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162 : Whom then do their arms and vessels serve? Have they not built such an abode for Moloch, as never had our Lord in Jerusalem?


 * Taunt not captives with their slavery!


 * Am I not a captive? Why curse ye me for my forced labour?


 * The cord, the spade, the plough and axe in men’s hands are men’s slaves; but the word in a prophet’s mouth must serve God only, and none other.


 * Yet wilt thou ask for judgment, Eleazar?


 * I will, though the judgment end with stones. The Lord liveth! Ye must judge by truth; an unjust curse shall turn against you.


 * Let us hear him. Let it not be said we forsook truth on the ruins of Jerusalem. Tell us what constrained thee to sell the word.

labour.
 * That none bought my hands. My father did not teach me to labour, and weak my mother bred me. Though the harp obeys my hands, nor plough nor axe obeys them. I fell under a burden, and the overseer drove me from the