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The book of Micah, named after its prophet Micah, is a powerful and significant text in the Old Testament of the Bible. It contains both prophecies of doom and promises of hope, emphasizing the themes of justice, mercy, and the coming of the Messiah.
Micah, a contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea, prophesied during a time of political and social unrest in the 8th century BC in the Southern Kingdom of Judah. He warned the people of impending destruction as a result of their sins, particularly focusing on the oppression of the poor and vulnerable by corrupt leaders. Micah calls for repentance and a return to righteousness as the only way to avert God's judgment.
One of the famous verses from this book is found in Micah 6:8: "He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." This verse encapsulates the overarching message of the book of Micah – to live a life of justice, mercy, and humility before God.
Micah also prophesies about the future Messiah, who will come from Bethlehem, the city of David. This prophecy foretells the birth of Jesus Christ, the Savior, hundreds of years before it actually happens. This demonstrates the divine inspiration behind Micah's words and the fulfillment of God's plan through Jesus.
From a Catholic perspective, the book of Micah urges believers to uphold the values of justice and mercy in their lives. It emphasizes the need to defend the rights of the poor and marginalized, reflecting the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Gospels. Micah's call for repentance and righteousness also aligns with the Catholic understanding of the necessity of conversion and living a life in accordance with God's commandments.
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Micah chapter 1 the word of Yahweh which
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came to Micah of morth during the Reigns
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of jotham ahaz and Hezekiah Kings of
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Judah his Visions about Samaria and
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Jerusalem listen all you peoples attend
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Earth and everyone on it Yahweh intends
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to give evidence against you the Lord
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from his holy Temple for look Yahweh is
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leaving his home down he comes he Treads
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the heights of Earth beneath him the
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mountains melt and valleys are torn open
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like Wax near a fire like water pouring
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down a slope all this is because of the
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crime of Jacob the sin of the House of
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Israel what is the crime of Jacob is it
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not Samaria what is the sin of the house
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of Judah is it not Jerusalem so I shall
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make Samaria a ruin in the Open Country
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a place for planting Vines I shall send
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her Stones rolling into the valley until
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I have laid her foundations be all her
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images will be shattered all her
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earnings consumed by fire I shall leave
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all her Idols derelict they were amassed
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out of prostitutes earnings and
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prostitutes earnings once more they will
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be this is why I shall howl and wail why
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I shall go barefoot and naked why I
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shall howl like the jackals why I shall
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shriek like the owls for there is no
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cure for the wounds that Yahweh inflicts
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the blow falls on Judah it falls on the
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Gateway of my people on Jerusalem itself
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Do not announce it in gath in shed no
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tears in Beth leaf for roll in the dust
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Sound the Horn inhabitant of Schaffer
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she has not left her City she who lives
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in zanan Bethel is torn from its
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foundations from its strong supports
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what hope has she of Happiness she who
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lives in maroth instead Yahweh sent down
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disaster on the Gateway of Jerusalem
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itself harness the horse to The Chariot
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you inhabitant of lakish that is where
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the sin of the daughter of Zion began
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the crimes of Israel can be traced to
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you and so you must provide a dowy for
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morth gath Beth aib will prove a
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disappointment for the Kings of Israel
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the plunderer will come to you again you
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citizen of mea and into a dullum will
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vanish the glory of Israel off with your
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hair shave your head for the children
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that were your joy make yourselves bald
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like the vulture for they have left you
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for exile
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Micah chapter 2 disaster for those who
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plot evil who lie in bed planning
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Mischief no sooner is it Dawn than they
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do it since they have the power to do so
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seizing the fields that they covet they
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take over houses as well owner and house
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they seize alike the man himself as well
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as his inheritance so Yahweh says this
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look I am now plotting a disaster for
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this breed from which you will not
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extricate your necks you will not hold
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your heads up then for the times will be
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disastrous indeed that day they will
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make a satire on you they will strike up
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a durge and say we have been stripped of
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everything my people's land has been
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divided up no one else can restore it to
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them our Fields have been awarded to our
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despoiler because of this you will have
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no one to measure out a share in yah's
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community do not driil they driil do not
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driil like this disgrace will not
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overtake us can the house of Jacob be a
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cursed has Yahweh grown short-tempered
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is that his way of going to work his
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prophecies can only be favorable for his
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people Israel but you are the ones who
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play the enemy to my people from the
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inoffensive man you snatch his cloak on
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those who feel safe you inflict the
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damage of War my people's women you
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evict from the homes they love and
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deprive the children of my glor Glory
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forever saying up and off with you you
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can't stay here for a worthless thing
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you exact an extortionate pledge if a
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man of the Spirit came and invented this
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lie I prophesy wine and liquor for you
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he would be the prophet for a people
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like this I shall assemble the whole of
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Jacob I Shall Gather the remnant of
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Israel I Shall Gather them together like
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sheep in an enclosure and like a flock
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within their fold they will bleed far
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away from anyone their leader will break
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out first then all break out through the
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gate and escape with their King leading
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the way and with Yahweh at their
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head Micah chapter 3 then I said kindly
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listen you leaders of the House of Jacob
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you princes of the House of Israel
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surely you are the ones who ought to
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know what is right and yet you hate what
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is good and love what is evil skinning
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people alive pulling the flesh off their
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bones eating my people's flesh stripping
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off their skin breaking up their bones
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chopping them up small like flesh for
