Righteousness and Mercy

"And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods. Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is …

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…In the Latter Days

"For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and His …

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120811 He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver

"Behold, I will send My messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, He shall come,' saith the LORD of hosts.  'But who may abide the day of His coming? and …

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120711 I will bring the third part through the fire

"Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man that is My Fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn Mine hand upon the little ones.  And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein …

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120611 These are the things that ye shall do

"These are the things that ye shall do; 'Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,' saith the …

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120511 I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold

"And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, and said unto me, 'What seest thou?' And I said, 'I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, …

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120411 He that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes

"Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, 'This people say, 'The time is not come, the time that the LORD’S house should be built.'  Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,  'Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?'  Now …

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120311 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth

"Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’S anger come upon you.  Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought …

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120111 I will cut off thy prey from the earth

"Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?  The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens …

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113011 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good

"Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?   Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit …

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112911 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds!

"Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.  And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man …

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112811 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah

"Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly, and said, 'I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and He heard me; …

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