102611 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens

"Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.  Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.  We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.  We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.   Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have …

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101411 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD

"Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.  For among My people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.   As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they …

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082811 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in His word do I hope

"Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee, O LORD.  Lord, hear my voice: let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.  If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?  But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared. I wait for the LORD, my soul …

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081911 O satisfy us early with Thy mercy

"Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance.  For all our days are passed away in Thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.    The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore …

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020411 …And shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness…

"And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into …

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