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the pot like meat in the stew pan then
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they will call to Yahweh but he will not
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answer them when the time comes he will
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hide his face from them because of the
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crimes they have committed Yahweh says
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this against the prophets who lead my
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people astray so long as they have
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something to eat they cry a peace
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but on Anyone who puts nothing into
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their mouths they declare war and so for
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you night will be without vision and for
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you the darkness without divination the
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sun will set for the prophets the
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daylight will go black above them then
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the seers will be covered with shame the
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divers with confusion they will all put
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their hands over their mouths because
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there is no answer from God not so with
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me I am full of strength full of yah
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Spirit of the sense of right of energy
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to accuse Jacob of his crime and Israel
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of his sin kindly listen to this you
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leaders of the House of Jacob you
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princes of the House of Israel who
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detest Justice resting it from its
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honest course who build Zion with blood
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and Jerusalem with iniquity her leaders
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give verdicts for presence her priests
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take a fee for their rulings her profits
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Divine for money and yet they rely on
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Yahweh isn't yah way Among Us they say
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no disaster is going to overtake us that
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is why thanks to you Zion will become
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Pluff Land Jerusalem a heap of rubble
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and the Temple mount a wooded
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height Micah chapter 4 but in days to
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come yahweh's Temple Mountain will Tower
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above the mountains rise higher than the
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hills then the peoples will stream to it
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then many nations will come and say come
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we will go up to yahweh's Mountain to
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the Temple of the god of Jacob so that
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he may teach us his ways and we may walk
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in his paths for the law issues from
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Zion and yahweh's word from Jerusalem he
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will judge between many peoples and
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arbitrate between Mighty Nations they
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will Hammer their swords into plowshares
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and their Spears into Bill hooks Nation
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will not lift sword against Nation or
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ever again be trained to make war but
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each man will sit under his Vine and fig
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tree with no one to trouble him the
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mouth of Yahweh Sabo has spoken for All
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Peoples go forward each in the name of
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its God while we go forward in the name
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of Yahweh Our God forever and ever that
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day declares Yahweh I Shall Gather in
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the lame and bring together the Strays
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and Those whom I have treated harshly
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from the footsore I shall make a Remnant
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and from the farflung a mighty nation
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and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount
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Zion thenceforth and forever and to you
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Tower of the flock aul of the daughter
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of Zion to you your former sovereignty
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will return the royal power of the
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daughter of Jerusalem why are you crying
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out now have you no King has your
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counselor perished for pangs to grip you
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like those of a woman in labor writhe in
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pain and cry aloud Daughter of Zion like
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a woman in labor for now you must leave
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leave the city and camp in the Open
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Country to Babylon you must go and there
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you will be rescued there Yahweh will
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Ransom you from the clutches of your
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enemies now many nations have mustered
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against you they say let us desecrate
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her let us gloat over Zion but they do
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not know yahweh's thoughts they do not
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understand his design he has collected
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them like sheaves on the threshing floor
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start your threshing Daughter of Zion
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for I shall make your horn like iron I
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shall make your hooves like bronze so
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that you can Crush many peoples and you
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will devote what they have stolen to
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Yahweh their wealth to the lord of the
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whole earth now look to your
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fortifications Fortress they have laid
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Siege to us the ruler of Israel will be
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struck on the cheek with a
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rod Micah chapter 5 but you Bethlehem
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EPA the least of the clans of Judah from
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you will come for me a future ruler of
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Israel whose Origins go back to the
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distant past to the days of old hence
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Yahweh will abandon them only until she
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who is in labor gives birth and then
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those who survive of his race will be
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reunited to the
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Israelites he will take a stand and he
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will Shepherd them with the power of
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yahwe with the Majesty of the name of
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his God and they will be secure for his
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greatness will will extend henceforth to
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the most distant parts of the country he
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himself will be peace should the
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Assyrian invade our country should he
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set foot in our land we shall raise
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Seven Shepherds against him eight
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leaders of men they will Shepherd
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Assyria with a sword the country of
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nimrod with naked blade he will save us
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from the Assyrian should he invade our
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country should he set foot inside our
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Frontiers then what is left of Jacob
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surrounded by many peoples will be like
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do from Yahweh like showers on the grass
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which do not depend on human agency and
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are Beyond human control then what is
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left of Jacob surrounded by many peoples
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will be like a lion among the forest
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beasts like a fierce lion among flocks
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of sheep trampling as he goes mangling
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his prey which no one takes from him you
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will be victorious over your foes and
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all your enemies will be Torn to Pieces
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when that day comes declares Yahweh I
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shall tear your horses away from you
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I shall destroy your chariots I shall
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tear the cities from your country I
