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Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?'

¹⁵He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly;

He that despiseth the gain of oppressions,

That shaketh his hands from holding of bribes,

That stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood,

And shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil;

¹⁶He shall dwell on high;

His place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks;

His bread shall be given, his waters shall be sure.

 

¹⁷Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty;

They shall behold a land stretching afar.

¹⁸Thy heart shall muse on the terror:

'Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed?

Where is he that counted the towers?'

¹⁹Thou shalt not see the fierce people;

A people of a deep speech that thou canst not perceive,

Of a stammering tongue that thou canst not understand.

²⁰Look upon Zion, the city of our solemn gatherings;

Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a peaceful habitation,

A tent that shall not be removed,

The stakes whereof shall never be plucked up,

Neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

²¹But there the Lord will be with us in majesty,

In a place of broad rivers and streams;

Wherein shall go no galley with oars,

Neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

²²For the Lord is our Judge,

The Lord is our Lawgiver,

The Lord is our King;

He will save us.

²³Thy tacklings are loosed;

They do not hold the stand of their mast,

They do not spread the sail;

Then is the prey of a great spoil divided;

The lame take the prey.

²⁴And the inhabitant shall not say: 'I am sick';

The people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

 

34Come near, ye nations, to hear, And attend, ye peoples;

Let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof,

The world, and all things that come forth of it.

²For the Lord hath indignation against all the nations,

And fury against all their host;

He hath utterly destroyed them,

He hath delivered them to the slaughter.

³Their slain also shall be cast out,

And the stench of their carcasses shall come up,

And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

⁴And all the host of heaven shall moulder away,

And the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll;

And all their host shall fall down,

As the leaf falleth off from the vine,

And as a falling fig from the fig-tree.

⁵For My sword hath drunk its fill in heaven;

Behold, it shall come down upon Edom,

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