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Rh That her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
 * The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of the Lord;

Make level in the desert a highway for our God.
 * Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low;

And the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.
 * And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together;

For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
 * The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry ?

All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
 * The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of the Lord bloweth upon it;

Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth;
 * But the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Psalm xivi GOD is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
 * Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, and though the mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas;

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof.
 * There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God,

The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
 * God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God will help her, and that right early.

The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
 * The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.

Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
 * He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder;