• At the end of seventy years the LORD will revive Tyre

    From Willow Brown@iabox_uronum_hqqbo@ccgr.bom to alt.privacy.anon-server on Thu Sep 17 18:21:38 2026
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    And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a
    voice, but seeing no man. I am undone; because I am a man of unclean
    lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine
    eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Damascus is waxed
    feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her:
    anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. The
    beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore
    leave off contention, before it be meddled with. The law and the
    prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is
    preached, and every man presseth into it. Who can number the clouds
    in wisdom? We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants
    are no spies.

    And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken
    away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's
    hath he gotten all this glory. And he cometh, and findeth them
    sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? Their heart
    cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run
    down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the
    apple of thine eye cease. Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and
    with thy honour all the day. Wherefore came I forth out of the womb
    to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with
    shame?

    And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with
    thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same
    baptizeth, and all men come to him. If the men of my tabernacle said
    not, Oh that we had of his flesh! And Leah conceived, and bare a
    son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD
    hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love
    me. The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him
    with shame. And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon
    which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with
    his right hand, and of the other with his left. And the Lord said
    unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee
    what thou must do.

    A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal
    of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their
    pasture. And he said, To thee, O captain. The dead bodies of thy
    servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven,
    the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. As the holy
    flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the
    waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that
    I am the LORD. And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and
    removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the
    brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of
    stones. And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph,
    even over against his house. Behind the doors also and the posts
    hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself
    to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and
    made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou
    sawest it. And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the
    Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring
    up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the
    chambers, into the treasure house. And Jesus answering them said,
    Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was
    an hungred, and they which were with him; How he went into the house
    of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them
    that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the
    priests alone? And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank
    before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of
    Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of
    king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
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