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Isaiah 7

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When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.

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Now the house of David was told, "Aram has allied itself with Ephraim"; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.

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Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub, to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field.

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Say to him, `Be careful, keep calm and don't be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood--because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.

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Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah's son have plotted your ruin, saying,

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"Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it."

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Yet this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "`It will not take place, it will not happen,

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for the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is only Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.

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The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah's son. If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.'"

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Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz,

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"Ask the LORD your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights."

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But Ahaz said, "I will not ask; I will not put the LORD to the test."

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Then Isaiah said, "Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God also?

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Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

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He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right.

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But before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

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The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah--he will bring the king of Assyria."

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In that day the LORD will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.

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They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices in the rocks, on all the thornbushes and at all the water holes.

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In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the River --the king of Assyria--to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to take off your beards also.

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In that day, a man will keep alive a young cow and two goats.

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And because of the abundance of the milk they give, he will have curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

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In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns.

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Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

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As for all the hills once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.

Isaiah 8

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The LORD said to me, "Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.

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And I will call in Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me."

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Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the LORD said to me, "Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.

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Before the boy knows how to say `My father' or `My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria."

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The LORD spoke to me again:

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"Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

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therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the River -- the king of Assyria with all his pomp. It will overflow all its channels, run over all its banks

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and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it, passing through it and reaching up to the neck. Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land, O Immanuel !"

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Raise the war cry, you nations, and be shattered! Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, and be shattered! Prepare for battle, and be shattered!

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Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us.

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The LORD spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people. He said:

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"Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy ; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.

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The LORD Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread,

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and he will be a sanctuary; but for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.

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Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured."

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Bind up the testimony and seal up the law among my disciples.

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I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.

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Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.

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When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

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To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

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Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

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Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

Isaiah 9

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Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan--

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The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.

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You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as men rejoice when dividing the plunder.

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For as in the day of Midian's defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.

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Every warrior's boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, will be fuel for the fire.

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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

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Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.

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The Lord has sent a message against Jacob; it will fall on Israel.

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All the people will know it-- Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria-- who say with pride and arrogance of heart,

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"The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars."

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But the LORD has strengthened Rezin's foes against them and has spurred their enemies on.

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Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

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But the people have not returned to him who struck them, nor have they sought the LORD Almighty.

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So the LORD will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day;

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the elders and prominent men are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

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Those who guide this people mislead them, and those who are guided are led astray.

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Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks vileness. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

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Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

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By the wrath of the LORD Almighty the land will be scorched and the people will be fuel for the fire; no one will spare his brother.

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On the right they will devour, but still be hungry; on the left they will eat, but not be satisfied. Each will feed on the flesh of his own offspring :

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Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh; together they will turn against Judah. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

Isaiah 10

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Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,

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to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

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What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

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Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

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"Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!

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I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.

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But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.

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`Are not my commanders all kings?' he says.

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`Has not Calno fared like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus?

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As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria--

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shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?'"

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When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, "I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes.

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For he says: "`By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. I removed the boundaries of nations, I plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their kings.

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As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as men gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries; not one flapped a wing, or opened its mouth to chirp.'"

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Does the ax raise itself above him who swings it, or the saw boast against him who uses it? As if a rod were to wield him who lifts it up, or a club brandish him who is not wood!

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Therefore, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will send a wasting disease upon his sturdy warriors; under his pomp a fire will be kindled like a blazing flame.

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The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers.

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The splendor of his forests and fertile fields it will completely destroy, as when a sick man wastes away.

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And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down.

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In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of the house of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

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A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.

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Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand by the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous.

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The Lord, the LORD Almighty, will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.

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Therefore, this is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says: "O my people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.

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Very soon my anger against you will end and my wrath will be directed to their destruction."

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The LORD Almighty will lash them with a whip, as when he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the waters, as he did in Egypt.

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In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.

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They enter Aiath; they pass through Migron; they store supplies at Micmash.

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They go over the pass, and say, "We will camp overnight at Geba." Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.

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Cry out, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! Poor Anathoth!

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Madmenah is in flight; the people of Gebim take cover.

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This day they will halt at Nob; they will shake their fist at the mount of the Daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

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See, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will lop off the boughs with great power. The lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones will be brought low.

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He will cut down the forest thickets with an ax; Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.

Isaiah 11

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A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.

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The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him-- the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD--

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and he will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears;

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but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.

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Righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness the sash around his waist.

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The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.

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The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

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The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest.

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They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

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In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his place of rest will be glorious.

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In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the sea.

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He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.

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Ephraim's jealousy will vanish, and Judah's enemies will be cut off; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.

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They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west; together they will plunder the people to the east. They will lay hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

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The LORD will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian sea; with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand over the Euphrates River. He will break it up into seven streams so that men can cross over in sandals.

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There will be a highway for the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from Egypt.

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

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