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Rh :Justice, and righteousness, in the earth;
 * For in these things I delight,
 * Saith the.

Behold, the days come, saith the, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in their uncircumcision: Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair polled, that dwell in the wilderness;


 * For all the nations are uncircumcised,
 * But all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

Hear ye the word which the speaketh unto you, O house of Israel; thus saith the :


 * Learn not the way of the nations,
 * And be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;
 * For the nations are dismayed at them.
 * For the customs of the peoples are vanity;
 * For it is but a tree which one cutteth out of the forest,
 * The work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
 * They deck it with silver and with gold,
 * They fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
 * They are like a pillar in a garden of cucumbers, and speak not;
 * They must needs be borne, because they cannot go.
 * Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil,
 * Neither is it in them to do good.


 * There is none like unto Thee, O ;
 * Thou art great, and Thy name is great in might.
 * Who would not fear Thee, O king of the nations?
 * For it befitteth Thee;
 * Forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royalty,
 * There is none like unto Thee.
 * But they are altogether brutish and foolish:
 * The vanities by which they are instructed are but a stock;
 * Silver beaten into plates which is brought from Tarshish,
 * And gold from Uphaz,
 * The work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith;
 * Blue and purple is their clothing;
 * They are all the work of skilful men.
 * But the God is the true God,
 * He is the living God, and the everlasting King;
 * At His wrath the earth trembleth,
 * And the nations are not able to abide His indignation.

Thus shall ye say unto them: 'The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.'


 * He that hath made the earth by His power,
 * That hath established the world by His wisdom,
 * And hath stretched out the heavens by His understanding;
 * At the sound of His giving a multitude of waters in the heavens,
 * When He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth;
 * When He maketh lightnings with the rain,
 * And bringeth forth the wind out of His treasuries;