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Show ane uN ea Se) OO einttttenaniiiinsmeneneniel v5 . Lad a ' ve * ee , - — -~ . ~ Pr 46 SRCONR fellv.- For anger all this . his : v hand stretched put still For wickedness as burnéth SECOND { NEPHI. OF BOOK away, is. not turned 4 7 the fire; it shall but devour his ireasures, ‘i spare his brother. be hungry; and the all the earth; darkened, fi| man shall | ; on the left hand, and they not be satisfied : they shalleat every man the flesh of his own | arm: Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: they to- | For all this hjs anger is not | gether shall be against Judah. a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread Howbeit he meaneth them down like the mire of the streets. not so, neither doth his heart think so; but in his heart it 1 For he saith, Are to destroy and cut off nations not a few. not my princes altogether mish? kings? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Calno him ‘Shall that heweth therewith? the saw magnify its¢lf i athens ae oo more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay up- OS See SPL A SO sere on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant shall return, yea, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet aremnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in all the land. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. For yet a very little while, and he indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him accor- as Carche- cus ? As my hand hath founded the kingdoms of the idols, and ding to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of ‘whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of S- maria; shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, . * or And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remant of Is- Is not Samaria as Damas: . so do to Jerusalem and to her idols? Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, | will punish the frutt of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. For he saith, By the strength of my hand and by my wisdom [ have done these things; for | am prudent: and | have moyed the borders.of the people, and have robbed them the wing, racl, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no LA Ge hand is their indignation. I will send him against a hypoct'tical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him that moved them. aaah not turned away, but his hand stretched out still. O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their none Shall the axe boast itself against the trees of his: forest shall be few, that a child may write FORTE 1.DELI IL i ESS _ there was forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth. And the rest of write grievousness which they have prescribefl; to turn asi(e For all this his anger 1s and opened the mouth, or peeped. One for a flame, and shall burn and shall devour his thorns and his briers in one day; and shall consume the glory of his turned away, but his hand stretched out still.y TZN OW XK o unto them that decree unrighteous defrees, and that and they shall fall under the slain. put down the inhabitants like a valiant self, ‘as if it were no wood. Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy shail he needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and tha! And what will ye doin the day they may rob the fatherless! which shall come from far! desolation the in and of visitation, to. whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, $7 against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up it- And he shall snatch on the right hand, and | ; he shall eat OF NEPIII. man: and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have [ gathered briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the to- 9 rests, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.— } Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no and [ have BOOK Egypt. And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burder shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke frora off =>. Sh thy neck, anointing. and the yoke shall be destroyed because He is come to Aiath, he of the is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages ; they are gone over the passage; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramath t is afraid; Gibeah of Saal is fled. a fer, se Gallim pees Lift ap ; cause the voice, O daushes it to be heard eard unto » Laish, O poor Ana' 2 |