk
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: because I walked with him. And I did not make
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  Speaker 1: an error in anything, because I obeyed the Truth. For
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  Speaker 1: error flees away from it and meets it not, but
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: the Truth proceeds in the right path. And whatever I
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  Speaker 1: did not know, it made clear to me all the
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: poisons of error and the plagues of death, which they
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: think to be sweetness. And I saw the destroyer of destruction,
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  Speaker 1: when the bride who is corrupted is adorned, and the
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  Speaker 1: bridegroom who corrupts and is corrupted. And I asked the Truth,
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  Speaker 1: who are these? And he said to me, this is
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  Speaker 1: the deceiver and the error. And they are alike in
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  Speaker 1: the beloved and in his bride. And they lead astray
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  Speaker 1: and corrupt the whole world. And they invite many to
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  Speaker 1: the banquet and give them to drink of the wine
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  Speaker 1: of their intoxication, and remove their wisdom and knowledge. And
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  Speaker 1: so they make them without intelligence, and then they leave them.
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  Speaker 1: And then these go about like madmen, corrupting, seeing that
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  Speaker 1: they are without heart, nor do they seek for it.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: And I was made wise so as not to fall
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: into the hands of the deceiver. And I congratulated myself
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: because the truth went with me. And I was established
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: and lived and was redeemed. And my foundations were laid
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: on the hand of the Lord, because he established me.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: For he set the root and watered it, and fixed
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  Speaker 1: it and blessed it, and its fruits are forever. It
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: struck deep and sprung up and spread out, and was
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: full and enlarged. And the Lord alone was glorified in
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: his planting and in his husbandry, by his care, and
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: by the blessing of his lips, by the beautiful planting
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: of his right hand, and by the discovery of his planting,
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: and by the thought of his mind. Hallelujah. And of
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: chapter thirty eight, Chapter thirty nine, great rivers are the
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  Speaker 1: power of the Lord and they carry headlong those who
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: despise him and entangle their paths, and they sweep away
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: their fords, and catch their bodies and destroy their lives.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: For they are more swift than lightning, and more rapid.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: And those who cross them in faith are not moved.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: And those who walk on them without blemish shall not
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: be afraid. For the sign in them is the Lord,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: and the sign is the way of those who cross
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord. Put on therefore the
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: name of the Most High, and know him, and you
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: shall will cross without danger, for the rivers will be
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: subject to you. The Lord has bridged them by his word,
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: and he walked and crossed them on foot. And his
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  Speaker 1: footsteps stand firm on the water and are not injured.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: They are as firm as a tree that is truly
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: set up. And the waves were lifted up on this
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  Speaker 1: side and on that. But the footsteps of our Lord
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: Messiah stand firm and are not obliterated, and are not defaced.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: And away has been appointed for those who cross after him,
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: and for those who adhere to the course of faith
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  Speaker 1: in Him and worship his name. How llelujah. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirty nine, Chapter forty as the honey distills from
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  Speaker 1: the comb of the bees, and the milk flows from
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: the woman that loves her children. So also is my
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  Speaker 1: hope on thee my God. As the fountain gushes out
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: its water, so my heart gushes out the praise of
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: the Lord, and my lips utter praise to Him, and
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: my tongue his songs, and my face exults with his gladness,
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: and my spirit exalts in his love, and my soul
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: shines in him, and reverence confides in him, and redemption
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: in him stands assured. And his inheritance is immortal life,
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: and those who participate in it are incorrupt. Hallelujah. End
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: of chapter forty Chapter forty one. All the Lord's children
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: will praise him and will collect the truth of his faith,
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: and his children shall be known to him. Therefore we
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: will sing in his love. We live in the Lord,
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: by his grace and life we receive in his Messiah.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: For a great day has shined upon us, and marvelous
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: is he who has given us of his glory. Let us,
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: therefore all of us unite together in the name of
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: the Lord, and let us honor him in his goodness,
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: and let our faces shine in his light. And let
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: our hearts meditate in his love by night and by day,
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: let us exalt with the joy of the Lord. All
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: those will be astonished that see me. For from another
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  Speaker 1: race am I. For the Father of Truth remembered me,
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: he who possessed me from the beginning, for his bounty
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: begat me. And the thought of his heart and his
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  Speaker 1: word is with us in all our way. The Savior
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  Speaker 1: who makes alive and does not reject our souls, the
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  Speaker 1: man who was humbled and exalted by his own righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: The sun of the most High appeared in the perfection
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  Speaker 1: of his father, and light dawned from the word that
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  Speaker 1: was before time in him. The Messiah is truly one,
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  Speaker 1: and he was known before the foundation of the world,
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  Speaker 1: that he might save souls forever. By the truth of
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  Speaker 1: his name. A new song arises from those who love him. Howelujah.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter forty one, Chapter forty two. I stretched
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  Speaker 1: out my hands and approached my Lord. For the stretching
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  Speaker 1: of my hands is his sign. My expansion is the
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  Speaker 1: outspread tree which was set up on the way of
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  Speaker 1: the Righteous One. And I became of no account to
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  Speaker 1: those who did not take hold of me and I
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  Speaker 1: shall be with those who loved me. All my persecutors
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  Speaker 1: are dead, and they sought after me, who hoped in me,
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  Speaker 1: because I was alive. And I rose up and am
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  Speaker 1: with them. And I will speak by their mouths, for
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  Speaker 1: they have despised those who persecuted them. And I lifted
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  Speaker 1: up over them the yoke of my love. Like the
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  Speaker 1: arm of the bridegroom over the bride, so was my
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  Speaker 1: yoke over them that know me. And as the couch
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  Speaker 1: that is spread in the house of the bridegroom and bride,
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  Speaker 1: so is my love over those that believe in me.
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  Speaker 1: And I was not rejected, though I was reckoned to be.
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  Speaker 1: So I did not perish, though they devised it against me.
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  Speaker 1: She ol saw me and was made miserable. Death cast
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  Speaker 1: me up, and many along with me. I had gall
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  Speaker 1: and bitterness, and I went down with him to the
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  Speaker 1: utmost of his depth, and the feet and the head
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  Speaker 1: he let go, for they were not able to endure
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  Speaker 1: my face. And I made a congregation of living men
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  Speaker 1: amongst his dead men, and I spake with them by
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  Speaker 1: living lips, because my word shall not be void. And
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  Speaker 1: those who had died ran towards me, and they cried
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  Speaker 1: and said, Son of God, have pity on us, and
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  Speaker 1: do with us according to thy kindness, And bring us
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  Speaker 1: out from the bonds of darkness, and open to us
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  Speaker 1: the door by which we shall come out to THEE.
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  Speaker 1: For we see that our death has not touched THEE.
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  Speaker 1: Let Us also be redeemed with THEE, for thou art
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  Speaker 1: our redeemer. And I heard their voice, and my name
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  Speaker 1: I sealed upon their heads, for they are free men,
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  Speaker 1: and they are mine. How llelujah. End of Chapter forty two,
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  Speaker 1: and also the end of the Odes of Solomon by
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