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Ask a QuestionAnd the mother of the child said, As Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
It is changed as clay under the seal; And [all things] stand forth as a garment:
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, Therefore will I call [upon him] as long as I live.
But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.
When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, And our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;
[As] one that taketh off a garment in cold weather, [and as] vinegar upon soda, So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart.
And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses;
So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and, behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely [as men] averse from war.
Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.
Can any man forbid the water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?
Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.