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49.23 :For they shall not be ashamed that wait for Me.


 * Shall the prey be taken from the mighty,
 * Or the captives of the victorious be delivered?
 * But thus saith the :
 * Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,
 * And the prey of the terrible shall be delivered;
 * And I will contend with him that contendeth with thee,
 * And I will save thy children.
 * And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh;
 * And they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine;
 * And all flesh shall know that I the am thy Saviour,
 * And thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.


 * Thus saith the :
 * Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement,
 * Wherewith I have put her away?
 * Or which of My creditors is it
 * To whom I have sold you?
 * Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold,
 * And for your transgressions was your mother put away.
 * Wherefore, when I came, was there no man?
 * When I called, was there none to answer?
 * Is My hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem?
 * Or have I no power to deliver?
 * Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea,
 * I make the rivers a wilderness;
 * Their fish become foul, because there is no water,
 * And die for thirst.
 * I clothe the heavens with blackness,
 * And I make sackcloth their covering.


 * The Lord hath given me
 * The tongue of them that are taught,
 * That I should know how to sustain with words him that is weary;
 * He wakeneth morning by morning,
 * He wakeneth mine ear
 * To hear as they that are taught.
 * The Lord hath opened mine ear,
 * And I was not rebellious,
 * Neither turned away backward.
 * I gave my back to the smiters,
 * And my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair;


 * I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
 * For the Lord will help me;
 * Therefore have I not been confounded;
 * Therefore have I set my face like a flint,
 * And I know that I shall not be ashamed.
 * He is near that justifieth me;
 * Who will contend with me? let us stand up together;
 * Who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
 * Behold, the Lord will help me;
 * Who is he that shall condemn me?
 * Behold, they all shall wax old as a garment,
 * The moth shall eat them up.


 * Who is among you that feareth the ,
 * That obeyeth the voice of His servant?
 * Though he walketh in darkness,
 * And hath no light,
 * Let him trust in the name of the ,