delivered it into the hand of your
enemies? Is it not for your iniquities and for your transgressions that I
have put it away?

"For I came, and no man received me; I called and there was none to hear. Is
my arm shortened, that I cannot redeem?

"Therefore I will show the tokens of mine anger; I will clothe the heavens
with darkness, and make sackcloth their covering.

"The Lord hath given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to
speak a word in season to him that is weary. He hath opened mine ear, and I
have listened to Him as a master.

"The Lord hath revealed His will, and I was not rebellious.

"I gave my body to the smiters, and my cheeks to outrage; I hid not my face
from shame and spitting. But the Lord hath helped me; therefore I have not
been confounded.

"He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? who will be mine
adversary, and accuse me of sin, God himself being my protector?

"All men shall pass away, and be consumed by time; let those that fear God
hearken to the voice of His servant; let him that languisheth in darkness
put his trust in the Lord. But as for you, ye do but kindle the wrath of God
upon you; ye walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that ye have
kindled. This shall ye have of mine han

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