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shall overthrow all your fortresses I
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shall tear the spells out of your hands
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and you will have no more soothsayers I
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shall tear away your images and your
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sacred pillars from among you and no
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longer will you worship things which
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your own hands have made I shall uproot
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your sacred poles and shall destroy your
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cities in Furious anger I shall wreak
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Vengeance on the Nations who have
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disobeyed me
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Micah chapter 6 now listen to what
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Yahweh says stand up State your case to
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the mountains and let the hills hear
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what you have to say listen mountains to
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the case as Yahweh puts it give ear you
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foundations of the Earth for Yahweh has
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a case against his people and He will
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argue it with Israel my people what have
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I done to you how have I made you tired
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of me answer me for I brought you up
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from Egypt I ransomed you from the place
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of slave labor and sent Moses Aron and
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Miriam to lead you my people please
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remember what was balak king of moab's
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plan and how did balam son of beer
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answer him from shm to gilgal for you to
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know yahweh's saving Justice with what
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shall I enter yahweh's presence and bow
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down before God all high shall I enter
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with burnt offerings with Cals Oney old
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will he be pleased with Rams by the
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Thousand with 10,000 streams of oil
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shall I offer my eldest son for my
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wrongdoing the child of my own body for
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my sin you have already been told what
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is right and what Yahweh wants of you
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only this to do what is right to love
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loyalty and to walk humbly with your God
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yahweh's voice he Thunders to the city
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listen tribe of a assembled citizens can
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I overlook the false measure that
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Abomination the short bushel can I
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connive at rigged scales and at the bag
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of fraudulent weights for the rich there
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are steeped in violence and the citizens
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there are habitual liers I myself have
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therefore begun to strike you down to
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bring you to ruin for your sins you will
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eat but not be satisfied you will store
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up but never keep safe what you do keep
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safe I shall hand over to the sword you
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will sew but will not reap press the
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olive but will not rub yourself with oil
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tread the grape but will not drink the
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wine for you keep the laws of omy what
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the house of Ahab did you have done by
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modeling yourselves on their standards
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you force me to make an appalling
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example of you and reduce your citizens
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to a laughing stock hence you will
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endure the scorn of other
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people Micah
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chapter 7 how wretched I am a harvester
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in summertime like a Gleaner at the
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Vintage not a single cluster to eat none
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of those early figs I love the faithful
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have vanished from the Land There is no
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one honest left all of them are on the
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alert for blood every man hunting his
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brother with a net their hands are Adept
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at wrongdoing the official makes his
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demands the judge gives judgment for a
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bribe the man in power pronounces as he
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pleases the best of them is like a briar
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the most honest of them like a thorn
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hedge now from the north their
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punishment approaches that will be when
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they are confounded trust no neighbor
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put no confidence in a friend do not
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open your mouth to the wife who shares
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your bed for son insults father daughter
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Rebels against mother daughter-in-law
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against mother-in-law a person's enemies
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come from within the household itself
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but I shall look to Yahweh My Hope Is In
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The God Who will save me my God will
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hear me do not gloat over me my enemy
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though I have fallen I shall rise though
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I live in darkness Yahweh is my light I
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must endure yahweh's anger for I have
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sinned against him until he takes up my
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cause and writes my wrongs he will bring
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me out into the light and then I shall
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contemplate his saving Justice when my
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enemy sees this she will be covered Ed
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with shame having sneered where is
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Yahweh your God this time I shall be
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watching as she is Trampled Under Foot
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like mud in the streets that will be the
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day for rebuilding your walls the day
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for expanding your
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Frontiers the day when others come to
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you all the way from Assyria from Egypt
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from Ty and all the way from Euphrates
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from sea to Sea from the mountains to
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the mountains the Earth will become a
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desert by reason of its inhabitants in
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return for what they have done with
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Shepherd's crook lead your people to
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pasture the flock that is your heritage
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living confined in a forest with Meadow
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Land all around let them graze in Bashan
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and Gilead as in the days of old as in
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the days when you came out of Egypt
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grant us to see wonders the Nations will
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see and be confounded in spite of all
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their power they will put their hands
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over their mouths their ears will be
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deafened they will lick the dust like
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snakes like reptiles that crawl on the
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earth they will creep trembling out of
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their layers in Terror before you what
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God can compare with you for pardoning
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guilt and for overlooking crime he does
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not Harbor anger forever since he
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Delights in showing faithful love once
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more have pity on us tread down our
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faults throw all our sins to the Bottom
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of the Sea Grant Jacob your faithfulness
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and Abraham your faithful love as you
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swore to our ancestors from the days of
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long ago
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