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\c 9
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\p
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\q1
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\v 1 The gloom will be dispelled from her who was in anguish.
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\q1 In an earlier time he humiliated
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\q1 the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
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\q1 but in the later time he will make it glorious, the way to the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
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\q1
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\v 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light;
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\q1 those who have lived in the land of the shadow of death, the light has shone on them.
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\f + \ft Instead of \fqa the shadow of death \fqb , some versions have \fqa darkness \fqb . \f*
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\q1
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\v 3 You have multiplied the nation, you have increased their joy;
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\q1 they rejoice before you like the joy at harvest time,
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\q1 as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 4 For the yoke of his burden, the beam across his shoulder,
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\q1 the rod of his oppressor, you have shattered as on the day of Midian.
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\q1
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\v 5 For every boot treading in the tumult
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\q1 and the garments rolled in blood
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\q1 will be burned, fuel for the fire.
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\q1
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\v 6 For to us a child has been born, to us a son has been given;
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\q1 and the rule will be on his shoulder;
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\q1 and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor,
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\q1 Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
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\q1 Prince of Peace.
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\q1
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\v 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end,
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\q1 as he rules on the throne of David, and over his kingdom,
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\q1 to establish it and sustain it
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\q1 with justice and with righteousness from this time onward and for evermore.
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\q1 The zeal of Yahweh of hosts
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will do this.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 The Lord sent a word against Jacob, and it fell on Israel.
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\q1
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\v 9 All the people will know, even Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and with an arrogant
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heart,
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\v 10 "The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with chiseled stone; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their
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place."
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\q1
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\v 11 Therefore Yahweh will raise up against him, Rezin, his adversary, and will stir up his enemies,
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\v 12 the Arameans on the east, and the Philistines on the west. They will devour Israel with open mouth.
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\q1 For in his anger Yahweh will
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not stop, but his hand will still be raised to strike.
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\v 13 Yet the people will not turn to him who struck them, nor will they seek Yahweh of hosts.
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\v 14 Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.
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\v 15 The leader and the noble man are the head; and the prophet that teaches lies is the tail.
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\v 16 Those who lead this people lead them astray, and those who are led by them are swallowed up
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\v 17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men nor will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows,
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\q1
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since every one is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks foolish things.
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\q1 Because of all this his anger does not subside, but his
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hand will still be raised to strike.
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\q1
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\v 18 Wickedness burns like a fire; it devours the briers and thorns;
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\q1 it even burns the thickets of the forest, which rise in a column of smoke.
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\q1
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\v 19 Through the fury of Yahweh of hosts the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire.
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\q1 No man spares his
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brother.
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\q1
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\v 20 They will slice meat off the right hand and still be hungry; they will eat meat off the left hand but will not be
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satisfied.
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\q1 Each will even eat the flesh of his own arm.
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\v 21 Manasseh will devour Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together will attack Judah.
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\q1 For all this Yahweh's anger will not subside,
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but his hand will still be raised to strike.
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