• Their swords will pierce their own hearts and their bows will be broken

    From Ezra Chavez@odqqftx.kkkb@yxtcy.mondkk.xn--6frz82g to alt.privacy.anon-server on Wed Sep 16 18:54:57 2026
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    Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and
    every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is
    begotten of him. Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the
    ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes,
    that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
    But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom
    for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his
    head there was no blemish in him. And Simon Peter followed Jesus,
    and so did another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high
    priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest.
    All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth
    with offence. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped
    with his face to the ground, and bowed himself. Are not Abana and
    Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?

    For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears,
    and my feet from falling. And the house of Jacob shall be a fire,
    and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble,
    and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not
    be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
    And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that
    I am the LORD. While he was yet speaking, there came also another,
    and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up
    the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am
    escaped alone to tell thee. Why have they provoked me to anger with
    their graven images, and with strange vanities? And, behold, there
    came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed;
    and they fed in a meadow. Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me
    now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged
    him of his enemies. And when the messengers of John were departed,
    he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out
    into the wilderness for to see?

    Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without
    a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts. And he brought out the
    grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook
    Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to
    powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children
    of the people. Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a
    solemn assembly: Gather the people, sanctify the congregation,
    assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the
    breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride
    out of her closet. For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive;
    and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
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