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Thus sayeth the Lord, Where is that bill of your mothers diuorcement, whome I haue cast off? or who is the creditour to whome I solde you? Beholde, for your iniquities are yee solde, and because of your transgressions is your mother forsaken.
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Wherefore came I, and there was no man? I called, and none is mine hand so shortened, that it cannot helpe? or haue I no power to deliuer? Beholde, at my rebuke I drie vp the I make the floods their fish rotteth for want of water, and dieth for thirst.
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I clothe the heauens with darkenesse, and make a sacke their couering.
The Servant’s Obedience
(Matthew 27:27–31; Mark 15:16–20; Luke 22:63–65; John 19:1–15)
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The Lord God hath giuen me a tongue of the learned, that I shoulde knowe to minister a woord in time to him that is he will raise me vp in the in the morning hee will waken mine eare to heare, as the learned.
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The Lord God hath opened mine eare and I was not rebellious, neither turned I backe.
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I gaue my backe vnto the smiters, and my cheekes to the I hidde not my face from shame and spitting.
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For the Lord God will helpe me, therefore shall I not bee therefore haue I set my face like a flint, and I knowe that I shall not be ashamed.
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Hee is neere that iustifieth who will contend with me? Let vs stande who is mine aduersarie? let him come neere to me.
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Beholde, the Lord God will helpe who is he that can condemne me? loe, they shall waxe olde as a the mothe shall eate them vp.
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Who is among you that feareth the Lord? let him heare the voyce of his hee that walketh in darkenesse, and hath no light, let him trust in the Name of the Lord, and staye vpon his God.
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Beholde, all you kindle a fire, and are compassed about with walke in the light of your fire, and in the sparkes that ye haue kindled. This shall ye haue of mine ye shall lye downe in sorowe.