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Ask a QuestionFor thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily * portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn * to give them.
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers *, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places *, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.
He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.