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the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
even unto them will I give in mine house a place and a name better than that
of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall
not be cut off."
Is. 59:9: "Therefore for our iniquities is justice far from us: we wait for
light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We
grope for the wall like the blind; we stumble at noonday as in the night: we
are in desolate places as dead men.
"We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves; we look for judgment,
but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us."
Is. 66:18: "But I know their works and their thoughts; it shall come that I
will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall see my glory.
"And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them
unto the nations, to Africa, to Lydia, to Italy, to Greece, and to the
people that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory. And they
shall bring your brethren.
Jer. 7. Reprobation of the Temple: "Go ye unto Shiloth, where I set my name
at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people. And
now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord, I will do
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