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 after be scattered and be confounded, because of the holy One of Israel; for against him will they harden their hearts; wherefore, they shall be scattered among all nations, and shall be hated of all men. Nevertheless, after they shall be nunsed hv t&e Gentiles, and the Lord has lifted up hit hand upon the Gentilei^ and set them up for a standard, and their children have been carried in their arms, and theit, daughters have been carried upon their shonldors, behold,* diese things of which are spoken, ar« temporal : for thug are th e covenants of the Lord with our fathers ; and it mean- ech U8 in the days to come, and also all our brethren who are of the house of Israel. And it meaneth that the time Cometh that after all the house of Israel have been scattered and confounded, that the Lord God will raise up a mighty nation among the Gentiles, yea, even upon die tece otthu knd ; and by them shall our seed be scattered. And after evr seed is scattered, the Lord God will proceed to do a marveUona work among the Gentiles, which shall be of great worth unto our seed; wherefore, it ia likened unto their being nourished by the Gentiles, and being carried in their arms, and upon their shoulders. And it ahall also be of worth unto the Gentiles: and not only unto the Gen* tiles, but unto all the house of Israel, unto the making known of the covenants of the Father of heaven onto Abra- ham, saying, in thy seed shall all the kindreds of ihe earth be blessed* And I would, my brethren, that ^e should know that eU the kindreds of the earth cannot be blessed^ ttnleae he shall make bare his arm in the ejres of the na- tions Wherefore, the Lord G^d* will proceed to make bare his arm In the eves of all the nations, m bringing about his covenants and his gospel, vnto those who ate of tl^e botise of Isnel. Wherefore, he will bring them again out t^ captivity, and they shall be eathered together to the lands of their inhetitanoe: and they idxall be brought out df obscurity, and out of darkness: and they shall know that the Lord is their Savior and their Redeemer, the mighty, one of Israel. And the blood of that great and abominable church, which ia the whore of all the earth, shall turn upon their own heads ; for they shall war amontf themselves, and the sword of their own hands shall faU upon their own heads, and diey shall be drunken leeith their own blood. And every nation which shall war against thee, O house of Israel, shall be turned one against anoth- er, and they shall fall into the pit which they digged to en- snare the people of the Lord. And all that fight against Sen, shall bb destroyed. And that great wkoTe,^ho hath psnwned thesigkt ways of the Lord| yea, that great aaid