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Rh :As a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall,
 * Whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
 * And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken,
 * Breaking it in pieces without sparing;
 * So that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd
 * To take fire from the hearth,
 * Or to take water out of the cistern.


 * For thus said the Lord, the Holy One of Israel:
 * In sitting still and rest shall ye be saved,
 * In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength;
 * And ye would not.
 * But ye said: 'No, for we will flee upon horses';
 * Therefore shall ye flee;
 * And: 'We will ride upon the swift';
 * Therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
 * One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one,
 * At the rebuke of five shall ye flee;
 * Till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain,
 * And as an ensign on a hill.
 * And therefore will the wait, that He may be gracious unto you,
 * And therefore will He be exalted, that He may have compassion upon you;
 * For the is a God of justice,
 * Happy are all they that wait for Him.


 * For, O people that dwellest in Zion at Jerusalem,
 * Thou shalt weep no more;
 * He will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry,
 * When He shall hear, He will answer thee.
 * And though the Lord give you sparing bread and scant water,
 * Yet shall not thy Teacher hide Himself any more,
 * But thine eyes shall see thy Teacher;
 * And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying:
 * 'This is the way, walk ye in it,
 * When ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.'
 * And ye shall defile thy graven images overlaid with silver,
 * And thy molten images covered with gold;
 * Thou shalt put them far away as one unclean;
 * Thou shalt say unto it: 'Get thee hence.'
 * And He will give the rain for thy seed, wherewith thou sowest the ground,
 * And bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous;
 * In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
 * The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground
 * Shall eat savoury provender,
 * Which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
 * And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill
 * Streams and watercourses,
 * In the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
 * Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,
 * And the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of the seven days,
 * In the day that the bindeth up the bruise of His people,